Imperialism Project Reflection

This project, I’m most proud of my acrylic piece. I experimented with different brushes, tools, colors,

pigments, and amounts of material. It’s greatly helped me grow as an artist and grasp an understanding of

different fundamentals of acrylic paint. Specifically, I’m very proud of how the texture of my acrylic turned out.

I’ve always loved feelinging all the ridges and lines in paintings, and I finally experimented with it myself. I

mostly added a large amount of paint around her hair wrap, which gives a large amount of texture and depth to

the piece.

During this project, I ran into difficulties when it came to deadlines, and research. For the first research

paper I was absent the week I intended to fill it out, this pushed me back with lots of work pilling on top of

each-each other. I lacked responsibility in completing my schoolwork, and I fell behind in more than one class.

After my SLC, I started working towards my goal of improving my grades in humanities by turning in my

research papers and completing the following of the project online. I could’ve timed my work time for my

assignments properly, giving myself time to work on each assignment and turn it in on time. This is something

that I believe is rather easy to do, and will be accounted for in the future.

Throughout my studies of the late day Igbo women I’ve learned that no matter how much abuse,

oppression, or even murder a community can endure, that their collective power and teamwork can push

through anything and make a change for all. This idea of courage is reflected through my painting piece.

Through my painting, I tried to capture the strong and independent women that you would see in the 20s,

protesting and fighting for not only her rights, but her life. These concepts empower me, a young

impressionable woman, and my similar peers around me.

 In my op-ed I've practiced TEA paragraphs more thoroughly, and have pushed myself in writing about

topics I'm not particularly passionate about, history. I’ve learned the power of telling a story through writing.

“Women wanted to ignite change within the corrupt political system that they were forced to live by and

be ruled by, and that is exactly what they achieved.” I chose this particular quote from my op-ed because I truly

believe it's striking and pulls you into the full story of these women.

“Igbo women were passionate, smart and strong. They used their teamwork and strong sense of

community to work against the oppressive British influence and demanded change and equality to be brought

back into their tribes.” This quote is around the end of my essay, it draws together the story and the ideas that I

want to convey to the reader. I usually struggle with concise sentences like this, it’s really something that I’m

proud about writing.

I’d give myself a 7/10, I’m proud of my final work but I’m not proud of homework, classwork, and

missing assignments etc. I need to improve on completing work at home, it’s difficult for me to switch to online

classes suddenly because I’ve always associated school with work and home with comfort and relaxing, my

time away from working.