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Capstone Project Proposal – The Truth About “Pitbulls”

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For my CAPSTONE project I will focus on the controversy about pit bulls and whether or not they are a dangerous breed. This has been a hot topic for a while now and there are two very distinct sides fighting to either rid our neighborhoods of the Pit bull breed or show that they are not dangerous. I will use my project to stand on the Pit bull breed’s side to show evidence that they are not dangerous by default and that there are many myths portrayed by the media.

    • I plan on making an info-graphic on the topic of the uncommon myths Pit bull’s face and the truths that follow. The reason I chose uncommon was that there are some myths already debunked and I want to add new material to support this breed.
    • Then I will do a mashup video of all the good this breed provides. I will either find videos on the Pit bull’s history in helping humans (if I can find ones) or I will focus the video on the mass amounts of innocent Pit bulls that are filling our animal shelters and euthanized.

The reason I want to focus on this social issue is because I was a dog trainer for 5 years and have worked with the inner workings of various breeds’ behavioral issues. When I first started to encounter the claim that these dogs are dangerous by nature I was completely confused as this was never a breed that I encountered with aggression issues. I understand peoples’ concerns and I feel that there are a lot of misconceptions portrayed by the media. One of these misconceptions that I find most irritating is the “studies” done showing Pit bull’s are responsible for more than half of the hospitalized dog bites. My issues with these studies are that the dog breeds are victim self-categorized, the smaller breed dog bites are less likely to be reported, and the unknown dog breeds are not covered at all. This topic is close to my heart and being able to make an informational project about them means a lot to me.

Capstone Project Proposal – Metroid Matters

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For my capstone project, I would like to make the theme about the cultural importance of video games. Actually, one series of video games in particular, the Metroid games. Since this is one of my favorite franchises, I would love to dive into why it’s culturally important and explore the footprints it has left on society. I plan to make an infographic displaying stats such as copies sold, games the series has inspired, and groundbreaking mechanics that the games have brought to the video game world. I also plan to make a video montage of gameplay from the various games, moving forward from the original Metroid, all the way to the latest game.

Living with Cerebral Palsy

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My Capstone Project will focus on those living with disabilities in the United States, specifically cerebral palsy (like myself). There are many levels of severity of this condition, from the permanently wheelchair-bound to those with isolated muscle paralysis, and I want to explore them as well as raise awareness about this disorder.

Cerebral palsy is a chronic disorder of movement, muscle tone, or posture that is caused by damage that occurs to the immature, developing brain, most often before birth. It is often found in premature babies than those born entirely healthy. As someone who has lived with cerebral palsy since birth, I have formed and memorized a 30-second “elevator” answer to the question “Why do you walk that way?” or, “Were you in a car accident?” Often times the reactions I get are surprise or shock that one can be born with a condition like this.But I want to be able to educate people even further about the condition that affects me this way.

The forms of media I choose will be an infographic, outlining what cerebral palsy is, as well as presenting the statistics of those born with cerebral palsy in the United States, and those living with it as adults. I will also include the various treatments that can provide an easier lifestyle. The video I hope to put together will present a positive side of what it’s like to have cerebral palsy and maybe look into the lives of Paralympic athletes who have cerebral palsy, and the training they undergo to achieve all that they do.

Capstone Project Proposal – Advocating for Diversity

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The capstone project, or final, for this class will be a project to showcase the skills gained both inside and outside class within a webpage. Of all the knowledge and skills practiced for this course I’m most comfortable with these three disciplines: web design, video editing, and vectored imagery. With the website as the foundation to present my work, the two objects that will be embedded on this platform will be an infographic file, as well as a two-minute video remix. As for the social and or cultural subject of this capstone I hope to promote diversity or advocate for a positive impact within the community. Pertaining to diversity the on camps diversity center would be helpful in establishing a specified cause for an infographic and video remix, especially with the goal of promotion in either this organization or another related group. When related to a positive influence in the community, advocacy of local nonprofits, charities, or small businesses could successfully bring people together for action by presenting an idea. No matter which topic is focused and specified the presentation of an idea in an effective way can be done so through the objects mentioned above. With the use of an infographic presenting facts to reinforce the topic and a video remix to invoke ethos within this audience, a bridge is then constructed to support the social or cultural subject matter that revolves around this project. Concluding, my proposal is to generate assistance that could benefit those of the WSUV community and beyond.

