Who Takes Responsibility?

 In a situation where something bad were to occur and I was involved, while knowing others were involved, I think responsibility should be taken by all. For example, if I helped someone else take something from someone, I believe I should take some responsibility. I believe this because I do not believe it would be fair to claim that I am the sole person responsible behind the situation, while knowing that someone else was involved. Even if it means that that person may no longer be friends with me, I still feel it is only fair if both of us were to take responsibility for the action that has been committed, if it involves both of us. How I determine if I should take responsibility is that if I am involved in the action and caused some kind of contribution towards making the action occur, then I will take some responsibility. In a situation where, I see the action happening and I am not involved, I do not believe that I should take the responsibility, unless I know I could have done something to stop it. This is how I am able to know if I should claim responsibility or not.

The Cloning Project

 A project I spent a great deal of time on was a video project I did with my friend Tyler. The idea of the video was that I am cloned and I show up everywhere he goes. We gathered the equipment necessary and we went to work. We had many shots were we had to be extremely precise and these were the parts of the film were the cloning would happen. After this was done, we used a program call Adobe After Effects to edit our video. There was one scene in which I was walking past myself and we had to make it look like I was not going through myself. So what happened is that we had to mask around my body. Masking is the process of making parts in a video that are not required to be removed. So by masking around my body I was able to remove this. This was the most difficult part of the project because it took about thirty minutes. In the end, the final product was a success and I had a good time filming.

Explorers Through The Ages

  Through the ages, many people have traveled the world in different ways. In the earlier ages, people traveled through ships to reach their destination. On these travels, people would face some difficulties. An example could be storms that occurred while they were sailing. A historical figure I like to recall when thinking of  travel in the earlier ages is Christopher Columbus. He made an important contribution by discovering America. As time progressed, people began to build more advanced ship structures and flying through planes. The better the ship, the farther people could go and discover new areas of the world. This led to new discoveries and helpful material that is used today. For example, by exploring, people have discovered plants that cure certain illnesses. These plants could only exist in one environment, so people had to go and explore in order to find them.

  Every person has different reasons for exploring, but I believe they all have similar goals they hope to achieve on their explorations. On their explorations, they want to discover new information they can share with the world about a certain area and what positives it can hold. These discoveries could interest others to also go and discover new information about the unknown in the world. These discoveries could lead to new cures and materials from the native species that have been discovered on the island. Not only this, but people can learn in what kind of conditions certain aspects of the environment grow in in order, so that they may grow it in their own home country. The common goal of all people that go to discover or devote themselves to solving the unknown , in my opinion, are to gain knowledge. Knowledge is a key aspect in a society trying to advance in life. This is why people devote themselves to finding or learning about the unknown.

  With devotion to discover the unknown comes sacrifice. If you are leaving your home to discover the unknown, you are leaving behind your family and friends. An expedition into the unknown does not have a set date on how long it will take until a return back home. So, a person will not know how long they are going to be away from their friends and family. Another sacrifice would be leaving behind their life. They would be missing out on special events in their life, such as birthdays and holidays. Instead of these activities, they would be spending much time  dedicated to studying and gathering information. Discovering the unknown has negatives, as mentioned, but I believe that gaining knowledge can help overcome that.