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This course, Psychology in the 21st century, examines how different aspects of human behavior provide the focus for different psychologists. Using learning as an example, you will discover how many different approaches can be adopted, thus illustrating that there is no single way of answering psychological questions.

EXPERIENCE

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GLOBAL ISSUES NETWORK CLUB, 2019 

20 Hours 

At the GIN club, we try to make as many events as we could in order to collect money for a good cause. This year it’s for building a house for someone who doesn’t have a house. We will be hosting a football game, a basketball game, bake sales, and even selling valentines day cookies.

Ms Nicole Godbout | n.godbout@bccis.ca

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Capstone Volunteering Project, 2019 

10 Hours 

Along with a few of my friends, we had a project to volunteer and to give something back to the society. Therefore, we choose to cook hot meals with our parents, go around in the car and give them to people in need. We cooked on different days in different houses on the span of two weeks and did the same thing for every house. 

Ms Reem El Ramly | r.elramly@bccis.ca

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Choueifat Volunteering, 2019

8 Hours 

With the school, we were taken to the campus of the school of Choueifat in the fifth settlement. When we got there we were to be supervisors to children than were orphans. There were stations of different activities and we would guide the children on how to play and join these activities. 

Ms Nisrine 

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Charity Volunteering, 2019

6 Hours 

My friend had a volunteering project that had an event that happened on a weekend. We got there and set up different stations for children that were coming. These kids had special needs along with some of them being orphans. therefore, I had to take extra care of them. I was assigned to the face paint station where I would get pictures on the internet on what they would like to draw on their faces and I would do it for them. There were other stations that were mainly sports related and there was a dance competition as well. At the end, we got them food and snacks and gave it to them before leaving. We stayed afterwards to clean up for everything.

Ms Reem El Ramly | r.elramly@bccis.ca

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Fashion design is the art of applying art, design, aesthetics, and natural beauty to clothing and accessories. It is influenced by cultural and social attitudes, and has changed and over time
and place. My mom made me love this ever since I was little because she had the same passion as a young kid and she showed me her notebook that she used to draw in.

I started loving fashion designing along the years and at 10 years old that’s when I started designing dresses on paper and getting help from my mom to make them for dolls. She would always help me fix my deigns and make the colors match. We would go to my father’s work every Saturday and take some leftover fabrics that would later be dresses on some dolls’ bodies. People wear clothes to protect themselves from weather conditions like for example heat,
extreme cold, and humidity. That’s why people created clothes in the first place but after time it had its own thing where people don’t just use it to protect themselves. It’s being used at the present time to show someone’s social status, occupation, economic status, ethnicity, martial status, sexual orientation and even religious affiliation. The industry of fashion designing is constantly seeing changes from every aspect. For example, the rate and manner of clothes changes between cultures and different periods of time. The field of fashion deign research is young but fashion education has been there for a little while. One of the first institutions developed was the London College of fashion. It was established in 1906, where it was taught
how to neatly cut fabrics and stitching together pieces of materials by just a needle and thread.

Ellie Saab is known as one of the best fashion designers in the world because of how he worked hard and brought fame onto himself. I see him as my idol, would one day like to meet him and become like him. The dress for the haute couture of Elie Saab is located in Beirut, it usually takes 7,000 pearls, 5,000 sequins, 900 resin flowers, and 500 silk-organza petals to make a dress. Wooden utensils are used to tack each sequin into the fabric on the dress. Resin is hand-poured into molds that are heated over flames, snipped with scissors, and then pinned, sewn onto organza petals, and then tacked onto garments. They create mannequins in every size to match the clients bodies so they can drape the dress on it.

Elie’s early life consisted of creating dresses ever since he was eight and he used his sisters as his models. His pieces would consist of patterns cut out of newspaper and whatever he finds in his mother’s closet for materials. He first started off working to design interiors for BMW cars, worked for MAC Cosmetics and also designed three large yachts. He moved to Paris in 1981 to study fashion but dropped out and ended up going back to Beirut. He first opened his fashion label in Beirut with only fifteen workers in the year 1982. Lebanon was known to be the hub of fashion in the middle east and was referred to as the Paris of the middle east.He began with only designing dresses for brides with high quality fabric and silk. He began building a name for himself after high-society females wore his items.

