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Diddley Bowie

This is my Action Project for my class called, Light, Sound, and Time. In this class, we conducted a lot of activities to understand the connection between the three elements: Light, Sound, and Time. For this unit, we only focused on sound and how it travels to our ears along with, speed, pitch, wavelength, frequency, etc. For this unit, we had a field experience to The Chicago Hearing Society where we were able to speak to people who have trouble hearing or can't hear at all and use what we learned in our first class, empathy. It was an interesting way to get a different perspective on sound and how it affects someone's life. So for this action project, we put all the elements that we have learned throughout this unit and make a diddley bow. Similarly, to the pinhole cameras, we made to study light. For this action project, I found it super fun and also challenging at the same time. It was my first time making a diddley bow, which looks simple but also hard to make.

The Significance of Caribbean History

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Welcome to my first Action Project for my Humanities course, A Nation’s Argument. For this unit, we looked into America's Declaration of Independence and different types of premises. Throughout this unit, we learned how to create an effective argument when using inductive and deductive premises and what the word argument really means. For Field Experiences, we went to Alderman Walter Burnett and sat in on a city council meeting to watch an ordinance being passed or not on legalized marijuana usage in Illinois to get a real taste of what argument is and how it is used in the city we live in. For this Action Project, we were able to declare our independence to create our own syllabus to create a structured independent study as a common course/class. I chose to create a course based on learning about Caribbean history. With my personal experience, I have noticed that American education is very black and white. There is not much of an in-between or outside to really inform and expose