Marissa Chawla's
Futurology Portfolio
Reflection #1
Date Published: 8/16/16
By Marissa Chawla
Creating the abstracts was quite enjoyable for me. I went to several different websites and compiled 9 articles all in relation to my focus: civilization collapse through extremism. The articles tackled subjects such as the Milwaukee riots, people encouraging the rioters to wreck the local suburbs, racists tweets and threat towards white people, ISIS using roughly 2,000 civilians as human shields, ISIS throwing gay men off roofs in Raqqa, ISIS burning down a public library with the loss of 8,000 rare books and manuscripts, how ISIS is hiring doctors and harvesting organs from hostages and soldiers, and lastly the issue of 'honor killing' in predominantly Muslim countries.
Refletions
Reflection #2
Date Published: 8/17/16
By Marissa Chawla
Building this website wasn't necessarily that difficult for me; in Mosaic, we had to build one as well, so that experience most certainly helped me while creating this. The thing that always takes me awhile to complete is choosing images that I think represent me, as well as making my website look good. The header picture of my website is 'The Lady of Shalott ' by John William Waterhouse, and my backround is by an unknown/unfound artist. I then followed the 'Portfolio Owners Manual' provided by my teachers. I love an elegant website, so I was very particular with the fonts I selected: I wanted it to be pretty, but readable and sleek. I also follows a pattern of flowers when using clip art. The website only took me about a day and a half to have it presentable, although it is still a working progress.
Hopefully people will enjoy it and see it and use it as a tool to see what I'm accomplishing in this class.
Reflection #3
Date Published: 8/22/16
By Marissa Chawla
What I have been doing for the past week has mainly been researching, gathering information, and creating an infograohic. What I am focusing on is Black Lives Matter, mainly because if I focused on extremism as a whole, it would be too vast. I also chose this group because I want to focus on issues facing our country/our community. I have gathered videos, eyewitness accounts, blatent acts of racism, and just foul behavior to support my case. In my infographic I'm adressing the unsettling roots of BLM, how in some cases its bringing back segrigation, and its habbits of protesting the death of thugs.
Reflection #4
Date Published: 8/24/16
By Marissa Chawla
Today we completed creating a mind map, which basically illustrates how our groups broad spectrum of topics relate to one another. We made the center read "Collapse" and we then branched off to 'Culture Collapse', 'Economic Collapse', and 'Govermental Collapse'. We demonstrated how these topic intertwine with eachother, and we will now be moving onto Question Storm.
Reflection #5
Date Published: 9/2/16
By Marissa Chawla
For the picture, it explains where my partner and I are at with planning, identifying a problem, and solving it. My partner and I are researching water pollution in colorado and how it can damage our enviorment, and our very way of life. We hope to pass legislation on water in order to protect future generations, and to do this, we are researching the best course of action as well as looking at scholarly articales, reports, past cases, and so on and so forth.
Reflection #6
Date Published: 9/6/16
By Marissa Chawla
What we have been doing lately is mostly research, and I anticipate
that we will reach out to someone over the course of this week. I hope
we will find a clear and consise path to take and run with it, and make
a solid project!
Goals
1. Reaching out to a proffesional about our topic to get a clearer
idea of the nature of it
2. Getting a clear idea of what we should focus on with our project.
​
Reflection #7
Date Published: 9/15/16
By Marissa Chawla
Right now my partner and I are waiting for a responce from Mr. Tim Murrell, who works for Douglas County. Once we ask him the questions, Im confident that we will be able to move on to the next steps in our project. We also wrote a follow-up email, and for now we are just waiting for a reasponce. Hopefully that will come swiftly! :)
Reflection #8
Date Published: 11/1/16
By Marissa Chawla
So, it has been roughy two months, and in those two months we are at our solution stage. Two weeks ago McKinley Breen and I met with former Castle Rock Mayor Steve Boand and left the meeting with a clear, realistic, solution. To fill you in, Douglas County is leading in water conservation, and as far as that goes, we can't really conserve more than we do, so our main problem is a water source. Douglas County is currently getting its water from an aquafer called the Denver Basin; we get out water from here because underground water is incrediably cheap, less than a cent I believe. However, with our growing population, in 2035 we are going to need two wells to do the work of one, and by 2065 we are going to need three wells to do the work of one. Because Douglas County is a prodominatly upper class, the state will not grant us money, nor will the Federal Goverment. The cost of paying all this could be roughly 3 billion dollars. So, we are taking preventative measures now, via tax. We are looking at the information and probability of implimenting a tax that will go to this future water disaster. That is where we are at, and where we are headed.
