JOURNAL #3

3. How have you taken something that you have learned in the classroom and integrated it into your nonacademic life?

I tend to fictitious world-building and story making to further develop my creativity; I do this in my free time and self leisure, and for no one else. To create my own fiction world I must consider the historical elements from the presumably beginning of time to the possible end of the story line. Cultural implications arise first for language is contingent just as culture, and how beings unite is a matter of politics of which learned throughout my history classes, reflecting with the real world's history; however, with a twist because that is how original concepts are made. When getting into the specific stories of certain constructed characters, the Theory of Knowledge class is integrated into how problems arise just as knowledge issues. If a story cannot be seen through the light of TOK then how is it considered infallible (in my tastes) then? Considering knowledge issues help in preventing plot holes and fallible conclusions; yet, in a way, make the littlest of issues into a broader and significant implication that parallels real life. The TOK class also helps in identifying conflicts. In one of my most recent projects, a character is conflicted with ethical implications based on her own perception in brash conclusions of what she observes. Of course, English class can be implemented in actually putting down the ideas in acceptable prose, and to consider figurative and literal writing; and rhetorical analysis in appropriate language with a wide range of vocabulary at hand. Science also plays a role, with the field's consistency to compare its own concepts to similar ideas to make their's understandable to allow creation of eccentric characters that personify those ways of acquiring scientific knowledge and the concepts of science itself at hand. Studying scientific models, in biology most specifically, guide a more distinct drawing style as the microscopic figures retain a surrealistic style with an adorable sense such as the color-coded and possibly symbolic figures of animal cells and blastulas appear. Sometimes I think I am only excited to learn in all fields of education just for the sake of somehow implementing it in a story.