Hero's Journey Project
The class expectations that I am meeting right now is positive environment and cooperate. I always come to class ready to learn and I’m patient and calm. I try not to distract others and keep focused on staying on task. Putting my head down and using my classroom time wisely. I use cooperation well since I am open to anybody’s idea. My goal with working with anyone is to have a fun time and get work done.
One of the class expectations that I am not meeting right now is being responsible for getting my work in on time, I tent to procrastinate a lot when it comes to deadlines. I just need to get small goals each day and try my hardest to reach them. I have gotten a planner to write down what I have to-do in each class everyday also making sure I prioritize correctly.
The most intersting thing I've learned this week would have to be that the Hero's Journey is everywhere. It's not just in book put can be portrayed in real life. You can find stages of the hero's jounrey in anybody's life. Even though it may only apply to fairytales or books it's possible that a person's whole life can be exactly like the hero's journey.
Hero's Journey Poster
Seminar Reflection
DoaPTI Seminar Reflection
Reactions
One comment that was mentioned in the seminar was that Junior was leaving behind his family and culture when we decided to go to Reardan High. This means that leaving was a bad decision because Reardan would kill the Indian inside him. Therefore he would be leaving behind his culture and family. My reaction to his comment was that it would have changed the story if he didn’t go to Reardan. I don’t think he would ever not think about going because from the beginning Junior was different and he could sense that something was calling him to leave the reservation to find his dream and authentic self.
Detailed Response
For Junior being a “part-time” Indian means living on the rez while also going to Reardan High and finding out what it means to be a part of two communities. Junior has a difficult time coping with going to Reardan High while still living on the rez. “Reardan was the opposite of the rez. It was the opposite of my family.” (Alexie 53) He believed Reardan was not the place for him at first glance. He feels as if he is joining a new community or tribe. As he continues to go to the school, he becomes more a part of the school instead of an outsider. To the way he acts and finds a real passion and dream. Reardan also makes Junior take a step back and understand how the rez was affecting his way of thinking, living and thrive for passion. He also realizes how his reservation is destroying themselves from the inside out.
While Junior was trying to find his path at Reardan, he is also trying to connect two sides of him. It tears him apart. Junior struggles to discover how to connect his native side and Reardan side in perfect harmony. “I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,’ I said. ‘By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn’t true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.” (Alexie 176) Junior realizes that he doesn’t need always to be Native American or white, he realized that he could be both losing traditions of each culture. This moment impacts Junior because it makes him grasp he never had to be just Indian or a white lover. He could be part of countless tribes and communities. That’s it's possible to be a master of two worlds. You don’t always have to label yourself based on where you leave or how much money you make. The color or your hair and skin.
Connections
I made a connection from The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian to a movie that I've seen called Water for Elephants. Both have the same idea for their main character that the whole goal is to try and find your calling or path. Throughout the entire story, Junior has tried so hard to find his dream. He had to go through many obstacles and rough patches. The main character in the movie started his college life off with a horrible tragedy with both of his parents died in a car crash, while in the book Junior was born with severe medical conditions.
Even though both characters have dark pasts and a rough road they always see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Reactions
One comment that was mentioned in the seminar was that Junior was leaving behind his family and culture when we decided to go to Reardan High. This means that leaving was a bad decision because Reardan would kill the Indian inside him. Therefore he would be leaving behind his culture and family. My reaction to his comment was that it would have changed the story if he didn’t go to Reardan. I don’t think he would ever not think about going because from the beginning Junior was different and he could sense that something was calling him to leave the reservation to find his dream and authentic self.
Detailed Response
For Junior being a “part-time” Indian means living on the rez while also going to Reardan High and finding out what it means to be a part of two communities. Junior has a difficult time coping with going to Reardan High while still living on the rez. “Reardan was the opposite of the rez. It was the opposite of my family.” (Alexie 53) He believed Reardan was not the place for him at first glance. He feels as if he is joining a new community or tribe. As he continues to go to the school, he becomes more a part of the school instead of an outsider. To the way he acts and finds a real passion and dream. Reardan also makes Junior take a step back and understand how the rez was affecting his way of thinking, living and thrive for passion. He also realizes how his reservation is destroying themselves from the inside out.
While Junior was trying to find his path at Reardan, he is also trying to connect two sides of him. It tears him apart. Junior struggles to discover how to connect his native side and Reardan side in perfect harmony. “I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,’ I said. ‘By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn’t true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.” (Alexie 176) Junior realizes that he doesn’t need always to be Native American or white, he realized that he could be both losing traditions of each culture. This moment impacts Junior because it makes him grasp he never had to be just Indian or a white lover. He could be part of countless tribes and communities. That’s it's possible to be a master of two worlds. You don’t always have to label yourself based on where you leave or how much money you make. The color or your hair and skin.