As of March 2017, his couture collections are available Paris, London, and Beirut. The first time he dressed a royal was in 2019 when he dressed Kate Middleton to the Royal Ascot. He was known to be the first non-Italian designer to join and become a member of the National Chamber Of Italian Fashion in 1997. Later on in that year he showed his first collection outside of Lebanon and it was located in Beirut. He reportedly sped a dress thickly embroiled with
emeralds and diamonds in 1999 for $2.4 million. He started being known in the United States when he became the first Lebanese designer to dress an Oscar winner in 2002 which was Halle
Berry. The first ever haute couture collection he showed was in Paris around July of 2003. Elie even worked on developing the education of fashion where he worked with the Lebanese American University and the London College of Fashion to create and launch a bachelor’s
degree in fashion where it has campuses in both Beirut and Byblos.

The world famous designer has about $200 million net worth which all is self-made from his designs being sold in 42 countries. He sees Beirut as his source of inspiration where he says that his designs are the result of culture and heritage. And he’s always inspired by it therefore a lot it reflected through the fabrics, rich materials, and the use of warm colors like sand and other natural tones. He always seems to find inspiration in Beirut’s sun he sees the beauty of its
scenery, the richness of the colors, and its people.

I am preparing myself for studying fashion design after University and my dream is to have a brand with my name some day where I design all the clothes for them to be sold all around the world. I am trying to build my portfolio from now and I’m building it from sketches that are made of many pieces of clothes. On my free time I try to sketches pieces as much as I can because that will help get used to the technique of drawing clothes and will get me used to it.
Trends are changing everyday and you can see that in any of the fashion shows along the years. Therefore, when sketching I try to see what’s colors and types of clothes are trending to create pieces that will match this certain year or season but I always try to change this piece to make it my own even if that means breaking the trends. Currently, I am trying to find an internship somewhere close to me because it will give me excellent opportunities and it will boost give a boost to my career. I try my best to work on my sewing skills and learn the basics, practicing will make me perfect in it.

Fashion designing is the art dedicated to create a piece of clothing or other lifestyle accessories. My goal is to be able to make clothes for everyone and to show my talent of art in these pieces. To be able to touch and see my products in my hands and all around the world.
“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but decide what you are, what you express by the way you dress and the way you live.” (Gianni Versace). This is what I want and what I’ve always dreamed to do and one day it will be my career.

Psychology is what I would like to study because it helps with communicating with people. It also makes people understand themselves, other, and their own relationships better. Therefore, it provides development for people on new perspectives on mental illnesses. This will open many pathways to different careers. As well it helps me make a difference in people and their own lives.

I have taken many subjects that will help me be successful at university as a Psychology student. Taking Psychology in both grades 11 and 12 helped me have a background to the study and ever since the first lesson I took it guided me to have a psychology major. Chemistry and Biology help with Psychology because it increases my general knowledge about the body and brain. These two subjects will help me since a lot of the Psychological disorders or illnesses are related to either one of them. 

For school activities, I joined the football team which helped me with me getting organized and discipline because we are represent the school in front of other people. All these sports will make me organized to divide my time equally between studying and practicing. This will help with me organizing my time later on in university and in life. I also volunteered to go with the school to another school where they got orphans there and we organized activities for them to enjoy and play. We also visited orphans and talked to them; we also did like the other day; we organized activities and games for them to enjoy. This relates to Psychology because it helps with empathy and patience which are to main important things needed for anyone who is in the major of Psychology.

For outside the school, I play kickboxing which helps with also time organizing because of the many things I have to do. I also joined MUN at AUC which helped with my debating and public speaking. MUN will also help me see the different aspects of drugs and crime around the world since this was the council I joined to help me later on in university.