Your Life on Earth: Philosophizing Purpose and Place in the Word
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Your Life on Earth: Philosophizing Purpose and Place in the Word is about Finding our own purpose and our own philosophies. By starting to understand who we are and what ethics we can agree upon, then and only then, can we start to mold ourselves into the unique individuals we are. What really started to shape the direction that I took was one that started from events that were relevant in my life at the time. I was facing some personal problems and throughout them, I start to shape the person who I am today. My philosophy at its core Nihilistic, that nothing truly matters except what you make of it. What you perceive through your own eyes is the only thing that should shape your own reality. Take only the things you need and leave there more than you came with.
New insights that I developed throughout this project came from the book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer specifically the idea that one can live out of a backpack. Throughout the philosophy that you can truly be self-reliant and nothing in this world matters, but what is in front of you. I really enjoyed this philosophy, and maybe one day live it, but I cannot live forever in that state. But truly by understanding that we are more visitors on this planet earth. Throughout this project the most important thing that I learned was to be educated about my decisions, start to understand how they drive my world, and what they really mean in the ideals of all people. This project forced me to grow more personally rather than experimentally, not because I made a cooler and cooler product, but because I stopped to think who I am, and who I want to be. My ideas will always change, everyone's personal philosophy is fluid, so I will never say that I figured out who I am, but I can say that I have an idea of who I will be. My intellectual quandaries will expand and change driving a ship into the distance that I am aboard, constantly changing upon who I am. I realized that I must remain constantly vigilant, always exploring the depths of my mind to understand the world around me and where I am in it. To understand that the world is always changing, shifting, becoming something better something great. My purpose is what is in front of me. Currently, to get a degree in engineering and to full my dream of becoming one of the best kayakers in the world. My purpose is simply what I am, and what I will shape my life around. Also on the search of becoming better. The world is fluid so treat it as such, because eventually nothing is set in stone. No one will truly be remembered. . |
The Ethics and Chemistry of Food
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The Ethics and Chemistry of Food Project was an exploration into the ideals of how our food reaches the table as well as the actual chemistry of the food that we eat, and what it takes to make it. This project was a joint venture of projects from chemistry and humanities. Through the collaboration of the two classes, we were able to develop our own ideas of what we want to eat, and throughout Chemistry, we found how to make the best possible meal by changing certain aspects in them.
The interdisciplinary nature of this project impacted my learning by tying the ideals and philosophy of how our meat is treated as well as an exploration into what our food comes from and whether each way we produce our foods. In the chemistry side of things, we uncover what our food is really made of. By constructing an experiment of different levels of sugar and cinnamon in waffles can we make one that doesn't require the use of syrup, and indeed our product did achieve this result. By studying food academically, I uncovered the brutal truths about large industrial organic, and Industrial production and how it affects the Human body, and environment. In my essay called We all Return to the Earth I discuss more in detail about how my mindset has changed, but briefly, I believe that Industrial food production is not the way to produce foods, and the process of overproduction is not the best way to understand how the world really functions. By exploring food throughout chemistry, I uncovered that we can shape our world in almost any way we want chemically, and by doing so we can actually change our body. Before this project began I took for granted what I ate, not really caring what enters my body as long as some of it was good food. |
Personal Philosophy Project
The Labor Question
The Labor Question Project was about what are the troubles with labor on this day. We investigate what labor was in the past and looked at the similarities and how the problems evolve and change, but they never get answered. The result of this project was a podcast that we created about how Local events affect local businesses thrive, specifically looking at Noel night. Though this project we developed the skills of how to make podcasts as well as learning how to research and read older documents that are written differently to those of today. We also looked into timed writing and becoming a better writer through our timed writing documents. Without anything else to say here are the products that were produced!
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