Connections
I made a connection from The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian to a movie that I've seen called Water for Elephants. Both have the same idea for their main character that the whole goal is to try and find your calling or path. Throughout the entire story, Junior has tried so hard to find his dream. He had to go through many obstacles and rough patches. The main character in the movie started his college life off with a horrible tragedy with both of his parents died in a car crash, while in the book Junior was born with severe medical conditions.
Even though both characters have dark pasts and a rough road they always see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Genocide DP and Project Reflection
When I think about this project, I am most proud of how I took on a complex topic and turned it into a project that could be readily understood by a group of audience that little to no knowledge. Even though my project wasn't the most creative the topic was very intriguing. I also did not have an extra week like a lot of the other projects did. Therefore, I was on a time crunch with only two weeks to complete my project, but I made sure that I put all of my efforts into those two weeks. One revision I made to my project was building a platform for each of my foam people since they could not stand up on their own.
If I had one more week to work on this project, I would make sure that my project didn't seem so bland and added components to make sure it pops. I would make my foam people a little bit bigger since I felt like they were too small, I would also make the labels a little bit easier to read. Along with the string connecting the four people more sturdy and you could easily see it.
Difficulties that I experienced with my project where making the foam since I could not decide on what material to make them out, originally I wanted to make them out of thick foam instead of thin. Gradually I leaned towards the thinness verses thickness. Another difficulty I had was having different sizes of the foam people, in the end, I had two different sizes which seemed to work out good.
The most important point that I learned was time management and about how the human body is super complicated and about how genocide has many effects on your body. Time management played a huge role in my project by making sure I was getting certain things by a particular time since I was on a time crunch. Without time management I would have been rattled and not have been able to complete my work. From studying and researching about the medical effects of genocide, it was captivating because it made me realize that the human body is way more intricate than we know. Study about how one genocide can affect a whole family tree and not just one family member.
If I had one more week to work on this project, I would make sure that my project didn't seem so bland and added components to make sure it pops. I would make my foam people a little bit bigger since I felt like they were too small, I would also make the labels a little bit easier to read. Along with the string connecting the four people more sturdy and you could easily see it.
Difficulties that I experienced with my project where making the foam since I could not decide on what material to make them out, originally I wanted to make them out of thick foam instead of thin. Gradually I leaned towards the thinness verses thickness. Another difficulty I had was having different sizes of the foam people, in the end, I had two different sizes which seemed to work out good.
The most important point that I learned was time management and about how the human body is super complicated and about how genocide has many effects on your body. Time management played a huge role in my project by making sure I was getting certain things by a particular time since I was on a time crunch. Without time management I would have been rattled and not have been able to complete my work. From studying and researching about the medical effects of genocide, it was captivating because it made me realize that the human body is way more intricate than we know. Study about how one genocide can affect a whole family tree and not just one family member.
Artist Statement
Genocide Overview
The genocide that I chose is the Holocaust, which happened during WWII from 1941-45. During this time Hilter was dividing Germany into Ayran and Jews. Ayran is a group of people that are Caucasian not of Jewish descent. Shortly after that Hilter started to make symbols that would go on each prisoner’s uniform, then putting them into groups and which concertation camps that would go to. The Holocaust killed about 90% of the Jews population, about 6 million Jews were killed. People who had survived the genocide were left with many mental and physical scars such as night terrors, PTSD, and eating disorders, Along with physical scars from being whipped, tortured and medically experimented on. The main issue I chose to focus on was what health traits were passed down from the sole survivor then spread around the family tree. Many different types of mental and physical diseases were and still are being passed down through family trees of Jewish people examples are a greater risk of having heart diseases, diabetes, and PTSD.
Project Explanation
My Holocaust research influenced my project by making me want to go further into depth about how the events affected people and about how the family members of the survivor were affected. In one of the articles I read, it described how descendants from the survivor each had terrible medical conditions: "Survivors have lower levels of cortisol, a hormone that helps the body return to normal after trauma; those who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have even lower levels. Like their parents, many have low levels of cortisol, particularly if their mothers had PTSD. Yet unlike their parents, they have higher than normal levels of the cortisol-busting enzyme” (Rodriguez,1). This is explaining about how survivors cortisol levels are below average and that it’s a medical trait that their family can inherit. Long term effects include fatigue, weakness in your bones and low blood pressure which can lead to diabetes, which is another illness.
