Hello and welcome to the final Action project of my senior STEAM class, Social Entrepreneurship. In this class we discussed starting our own businesses marketing and other things. We discussed stereotypical marketing and how that may benefit a business in the long run. For this Action Project we were asked to build a business plan for a business idea that we have. We were assigned business incubator groups where we talked about our businesses and launched our plans. Many people in my class already have their own businesses up and running including me. I recently launched a podcast called the Amigas podcast. I did not choose to use this business for my business plan. Instead I decided to make a more ambitious plan of a network idea that I've had for many years. I hope you enjoy this Action project.
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Friday, March 19, 2021
What Will Happen in 2120?
Hello and welcome to my Action project for my senior humanities class, Equality. In this unit, we discussed racial equality, gender equality, and class equality. It was important to our class that we highlighted new gender norms other than the binary of male and female. We discussed non-binary people and their fight for equality. We learned about the different classes and why they exist. we also discussed if the 1% should exist. For this Action project we were asked to discuss a civil rights issue that may exist in 100 years. I decided to take on race and age discussions as I wrote an article about two black women heading the presidential race of 2120. I also included a new Amendment about age and presidential races. We were also asked to create a toy for the children of that era. I chose to make 2 dolls to represent the presidential candidates. It is very rare to see dark skinned dolls these days and I hope it would be more common to see dolls that represent all people. I hope you enjoy this Action project.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
2020 Vision- Three Historical Events from the Turn of The Decade
Hello and welcome to the first Action Project of my senior humanities class Equality. In Equality, we have discussed marginalized groups and their impact on American society. Today, people are grouped based on race, gender, and class. While discrimination is usually looked down on, people's inherit biases still exist and we must work in order to not let our biases inhibit connections with people across different demographics. In this AP, we were asked to choose a moment in history and make a text book from a marginalized perspective. I chose to cover three of what are, in my opinion, the most historic events of 2020 and early 2021. I hope you enjoy this action project.
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Health and Wellness at GCE
Hello and welcome to the first AP of my senior STEAM class, Entrepreneurship. In this unit, we have been exploring personality and how it influences the economic world. For this AP, we were asked to take an aspect from our school that we would like to change and make an analysis of that aspect. I chose health and wellness, which is a graduation requirement but I and many other students believe that the system can be improved. I hope you enjoy this action project.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Music that Matters Just Like I Do
Hello, my name is Tymony and I live in the Beverly neighborhood in Chicago. If you are not familiar, Beverly is a neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago near Roseland. The racial makeup of my community is imbalanced and while some people can just ignore this fact, I notice it every day. Before Covid-19 I would take the Metra train home from school almost every day. Sometimes I would get off at 111th which is closer to Morgan Park, a majority-black part of Beverly. Mostly, I would get off at 107th and the difference of people is astounding. From who walks to their destination vs who drives to who has a shiny briefcase vs a tattered tote bag. I would walk home next to white men who seemed to fear me more than I did them. It is a familiar feeling for people of color, the stares that sear through your skin or watching people almost run across the street just to avoid you. As time moved on I've learned to try to shrink down and blend in just to make it through the walk home.
I was a bit nervous to begin a project that would disrupt this invisible way of life that I had adapted to, so when Faiz Razi joined our Zoom class I asked "... do you ever feel out of place when making and installation in a place that is mostly white?'' He smiled, laughed, and said, "of course, whenever I even have a conversation with white folks it feels performative." This stuck out to me more than anything an FE guest has said before and that's because he put into words the feeling of "other" that I had tried for so long to suppress and make invisible. But I literally cannot make my skin invisible. So, with those words, I decided to put my installation in two places one on 107th street and one on 111th street.
This video is a sample of what it would be like to experience my installation once you get off at either train stop. The remixes that I made portray blackness in a way that cannot be ignored. The entire point of this installation is exclusivity. When most people hear the word exclusivity they think of it as a negative thing. However in this case I am using exclusivity to create a community. What my neighborhood desperately needs is racial diversity and diversity in thought. My installation will benefit the community by offering a new way of thinking for some and fostering a feeling of belonging for others.
