English
For English I decided to blog about self awareness and relationships. I learned about how relationships can change you as a person, and how we let them change us. I wrote my blogs a lot on my experiences and how things panned out for me personally, but I also put research into my blogs to back up my thoughts. I have been through a lot relationship wise, especially for my age, and I have lost myself in the process of it all, but slowly regained myself as well. My project was to show that you can become an even better version of yourself after something bad happens in your life, and even after you let yourself go. Through the blogging process I actually found out a lot more about myself, when I thought I already knew so much. Putting things into written words and pairing it with actual research makes things come to life so much more. Below I discuss a little bit about the research behind my blogs, and I also have the links to each individual blog post.
Social Studies
For social studies I researched why people make certain decisions, and what goes through their mind when making the decisions. I had to read a lot of articles, blogs, and such to learn about this topic because it is something that is very in depth with the psychological mind. I based my research on romantic relationships, mainly, and why people tend to stay in a relationship that isn't good for them-whether it be mental, emotional, or physical abuse. I found a lot of articles stated that the reason people stay in poor relationships is due to the fact that they don't want the other person to be hurt, feel lonely, and not have anyone to depend on, which is an insanely selfless act. This part of my project was very interesting because I was able to delve deeper into the mind of a human, and the reasoning behind our decisions, which went perfectly with our thinking skill: reasoning! Check out more details and research behind my thoughts in my blog posts!
Art
For art I decided to take a bit of a twist with my project. In one of my blog posts I discuss how some people in relationships will do something terrible to their partner, such as abusing them, but then they will bring them something (like flowers) to make up for it, apologize, and promise everything will change, just for it to happen all over again the next day. Since I discussed this portion of the topic in my blog, I decided to take an antique jewelry box and fill the inside with broke glasses, and the outside with flowers, showing that not everything is what it seems. I chose wine glasses because in my experience in the past (with my parents) a lot of arguments start with too much alcohol and end with broken glass on the floor. I also added a clock in the inside to show that time can heal all wounds, like the saying goes, but how the healing may not look how you expect it to, which is another topic I discussed in one of my blogs. The outside I chose flowers because this is one of the things (men) use to apologize to their significant other, and something women really like (typically). I had to touch up my project some, by adding more items to the inside and outside of my box, making the box those things, instead of just a box with those things in or on it. I transformed the box, and it ended up looking really good.