Capstone Project: United States / Saudi Arabia Diplomatic Realations

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My topic for my capstone project is going to be the history of the United States/Saudi Arabia diplomatic relationship and the exchange of goods between these two countries. This topic has come up since the killing of the reporter Jamal Khashoggi. The United States has a history of joining Saudi Arabia in arms deals and making sure to prioritize their well being in our foreign policy. America has overlooked many of their misdeeds due to the fact that they are a strong ally in the Middle East and have control over a lot of oil. This is troubling to many Americans due to the human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings. When Russia attempts to kill a British double agent, our government is up in arms. When Saudi Arabia successfully kills a reporter, the president has been extremely hesitant to take any action against the Saudis. For my capstone I am going to do an animated infographic and another static infographic. The exact topics of these is still up in the air, but I am leaning towards having the static infographic be about the history of US/Saudi arms deals. The video infographic will explain the history of the US/Saudi relationship and tell the story up to present day. I am going to use these pieces to flesh out the story that I will be telling through the web page.

Capstone Project Proposal

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I believe in creating a world where people are given the room and opportunity to be the best version of themselves. That is why I chose leadership as the path and the topic for the capstone project. We are living in a world that is going through a leadership crisis, not only America but around the world. This crisis creates a lot of problems in our society such as:

  • hyper-individualism
  • being content with mediocrity
  • divisiveness
  • suppression of innovations


    • The true meaning of leadership has been lost over time. In ancient history, even dating back to the caveman era, leadership is about servanthood, not dominant. It’s not about being in charge, it’s about taking care of people in your charge. But slowly, the true meaning of it started to fade away, replaced by management, manipulation and coercion. It got replaced by bells and whistles, smoke and mirrors to try to dissuade people from rising up and making changes in the society. Gradually, the word lost its meaning, no one knows what it means, and no one think they can become one, leaving it to people that abuse authority.

    To demonstrate the topic, I will be using an infographic and a video remix. The infographic will be a timeline about what people say about leadership over time. The video would be combination of quotes from talks, and clips from documentaries that relate to the time period and the historical figures.

    Capstone Project: Fake News

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    My Capstone project will look into the American News Agency’s and why they are a problem in the United States and will show the reasons that caused it. Unlike in other parts of the world which governmentally fund news companies to produce truthful and unbiased reports the U.S. agency’s compete for views and money where they need you to watch. As a result of this they stretch the truth, fear monger, and sometimes straight up lie to keep you watching. Only when you are scared and can’t stop watching is when they make money. It’s not surprising with the rise of internet based news making cable obsolete that that this has become even worse. This is why now more than ever have average Americans belief in the news be at an almost all time low. Fake news more prevalent than ever, and having the internet where anyone who questions the legitimately of the stories to easily be able to fact check or get a second opinion there’s no shock they will. This sadly isn’t often done because of echo chambers created by political discourse and division of other opinions. I plan to show the above through an explanatory animation which explains the revenue stream and ratings model, with other statistical evidence including how some graphs and pie charts are misrepresented. I will also create a remixed video of the malpractice seen on air of the truth stretching, ad breaks in the middle of breaking news including school shootings, fear mongering, and that you should only trust them and not to seek the truth yourself.

