Story of Beth
Beth was a nice old lady who grew up in Chesher Connecticut and lived there for 28 years. Then she moved to Wellesley with her parents for another 28 years. After school was over for her she already had the idea of being a teacher. But she didn't know what she wanted to be, but then after a lot of debating, she picked to be a preschool teacher. She taught at St Joseph's the whole time till retirement. But she got her masters at the North Eastern school. After preschool teaching, she was a library assistant at St Joseph's. Her favorite thing to do was to work in human services because she has depression and she talks openly to people about it and this helps a lot of people. As a student, she had the accomplishment of winning the campus ministry award and that was her favorite memory in school. In school, she did not have a lot of friends and only had her parents. She took up golf as a kid and was taught by her parents and still plays today and it was her favorite hobby. School pushed her to be in human services because she became depressed at age 32. Also, her mother was her greatest influence on her because she was very religious and people looked up to her as a mother Teresa. She thought the world was very happy and a lot more peaceful till 9/11, during this event she was teaching and when the plane hit everybody was screaming and crying and this greatly affected her and she thought at that point the world has gone to a bad and a mean place. All of the tv blowing up and all the bad things on the news she just hates seeing it and she does not like how the world is changing because of all the bombings and terrorist groups coming up. So all of this affects her gratefully. She plans on making a book on how the world has changed and her story on how she can help depressed people.
Reflect on at least three takeaways that you learned from creating your project.
1. I got a better understanding of what it was like in the many different places Tony went to.
2. During improvement phase I had to decide what was good criticism and what I wanted to add.
3. I learnt how to convey emotions without literally showing the viewer and how to be more abstract
Explain what was difficult for you during this process and why?
It was hard to stay away from a diorama like project with my idea. Instead of just painting a scene I had to show what Tony felt and not what he saw. I was confused on how I would convey the V I B E , but then I started to think less literally.
Talk about feedback that you received and how you were able to incorporate that into your process.
I received feedback about how my project was like a diorama but with a few extra steps. People said the camera was cool but it wasn't conveying any feeling. I had to figure out away to make it abstract. I decided to find one of the emotions Tony felt. Tony felt empathy for the prisoner who only had a rock to wipe himself with. I decided to show his empathy by making the user put there hands in chains to put themselves in the prisoners shoes like how Tony did.
Reflect on at least three takeaways that you learned from creating your project.
Explain what was difficult for you during this process and why.
Talk about feedback that you received and how you were able to incorporate that into your process.
Since we didn't have a definite time period that Tony was in Egypt, we assume that he went during the 1960s. During that time Gamal Abdel Nasser was the leader of Egypt. He modernized and reformed Egypt. It was a Golden age for the film, poetry, television, radio, literature, and much more. "In 1956-1957, 25,000 Jews – almost half of the Jewish population of Egypt – were expelled from the country. Another 1,000 were imprisoned. (By 1972 the remainder had also been expelled.)" - History of Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser, Wikipedia
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