AICE Media Studies Blog

 Unlike my previous two projects, this time I'm working alone. For my last two projects I worked with my best friend Sofia who was in my class. We worked well together and always produced something unique that I was proud to be a part of. However, in light of her switching schools, I've elected to go solo. It's true that I could simply team up with another member or group from my class to lighten the load, but I have a few reasons for refraining. The first is familiarity with my class. One of the main reasons I worked well with Sofia was because we were friends for a long time before entering the class. Our high level of familiarity contributed to understanding, comfortability, and easy outsourcing. Grouping with someone I don't know, or know very little about, for such an important project will lack all of these essential aspects. It would be harder to bounce ideas around with people when I don't know how they think. Bringing up personal obstacles or situations wit...

 My name is Naliah Nettles, a 17 year old junior at Fort Lauderdale High, and I welcome you to the beginning of what guarantees to be a graceful roller coaster ride from hell. To tell you a little bit about myself, I'm a libra, I have two bearded dragons and one Chihuahua, and my favorite color is hot pink. I write poetry, mostly as a hobby, but I do participate in competitions (one of which I won) and open mic events. I dabble in short stories too, although I'm not as good at finishing those. Another past time of mine is video games. Video games have a lot of stereo types such as being for boys or being very violent. I can personally attest that I am a girl who loves all kinds of video games, most non-violent. Shooting games tend to turn me off, the bland army style and colors being too dull for me and the sharp sounds of bullets and bombs being too sudden for me. Getting closer to Media Studies, I am an amateur photographer. I've shot photos for my middle school and high ...