Humanities
What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns Project Reflection
- What were your viewpoint regarding firearms, their uses and misuses, and legislation coming into the project?
During this project, my viewpoint on firearms and their different uses were you can have a firearm I don't care what their different uses are used for or what kind of firearm you have or what it can do. In my opinion, as long as you don't randomly murder people or kids you can use a gun for safety and for other things like hunting. When it comes to military use I have a different opinion.
- In what ways was your viewpoint challenged by our class conversations, your research, and the exhibition?
Some different was my viewpoint was changed was when we were having a class discussion on what we think about guns and how they are used where a lot of peoples opinions came into the conversation and some people got a little judge on what some people thought. This was challenging because some people on firearms and some don't witch change the different perspectives. After all of that, I feel like people excepted what others opinions are and continued on the project.
- What adversity did you face during this project and how did you overcome it/make your way through it?
During this project, some challenges i faced was trying to complete many different things at once and also trying to help other people with there things witch where part of our exhibition. Some of these challenges where having and finishing up some of the different documents so they are presentable to show. During this time we all came together and worked out a plan to help our group get together and complete our research on different firearms. After we came up with a plan we split off and conquered out tasks as well as getting more of our group to help complete the missed or new documents to help complete in a nice and presentable way.
- In what ways did you contribute to your group and the class as a whole?
I feel like I helped contribute to the class by helping my group and other groups if they needed it. I helped with creating and setting up and tack down of the exhibition and where everything is going. For an example when we were planing the walls I helped with finding where they will be placed and how they will
- What can you point to in the exhibition that is yours (e.g. something you made, researched, etc.)
During this project, some things that I help create was the different firearm profiles and what they do. During the creation, I then went to as many of the different documents and added a picture for that type of gun so people will have a good image that way they will be able to know what it looks like. With help from a friend that knows guns better than me and asked for help to make sure I hade the right kind of firearm. She was kind and helped me quite a bit with starting to understand that there is a bit different when it comes to different kinds, I also learned that only one thing might be different which can help make it a totally different gun or have different properties.
During this project, my viewpoint on firearms and their different uses were you can have a firearm I don't care what their different uses are used for or what kind of firearm you have or what it can do. In my opinion, as long as you don't randomly murder people or kids you can use a gun for safety and for other things like hunting. When it comes to military use I have a different opinion.
- In what ways was your viewpoint challenged by our class conversations, your research, and the exhibition?
Some different was my viewpoint was changed was when we were having a class discussion on what we think about guns and how they are used where a lot of peoples opinions came into the conversation and some people got a little judge on what some people thought. This was challenging because some people on firearms and some don't witch change the different perspectives. After all of that, I feel like people excepted what others opinions are and continued on the project.
- What adversity did you face during this project and how did you overcome it/make your way through it?
During this project, some challenges i faced was trying to complete many different things at once and also trying to help other people with there things witch where part of our exhibition. Some of these challenges where having and finishing up some of the different documents so they are presentable to show. During this time we all came together and worked out a plan to help our group get together and complete our research on different firearms. After we came up with a plan we split off and conquered out tasks as well as getting more of our group to help complete the missed or new documents to help complete in a nice and presentable way.
- In what ways did you contribute to your group and the class as a whole?
I feel like I helped contribute to the class by helping my group and other groups if they needed it. I helped with creating and setting up and tack down of the exhibition and where everything is going. For an example when we were planing the walls I helped with finding where they will be placed and how they will
- What can you point to in the exhibition that is yours (e.g. something you made, researched, etc.)
During this project, some things that I help create was the different firearm profiles and what they do. During the creation, I then went to as many of the different documents and added a picture for that type of gun so people will have a good image that way they will be able to know what it looks like. With help from a friend that knows guns better than me and asked for help to make sure I hade the right kind of firearm. She was kind and helped me quite a bit with starting to understand that there is a bit different when it comes to different kinds, I also learned that only one thing might be different which can help make it a totally different gun or have different properties.
