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I don't have much power inside my home, or anywhere I go. I think the best way I can gain power the older I get is by simply growing smarter and working harder. I can't really do much other than occasionally assist people if they need help. At home my parents hold all the power as they are the people who raised me and my sister they tell us what to do even if it takes a while for us to do it. At school, as expected, the adults hold all the power over the students. Occasionally we're allowed to vote for something or have a voice but that isn't often. The people who hold the most power, unless they're incapable of keeping it steady, is the government as they make the laws, people follow them or break them and it is the duty of the government to bring them to justice. Although sometimes justice isn't done or justice is too forgiving. Power can be easily gained with money, people, or force and the easiest of the bunch is money as people can simply buy their way into power. A current example is the governor election as every YouTube ad I get is related to the election in one way, whether it is about why you should vote for them or why you shouldn't vote for them.

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In my home, I live with my mom, dad, and sister. I've been aware of poverty my whole life but I've never lived in it. Most of my cousins and brother grew up poor or didn't make as much money to get the things I could get. They'd get something that they wanted once every few weeks because they were barely holding on. Now I feel I'm in the upper middle class with my family and my extended family, not including my brother, who live around the middle class or slightly higher. My family always has the opportunities to get something we'd want, mostly my dad as he buys something for himself every few days or weekly. Most of my schools, probably only two exception, were all in the upper middle class as they had activities other schools didn't have.

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I spend most of my days on technology and it's really the only thing that helps me pass time. There's a lot of good things that come from this, usually that I get to pass time by doing something I enjoy like playing a video game or chatting with a friend. One major issue with the latter is not really having much time for other things because I am too busy with trying to converse with people. "Gen Z are true digital natives. Our State of Gen Z research studies show that 95% own a smartphone, 83% own a laptop, 78% own an advanced gaming console, and 57% have a desktop computer. 29% use their smartphone past midnight on a nightly basis." Many Gen Zers own a piece of technology that they use often, I am one of those as I use Microsoft products like Windows and Google's Chromebook for schoolwork. Technology connects me to the globe as most of the people I converse with, on Discord, are people from other parts of the world such as Europe and Australia.

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Discord is an app I use quite often, it's where I do my socializing with some people.

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The drop out rate of Cass, my old school, is at 0% likely due to the fact that it was and is difficult to drop out at a younger age.

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The median household income for those living in Darien, $30816 higher than the state average.

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When it comes to education, only 1.86% of the adult population never graduated high school. Shows how good it really is in Darien compared to other towns.

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These are the apartments that I live in, not here specifically, the buildings are quite nice and they recently repainted the parking lots.

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Constantly we're bombarded with ads accusing people of something then a while later more ads defusing the situation. Power goes to those with the most money.

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In the past, sometimes even today, people force their way into power by attacking those against them or control of the media so people only get what they want.

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Keltner explains that power now goes to those who help give power to more people, America is full of cultures and by pandering to them you gain more power.

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When it comes to what I believe in, I think media affects it the most. Usually media as in video games and the stories they have inside them, my biggest example would be Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 which has the main character, Arthur Morgan, have an inner fight with himself about either loyalty to the gang that raised him or what he believes is right after a robbery gone wrong sends them running. The game constantly has words like loyalty in it and I think that's what matters most, even if it sends things spiraling out of control by the end of the game. My family and peers also have an influence but it isn't nearly as big as with media as they mostly make me believe small things like what is right and wrong and how I act. Wouldn't say it's a bad influence, but sometimes things can go wrong. In the 2020 election, Cook County was mostly democratic as 81% of the people voted for Biden. In the Chicago metro area, about 71% of the population is christian. My life is very affected by my beliefs as I tend to focus on them a little bit too much which means that usually I'm chatting with someone for a while. Diversity is extremely important in today's society as everyone wants to feel included and have their voice heard, people who are diverse in terms of beliefs tend to create different solutions to the ones you can come up with. Diversity means more unique minds thinking about how to solve similar problems.

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Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project

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Explore the geographic distribution and demographics of America's major religious groups.

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Snapchat, I don't use it nearly as often as Discord but I do message people on it.

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Now I use Twitter to either see what my favorite content creators post or to simply read the news.

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The most impactful elements of my life are very hard to decide, but I've pinned it down to my family for teaching me morals, my music tastes for showing what exactly I like in terms of themes, and art that shows off what exactly draws my attention. I think one thing that I really like about my culture overall is how diverse it is, artwork ranges from massive incredible vistas to simple colors and my music tastes also range from stuff like metal to indie pop. I can't really come up with something I would like to change regarding my culture. I'm a big fan of video games and one game I'm interested in getting is Splatoon 3, mostly because of its Salmon Run minigame, Salmon Run: Next Wave. The game is multiplayer based, and I'm starting to notice that I am beginning to enjoy more multiplayer games. Gen Z is a lot more diverse culturally as they have had access to the internet for their entire lives and they are able to access information about other countries and cultures.

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I made this piece for Digital Imaging and Design 1 this year. I made this in Adobe Illustrator 

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I'm not good at drawing, not even close to passable, but I like the colors I used

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This piece is one of my favorites, the horror movie villains each have a different image over them

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This is Brian, we play Super Smash Bros Ultimate together in the morning

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Nicole, I took this photo because I had spare photos for photography on my film reel