Quarantine timeline
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2020 Election Signs
I have been taking pictures of every sign I for around a month now. I just pulled our my phone and took a picture if I was in the car or on a walk. This relates to my exsperience in 2020 because the election felt like a big turning point this year.
Times Shadow
I created this poem to show what it has felt like during this crazy time with everything that has happened in 2020. I felt like it would be too much to get into every detail, so I mainly focused on myself and my feelings about it. This relates to the theme of 2020 because I think this is a feeling that many others have, and not just myself. It’s easy to feel hopeless with the pandemic and stress from the government and the elections. Since my school is doing remote learning, I completed this in my house, and also worked on it a few times while in class, but mostly independently.
My 2020 playlist
This year was the worst yea I’ve ever been alive. On my website, I talk about how music influenced my life this year and how it helped me escape. The transition from Middle school to high school all while doing it virtually is what I also talk about and how the year 2020 has affected my mental health. The artist I chose the mention: BTS, SZA, and Ariana grande have helped me tremendously through these times and I’m happy I get to share this project with you.
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Living As A Teen In 2020
This contest was a project our class had gotten from our English teacher. We were told in September that we would be going to make a project for the New York Times. Just like in the prompt we were given creative freedom to create whatever we wanted. I didn’t have many ideas of what I wanted to submit. For me, it took more than a week to come up with an idea. The idea I came up with was to make a slide show of memes from events in 2020. I then got the idea from my teacher to talk over the project, so my project changed from just a google slide, into a video with me and my friends. I wanted my friends to join because I felt like I could say so much more and show more of my personality. I made this project at home on my computer and did mostly independent work. I made this project with memes that I have created for these events and used other ones that I thought were good. I spent hours editing the video to the best of my abilities on WeVideo. I wanted to create this because I felt everyone has had such a bad year that they needed something to laugh about. This idea relates to the theme of what it is like to be a teenager in 2020 because now that we have to be online all the time, we have to enjoy ourselves and communicate in different ways. I feel like it has been hard for teenagers to communicate about how they are feeling. That where memes come in, memes help us can say how we feel in a funny way, that most people can understand. Memes are also a great way of spreading awareness and news. Memes are easy to understand and can spread easily, for me I had gotten memes about Australia wildfires through memes. In the end, memes are a way of communicating for teens and show their feelings.
The Cocoon of a Social Butterfly
When being introduced to this project I instantly thought about my social life. I thought about how different everything has been since Covid and how much I miss seeing the people I use to see every single day. With this in mind, I decided to make my project about the compare and contrast of my social life in Covid-19. Before everything hit for years I would constantly hang out with my friends after school and on the weekends. This change has affected me mentally and physically in many ways that I could and couldn’t see. Doing this project has made me reflect on myself in many ways realizing what I can do to improve my Covid experience. In light of all of this what I exactly did for this project was I took photos of three places I use to go to with three different people and I describe my experience as a teenager going to these places before Covid and after. I also explained how Covid has affected my relationships with these three people and how different it was from before. Making a paragraph for each place describing the compare and contrast of the situations I was in. What I did first was take pictures of each place just to show what the places looked like and how they may have changed because of Covid. Then I wrote a thorough paragraph describing what I would do before going to these places and what I do now after Coivd-19 going to these places or not. In that same paragraph, I would compare my relationship with each friend that is linked to the specific place and talk about how it was before and after. I did all of these steps throughout the last few weeks of October and the beginning of November spacing out when I complete each task making sure I don’t cram everything at once. To summarize this project has made me step back and think about everything in the time of Covid-19 and appreciate everything before the time of Covid. Since this project, I have made more progressive decisions to be more active socially and not fixate and reminisce on the past. Doing this has helped me in many ways mentally and knowing I’m not the only one experiencing these things is welcoming. Looking back on the experiences I’ve had and this project will make me forever appreciative.
