There are many people that create change, such as Leonardo DaVinci and Galileo, but what you may not know is that with great change, comes an even greater tension. For example, Joan of Arc. She was a woman who fought and won a huge war, but instead of praise and thanks, she was accused of being a witch and was burned at the stake. This is but one of many examples of how people made great change but had their achievements crushed by those who wanted to stay in their safe box where everything and everyone stays the same, and are afraid of things that require you to think out side of the box.
For this unit, we had two major projects. The first one being a note book based on one of six topics. The topics are agricultural, weaponry, transportation, communication, science and medicine, and art. I was in a group with Logan, Lauren, and Marshall, and we were the science and medicine group. In the project, we needed to create a note book about science and medicine throughout the ages and had to answer the question of how epidemics filled medical advances. We had four main points in time to look at, and those were the medieval times, renaissance, industrial times, and modern day. We all split up the work and got one era to work on, mine deign the renaissance. I researched Day and night on my topic and constantly had to try and answers that driving question. I looked at different epidemics, famous revolutionary inventions and inventors, different forms of medicine back then, and how it all links back to the big question of how epidemics fuelled medical advancements. This is our finished product.
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The second big project was the sales pitch. With this project, we used the knowledge learned in the previous project to create a revolutionary product of the future that we would then pitch to a company of our choice. Our group decided that we wanted to make a robot doctor. This robot doctor would lessen the effects of human error, be more precise, and would make the hospital a safer and less feared place. We had to put all of our information into words on a script which I did most of. In the script, we focused on human error and used forms of advertising to our advantage. These forms of persuasion are called Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. We used Pathos to get to your emotions when talking about how life threatening and scary it is to you and your loved ones when doctors slip up. We used logos to appeal to your logic when we calculated the amount of deaths per year due to medical error. And finally we used Ethos to cater to your ethics when we listed all of the reasons why a robot can be more trusting then the average human. We also had to make a keynote which included slides with pictures to compliment the scrip. Below is our finished sales pitch keynote and a copy of the script that my group worked so hard to create.
I feel that our automated doctors would make a real impact in getting rid of human error and increasing the number of lives saved every year. We even thought of some jobs that former human doctors could enrol in so that they would still be able to have jobs. I believe that with our invention, the world will be changed forever, but for the better. I know that this may cause tension upon the masses because it’s a robot, but then again so did the first drawing of a helicopter, and now everyone knows what it is and it is a common thing among society. It’s the same with Isaac Newton and his theory that the earth was not flat. People thought he was a mad man but now you look stupid if you still think that the earth is flat.
In conclusion, both the notebook and the sales pitch were well worth all the effort and hard work put in, for I learned a tremendous amount on the subject itself and even some other things
Ike advertising techniques and team building skills. This unit was really fun and I hope to do something like this in the future.
