Front Page
In this project we had to make our own newspaper company with a partner or just on our own and create the cover of a newspaper using articles that we had selected the day before. This was our final product.
Fly On The Wall
For this project we had to create a writing piece that described the perspective of the arthropod we collected in collaboration with our Biology class. Down below is my writing piece that I made about a stink bug or formally known as Eleodes Acuticauda. I also included the original file format that I printed out for our exhibition at an event called Fall for the Arts held in NTC liberty station. I also included the picture I took of my arthropod, which was also exhibited.
The Tale of the Claw
As the quotidian light that appears in the distance every day starts to disappear, I crawl in search of food for I have not found any in two days. In the distance I see something that looks like a caterpillar. I start to bustle before my other relatives or enemies get it. When I arrive I am disappointed to only find a Cheeto surrounded by other crumbs of food the size of my body. Still I thought there might be some fruit I can eat from so I search, but all of a sudden I am picked up into the sky by a bird. I try to defend myself by releasing the liquid in my thorax, but I am unable to move. The bird drops me into a place surrounded by white with a sturdier texture then the Cheeto, and has the shape of a tall, clear, cylinder. I realize that night has arrived quickly and I can hear the stars appear in the sky. I have never heard the stars make such a horrible noise nor see a small amount of them. This white Cheeto starts to move and I find myself in a place I have never been to before. It’s a room that looks like my home because it’s green, but I know that I am far away from there right now. As I am trying to figure out how far I am from home I hear the sound of a thud followed by silence. This silence alarms me and I prepare my thorax to spray whatever is coming for me. I am being lifted in the air and forced to leave this white Cheeto but I am trying to hold on for I have no intention of getting out of this place where I feel somewhat safe. I fail to hold on and I am pulled by a great force into a place where I see a relative that looks like me. I am trying to communicate with him but he doesn’t respond, in fact he’s mocking me! Despite the fact that he is mocking me, there is a little guy next to me who seems to be curious about me yet frightened at the same time. I have only seen his type when it rains but he was different. He was a small beetle the color of concrete with some big eyes. I decide to leave him alone and look for a way to escape from my relative that keeps following me everywhere. As I am trying to find a way to escape, I see a couple of fish and I also notice that the little beetle that seemed frightened of me was crawling to the top of this prison we were in. It seems that he found a way to get out or maybe he’s just running away from me. Either way I try to follow him by crawling to the top too, but I keep falling back down. I see that it is impossible to crawl to the top so I decide to take a nap and hope that later I’ll be able to escape. When I wake up from my nap, I see that the beetle has disappeared and left a trail of himself. I start to think that the giants outside did something to him and now they’re coming for me. As a matter of fact one of the giants comes for me and tries to get me out of this prison. I not so sure about leaving so I hold onto whatever I can, but let go and enter another prison the color of a white Cheeto that I was first kidnapped by, only this time I could see blurry images. I am being moved again and I believe its morning because the light that appears every day has just started to creep its way into the sky. While I am being moved I hear another loud thud followed by a lot of jumping movements. It feels like those days where the ground shakes really hard and makes most animals scared. The only difference in this is that it continued for a while, then stopped for a short period of time and continued to move yet not as intense as before. There was a light breeze that reminded me of home and told me we were farther away than before. I start to realize that I might not escape this prison so I wait. I wait for my final destiny and prepare to give my final battle for I don’t know when I’ll be set free.
As the quotidian light that appears in the distance every day starts to disappear, I crawl in search of food for I have not found any in two days. In the distance I see something that looks like a caterpillar. I start to bustle before my other relatives or enemies get it. When I arrive I am disappointed to only find a Cheeto surrounded by other crumbs of food the size of my body. Still I thought there might be some fruit I can eat from so I search, but all of a sudden I am picked up into the sky by a bird. I try to defend myself by releasing the liquid in my thorax, but I am unable to move. The bird drops me into a place surrounded by white with a sturdier texture then the Cheeto, and has the shape of a tall, clear, cylinder. I realize that night has arrived quickly and I can hear the stars appear in the sky. I have never heard the stars make such a horrible noise nor see a small amount of them. This white Cheeto starts to move and I find myself in a place I have never been to before. It’s a room that looks like my home because it’s green, but I know that I am far away from there right now. As I am trying to figure out how far I am from home I hear the sound of a thud followed by silence. This silence alarms me and I prepare my thorax to spray whatever is coming for me. I am being lifted in the air and forced to leave this white Cheeto but I am trying to hold on for I have no intention of getting out of this place where I feel somewhat safe. I fail to hold on and I am pulled by a great force into a place where I see a relative that looks like me. I am trying to communicate with him but he doesn’t respond, in fact he’s mocking me! Despite the fact that he is mocking me, there is a little guy next to me who seems to be curious about me yet frightened at the same time. I have only seen his type when it rains but he was different. He was a small beetle the color of concrete with some big eyes. I decide to leave him alone and look for a way to escape from my relative that keeps following me everywhere. As I am trying to find a way to escape, I see a couple of fish and I also notice that the little beetle that seemed frightened of me was crawling to the top of this prison we were in. It seems that he found a way to get out or maybe he’s just running away from me. Either way I try to follow him by crawling to the top too, but I keep falling back down. I see that it is impossible to crawl to the top so I decide to take a nap and hope that later I’ll be able to escape. When I wake up from my nap, I see that the beetle has disappeared and left a trail of himself. I start to think that the giants outside did something to him and now they’re coming for me. As a matter of fact one of the giants comes for me and tries to get me out of this prison. I not so sure about leaving so I hold onto whatever I can, but let go and enter another prison the color of a white Cheeto that I was first kidnapped by, only this time I could see blurry images. I am being moved again and I believe its morning because the light that appears every day has just started to creep its way into the sky. While I am being moved I hear another loud thud followed by a lot of jumping movements. It feels like those days where the ground shakes really hard and makes most animals scared. The only difference in this is that it continued for a while, then stopped for a short period of time and continued to move yet not as intense as before. There was a light breeze that reminded me of home and told me we were farther away than before. I start to realize that I might not escape this prison so I wait. I wait for my final destiny and prepare to give my final battle for I don’t know when I’ll be set free.
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Fly On The Wall Short Story
In this section of the project we had to create a short story about the perspective of the insect we caught. It could be written in 1st or 3rd person, but it had to cover 10 facts about the insect. The idea was adapted from E.O Wilson's Anthill Chronicles and our goal was to create something similar to the story. Our stories needed to use the literary style of transcendentalism, realism, naturalism, or modernism. We were given the option to anthropomorphize so I made my story about a beetle who didn't fit in with the rest of the beetles or had any friends other then a female beetle named Emmy. They become best friends and start a new life together with three children. In the end something tragic happens to one of the characters.
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