Pandemics and Change
Many can say that quarantine has been hard, and we have all been forced out from the busy nature of our daily lives. However, I can say that quarantine has humbled me, grounded me and allowed me to realize that there are many pockets of peace in our daily lives, but it is up to us to appreciate them and hold onto them for as long as possible. Furthermore, quarantine has allowed me to learn a lot about life that I wouldn’t know if this pandemic didn’t happen. For instance, I have learned that sometimes you have to put others before yourself and this speaks true to me because I understand that some people have higher risks and that I shouldn’t be irresponsible and selfish. Sometimes, when I think about my experience before the pandemic I realize that sometimes good things and blessing come in disguise and that although the pandemic is a horrific thing it has changed me for the better. Making me more open minded, selfless and hard working in order to navigate the new world that has been presented to us.
Time is being wasted, lifes are being taken
2020 hasn’t been the best way to welcome the new decade. It sure has been a roller coaster, Virus, Police brutality, and it’s election year. Yet the world has corona, but America is having so many more problems than just a virus. The sad part is that these problems aren’t new, they have been seen for so long, but no one makes a change. I made a drawing to represent what my 2020 looks like in my point of view. People protest for a change, but yet they wear masks, because there’s a virus around them. President Donal Trump is seen walking away, refusing to hear his people. This puts a single story into Americans, people see american as an unfair place, and it shouldn’t be like that. We are slowly making America ungreat. This is also why I made the background as the american flag burning. It’s not a hateful way, but because America is slowly burning, people aren’t heard and find a way to be heard. They start to destroy stores and burning stuff. Yet, the president still walks away from it. The BLM movement has been coming out a lot, seeing this as a chance to be heard, many other movements have also come out to make their problems known. America, hasn’t also been the only place in the world with pain, other countries have been fighting for survival. As a teen living in this country, I have felt unsafe, and sometimes worried about my family. We have tried to stay safe in quarantine, we try and spend time together, and it’s a good way to get closer to your loved ones. But with the countrys actions of treating non-white people is worrying. I’ve seen in the news that kids are being put in cages like animals in the border. Sometimes, I think, what if it was me? What if it was my siblings?. It’s not much about me, but my siblings. I can’t do much being 14, but if I had much more power, I would use it for good. 2021 is around the corner and everyone is praying for a better year, with a better view. Time is being wasted, lifes are being taken, it’s a change for today.
Coming of Age in 2020
For my coming of age in 2020 The New York Times submission, I wrote a seven-page six-part ten paragraph essay chronicling the events that affected my life during the COVID nineteen pandemic. This project took me a month to make with breaks in between. In my essay, I implemented many multiple media aspects into my essay with news headlines from websites such as NBC Philadelphia, inquirer.com, and philasd.org, and some photos of my day to day life. I wrote an essay about my time during the COVID nineteen pandemic to share my experiences, emotions, opinions, and struggles that many other people my age have faced during this tumultuous year.
dear younger generation
I specifically wanted to write a letter to the audience about self love and how someone else’s opinion could affect you. I made this in late October 2020 as a school project and as a strong message to the people who watch it. I originally was going to submit a piece of paper with all the same things written on it but then I decided to make a video. I went with the format of a lyrics video because it will be eye catching to watch and visually understandable.
I think this connects to the theme because even though insecurities were already a thing before this year, I recently have been thinking more about myself and how others think of me since we are all locked in our house. With no human contact, many people can start thinking bad and the internet is a big influence since we can’t see each other. I made this to hopefully reassure people that no matter what situation, you should always be yourself.
Of course I didn’t just boringly repeat “be yourself” over and over again in the video but instead use my motto which is to be “perfectly imperfect.” It might sound very cheesy but I genuinely think that perfect can be anything is our eyes whether or not someone else has an opinion on it. Many believe that perfect isn’t real and that when I think they’re wrong. In their eyes it can be imperfect while in yours it’s perfect so technically in a good way, you’re perfectly imperfect.
I wouldn’t say I have completely accepted myself and that I don’t care what others think of me but that’s what I’m trying to progress in even when I was making this video. I have accepted most of my flaws and I do realize I am not perfect and I will never be perfect but if I can fully embrace myself and acknowledge all the positive things in my life, I will happily say I am perfectly okay with that.
This whole video project is dedicated to the people in the generation younger than me who cares about their reputation and looks more than what reality is. Hopefully my project will help people improve themselves and help them through this horrible time. Also to help make them realize what’s important in life.
