https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x By: Gavin Whalen en-us 2022-05-24 17:04:24 UTC 2025-04-21 02:47:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f99d.png gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199655127 In my life I have moved to different neighborhoods and most are in different states, so I have seen a lot of different areas of the world. One thing that can show you if a neighborhood is good is the school, like in many of the bad neighborhoods I lived in the main school would usually be very bad and would have a terrible graduation rate and it would reflect on the neighborhood. Like when my dad moved to Darien the first thing he looked at was the high schools statistics and they were very much above the curve and you can see it reflects on the neighborhood.]]> 2022-05-25 16:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199655127 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199661536 Looking at the statistics of darien shows that it is very ahead of the household income of Illinois, and the the average household and condo price in darien is more than 100,000 more than it is in Illinois. ]]> 2022-05-25 16:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199661536 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199670283 Darien has lowered the state average of poverty all categories, and this is reflected very well in darien with looking at school rating where we are very much above the Illinois average for grades and graduation rate. Also the crime rate are extremely low in darien with the chance of you being mugged being 200000 to 1 vs Chicago which is 200 to 1 and Chicago is only 24 miles away from darien.]]> 2022-05-25 16:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199670283 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199679448 Looking at darien in this we can see that it is pretty ahead of the curve and still in its worse area the income doesn't go that low. In the highest spots of darien we can see it go as high as 61k versus the lowest going around 35k which is a very livable income. Also looking at this you can see that most of the surrounding neighborhoods are also very close to where dariens numbers are.]]> 2022-05-25 16:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2199679448 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2201115312 Looking at who has power around me i'd have to say the first would be my parents and then school teaches and the principle but if were looking at who has the most power it would have to be the people in charge of the government as they have the most resources. ]]> 2022-05-26 16:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2201115312 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2201124945 The way a person can get power and authority is in a couple different ways. The first is with money which is one that can get you the most power the quickest and usually ends up with people who don't deserve that much power and they don't know what to do with it. The second is if you have skills that are in high demand like if you were able to build weapons of destruction you can get power by giving it to people for money or to get power. The last is if the power is given to you like if you were born into a family in power and that ends up with more problems then if you got your power from money, looking at old princes in the 1800s shows this the best.]]> 2022-05-26 16:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2201124945 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2201131597 If I was given power I would feel id be doing a disservice if I did not use it to help the world, The first thing i'd want to do is try to eliminate poverty which in the US it is one of the biggest problems. Then the next biggest problem in the world right now is war, so if I had the power to fix it i'd want to take a institute like nato and make much bigger and get all countries into nato as I believe that is the best option to remove war. Also nobody should ever be given all of the power and instead of a president it should be a elected few that comes together and does the president duties as it is too much to put on one person.]]> 2022-05-26 16:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2201131597 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2206975597 I feel that ever since I was born my family religion was very pushed onto me by my father and it was shown as the only religion to me. Growing up in many different areas I did see more types of religions through peers, school and media but still I never thought about them and would only hear tiny things about them. I feel like this did affect the way I look at religion as it does not feel like my choice what religion I believe in and it was more my parents choice. Recently I have been moving away from that and looking at more different types of religion and finding out which one I believe in.]]> 2022-06-01 04:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2206975597 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2206981456 Looking at this shows that many people will not believe in god in there teen years but most will turn to god in there later years from 30- 49 but after that there seems to be a steady decline as it seems many have lost there faith. Then looking at the way Christians are living, most do not go to college and will have a low income under 30,000 dollars and also looking at how most people in the Chicago area that believe in god are white I fell that this is because in all of the media put around Christians god is seen as a white male and there is not many other ethnicity in story's in the bibles even though from where Jesus was born he would not be white.]]> 2022-06-01 04:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2206981456 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2206986654 Now first I do not think Christians are terrible people, I actually find them to be very nice people with good beliefs and there beliefs are probably the best thing I took away from the Christian community, that is you should not wish harm against your enemies and you should treat them as they are your family. I think this is something I carry around as my beliefs everywhere I go as it is a very good way to keep negative thoughts from you and to keep you in a positive mindset. ]]> 2022-06-01 04:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2206986654 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207386504 I was born in a time when technology had finally been accepted and people were pushing it to their limits. I feel the thing that affected me the most was always having a iPad of i pod with me so I always had access to the internet, then video games where also a very big thing as when I was growing up with the consoles becoming better and better. I think I would be a very different person if I didn't grown up with technology and I very much enjoy having technology in my life and would take a always instead of being born in a time with no technology.]]> 2022-06-01 11:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207386504 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207395703 I think the pros and cons of tech are pretty even if you were to put them on scales. One of the biggest pro and cons is you have all of the internet at your fingertips which is good but sometimes it is a little too much and could lead to problems. One thing that tech can do for us is allow us to talk to people we would have never had the chance too. Although tech is not all great as it will reduce jobs that are needed with technology being able to do it or them, then also I feel the biggest con of tech is it creates a social divide that can very much hurt a child's mind more than help it.]]> 2022-06-01 11:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207395703 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207483790 I use my phone probably 85% of the day, if its me listening to music or texting friends I am usually always using it. I think I could cut down on my phone time a little bit as it isn't the best thing to get addicted to using everyday. The apps I use the most on my phone would be snap chat as it is the main way I text my friends and then it would go to my entertainment apps like you tube and hbomax but then it would go to spottily as it is the only app I have to listen to music.]]> 2022-06-01 13:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207483790 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207488932 The things I enjoy the most about culture is that you can express your feelings through your art or design and I think it is very important for people to have a way to express that side of them. The other thing I like about culture is that it doesn't have an outline of what it is supposed to be and you decide what you want it to be.]]> 2022-06-01 13:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207488932 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207497329 My family has never really focused on their culture so I never really did either but overtime I have become more interested in culture.I think I have focused more on the culture in the music I listen to as I find it most more interesting. My religion has mostly been the focus of my culture to my parents and we have always stayed very close to it. I have always enjoyed designing different things and always going into different aspects of design is the most interesting to me because I feel it allows you to learn the most and eventually when I want to design things my way I will be able to bring the best aspects of all of it.]]> 2022-06-01 13:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207497329 gwhalen5445 https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207501828 I think because of the way my generation was raised with technology we have always had more information then the past generations and it made us look at a lot of problems from the past generation and fix them with what we have learned. It does lead to us seeming very different from the past generations because we challenge basically everything that we see and make it into what we want. ]]> 2022-06-01 13:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gwhalen5445/61apdaq5wx3too8x/wish/2207501828