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  Event 1- We're All Living in the Estroworld 4/22/2022 - James Hepp For my first event in this class, I was able to attend a virtual zoom meeting titled, We're All Living in the Estroworld run by Mary Maggic.   From this meeting, I was able to take away a lot of valuable information. Before the meeting, I read the bio of what the meeting was going to cover, and a lot of the information sounded new. Mary has done many experiments in society that has deepen her understanding of estrogen which made her very knowledgeable about this topic. I was impressed by how much of her time she has devoted to learning and researching this topic.  One of the experiments she conducted was taking urine samples of patients and offering a new way to create transgender medication. She said that she was able to make a video that explains ways to create this substance through the estrogen found in urine. I thought this was very interesting because I didn't know that was possible.  One thin...

  Week 4 | Medicine + Technology + Art | Blog Assignment 4/20/2022-James Hepp Throughout the course of time, medicine, technology, and art has greatly developed in to a more modern version of itself. There have been many discoveries and new theories of technology that have allowed us to be more medicinally intelligent . Doctors who used medical instruments back in the day were not considered doctors. Now in order to be a doctor, you must know how to use/navigate these medical instruments in order to become a doctor.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was a German physicist that was able to detect electromagnetic radiation also known as an x-ray. Because he was able to detect this, it won him the Nobel Piece Prize in 1901. This discovery allowed for a lot of technological development in the medicinal field. Without this moment in history, I think our understanding of medicine would be completely different and a little delayed from what it is now. https:...

  Week 3 Robotics + Art April 15, 2022 Throughout the course of time art, technology, and robotics has developed industrialization and the way society views the world. Computers are the single piece of technology that has catapulted our society in to a more advanced and electronic world. The printing press was one of the first major mechanical and technological advances in our society. It was truly the beginning of the assembly line, which eventually transformed in to the car industry assembly line. Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist, is best known for developing an alternating current. He also formed the basis of wireless communication. This wireless communication is especially common in our society today. This shows how the developments made back then are still common and relative in our every day life to this day. Advances in technology like this is the catalyst in a world that uses this as a form of communication and living.  In W...

  Week 2 Math + Art James Hepp I have always been drawn towards more math-oriented subjects, topics, and ideas. I believe this is from a lack of introduction to the idea of art in school and other educational environments. In the lecture, it was explained that mathematics is like another language because of all of the symbols and organization of numbers in order to make sense. This to me is a direct connection between math and literature or math and art. In the days of the Babylonians, they had symbols and numbers that were written on clay tablets. Those clay tablets and other forms of art are seen quite often in art museums even though that those tablets were a form of writing and mathematics.   https://www.archaeology.org/issues/214-features/cuneiform/4361-cuneiform-warfare An artist that stuck out to me from this weeks lecture is Piero de la Francesca. He used angles, intersections, proportions, and geometric theorems in order to create his art. He was able to apply ma...

 As a first-year student at UCLA, I have had many opportunities to work and earn volunteer hours at  homeless shelters. Understanding a different perspective by getting to talk to the less fortunate people  in the homeless shelter made me understand the idea of two cultures. The two cultures in this aspect  would be understanding the problem of homelessness and doing something about it and not doing  something about.  Release, K. H. T. S. N. (2021, July 19). Bridge to home seeks financial support to fund permanent Santa Clarita homeless shelter  . Hometown Station | KHTS FM 98.1 & AM 1220. Retrieved April 1, 2022, from https://www.hometownstation.com/santa-clarita-news/community-news/bridge-to-home-seeks-financial-support-to-fund-permanent-santa-clarita-homeless-shelter-384087 During the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I had to write an essay in online school about the  homelessness problem on Skid Row. While writing this paper, it made me rea...