ContextualizationIn the midst of a global pandemic, our project still pulled together in the end. Our main idea going into our project was coffee - that's it. We had no idea where we wanted to go from there until we started to research. As we got into it, more unexpected things started to pop up such as abuse, slavery, climate change, and more. After just a glimpse, our passion had struck the match and we began to build the flame. Instead of trying to pull one area of coffee over our three subjects, we took the initiative to focus on different areas of the coffee industry that react to the others. We decided to contextualize the media attention (or lack of), cultural impact, and climate change with coffee. These might seem a bit far fetched, but it makes more sense. Together we had not only grown more conscience about our decisions for coffee - buying only fair trade organization coffee - but more in touch about people that seem to be worlds away, but aren't that far from us - we see them everyday. These victims are sitting on our shelves in our cabinets right now - through the coffee beans we see in any form: it's just up to us to acknowledge them.
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PerspectiveAs I endured a vigorous battle with COVID-19 throughout the duration of this project, I was still able to channel my burning desire for success and push through my extensive symptoms to complete this project to the best of my ability. Women killed innocently for love, passion, and their goals was something I could simply not recognize. I dove deep into the idea of "honor" killings around the world. I gathered an abundance of research to further comprehend what possessed countries to begin these acts. Within this project, I gained a true understanding of the logic behind honor killings in the Middle East. I uncovered how honor killings in one religion differs from another, and cultural differences in general. Additionally, I analyzed how parts of the world affect how harsh and strict religion is despite the same practices. I dove beneath the surface to comprehend the perspectives of those who see no wrong in their doings, learning more about who is doing this and why they would kill their family.
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Reasoning The apartheid was the force of segregation on the basis of race, notoriously famous in South Africa. In this project, we had to challenge ourselves to look at why white people in South Africa needed to be protected and why the major population of black people were being attacked. For us, this was not so black and white as we were raised in different times, but still experience the day-to-day news of attacks against black people. Inspired by stories of survivors, we wanted to bring justice to these people throughout each portion of our project, to justify our means for action with fact rather than stereotypes and opinions. In each of our components, we challenged ourselves to seek reason in why we have created our products as we have ended for them to be used rather than be put in a glass box to look at.
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SynthesisAs a common thread in war, there are victims and traumas. In World War II, there were countless victims, entire populations of peoples depleted and the hope of mankind faded away. The horrors of this war are still revisited by many students, but for this project, I wanted to take a deeper look on the enemy’s side. One part of my synthesizing portion of the project, I will be looking at Japan’s “Comfort Women ''. Women of Japan that had been tricked, abused, and taken advantage of all for the sake of pleasure and relief. On the side of the mind wall, I want to look at how Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) could emerge as many women were only young girls. To conclude, I want to synthesize that the young women have suffered from this disorder as their well-being was far overlooked.
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