I used Tinkercad to make a mockup of the giant boombox that will be placed at the 111th and 107th street Metra Stations. The real version is meant to be colorful, vibrant, and eye-catching.
The first remix, The Black People Mix, uses clips from Kendrick Lamar, J.Cole, James Brown, and N.W.A. I used repetition and stubbornness to highlight some parts of each song. The Black People Mix is intentionally more ambiguous than The Black Woman Mix and is up to interpretation by the listener. I decided to go with ambiguity because it allows a listener to be more engaged by using their own thoughts rather than having an idea pushed into your lap. TBPM has a rhythmic tempo that is unique because of the mixing of different songs from different genres. Today's popular music is very formulaic and predictable, both of the mixes are the opposite. When you listen for the first time it is meant to be very difficult to predict the next note or word coming.
Noname, The Woman's March and Betty Wright. I used quiet and space in this peace to accentuate
the pain that is constant but was extreme in June and July of 2020. In fact, the Noname clip was a
response to the erasure of the Say Her Name movement. I decided to be more intentional with the
message of this peace because all women are often forced into compliance and silence. We are often forced to be the submissive ones to take on and listen to the world's problems when many dismiss our problems. TBWM isn't as strict as The Black People Mix when it comes to tempo. Because of the extreme contrast of genres in this mix, the tempo changes drastically from the beginning to the end.
This installation is meant to Teach, Inspire, and Ignite here's how it will do this.
My installation will teach people to listen, each time they hear the mixes on the way to their destination
I hope that they will listen for something different.
By fostering a community this installation will inspire and ignite people to engage
with our neighborhood more.
Hopefully, with this installation, the people of color in Beverly will be
empowered to be comfortable to live life without worrying about stares or people avoiding them.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
The Average Human
“The Average Human”
The Average Human
Consider “The Average Human” to be the adult millennial child of the economic man.
As we all know, humans have their minds consumed by many different things at once.
Unlike the economic man, the average human has incentives other than money. The average human has children, pets, needs, and even wants. Like Raworth says in chapter 3 of Doughnut Economics “A new economic self-portrait must reflect the way that we see humanity’s place in the world.” This includes, as much as people may not want to admit, nonessential spending. According to USA Today, “the average adult in the USA spends $1,497 a month on nonessential items.” That is 26% of the average American’s monthly salary according to ZipRecruiter.
I believe that economics needs to be reformed to think about its participants in a way that is realistic and not hypothetical. Others have found fault with the “the economic man” idea. At a panel of economists, David Eastburn said, “I see this conflict not only within society but also within individuals.- Economic Man is at war with Social Man.”
He also made a T-chart that showed the differences between the economic man and the social man (or the average human). His T-chart represents the stark difference of what the two models would prioritize and in turn what will influence them in the economy. For example, the economic man would rather produce goods and services quickly and in great amounts; where the average human would rather make a quality product that may have taken more time and care.
This T-chart represents the stark difference of what the two models would prioritize and in turn what will influence them in the economy. The average human model should replace the economic man model because if we change the rigid model the people who do not fit the mold could be better suited in the economy.
Citations
Backman, Maurie. “You Don't Need That: Average American Spends Almost $18,000 a Year on Nonessentials.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 7 May 2019,
“Q: How Much Do Average Jobs Pay per Month in 2020?” ZipRecruiter
Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Random House Business Books, 2017.
Thought Bubble by Alex Muravev from the Noun Project
Person by Valerie Lamm from the Noun Project
Sunday, November 15, 2020
GifterBot 1.0
Hello and welcome to my second AP for my class Computer Science. In Computer Science we have been learning the coding language Python. In this action project we were asked to look at a popular online chatbot, then make one of our own. For my chatbot, I decided to implement a cool fashion element that allows you to receive a "gift" from the chatbot.
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