Your task this week is to describe an artifact from your own life. I want you to

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Your task this week is to describe an artifact from your own life. I want you to describe the item (or even better-post a picture!). What does this item say about you? What does this item reflect about your culture's values? Does it reflect positively or negatively on your self-concept?

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You will need to DIRECTLY reference the textbook in your response to receive full credit. Here are some more hints:

Provided a summary of your observation or response to the activity. Please post by Friday.
Hint: You should provide a thorough response to the assignment by Friday

Used adequate substance in the content of the post (a minimum of 100-200 words).
Hint: Some activities require different words length.

Linked information to a textbook or other research-based principle about interpersonal communication.
Hint: You must directly reference textbook concepts to meet this requirement. You must also include proper in-text citation.

Wrote with academic style, which communicated well. Used speller, correct capitalization, correct style, and large font.
Hint: Check your work for spelling errors.

Responded to at least one peer in an interactive way, by engaging in conversation, by Sunday. Hint: A simple, "I agree," will not meet this requirement. Your peer responses should include detail.

Explanation / Answer

Artifacts can help us visualize the past and see complex events as something tangible or relatable.

We can use the same approach to tell our personal histories as well. A sentimental T-shirt, a kindergarten drawing or a dog-eared book? What objects tell the story of your life?

Objects do definitely tell a story that words can not. When I paint and draw, I reflect who I am as a person, what I think like, what I feel. From a very young age I have been the shy type, I did not open up about my feelings and emotions toward different things.

But the one way I have learnt to open up is through the beauty of art, just drawing what I feel, when I used to be stressed out or angry, I just take out a piece of paper and just start drawing, or get a canvas and start to paint. Bundles of messy art work by me when I was five is still kept safe.

My parents have many times tried sending me to drawing classes, but it never really worked out. Why? because art classes are classes that have rules, there are boundaries, their system is to tell us what to draw, how to do it, in a particular way, and I did not like that, I had my own style, I found who I really was as a person.

And I really enjoyed just doing my own thing. Sometimes my drawings could be a little scary, dark, sometimes really bright and happy, this shows my emotions and efforts and time put into something I am really passionate about.

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