KJ GCE Portfolio

 Hey Visitor, In this class called Policy, we looked at the 3 branches of government, the history of law-making, how law is interpreted, and what follows up to an act or a law. In this Unit of Policy we focused on the Judicial and Executive branch. In class we split up the Constitution to look over the 1st and 2nd article to dissect it to figure out what the President can and CANNOT do. Like how the President's appointed officials have to be interviewed and granted the position by Congress. How Congress rules over inferior courts, and etc. All of this was used to build our understanding if war can be justifiable. With our Field Experience to the Everett M. Dirksen courthouse we took a tour and analyzed how cases in court are processed,  how evidence is presented, then we had lunch with attorneys and a judge. Now proceeding to the project we were asked to identify a war and to see if we personally though that the war was justifiable with evidence and make an essay on it. I accidenta

Hi Visitor! This project was for the class called “Urban Planning” . This is our 3rd and final unit of the class and during this time we learned about Ancient cities and structures, City planning ideas, current problems in cities and solutions or hypothetical solutions, and how cities evolved differently like New York and Amsterdam. In this Project we were asked to pick an area that we wanted to improve and make at least 5 improvements to the selected area. The general area I chose was South Shore due to my previous knowledge of knowing that South Shore was disinvested in; and the specific address I chose was 2507 E 79th St since it has no current use and it has a lot of potential to be repurposed so I went with it.      The main purpose I had for this area was to create a community farm because according to data in 2019; 57% of residents in the South Shore area live in a food desert. So I thought this would be very beneficial for the South Shore neighborhood since this would provide

Hi Visitor! in our "Policy" class, we dived into the intricate world of legislating, executing, and interpreting policies. Our exploration through the legislative branch, its historical significance in pushing boundaries and establishing new frontiers, and the process of transforming bills into laws. To gain a deeper understanding of the legislative process at the local level, we attended a city council meeting, observing the dynamics of the courtroom. We then got into the realm of workers' rights organizations, studying how they advocate for their needs and orchestrate change within companies. Our immersive experience included a roleplay session organized by Depaul, providing us with invaluable insights into the mechanisms of policy transformation within a company setting. I'd say the hardest part about this project was finding the counter argument because I couldn't find myself to not undermine the unethical practice that the Data collecting is and trying to fi

Hey Visitor! In our Urban Planning class, we delved into the history of the "War of the Currents." We learned a variety of concepts regarding electricity; like its significance in modern society, the path it takes when traveling, how circuit diagrams aid in understanding its flow, the tools involved in circuits, and the different types of circuits that exist. Along this course, we encountered math variables such as "current," "amps," "voltage," "resistance," and "power." So we can use these variables to apply them to formulas like Ohm's Law (Voltage = Current x Resistance), then we  learned Coulomb's law and discovering the similarities to Newton's Universal Gravitation Law on a smaller scale. For our project, we were assigned the task of designing a circuit containing five resistors, one parallel branch switch, and a main switch. Our personal objective was to incorporate this circuit into a kitchen setting, envisi

 Hey Visitor, in this class called Urban Planning we talked about the physics and math behind building a bridge. The history of architectural artifacts in history, where compression & tension exists in the bridge, why we need to know these things; and the math formulas required like law of sines, cosines, Potential  and Kinetic energy. After learning this we were asked to create a bridge that was able to support 10 Ibs while only building the bridge with glue sticks and 75 popsicle sticks.  We didn't have a draft of the original building because we knew our idea will progress further and improve but the one that we ended up using is this.        My partner and I had numerous conversations about the type of triangles we would use for our bridge. We believed that choosing the right triangles was crucial because they needed to support the weight effectively. The main challenge we faced initially was figuring out how to make the bridge stand. We decided to start by building a foun

  Hello Visitor! In this class called A Nation’s Argument we talked about the progression of the United States as a nation. In that, we wanted to answer the question of how a Nation that is supposed to act in unity contradicts itself due to the differences in political views, life ideologies, and of course, the economy. We went back to the very beginning by studying the Declaration of Independence by having groups debunk each page of the D.O.I to understand why and how Thomas Jefferson wrote what he did. We also had to think as a person in the 1770’s to fully engulf in the world of a person that lived in this time to figure out their perspective and the thesis that the United States was proclaiming. Next we moved onto a lecture from Professor Freeman with the guiding question “How is a Nation argued into being” talking more about the Declaration of Independence and the buildup to it. Then we started learning about the anatomy of a proper argument; how a proper argument needs premises t