With Justice For All
https://durangoherald.com/articles/199585-animas-high-students-bring-fresh-eyes-to-homelessness-issue-in-durango#slide=2
Reflection
When starting this project we looked at different topics, for an example we looked at Dr. King’s idea of civil disobedience as well as the definitions of what makes a just vs unjust law. When doing this we watch a video of him giving a speech on the topic and what he thought. We then continued to study various moral and political philosophies of justice. When doing this we looked into our legal system including Deontology, Utilitarianism, John Rawls, and libertarianism. We looked at the different problem that had occurred during this year. After looking at the different problems in Durango, CO we voted on a topic to study that has a wide variety of different issues to study and explore what we can do to help. We talked to different people in our community on what that thing and how they are helping like Ed Aber, Axis, Food No Bombs, Veteran Homestead Project and some others. We also when to some test tracks to see how and where they are living and to get some ideas on how to help. After getting what we needed we started to plan the event and come up with ideas on how we can help and get people to know what they can do to help. Some of us helped with planning on how the event will play out on others worked on different projects to show and educate on the homeless problem we have.
When our event started we had everyone join us in one room for opening speeches and to get a brief understanding of what some community members are doing in Durango by having them give a small speech about how they are helping and what they are doing. After doing that we moved on to looking at the different projects our class created with a snack around to munch on till dinner was ready. After some time of looking around, we started the meal with a lot of food donations from the parents and from 3 different organizations. After we got food and started to have conversations a student gave the ending speech with thanking all who came. From then we cleaned up and left. I felt that our event went well I thought it was one of the best we ever did before. I feel like we spent a lot of time trying to make it the best we can and create a cool and interesting learning experience about a big topic that is occurring in our community.
During this project I pushed myself to reach out to different people and if they will be able to help donate a small platter of food to our exhibition. I pushed myself in many different ways by working with different people and trying to figure out a way to make or exhibition go well when people start getting food for dinner. I don't think I fell short because we had plenty of food left over for us to donate to the manna soup kitchen. During this project, i worked on getting different businesses to help donate food to our exhibition.
I think think that this project impacted me in many different ways by helping me understand how hard it is to keep a house and how homeless people have a hard time with different things, like food and warmth. Some new ideas that come to mind are the different ways some people are treated and judged by how they live and look. Some things that struck me where how they didn't get much food and how a lot of the homeless people have pets and care for them more than themselves.
When starting this project we looked at different topics, for an example we looked at Dr. King’s idea of civil disobedience as well as the definitions of what makes a just vs unjust law. When doing this we watch a video of him giving a speech on the topic and what he thought. We then continued to study various moral and political philosophies of justice. When doing this we looked into our legal system including Deontology, Utilitarianism, John Rawls, and libertarianism. We looked at the different problem that had occurred during this year. After looking at the different problems in Durango, CO we voted on a topic to study that has a wide variety of different issues to study and explore what we can do to help. We talked to different people in our community on what that thing and how they are helping like Ed Aber, Axis, Food No Bombs, Veteran Homestead Project and some others. We also when to some test tracks to see how and where they are living and to get some ideas on how to help. After getting what we needed we started to plan the event and come up with ideas on how we can help and get people to know what they can do to help. Some of us helped with planning on how the event will play out on others worked on different projects to show and educate on the homeless problem we have.
When our event started we had everyone join us in one room for opening speeches and to get a brief understanding of what some community members are doing in Durango by having them give a small speech about how they are helping and what they are doing. After doing that we moved on to looking at the different projects our class created with a snack around to munch on till dinner was ready. After some time of looking around, we started the meal with a lot of food donations from the parents and from 3 different organizations. After we got food and started to have conversations a student gave the ending speech with thanking all who came. From then we cleaned up and left. I felt that our event went well I thought it was one of the best we ever did before. I feel like we spent a lot of time trying to make it the best we can and create a cool and interesting learning experience about a big topic that is occurring in our community.
During this project I pushed myself to reach out to different people and if they will be able to help donate a small platter of food to our exhibition. I pushed myself in many different ways by working with different people and trying to figure out a way to make or exhibition go well when people start getting food for dinner. I don't think I fell short because we had plenty of food left over for us to donate to the manna soup kitchen. During this project, i worked on getting different businesses to help donate food to our exhibition.
I think think that this project impacted me in many different ways by helping me understand how hard it is to keep a house and how homeless people have a hard time with different things, like food and warmth. Some new ideas that come to mind are the different ways some people are treated and judged by how they live and look. Some things that struck me where how they didn't get much food and how a lot of the homeless people have pets and care for them more than themselves.