Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Answer the following questions using well-detailed responses. You must also include
pictures and video evidence of work completed.
a. What have you accomplished so far on your Capstone project? If nothing, why?
I have accomplished the pages of preface and reference work and made research on the topics
under discussion. The preface includes my brief personal background, personal experiences that
motivated me to pursue this project and the taget readers of my works.
b. What do you plan to accomplish by the end of this week? How will you hold yourself
accountable?
I’m planning to finish at least finishing writing about the first topic, teen’s mental health crisis,
and writing about what my perspective is regarding the issue at hand. To hold myself
accountable, I will monitor my progress writing a ‘to do list’.
d. What your interactions with your mentor(s) have been so far. If nothing, why? What is
your plan?
My interaction with my mentor hasn’t been much activated since I couldn’t brainstorm my
thoughts and insights of the topics. Once I organize my thoughts about the main topic for each
article, I will make progress in exchanging feedback with my tutor.
3. When finished and you have submitted on TEAMS, copy and paste to your website under
your Blog Journal page. The title of your new post is “Capstone Update #1”. Include pictures
and/or videos onto your blog entry.
Contents & Reference work
Article # 1. Teen Mental Health in Crisis
Callie Holtermann. (May 5, 2022). Is Teen Mental Health in a State of Crisis?. The NewYorkTimes. Retrieved from
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/nuclear-family.html
Callie Holtermann. (May 19, 2022). Should College Be Free?. The NewYorkTimes. Retrieved from https://
www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/learning/free-college.html
Callie Holtermann. (May 23, 2022). Should the U.S. Be Doing More to Prevent Child Poverty?. The NewYorkTimes.
Retrieved from
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/learning/should-the-us-be-doing-more-to-prevent-child-poverty.html
Callie Holtermann. (April 27, 2022). How Much Should Speech Be Moderated on Social Media?. The New York Times.
Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/learning/speech-moderated-social-media.html
Christina Morales. (April 19, 2022). To Tip or not to Tip?. The NewYorkTimes. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/
2022/04/19/dining/tipping-gratuity-restaurants.html
Joseph E. Stiglitz. (August 10, 2022). Why the Inflation Reduction Act matters. Korea Herald. Retrieved from
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220809000288&np=1&mp=1
Jessica Grose. (March 30, 2022). The Nuclear Family Is No Longer the Norm. Good. The NewYorkTimes. Retrieved from
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/nuclear-family.html
Laurence Wainwright & Eileen Neumann (July 12, 2022). Heatwaves worsen mental health conditions. The Conversation.
Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/heatwaves-worsen-mental-health-conditions-186759
Nanda, Serena. (2000). Arranging a Marriage in India. John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
Retrieved from http://public.gettysburg.edu/~dperry/Class%20Readings%20Scanned%20Documents/Intro/Nanda.pdf
Article # 16. Is Cancel Culture (or “Callout Culture”) Good for Society?
Editors of Britannica. (Unknown). Cancel Culture — Top 3 Pros and Cons. BRITANNICA.
Retrieved from https://www.procon.org/headlines/is-cancel-culture-or-callout-culture-good-for-
society/#arguments
Preface
Description of my Capstone Project
: To call attention to social issues in various settings, I have collected the issues of controversy and
investigated the root of problems and key solutions. As a student, I am deeply concerned about teenagers
distancing themselves from the knowledge of current affairs, as many of them are highly preoccupied with
developing academic performance in a school setting. To encourage the school community to have interest
in what is happening around us, Jooheon’s opinion column will play a significant role in raising awareness
of social issues. This will awaken the minds of those who are afraid to confront uncomfortable social
issues.
This collection of opinon columns will deeply explore many social issues that range from gender
disparities, children’s access to learning in computer-using educational setting, the high college tuition,
extinction issues to abortion and human rights. The resources are to be collected from reliable collection of
databases, such as JSTOR and EBSCO, from websites, such as The New York Times and The
Conversation. Based on my research about the given topics, I will create 20 pages of opinion sections that
explores and examines insight into the various societal issues that have often been ignored.
Each page will investigate one single issue, which is composed of the head title and the byline, followed
by the reference of the article. Reflecting the structure of an opinion column, the column is divided into an
opening remark with an introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion with the concluding remark.
Plans for the layout
Article
page
Overwhelming mental states are fuelling the needs for probing into the nature of
problem. To define the severity of the crisis, many experts provide deeper insights into
the tumultuous period of adolescence. According to the recent research, many youngsters
show the signs of the trace of facing mental problems: some of them undergo lethargy
avoiding eating and socializing with others. Since these are the most common
phenomenon of the adolescence throughout their puberty, it is hard to notice what kind of
major shift they are experiencing. When a teen is left alone without a revenue opened for
communication, they sometimes make socially unacceptable or even dramatic decision.
Analyzing the severity of the problem, the movement to save adolescents out of the
mental issues is activated and successfully provided the findings that indicate the
importance of emotional bond between counsellors and teenagers. However, the
approach reveals fragility in that having a good support for communication requires
tremendous efforts and the view of experts. Therefore, structuring a better system for the
treatment of mental crisis is emphasized. To provide easier access for counsultation with
experts under the systematic mechanism, adults in power need to give their hands. They
need to focus on reflecting more lessons about mental health in school curriculum and
establishing better counseling system in the educational environment.
The radical rise in mental health crisis among young generation has become one of the
dominant issue for the teenagers. To address the problem, the people with power should
take an initiative role in building a well-designed framework to support the adolescents
in need.