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Sound, whether it be in the form of music, a podcast or radio, is a powerful media. Without the distractions of visuals video has, or the ambiguity of solid text or photography, sound can perfectly summarize the intention, emotion, aesthetic and voice of any story. For my Journalism class, a humanities course, we each selected an influential voice that has made an impact on our own lives, the people around us and others around the world and create a podcast about them. The voice I chose was John Oliver, a British writer, comedian, and host of the HBO show Last Week Tonight . For each episode of his show, he focuses on a single topic to dive deep into. Rather than only picking the most obvious headline to talk about he picks more underlying issues that are arguably more important to learn about than the surface level play by play of a series of current events. His show and how he covers stories has had an impact on a multitude of levels, from how people get their news to w...

This is my third and final action project for my humanities class called Drama. In this class we read plays and look at the historical context and what we can learn from them. In this unit we read A Raisin In The Sun. While reading it we learned about the different forms of racial inequality that were going on at the time, specifically the housing crisis.For this action project we had to write a prologue addressing a scene in the play and give our opinion on the story as well as the opinions of the people that we interviewed in the external part of the unit. I chose to address the scene between the character Beneatha Younger and Asagai. Asagai is an exchange student from Nigeria who goes to school with Beneatha. In the scene Beneatha is trying to talk to Asagai about his culture and learn about it from his perspective. Instead of answering her questions he dismisses her as an appropriator. I disagree with his opinion so that is why I chose to write about that. We also had to take a p...