CDH GCE Portfolio

 Social Entrepreneurship: In this class my mind first  drifts to the thought of building a business. Maybe through building networks of people. Maybe through creating a product or item coveted by the masses. Or maybe some intersection of each. However none of this was mentioned in our studies thus far.  Social Entrepreneurship as a class has been based on reading people - reading ourselves in personality and habit while categorizing both, then finding out how to properly evaluate...anything I guess. We evaluate in "SWOT" fashion: It is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. We observe this method to resolve any specific issue or singularity pertaining to a person, group, or situation.  My class was given the responsibility to evaluate our school and decide what needs to change. Most have identified communications to be the issue. I considered the same but chose to advocate for reform in our advisory system. According to former Lincoln Park ...

Though I have not posted about it, I had a class in podcasting. I should probably tell you it all that means, right? We started with listing and listening to podcasts that we all listen to regularly. We looked for commonalities and different takes on what a podcast is. Then we were asked to start the process of making our own. First we decided on who to work with (if anyone) and what the podcasts topic and format are. I chose a chill, conversational approach because that is the main style I listen too. I don't have any partners but I want to bring on as many people as I can. The first episode is with a friend of mine JH, and we get into a few things including space, unluckiness, and an old sword.  Itsaatraap · Oddly Censored Podcast EP1 Episode two is with two other people this time: CJH and MM. In this episode we talk about eternals, a bear eating someone's chicken and the Harry styles concert in Milwaukee.    Itsaatraap · Oddly Censored Podcast EP2 I hope to record mo...

When thinking of music, who first comes to mind? Modern musicians like Ariana Grande or Drake? What about the most famous musicians in history? Some of you probably think back to Beethoven or Michael Jackson but I'm sure someone reading this thought of Elvis Presley. I was asked to find someone I found to interesting that could be a very influential voice in history. I chose Elvis Presley as he is hailed as "The King" who revolutionized pop culture with rock music and his own way of singing and dancing. It may sound like I'm about to write a long article to read but I think you can be relived to hear, I made a podcast episode. I have already been recording podcasts for my series "The Oddly Censored Podcast" and I went to record for this AP. I obviously had a few requirements to hit including interviewing two people, I interviewed a teacher and a coworker. With both the audio was not perfect because both were "one the spot" where we went to the quie...

 Throughout my time in this coding class I found it quite amusing to code the most annoying things to encounter digitally. The first was math which personally I find annoying. Then there was a prompt to try and get your credit card information. Now I have created a chatbot that acts as one of those scam, car warranty calls. Creating this one really took a while and came down to the wire as I was still trying to finish the code the day it was due. To be fair though I am trying out some code I hadn't learned in class. I had to figure out how to use a loop from examples my teacher gave me because the idea I was explaining needed its use. Without further delay, answer the scam call:  Overall I had fun with the code writing as it was a challenge, but one I knew I could overcome. I got help from friends and my teacher in trying to put it together and hope to continue making more of them in the future. If you notice things that can be added or streamlined, send me a message.  -C...

As I wrap up in Econ for the term, my action project comes together. We talked a lot about the history of our current economy and how it works. First we discussed the role and effect of the government and politics in the economy, discussing terms like "laissez faire" and "dirigisme." Next it was talking about past individuals whose theories and ideas shaped the economy today; people like Hammurabi and the first recorded economy to Karl Marx and his idea of Marxism that lead to the creation of Communism. All of this was put around a book that we read, written by Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics . She talked about the failures of past economists, their findings, history, and how we should use it to learn and shape our economy for a better future. There are seven chapters in the book and we were asked to bring up what we think should be included in the book as the eighth chapter. My submission? Social-Economic Divides:  "Get it together" CDH, 2021 Let me brea...

It's only been about two weeks and we are on to our second action project for Journalism. For this unit we took a look at photojournalism. We met with Caleb Hamernick, a photographer from Chicago now in New York, and he first gave a brief history on photography and the older ways people would take pictures as well as why the first photo taken had only one person in it. He explained what makes a picture what it is and what it can mean. Thinking of that he showed some of his own pieces from a set called 'Fears and phobias' where people posed with what they are afraid of. After the interview we went to take our own photos, taking pictures of motion, shadows, and stills. After that we moved to the action project. The idea is to interview anyone on what they believe the meaning of life to be. The reason it is anyone is because of the diverse views that can come from each person as no one has had the exact same life experience. I asked a friend of mine, JH, to be my interviewee a...

For senior year I wanted to try something I have always had an interest in but never knew where to start. I thought coding seemed cool and wanted to figure out how we write code as humans and understand how a computer could "understand" anything we write.  The first thing to note is that it doesn't understand everything  we write as computers only understand the most literal of text. We did a few experiments in class to think about how literal and thorough you need to be. We first spoke commands as a classmate tried to follow them to complete a goal. This showed we need to take things like body size, movement distance, and perception into account. Generally thinking about thoroughness of instructions. After that we individually explained how we might describe a basic game and its rules to a computer. I chose hangman so I explain what a "word" or "phrase" might be to write and how a player would interact with the computer. Again, thoroughness.  For this...