For my final project, I made an Info graph. It wouldn’t let me publish it directly onto this website so if you want to see the full project click this link.

Here are pictures of my final project.

1. The overall topic of my project is mental health in kids and how mental health rates have changed over the years. The goal of my project is to show the problem our world has with mental health and how this problem continues to get worse. I also want to show that more people than we think deal with mental health problems, even if they might not show it. We should always be there for others, and we should show consideration to others, because you do not know their whole story.
2. The tool I utilized was the website Infogram. Infogram gave me a chart template that I can edit to make work for whatever my subject is. Infogram also gave me lots of options when it came to changing and personalizing my work. I learned that this tool could change my pictures and graphs based on the numbers I put in, which I find helpful, because then I do not have to spend the time doing it myself.
3. the process of utilizing this tool impacted my understanding of how technology can change the world. This program really made me realize how much we take things for granted. Like back in the day, they did not even have electricity and now there are programs that will only take a second to personalize themselves to fit your needs. It makes me wonder what technology will be like in the future, like how far are we going to be able to advance technology and make it better?

I have been doing ballet since I was 3, so ballet is a big part of my life and something I know well so here is a bunch of stuff you probably didn’t know about ballet.  

Ballet is pretty much a type of artistic dance that is performed to music. It is one of the most precise forms of dance, making it really hard to do. Classical ballet originated during the 19th century in Renaissance Italy. It involves light, graceful, fluid movements and the use of pointe shoes. There are many different types of ballet and ballet training methods; one type of ballet is called the Cecchetti method. The Cecchetti method was created by an Italian ballet master who lived from 1850 to 1928 named Enrico Cecchetti. The Cecchetti method works to develop essential skills in dancers as well as strength and flexibility. There are many different dance companies around the world that use the Cecchetti method. Dancing is somewhat good for you. It is found to be able to improve your mood while you learn, move and perform. In fact, most people take dance class because it puts them in a good mood and helps to ease their depression and anxiety. Some studies show that dance can actually reduce stress and increase serotonin levels. Dance also helps develop new neural connections, especially in regions involved in executive function, long term memory and spatial recognition. Dance is found to also help build physical coordination, grace and posture, mental strength and focus and build social skills.  

Though dance isn’t all good stuff. It is found that professional dancing is strongly associated with mental health issues such as eating disorders, anxiety and compulsive-obsessive disorders. The international sports society has acknowledged the problems with ED in sports, though the same does not apply to dance. Most dancers suffer from ED because of something called a “ballet body”. I know there is supposed to be no such thing as a “ballet body” and ballet companies around the world aren’t supposed to judge you by your body, but they still do. Many ballet companies around the world often only except dancers that have a “ballet body”. Well, what exactly is a ballet body?  To have a ballet body, you must have long elegant limbs, a strong supple back, straight legs that are not bowed or knock kneed, arched feet and a proportionate body. Studios look for dancers that have a “ballet body” because dancers with that kind of body tend to be able to take the strain of the activity better than others. So, dancers also worry if they have the perfect body or not. Many dancers are perfectionists, which can be a good thing, but not always. Perfectionism has been linked to depression, anxiety, anorexia, bulimia and suicide. Very often, dancers suffer from these illnesses and there isn’t enough help provided by the industry to help everyone. Another reason why perfectionism can be a bad thing is because, sometimes perfectionism can become destructive. Dancers that have destructive perfectionism focus on their failures and see their successes as worthless. Their failures can make dancing unbearable and that pushes dancers to quit. To them it’s perfection or nothing.  

Dancers not only suffer from mental illnesses, but they also suffer from physical injuries too. Here is a list of some of the physical injuries that ballet dancers can suffer from.  

• Spondylosis: a stress fracture in the vertebra in the lower spine which is caused by repeatedly extending the back. 

• Labral tears or snapping hip syndrome: cause the physical demand on dancer’s hips. 
• Stress Fractures in your tibia, femur, pelvis and fibula: caused by repeatedly jumping. 
• Patellofemoral pain syndrome: caused by pressure from bending and jumping. It can lead to softening or thinning of the cartilage behind the kneecap, resulting in a dull, achy pain. 
• Knee sprains: caused by dancers who hyperextend their knees while en pointe. 
• Dancers Fracture: Ankle fractures caused by repeated impact with jumping or turning. 

• Ankle sprains: caused by ankles turning inwards while dancing en pointe 
• Inflammation of the Achilles tendon (links your calf muscle to your heel) : caused by overuse. 
• Inflammation of the flexor hallucis tendon (which flexes your big toe): caused by overuse. 

The article I chose for this assignment is called ” Woman carries lion down Kuwait street after animal’s escape” It’s about a lion escaping from a local zoo and a woman finding him and carrying him hopefully back to the zoo. Did you know that in Kuwait exotic animals including lions are legal to be kept as pets. I chose this article because it’s not every day you see someone carrying a lion down the street and I found it interesting that someone would even try.

For my first step to see if the article is true I did some research on who wrote the article. I found out that the author is Ben Hooper.

Then I verified the author on twitter and found that he has a blue check mark next to his name so that means that he is a verified source.

Next, I am going to fact check the article. The website I used to fact check is called Snopes. So I put the article on Snopes to see if it was true. The article popped up and Snopes said the article is true and this really did happen

Next for my final step, I looked up the article on Google but added hoax to the end of the sentence. So I looked up “Woman carries lion down Kuwait street after animal’s escape hoax” When I looked up the article I found lots of evidence that this article is true.

In conclusion, after finding and reading all this information I can say this article is true.

Here is the article