How did class impact my life?

In the past week my ArtS.T.E.M. class discussed questions, violence, uniting topics in science art and the humanties. We made a project and created collaborative pictures. How did that impact me though? How did thought about the real definition of violence impact me personally?

Quite simply I was forced to apply new definitions to things I thought I previously understood. For example, I always thought of birth as the creation of life and the advancement of a species. Now, it is lumped together with other violent things such as hard core punk shows and Tarantino films.  Another example that stands out is my high school experience. I went to many punk shows.

At first punk seemed like a group of generally friendly people who liked to rough house and didn't like the man. Now after consideration I consider punk violent but not in a physical sense. It is violent because there is such a high contrast between the punk life(live fast and die soon) and my other joy of theatre(mainly Shakespeare, musicals, and opera).  When I think about both of those things together in one life during high I have no clue how I survived the panic of one world and the boredom of the other world.

My project was a slam poem about my entrance and finally exit from the punk world with allusions to the epic poem Devine Comedy. That in by it self really made me think hard about how I got to where I am today. Along with that it helped me deal with the post traumatic stress I have due to attending an average american high school for 4 years.