Livia Lowe’s 2022 portfolio
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EDITING 1. What I learned about being an editor this semester is that you cannot be afraid to confront people and tell them to get their work done. The class relies on the effort put in by the whole class and so if someone is slacking and it was an editor’s job to make sure the story is done, fault is also partly on the editor. It was a little bit better this semester compared to last because I wasn’t as afraid to talk to people as much and tell them what was up. Although everyone that has been writing for my page are pretty dependable people i think so i did not have to talk to them as much or at all. A lot of common mistakes I notice are contractions, a lot of kids don’t know you can’t do contractions or just forget because to be fair it is a natural speaking way for many but also correctly quoting someone. I don’t know why that is very common but it is.
DESIGN 2. I am pretty proud of this last May issue we did. I really liked how we could use a picture that i had because it was better than any other photo idea i had at first, or any other idea i think. I think all the stories are pretty interesting. I may be a bit biased because I picked them all and two of three of them were my ideas. I just wanted to have crazy, interesting, cool stories for the last issue and I think I did that. Another spread I thought was really nice was, I’m not sure for what month it was, it may have been last semester but the one where the main story was of how sunsets work. The picture was really cool and I was proud of my brain for thinking about the story of the picture. Thanks to Mr Adamson I would’ve never thought to do that if he never showed me in a previous issue. One I’m not as proud of as the one with the science of skin tanning as the main story. The story was great but I just was not a fan of the picture. It was clearly a rushed job as there were no other ideas. I would definitely take a different picture, one of a tanning bed because I think that was what the story was about specifically. I think I have a good eye for placements and knowing what looks best where, part of the reason why I want to be an interior designer or landscape architect or architect in general. I think for the most part, with a few exceptions, most of my pages looked nice together. What I have learned about indesign is definitely how to master the basics. Like putting in pictures and stories and how to change the paragraph styles and things like that, I definitely want to know more how to do funner things like adding shapes and mastering the color tool so I could really make my page pop.
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WRITING 3. My most significant piece this year I think is no doubt the history of native americans in cave creek. I chose that story because of my grandma. That may sound silly but she was practically an expert about native americans in this area as she volunteered with the cave creek museum and was an archaeologist for years and years. I went to a couple sites with her when I was younger and I thought it was the coolest thing. She even wrote the first chapter of a book in the cave creek museum about the hohokam So, i wrote that story just to follow a little bit more in her footsteps. I really, really wish she would have read it, I know she would’ve been proud of me for choosing and writing that story. I wanted to make sure that that story was the best I had ever written and I think it is pretty close. I wanted to be sure I got solid information so most of the information in the story is from a book my grandpa had that had a section about the hohokam. There was so much information from that book I knew I would write a good story. I did use the interview I got from Evelyn from the cc museum for a previous story but there was plenty of relevant information from that interview to use and I definitely waited too long to get another interview from her but it worked out quite well. If I could’ve interviewed anyone else, it would’ve been my grandma for sure.
LEADING 5. To make the staff members feel more a part of the team I definitely talk to them and not exclude them or anything. Also it helps for editors to get here work on time because that sets an example for them to follow that editors are turning in their stuff so they’re more inclined to themselves. The challenges that are faced are definitely dealing with people who don’t want to do their work.You kinda have to get not aggressive, but a little aggressive just to get them to start doing it.It is definitely more important to be respected because if you aren’t respected then your peers are not going to treat you with respect. I am definitely not a leader type person, maybe in some ways but not in the sense of telling people what to do and when to do. Persistence is what is needed to create an award winning paper and I agree with the quote, in order to be a leader and rule something, you need a vision of what you are trying to get to.
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THE CSPRESS
MAY 2, 2022 ● 17
Archeologists questioned over digging the dead Archaelogists dig up remains to learn about the past, which then raises the question of is digging the pastmore damaging than good?
SIFTING THROUGH THE PAST.
