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On of the projects that I am most proud of would have to be my American Icon project. I am proud of this project because I made it my own, by taking a picture of myself, and also being a little creative and adding in other portraits that were made by my Icon, Frida Kahlo. I also am proud of my writing I had a little biography on Frida, and then I had a story about me ,after that I added why she was my icon and why I chose to use her in my project. I fit so much information onto one page so I think that was a good thing. I really liked that project, I was able to take something that I like and make a piece of art.

The way that I did all of this was by first doing a lot of research on my icon. I looked her up on the web, I got a book about her in the library, and I also got a movie on her. After I did all of that I started writing my paper, I had to do a lot of drafts for this project, and I also had to get them critiqued by people to help my writing get better. For my art piece the first thing I had to do was take a photo of myself working on art that I had made, after that I had to brainstorm on what I was going to do to that photo to make it creative.I took photos of artwork that Frida Kahlo and i meshed them together on photo shop and took that picture I took of myself and put it on top of the other pictures so it was a mix of her art and we doing my art.

Another project that I worked on and I am very, very proud of would have to be the water quality project. I mad a video in this project, it was very hard and I spent a lot of time on it. I am proud that I was patient and I was able to do all of the work I had to do on this project in order to finish it ans have a great product in the end. Plus by making this video I am sharing with people what I learned through going out and doing tests and a lot of research. I ended up making an informative video, and I am most definitely proud of that.

I had to do a lot of work to get to my final product, when I first started I did a lot of research of things I can use for my project. I had to make a lot of drafts for my video storyboard. It was good that I did this, I had to get my work critiqued by many people in my class not only by my peers but also my teacher Randy. The critiquing process is very good for anything that has to do with writing,because then you can do many drafts of your work, helping your product be the best it can be. After this whole process I had interviewed people like a doctor, and a surf shop owner, to get their input into my video. I also took a lot of pictures at the beach clean up as well as some footage of the beach cleanup. I made my video on Final cut pro it was very difficult to work on a program I was not familiar with but, i learned and I was patient so that was good. I had to stay after school hours to make this video great I even came to school on the weekends, I was very dedicated to this project an how my final product would come out.

Link to the project page, and my video
http://www.mediasavesthebeach.org/

Racial language...

The use of language of racial identity has a big impact on in the thoughts and actions of people in our society now and will have a big impact in the future as well if the language doesn't change. Racial identity is something that is always going to be there, I think that people are used to doing it I know that I do it. It's like judging a book by its cover, which makes people think they are a certain thing when they can be something else. I know that if I were to see someone on the street with white skin I would automatically think they are white, without questioning whether they can be any other race. That is what happens all the time and I don't think it will change. This can lead to a few things, racism, something like the holocaust, and stereotypes of all races.

Racism is something that will always be there and racial language will be one of the main factors to it. Back in the times of slavery anyone with dark skin was looked at as black and they were worthless, they were just slaves. There was no question on whether they had a different race in them who knows, many of those slave could have white descendants therefore making them part white, all that was seen about them was their skin. If the present time was a time where there were slaves it would be the same situation. racism now is not at bad as it used to be but it is there and the people can be racist to any race not just blacks, if someone doesn't like blacks and they see someone who they think is just black it can lead to many things, racial comments, violence, harassment. These things can happen to all races and it is because of the separation or races, or the language of racial identity. The classification of certain people to be of a certain racial group like the holocaust.

The people who suffered in the holocaust where subject the language of racial identity. Hitler wanted only perfect Germans but it's not like he knew the bloodlines of all the people he thought to be perfect, also the bloodlines of the Jews they could have had many other races in their blood but that was not acknowledged, they were classified as Jews and they were NOT German so they were not looked as anything else. Some of the ways that people were known as Jews was by the way that they look, people said they knew them by their big noses. That is the language of Racial identity the Germans looked at them and that is how they caught some of them by the way that they looked. Just how people classify people now by the way they look their skin, or facial features. The way that people look lead to stereotypes that are made by others.

Stereotypes are things that people are looked on upon as according to what others in their race have done. Many people stereotype and that is by the way that people look or act. They are seen as something but they may not be that. Minorities are seen as, gang members, killers,thieves, and many other things. Not everyone is something just because a lot of the people that are their race is that. Anyone can be a murderer or any of all of those bad things, that minorities are "known" for. Nobody ever knows what anyone truly is just by the way that they look they might think they do but they don't. Language of racial identity will always be in our society.

I don't think that can really be changed people look different that's why there are all of these different races. It won't go away because there are differences to everyone and we can't all be looked at as the same, we can't just put behind the way people look at the different races or how people are classified.