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  Dominic Miller 11/21/23 Sonya Fix Nirvana           Music is what makes the world go around, it can either dampen or elevate your mood. I’ve found that music is my most effective coping mechanism. It allows me to manage my stress and find relaxation by just listening to the chords and melodies. To be more specific, grunge band Nirvana is my go to when wanting to feel free from a world that seems to run off hatred. I would describe Nirvana as raw, beautiful, contagious, and timeless music. The band was formed in 1987, by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Kris Novoselic. The band would bounce around with drummers until 1990 when finally they found the perfect match in Dave Grohl. I’ve always felt a connection to their music. Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain struggled with his mental health and addiction. When listening to the albums it creates a sense of pain and a better understanding of how he was feeling. As the listener when I’m fe...

   Dominic Miller  11/21/23 Sonya Fix Nirvana   Music is what makes the world go around, it can either dampen or elevate your mood. I’ve found that music is my most effective coping mechanism. It allows me to manage my stress and find relaxation by just listening to the chords and melodies. To be more specific, grunge band Nirvana is my go to when wanting to feel free from a world that seems to run off hatred. I would describe Nirvana as raw, beautiful, contagious, and timeless music. The band was formed in 1987, by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Kris Novoselic. The band would bounce around with drummers until 1990 when finally they found the perfect match in Dave Grohl. I’ve always felt a connection to their music. Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain struggled with his mental health and addiction. When listening to the albums it creates a sense of pain and a better understanding of how he was feeling. As the listener when I’m feeling upset I play th...

                                                                                                    Dominic Miller    11/4/23 Sonya Fix      Screenwriting                                                         Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs Humans Why does emotion in writing matter ? It helps the viewer become invested in whatever they're watching, creating a conn...

      10/30/22 Dominic Miller   Sonya Fix     Maia Kobabe's Talk         I found Maia Kobabe’s talk to be very interesting, as ey discussed eir struggles to come out as non-binary, and decided to create gender queer comics and start releasing them. Maia also discusses the backlash ey faced, becoming the most challenged author in America. Maia also took the viewers through the creation process of ‘Gender Queer’. Students also got the opportunity to ask various questions, one of them was “ How do you know what to leave in and out of the book? “ Maia responded, "I went back and read personal diaries from age eleven all the way up to twenty-five and made bullet points of memories that were personal, never to be seen and scary.” Maia would then take that list and extract what's relevant. The first comics of ‘Gender Queer’ were originally in black and white. After pitching the book and getting rejected Maia was told to expand it with...

        Dominic Miller          Sonya Fix         Personal Narrative          09/28/23 Brotherhood                      When I was a little boy just starting elementary school, I lived in Centerville where my only friend was my younger sister. My neighbors had kids my age, I could always hear them running around screaming and having fun but I could never actually see them because of the thick trees that separated our yards. After 1st grade was over, my family decided to move that summer 30 miles away from where we had lived, Clayton. I would spend the next decade of my life here growing up. I remember saying to my mom “ I'm not going to make any friends.”          One day early on in our new ho...

Be a man.     I was told to "be a man" and if I got hurt, don't complain and definitely don’t cry. I can recall, from a young age, being upset and in pain. I went to the hospital, and later on, I found out that I had IBS. I couldn't understand what I was eating, which would always create this terrible feeling. I would cry and complain about the pain to my parents, and they eventually brought me to a hospital when it got really bad. I lay in the hospital bed for 8 hours while they ran many different tests. They would periodically come into the room and wheel me around to different rooms, each time with a different test to take. (X-rays, ECG, ultrasound, etc.) The room was so cold that I was shivering and tossing and turning, trying to find comfort. The doctors ended up not helping besides stating the obvious: that my stomach was the problem and that I had IBS. A lot of the time, when I'm with people, my stomach starts hurting and irritating me. In my hea...