    Capstone Project – Opioid Crisis

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    For this Capstone Project, I will be focusing on United states opioid abuse. Opioid can be either plant base (like heroin) or synthetically made (like painkiller Oxycontin). Opioids stop pain from activating a part our brains. Also, it will temporarily releases a chemical called dopamine (is released when good things happen, this chemical is used to teach us to keep seeking out good things).I will be focusing on the synthetic versions of opioid abuse. Statistics show that over recent years there has been an increase of opioid overdoses still in America. Even with a decreased in prescriptions in the abuse of opioids is still strong.

    The first media I will use is an infographic. I want to use this infographic to showcase data and statistics found on opioid abuse/overdose. The imagery in this infographic will be silhouettes, medical Rx bottles, and pills. I want to keep the images minimal to represent that addiction is not prejudice and it can anyone.
    The second media I will use is an remix. In the remix showcase what an opioid addiction is like. My goal for the remix will be to evoke an emotional response (hopefully from the audience). I may use somber music to set a tone and perhaps ted talks about the the addiction and what it does.
    Will reuse the same style of images, typography, and color pallet to tied my website, infographic, and remix together. In both of the infographic and remix I want to end it will resources on getting help for opioid addiction.

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    Capstone on Homelessness in our community.

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    My Capstone Project

    For my Capstone project I decided to do my project on “Homelessness in our community”. I am not just generalizing it as homelessness, rather how homelessness affects families and our community. I’ve had an interest in the stigma and the stereotypical thoughts made toward those who are homeless for years now. I am mostly interested in doing this topic because I’ve been there more than once and I know a lot information to educate people to know what it’s actually like to be homeless, especially in our community and get rid of that stigma and those stereotypical thoughts on homelessness. My basis and main focal point will be on a wonderful place located in downtown Vancouver. The place is called Open House Ministries and it serves homeless families in our community.  I am going to do a video mashup and an infographic on my project. I am excited to do the video portion because video is what i’m into. I am going to try my best at having text, color and images that will tie both together in the infographic and video mashup. 

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    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>There are outreaches all over for Vancouver. 3 of which are family shelters.</p>&mdash; Audrey H (@AudreyH18551742) <a href=”https://twitter.com/AudreyH18551742/status/1057303759557058560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 30, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

     

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Reasons for homelessness varies from simple to complex.</p>&mdash; Audrey H (@AudreyH18551742) <a href=”https://twitter.com/AudreyH18551742/status/1057303208702304256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 30, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

     

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>There was an increase of 105 who are unsheltered from 2017-2018 in clark county.</p>&mdash; Audrey H (@AudreyH18551742) <a href=”https://twitter.com/AudreyH18551742/status/1057304416611495936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 30, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

     

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>People spend 30-50% of their income on housing.</p>&mdash; Audrey H (@AudreyH18551742) <a href=”https://twitter.com/AudreyH18551742/status/1057303437946191873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 30, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

    Capstone Project Proposal – Stop Animal Cruelty

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    For my capstone project, I will be addressing animal rights and the cruelty of animal testing. For many years, animals have been used in labs to test products such as make up or any other new products that will be sold to humans. They are also tested for new drugs by interfering with the animal’s health and injecting them with diseases or breeding them in an unnatural way. Although there are possible benefits from doing this, like making sure a product doesn’t harm humans, but it is cruel to animals and there are alternative ways. Animals are anatomically and physiologically different from each other and can’t accurately portray a human. Examples will be found and be used to support this. I will also be including information on natural ways make up or other products can be made and used and also the option of buying cruelty free make up products.

    I plan on incorporating an infographic and a video remix to my capstone project. I believe these two will provide the information I want to include in my capstone project by incorporating visual information through the infographic. In the infographic, I plan on creating visuals of animals and the cruelty done to them when skin and eye irritation tests are done, and how a lot of healthy animals can be made sick in order to test the effectiveness of drugs. Although tests are done on humans as well, they have the right to choose and volunteer, whereas animals do not get the choice to choose if they want to be used and tested. I will be using the video remix to show how cruel and unnecessary it is to test products on animals and incorporating this all into my three-page website.






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