**I could’ve sworn we had to submit something online but I couldn’t find any links on the pain page, just the breakdown of the remaining of the semester.

REGARDLESS

Here is my Value Study for my project 3. Tone Studies – 988

*I don’t know why but openlab isn’t letting me put the link… but the name of the article is “Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics” from the New York Times.*

My topic is about how black hair can get “entangled” in society and in political issue. I choice this topic being that I am an African American woman with tight coily hair, I could relate to the black girls and women being discriminated and bashed for their hair (it hasn’t happened to me but I want to speak out on this issue, visually). Another thing is that, this issue isn’t so much recognized in the list of social issues, and it is even often disregarded. Everyone needs to be aware of this issue because rejecting and depriving someone because of what naturally grows out of their head leads to decline of self esteem, especially to the younger generation. So this isn’t an physical issue, but a mentality issue as well. People would often say, “well it’s just hair”, well, this hair is being rejected from jobs, suspended/expelled, from schools and bashed even by the U.S government. So yeah, it’s a pretty big deal. As for the article. it discusses hair discrimination not only in politics but in society as well, yet it isn’t seen as an serious issue. I like the title of this article, Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics, you can almost sense the tiredness and the “ugh, not again” in the title, which helped me visually what I want for a concept. As for my idea, I want to visually represent what us black women and girls have to go through today because of hair discrimination through metaphor.

https://www.livescience.com/22728-pollution-facts.html

I decided to use this article because of after reading it how it made me feel about pollution. I always knew pollution was a problem but this made me think more in depth about it. Land, sea, and air pollution are caused by humans and their waste so this information affects us directly.

https://www.refinery29.com/2017/09/171515/priyanka-chopra-hollywood-racism-criticism?bucketed=true&bucketing_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2F

Article: www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/style/the-juul-is-too-cool.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FSmoking%20and%20Tobacco&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

For my project 3 idea, I decided to go with the epidemics concerning with Juuling.

Juul is a compact, USB-shaped vaping device, created by two former Stanford University students to mimic the nicotine hit of a real cigarette. The use of Juuling has eclipsed the cigarette use. According to Mr. McDermott, “Nobody smokes cigarettes. You go to the bathroom, there’s a zero percent chance that anyone’s smoking a cigarette and there’s a 50-50 chance that there’s five guys Juuling. And it’s like, how Band-Aid has become synonymous with ‘bandage’? Juul has become synonymous with ‘vape.” Juuling has become more popular in use for college/university students and since most parents confuse the small vaping device for a usb/flashdrive, it doesn’t look suspicious.

Juuls is becoming more rampant and not just within schools, but in social media and parties too, which has also led to cases of theft. The other issue is how accessible they are, middle school students can go to a deli and buy it without question. According to Ashley Gould, the chef administrative officer of Juul Labs, said “We do not want underage kids using our products. Our marketing is directed toward adults, tested with adults. And I do think it’s worth noting: All of the things you see on social media, we have absolutely nothing to do with. We actively try to take these things down. But unless there’s an infringement of our intellectual property it’s quite difficult.”

Artificial Intelligence

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/09/c_137097436.htm

I chose artificial intelligence as my main idea of this project. Nowadays, people lend on the digital technology and its function has been developed as smart as human’s mind.In 2016, an artificial intelligence computer program that plays the Go already beat the human player. It immediately becomes a hot topic that people would focus on whether the AI would become the human’s future or not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/strava-privacy.html

For my editorial project, I decided to focus on the issue of data privacy and why It’s important. Now that we are living in the digital world, everybody’s information is being given up by services that we use, but how trustful is it? We use many apps, and social media sites and we need to abide by the consent that these companies offer to us. Sometimes we won’t read the consent of what we give up. There’s consequences when we accept these consents from these companies. whether our data is private or public, it’s all out there.