A group of archeologists sift through fragments at an excavation site. 4Photo courtesy of Nancy and Jim Zeno
Livia Lowe science editor One of the ways bioarcheologists,who study human remains, and scientists learn about human history is through the remains of past civilizations and bones of the deceased. Through this, they can learn a little about what human life was at the time the artifacts were dated. “It’s important to dig up artifacts to find out what was happening in the past, as long as they preserve it and don’t destroy it,” said Alana Zajic, a senior. Archeologists are those who dig up the artifacts to study them then either give them to a museum or put it back. In the article published by National Geographic “When Is It Okay To Dig Up The Dead”, author Mark Strauss details that “Skeletons are time capsules that preserve the details not only of human lives, but of the era in which people lived. They can reveal the types of labor people performed. DNA analysis can help identify remains and recon-
struct family trees or even patterns of human migration. Spectroscopic studies can tell us what people ate—and, by extension, what types of fauna and flora existed at the time.” Learning about the past is no doubt important, as if there weren’t any archaeological artifacts, Historians would only have written records and spoken stories to go off of. Though we would still have a little knowledge about the past, it would not be to the extent that it is today. “If archeologists didn’t excavate, we would definitely know a lot less about the beginning of humanity but we would still know a lot about more recent civilizations who have written records,” said Eva Penington, a senior Some of the times, artifacts are stolen from their land and are not being given back. In the case of the British Museum located in London, England, the museum has reportedly stolen thousands of bronze sculptures from Nigeria and only recently
have loaned the sculptures back to Nigeria, expecting them back at some time. The museum has also stolen the Rosetta Stone from Egypt, as well as a Moai head statue from Easter Island and marble from the Parthenon Greece. Another issue those may have with excavating sites is the religious or spiritual aspect of it. Many cultures view death as a very important ritual and to excavate and ruin all the time they put towards the ritual is unethical. For example, Native Hawianns believe human bones are a connection to the spirit and physical world. On the other hand, other countries and religions do not care for the body after death. Since this discussion has been brought up, more countries have installed regulations to control what gets excavated and what does not. The United States has made it where Archeologists need permission from descendants of the deceased, affiliated cultural groups or anyone who might have a connection with the person.
Trauma’s lifelong effect on the brain Suffering from a sever traumatic experience can change someone’s brain for the rest of their life Livia Lowe science editor One of the ways bioarcheologists,who study human remains, and scientists learn about human history is through the remains of past civilizations and bones of the deceased. Through this, they can learn a little about what human life was at the time the artifacts were dated. “It’s important to dig up artifacts to find out what was happening in the past, as long as they preserve it and don’t destroy it,” said Alana Zajick, a senior. Archeologists are those who dig up the artifacts to study them then either give them to a museum or put it back. In the article published by National Geographic “When Is It Okay To dig Up The Dead”, author Mark Strauss details that “Skeletons are time capsules that preserve the details not only of human lives, but of the era in which people lived. They can reveal the types of labor people performed. DNA analysis can help identify remains and reconstruct family trees or even patterns of human migration. Spectroscopic studies can tell us what people ate—and, by extension, what types of fauna and flora existed at the time.”
Learning about the past is no doubt important, as if there weren’t any archaeological artifacts, Historians would only have written records and spoken stories to go off of. Though we would still have a little knowledge about the past, it would not be to the extent that it is today. “If archeologists didn’t excavate, we would definitely know a lot less about the beginning of humanity but we would still know a lot about more recent civilizations who have written records,” said Eva Pennington, a senior Some of the times, artifacts are stolen from their land and are not being given back. In the case of the British Museum located in London, England, the museum has reportedly stolen thousands of bronze sculptures from Nigeria and only recently have loaned the sculptures back to Nigeria, expecting them back at some time. The museum has also stolen the Rosetta Stone from Egypt, as well as a Moai head statue from Easter Island and marble from the Parthenon in Greece. Another issue those may have with excavating sites is the religious or spiritual aspect of it. Many cultures view death as a very important ritual and to excavate and ruin all the time they
A star in the universe is born Owen Taylor staff writer
How are the bright balls of light in the universe made? Our star (The Sun) is just one of the billions of stars in the universe. The process begins within a space called the interstellar medium, which is a space in between stars where gas and dust particles congregate. Those gas and dust particles eventually collapse into a ball of gas called a prestellar core, which will eventually become the sun-like star. During the collapse a disk is formed around the core, along with jets being emitted at each of the poles. After a few million years the gas falling onto the disk stops and the process stops. Now a new star is born, and with the left over matter new planets around the star are being formed, and thus comes a new solar system.
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