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Posted by Michelle Friedman in Being Human - Giknis - C on Monday, October 26, 2015 at 9:06 pm

For the first quarter benchmark in Being Human, Dillon and I were told to create a response to a piece of literature in our society now. We brainstormed important ideas that capture the essential themes of our generation: individualism, personalization, access to information, globalization, and more. We pulled themes from books, videos, and articles that relate to our central ideas to make our project as relatable to contemporary literature. For an in-depth analysis of how this project fits into today’s cultural fabric, click here.

We focused on beauty standards and mental health stigmas by designing a cultural response to a play written by a 15 year old girl. First we built the press release, an Instagram feed, which introduced the play to the public. We felt this made the most sense because so many people have found fame through the internet and social media. The feed followed her on the journey of writing the play and having it being discovered by a producer. The press release sparked enough publicity that a famous talk show host, Dillon Degeneres, noticed the play and invited the playwright onto the show. We based this segment off of Ellen Degeneres’ talk show because she often picks up viral video stars and gives them more fame. We used this interview to highlight the key aspects of the play that wouldn’t have come out otherwise. Some of those key points were the two storylines or the way mental health stigma shows itself. In conclusion, this project made us deeply analyze the characteristics of modern times and apply that understanding to a creative and engaging presentation.

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The Collection of The Album, "Power." By Ameer Forte and Isabella Beato

Posted by Ameer Forte in Being Human - Giknis - C on Monday, October 26, 2015 at 1:34 pm

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In our project we decided to make up an influential album called "Power." by a white female. The purpose of this project was to highlight the themes, race and gender. Throughout our made up album our artist, Isabella Nella, brings out the importance of equality for all from a unique perspective. Her being a white female she is aware she is a rarity in the rap industry, and so her voice transcended very powerfully to the audiences listening to her album which we showed in our audience response(Which is the part of the project where an audience responds to the piece we've created). Our audience response is a review of the album on the popular album review website Pitchfork, but most of the other components of our project fit into that review also. The album cover(which is the press release, which is the part of our project where the album is released to the public through some symbol of some sort which for us is the album cover) is in the review and some other album suggestions or albums that influenced "Power."(Which is the Cultural Fabric, which is the part of this project where we connected our album to actual albums that influenced our thinking in creating our album) are in that review as well. The final component of our project is an add on to our audience response, which is a social media response by our audience. That is shown above. To conclude, our project highlights race and gender through the eyes of a white female rapper who has a message that is very influential as she attempts to change the world by preaching equality for all no matter race or gender. 
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Digital Age- Q1 Benchmark (Malwina Dymek and Olivia Mack)

Posted by Malwina Dymek in Being Human - Giknis - C on Monday, October 26, 2015 at 1:25 pm

​     We chose to write about technology because currently in this 21st century, the majority of society is exposed or addicted to technology. We wanted to provide people with information of a different perspective and lifestyles that doesn’t involve technology and the idea of social media. To conclude to the end of the project we researched excessively and connected this novel to the modern day.

http://digitalage0.weebly.com/

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Trash: An Emo's Tale

Posted by Morgan Caswell in Being Human - Giknis - C on Monday, October 26, 2015 at 1:02 pm

If we assume the Metamoraphsis is a perfect representation of the modernist era, then what represents our time? 

We chose to make something somewhat satirical, making fun of the stigma around mental illness despite the rampant rise in diagnoses and the availablity of information that this generation has. We felt that these issues were best represented in the form of a book, as it gave us space to give detail and show day to day life for the main character, Callie. We set up a Twitter and a Tumblr account as our main character, post as if we were this character. Due to it's satirical nature, these social media pages make light of heavy subjects. We also made a book trailer promoting this work of fiction as well as an audiobook preview which can be found in the links below. 

Book trailer, audiobook, and review can be found here: http://panic-at-the-daddy-issues.weebly.com/project-materials 
About this project and about the authors: http://panic-at-the-daddy-issues.weebly.com/about-this-project.html 
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Xx_emotrash_xX 
Tumblr: https://www.panic-at-the-daddy-issues.tumblr.com 
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The Dull And Ameer Show

Posted by Ameer Holmes in Being Human - Giknis - C on Monday, October 26, 2015 at 1:00 pm

Q1 Benchmark // Contemporary Kafkaesque

For connecting themes of this era through the literature of today, this is the ultimate project. To us, what defines this era is comedy, and it is fed to us through the fruits of the labor of previous eras. Throughout human history comedy has been prevalent. Kings had jesters, towns had circuses, however in no other era than today has comedy been so widely integrated into everyday life. Not just the everyday child's playful humor, but adult humor as well has evolved. It is now acceptable, often without prosecution, to say many politically incorrect things as long as this evolved concept of comedy is tagged onto it. Through this project we explore the thing that governs our social lives; the thing that has evolved so adeptly to such an extreme extent in humans that it defines us; the thing that eases our souls of grimace and pushes us towards good time and witty thought. What we explore here is a little thing called comedy; the theme that defines this era.

The Planning Doc - here
Some Alt Audience Response In Video Comments - here
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