Ideas behind the project
People are influences of others whether that be bad or good. One can be the manipulator or can be manipulated. In project 1, I wanted to learn about how one can manipulate another and change their views on life. This was represented through the children of war and what war leaders do to them to alter their initial thoughts. I wanted to go deeper into the concept and actually do the manipulating myself with the Rorschach inkblot test.
Honors English 3
To conclude my interest on how war leaders, like Joseph Kony, manipulates children to change their views, fears, and desires, I wrote two excerpts about two different boys who try to cope with the life of being a child soldier.
In the first excerpt, Kony forces the young boy to scratch the surface of his innocence by murdering another boy who tried to escape. In the second excerpt, the boy is burdened by the loss of his mother, father, and good friends. He wants his life to end but in a "harrowing" way that won't deem him as a coward. |
Honors Global Studies
As for my global studies portion, I conducted research to write the excerpts. I searched how these child soldiers are treated, what they experience, what struggles they face, and how their personality changes. I applied most of my research into these excerpts. These excerpts are based off of real stories however, I changed the stories up a little bit and put my own personal intake on what it's like to be a soldier in Uganda. It's the process that makes the social studies aspect of Project 1.
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The Rorschach inkblot test is a series of inkblots that people examine and describe what they see. It was first created by Hermann Rorschach who originally believed he could determine the difference between those who suffered from schizophrenia. However, it was later deemed that the Rorschach test could not determine mental illnesses but rather someone's desires or motives, unconscious thoughts, traits about their personality.
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I conducted two different interviews with six different people. Three out of the six read the excerpts that I wrote. I wanted to see if their responses changed from the first interview to the second interview. What I did was made my interviewees read the excerpts in a specific order, I then told them to describe the inkblot. In the second interview, I added my own inkblots that I made, and switched up the pattern that my interviewees read the excerpts. The results were pretty surprising. First of all, the people who got the excerpts were more engaged in the interviews, they showed more facial expression, emotions, and used a lot of hand gestures to describe what they were seeing. However, only one person took in account of the excerpts and correlated them with the interview.
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