Rile 'Em Up - Humanities Side
This project was built off of the novel, "In the Time of the Butterflies". We each chose a political topic to study, and over the course of the time, developed our own opinion on that topic. We had to to do various writings and artwork that related to our topic. We had to write an essay, alternate biography, stencil artist statement, and an alternate artist statement. We had to create a stencil, and alternate art piece. We tied this project in for multi-media and also for physics. In multi-media we created a CD cover that connected to our alternate biography and topic. For physics, we created butterflies that could flap their wings using electrical circuits and a mechanical system. This was an individual project, however, we had "critique" groups which was a group where we could get all of our work critiqued and helped on. My critique group was made of Jasmin Diaz, Annette Garcia, Deme Thornton, and myself. I was fine working in this group, we all got along very well. However, the critique groups didn't help me at all. I would have rather spent the time working because I don't think that any of us benefited from these groups. For the humanities side of this project, I learned a lot about my topic; euthanasia. I learned that euthanasia is not legal in America, and that there is many different forms of euthanasia such as voluntary and involuntary. I did a lot of research on this topic and also annotated 10 articles. I concluded that I am pro choice, I believe in the right to live, but also the right to die. (I support legalizing human voluntary euthanasia) Of course that was only a few things that I learned of the many throughout this process. I did not have many struggles during this project. If I had to pick one, I would probably say that the hardest part was the alternate art piece. This is because we could literally do anything we wanted for the alternate art piece, and so I had no idea what to create. I eventually overcame this by creating a symbol as a representation of my belief. It took me a couple drafts of art work to finally be satisfied with what I created. I worked really hard on this project. However, I feel that I took my time to create my work until the very last week, and then I crammed everything in. I think next time, I will try to work at a pretty fast pace from the very beginning so that I wont become to overwhelmed and stressed when it comes closer to the due date. If I could change this project, I wouldn't have the critique groups. This didn't help at all, and although I agree that we need critique, I would make it different. We were barely even in our critique groups, we did critique rounds that took forever and wasn't very effective but besides that we just sat with who ever they wanted. I also thought it would be better if we got critique from other people outside of our group. I think that it is good to have a diverse range of people to critique your work, and being constrained to a specific small group of people wasn't very ideal to me. I would rather not have a "critique group" at all, and instead have more of a "art gallery" . This could be where we all pulled out our work and went around the room critiquing other peoples work.