New Age Art

An exploration of poetry, art, and teenage depression as a CAPStone project by me, Mackey Howe, for Newton North High School. I will be posting some of my individual work that I will eventually be compiling into a book, as well as updates on my research. My research will be focussed on adolescent mental health, dealing particularly with depression and suicide. The book I will produce during my field work will be an artistic expression of my own history, supplemented by what I discover. ***Go to my "READ THIS FIRST" page for an explanation of the organization of my site, it is a little different from most and worth understanding ahead of time.

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Final Bibliography

This is a link to my final thesis bibliography

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This is the link to view my thesis abstract

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This is the link to view the final draft of my thesis

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(more scans of note pages!)

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These are scans of some of my note pages (with artifact notes and some planning notes) for the research paper

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(last page)

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this is the first, very rough draft of my research paper.  I still need to add in citations along with a number of other edits and revisions

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An overview/review of The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

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Link to Sari Ladin's SYP from 2008 about PTSD and its relation to stigma and suicide

(I will make some parallel connections between her work with veterans and my research dealing with students)

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The link to Jess Kramer's SYP on stress and positive Psychology

(I plan on drawing from some of her references)

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Trailer for the film "Race To Nowhere"

website for the movement:  http://www.racetonowhere.com/

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Big 3 (Round 3)

Topic:  How teenage depression is dealt with in schools.

Question:  Why do many teens with depression avoid using the available support systems?

Thesis:  Support systems fail because many teens dealing with depression possess a fear of the consequences involved in admitting that they need help, which leads them to silence.

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This is the link to my paper outline - I will be continuing to update it and make it more detailed as I flush out the structure of my final paper.

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This is the link to view my Literature Review.

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Blurb - Make your own book. Make it great

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As of now, this website is looking like my best option for an editing/publishing platform.  This would allow me to have much more time to focus on my actual writing and artwork rather than devoting much of that time to finding a publisher willing to publish an unsigned, unknown teenage author.

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I am reposting my old IRT presentation.

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A more in depth talk with Kevin Breel about his story and his TedTalk video.

"because you can intervene with depression and treat it. But you can’t with suicide." - A quote from Dr. Gail Saltz that appears at the end of this article.