The Trail of My Life
Senior Year Projects
Morris Knolls High School
IB English HL 2
- Date: September 8, 2017
- Overview: A literary commentary written about a passage from the novel, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. The chosen passage and subsequent commentary deals with Locusts: An Allegory Foreshadowing the Future Colonization of Umuofia.
- Keywords:
- Things Fall Apart
- Chinua Achebe
- colonization
- Nigeria
- Britain
- Europe
- natives
- savages
- Africa
- agriculture
- International Baccalaureate
- essay
- senior
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- Date: January 31, 2018
- Overview: A pastiche poem I composed based off of “Demeter” by Carol Ann Duffy. Using “Demeter” as a model, I crafted a poem that reflects the core of Carol Ann Duffy’s poetic techniques while conveying a unique voice to display a newly synthesized story and message. Persephone is Demeter’s daughter in Greek myths, and thus, I chose to use a similar style to Duffy to bring out the characters of Demeter and Persephone in this poem.
- Keywords:
- Demeter
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Hades
- conservatism
- Scottish
- mother
- maternal
- poem
- English
- senior
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- Date: March 1, 2018
- Overview: This paper explores how Marjane Satrapi, in her graphic novel called Persepolis, explores her coming-of-age in the revolutionary times of the 1970s in Iran. it can be argued that Marjane Satrapi characterizes her younger self in a way to show how her coming of age was shaped through the conflict between fundamentalist Islamic forces and private household resistances.
- Keywords:
- Persepolis
- Marjane Satrapi
- Iran
- Arabic
- translation
- Islam
- Sunni
- Shia
- Revolution
- conservatism
- International Baccalaureate
- essay
- senior
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- Date: June 18, 2018
- Overview: I wrote a one-act play that tells the story of an ancient Indian emperor as he tries to reclaim his lover that was tragically taken away from him. My classmates performed this drama in class.
- Keywords:
- religion
- values
- love
- Emperor
- empire
- kingdom
- ministers
- opulence
- wealth
- nature
- spirituality
- teachings
- war
- salvation
- International Baccalaureate
- play
- senior
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AP Statistics
- Date: June 13, 2018
- Overview: My AP Stats paper answering the question: To what extent does a person’s music listening habits predict their academic performance in a core subject area? This question uses the following terminology: Music listening habits– includes (but may not be limited to) the following: the genre of music a person listens to on average the number of hours a person spends listening to music on average Academic performance– reflection of a person’s understanding of the subject matter and its applications; measured by marking period grades earned in a particular subject Core subject area– mathematics, English, history and science are considered core subject areas
- Keywords:
- academics
- music
- extracurriculars
- GPA
- grades
- exams
- correlation
- causation
- NPP
- normal probability plot
- trend analysis
- linear regression
- surveys
- mathematics
- statistics
- paper
- research
- senior
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IB History HL 2
- Date: January 10, 2018
- Overview: History IA paper that researches and answers the question: How did the actions of U.S. private-sector banks in causing the Great Depression result in the increasingly interventionist role of the U.S. government in the economy of the 1930s?
- Keywords:
- US
- America
- Great Depression
- finance
- economics
- stock market
- crash
- panic
- interventionism
- Galbraith
- private-sector
- big business
- history
- essay
- research
- senior
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IB Spanish SL 2
- Date: September 6, 2017
- Overview: An essay, written fully in Spanish, comparing and contrasting American and Latin American families on the basis of cultural similarities and differences in the two regions.
- Keywords:
- South America
- Latin America
- diversity
- plurality
- families
- culture
- geography
- religion
- values
- Spanish
- essay
- senior
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- Date: October 25, 2017
- Overview: A presentation about the South American country of Bolivia that was delivered in Spanish to my class.
- Keywords:
- South America
- diversity
- Native Americans
- Bolivia
- Bolivar
- military police
- plurality
- Spanish
- presentation
- senior
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- Date: January 15, 2018
- Overview: A presentation about illegal immigrants in the United States that was delivered in Spanish to my class.
- Keywords:
- America
- US
- South America
- diversity
- Native Americans
- Mexico
- Latin America
- agriculture
- college
- illegal
- migrants
- refugees
- police
- Spanish
- presentation
- senior
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- Date: March 9, 2018
- Overview: An essay, written fully in Spanish, about the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro. I write about his background, rise in politics, and role in the humanitarian crisis during the time of writing. Research from sources written in Spanish is integrated along with my synthesis.
- Keywords:
- America
- US
- South America
- Latin America
- Venezuela
- Nicolas Maduro
- president
- constitution
- National Assembly
- socialism
- Bolivar
- Spanish
- essay
- research
- senior
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IB Theory of Knowledge 2
- Date: March 13, 2018
- Overview: My Prescribed Title (PT) answers the prompt: “Robust knowledge requires both consensus and disagreement.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. This prompt led me to ponder the following knowledge questions: What is robust knowledge? How is the robust knowledge generation process different from the knowledge generation process?
- Keywords:
- areas of knowledge
- experts
- mathematics
- axioms
- natural sciences
- human sciences
- theorems
- Fermat
- knowledge
- assumptions
- paradigm
- philosophy
- essay
- senior
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IB Extended Essay
- Date: February 28, 2018
- Overview: My Extended Essay (EE) answers the question: To what extent did Operation Barga reduce the standard-of-living problems of sharecroppers living in the Indian state of West Bengal from 1977 to 1993? The plight of the bargadars, or sharecroppers, can be traced back to the late 1700s when the British began colonizing India, starting with the modern-day state of West Bengal. Enacting many laws to ensure their control of the subcontinent, the British inadvertently bound the bargadars to servitude on their zamindars’ (landlords’) land. Several problems originated from the bargadars’ inferior status, hampering their ability to live a financially secure and happy life and attain upwards social mobility. Although several reform attempts were made, none were as successful in addressing the bargadars’ standard-of-living problems as Operation Barga.
- Keywords:
- India
- West Bengal
- Bengali
- Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- CPI(M)
- agriculture
- sharecropping
- rural
- poor
- villages
- bargadars
- rights
- registration
- contracts
- landlords
- politics
- class
- economics
- history
- International Baccalaureate
- essay
- research
- senior
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