On the other hand, if your relative was pregnant during that time they had different medical problems: "...pregnant survivors had low levels of the enzyme in the placenta, a greater amount of cortisol could make its way to the fetus, which would then develop high levels of the enzyme to protect itself" (Rodriguez, 1). With this in mind, it explains about if you could be affected by a bad medical trait before you were even born. When you are in your mom’s womb you are protected by illnesses by her antibodies, if your mother had an illness during her pregnancy her antibodies could affect you while you are just a fetus.
Towards the end of the article, it starts to explain about how the brain is affected: “The offspring of Holocaust survivors are more vulnerable to the effects of stress and are more likely to experience symptoms of PTSD. These descendants may also be at risk for age-related metabolic syndromes, including obesity, hypertension and insulin resistance, particularly in an environment of plenty” (Rodriguez, 1). A Holocaust survivor can make their child have high PTSD rates. The PSTD is just the beginning then it spreads to heart disease and diabetes.
The main message that the audience should take away is that through traumatic events such as a genocide you can learn about health traits that have affected not just only you as a family member but also effects your family tree. This connects to genocide because if you have had medical conditions and you’ve wondered about how you got them. Going through your’s families history and if one of those historical events was a genocide, it is a possibility that your medical trait could have been affected by that.
The Artist
Hi, I'm Abbey. I hope you enjoyed my genocide art piece and I also hope you can take something away from this art piece. I am not an artist in any way. With this project, I found it easy to get on my creative side since the project evolves around that you can create any shape or size project that you desire.
The genocide that I chose is the Holocaust, which happened during WWII from 1941-45. During this time Hilter was dividing Germany into Ayran and Jews. Ayran is a group of people that are Caucasian not of Jewish descent. Shortly after that Hilter started to make symbols that would go on each prisoner’s uniform, then putting them into groups and which concertation camps that would go to. The Holocaust killed about 90% of the Jews population, about 6 million Jews were killed. People who had survived the genocide were left with many mental and physical scars such as night terrors, PTSD, and eating disorders, Along with physical scars from being whipped, tortured and medically experimented on. The main issue I chose to focus on was what health traits were passed down from the sole survivor then spread around the family tree. Many different types of mental and physical diseases were and still are being passed down through family trees of Jewish people examples are a greater risk of having heart diseases, diabetes, and PTSD.
Project Explanation
My Holocaust research influenced my project by making me want to go further into depth about how the events affected people and about how the family members of the survivor were affected. In one of the articles I read, it described how descendants from the survivor each had terrible medical conditions: "Survivors have lower levels of cortisol, a hormone that helps the body return to normal after trauma; those who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have even lower levels. Like their parents, many have low levels of cortisol, particularly if their mothers had PTSD. Yet unlike their parents, they have higher than normal levels of the cortisol-busting enzyme” (Rodriguez,1). This is explaining about how survivors cortisol levels are below average and that it’s a medical trait that their family can inherit. Long term effects include fatigue, weakness in your bones and low blood pressure which can lead to diabetes, which is another illness.
On the other hand, if your relative was pregnant during that time they had different medical problems: "...pregnant survivors had low levels of the enzyme in the placenta, a greater amount of cortisol could make its way to the fetus, which would then develop high levels of the enzyme to protect itself" (Rodriguez, 1). With this in mind, it explains about if you could be affected by a bad medical trait before you were even born. When you are in your mom’s womb you are protected by illnesses by her antibodies, if your mother had an illness during her pregnancy her antibodies could affect you while you are just a fetus.
Towards the end of the article, it starts to explain about how the brain is affected: “The offspring of Holocaust survivors are more vulnerable to the effects of stress and are more likely to experience symptoms of PTSD. These descendants may also be at risk for age-related metabolic syndromes, including obesity, hypertension and insulin resistance, particularly in an environment of plenty” (Rodriguez, 1). A Holocaust survivor can make their child have high PTSD rates. The PSTD is just the beginning then it spreads to heart disease and diabetes.
The main message that the audience should take away is that through traumatic events such as a genocide you can learn about health traits that have affected not just only you as a family member but also effects your family tree. This connects to genocide because if you have had medical conditions and you’ve wondered about how you got them. Going through your’s families history and if one of those historical events was a genocide, it is a possibility that your medical trait could have been affected by that.
The Artist
Hi, I'm Abbey. I hope you enjoyed my genocide art piece and I also hope you can take something away from this art piece. I am not an artist in any way. With this project, I found it easy to get on my creative side since the project evolves around that you can create any shape or size project that you desire.