Month: January 2024

Who Am I going to be? This question is by far one of the questions I ask myself the most, yet I couldn’t answer It, until we finished our final Humanities project of this semester. This projet wasn’t like others, It felt like it was more Important to me. When Asked the question, “who are you going to be” I used to think of career, for example someone would ask “who are you going to be?”, and I would often say a soccer player, or an engineer or other jobs. But now I answer with “I am going to be a motivated helpful person who inspires others”.

This post Isn’t going to just be a summary It’s going to be about that very Important question which is, “who are you going to be”. For me one of the most notable parts of the project was when we thought of five words that describe the person we want to be. We also add a slide of who we are currently.

I found these exercises very Important because we got to analyze what’s good about ourselves then we got to see how close we are to the person we want to be. Obviously I have grown as a person throughout this project but I am still quite far from being the person I would like to be.

The task that taught me the most about how to become and act like the person I want to be was our interview. We were tasked with interviewing someone who inspires us and is a role model similar to the who we want to be. I interviewed my uncle who Works In construction Management. He talked about how many times he has had really stressful times where things looked like they were almost impossible yet he pulled through. My uncle said that the best part about his job is feeling of accomplishment and pride when his team and him finsh a project.

These lessons taught me a lot about how I should look up to my uncle because he is a great role model and can help me achieve my goal of being the person I want to be. The most important virtue in my eyes is resilience. At times I thought kindness, or helpfulness were the most important virtues until I read the Alphonso Davies book. This book not only talks about how Davies is resilient person, but also about the early challenges him and his family faced. They had to move to a refugee camp to escape the war in Liberia, they didn’t have much money at all, all Alphonso had was football. It inspires me that even during the darkest times if you have a passion you can climb through the darkest times. I value Alphonso Davies because of his virtue and football ability, but his and his parents story is really inspiring to me.

Those were the most notable parts of this project that taught me lessons and motivated me, but what will I do to become the person I hope to be? I will continue
To learn and cherish the advice given to me by my teachers and role models, If I do this correctly and apply myself in all aspects of life then I will become the person I hope to be. Thank you for reading.

Hi everyone, welcome back to another blog of mine. Todays post is going to be covering the most recent project of mine Called Ology of Apology. Ive have been to many tourism cites in my life, Disneyland, Seattle space needle, the volcano In Maui, but little did I know that the ost impactful of them all are memorials.

Memorials are usually some kind of structure or building designed to remember a person or an event in it own unique way. Another type of memorial is a one that’s purpose is to raise awareness. For example my favourite memorial is the gun violence memorial in the United States. I like it because it raises awareness for an ongoing issue and could possibly make America a safer place.

At the start of this project we were told the definition of a memorial. After that we were tasked with researching, in a group of three, a memorial given to us by our teacher. The first notable assignment for me was making a memorial put of lego for any character we wanted. I chose to make a memorial on Anakin skywalker and how he was a great leader and man before he turned to the dark side.

Next we each choose a memorial we like and we had to make a slideshow with voice narration. My memorial was the motherland calls statue in russia. These two assignments were very fun because we got to create and research memorials we were interested in.

We then proceeded to learn about three groups of people in Canada that were heavily discriminated against. These groups were the Chinese, the Japanese, and the sikhs. This was a group project. There were nine groups, three groups were assigned Chinese, three groups were assigned Japanese, and three groups were assigned sikhs.
I was part of the Sikh group. We then spent many class days listening and taking notes. The incident our group covered was the Komagata Maru. Canadians at the time didn’t like that sikhs were moving to Canada and dominating the lumber industry. So they made a rule that your journey must be continuous passage. What this means is that if you were a Sikh you would have to sail from India to Canada without stopping in other ports. Sailing from India to Canada at the time was not possible. The Komagata Maru tested this law by sailing from Hong Kong. When they arrived in Vancouver they were denied entry. Eventually they were forced back to India and many passengers on the ship were killed in India because the Indian government thought that the passengers on the ship were causing trouble.

Our group choose to memorialize the ship by making it out of bones. We did this because it shows that people died that sailed on the Kamagata Maru. We worked on this and it turned out great. It was exhibition time.

We had a people vote for whose memorial was the best out of each group of people.
Unfortunately ours did not win, but I am still really proud of me and my groups work. I do think we could have made the boat more detailed, but I am still happy.
Thank you for reading.