Digital storytelling part 2. SInce I have switched to AP Lit, a lot has changed, but not too much. Right now my classmates are doing what I did last Tri, the This I Believe/ We Video project. Since I already did that, I am doing a different form of digital storytelling. Instead of telling my own story I am recording the story of another person, or in my case two other people. I am using the StoryCorps app, which you start by selecting questions, then asking them, and the app records the response from the other person. Later, you can take/add pictures. I am very excited to see my final product. I haven't barely had any time to start due to my work schedule interfering with the time that I can meet with my story tellers and interview them. My topic is very important to me and I am doing it for my family and my friends. A lot of artwork that I have done is along the same topic as well. I have done paintings and drawings of my mother and behind her or around her, put all the things she likes to portray her as a person. My family, especially my mother, as long as a great majority of Muslims in this country have had a lot of things said and done to them just because of the religious path they follow. My digital story will be interviewing my mother and one of her friends, asking them about their lives, growing up, their children, different things they like, introducing them as people, then getting to the core by asking them about their feelings on the election, and how it has changed this country and their lives. My hopes with this piece is that it will wipe away some of the red people are seeing, so they can see that my mother, our friends, and the whole Muslim community, is a community of humans, of people just like the people seeing the red, same as the people that they live next door to, same as the people that hand their food out the window. People that love their children, they have families, they have jobs, they have favorite actors, favorite foods, favorite sports players, they have feelings, and they are existing. They deserve the right as a living being, to live a safe, comfortable,
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