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Brewing Controversy: An (illustrated) legal history of the Volstead Act

Posted by Sky Kalfus in American Government - Laufenberg on
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Click the thumbnail to view an illustrated history of the Volstead Act.


Works Cited

BILL COMPLETED FOR ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION. 27 Jun. 1919. The New York Times. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

Mendelson, Richard. From demon to darling: a legal history of wine in America. 2009. Google Books. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

Moore, Mark, and Dean R. Gerstein. Alcohol and public policy: beyond the shadow of prohibition.  20 Oct. 1981. Google Books. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

PLAN STRICT ACTION ON DRY BILL HERE. 29 Oct. 1919. The New York Times. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

PROHIBITION ACT PROBABLY HELD UP UNTIL JULY 7. 28 Jun. 1919. The New York TImes. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

"The Prohibition Era." historicpatterson.com. Historic Patterson, New York, n.d Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

Tumulty, Joseph. Woodrow Wilson as I know him. 1921. Google Books. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

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Benchmark: Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007

Posted by Perry Woods in American Government - Laufenberg on
For my benchmark I researched the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007 law. In order to tell the story of how this Act became a law I used a website named Xtimeline in order to create a visual time line. On there you can also look at the event list and read about each individual event that took place over time. You can see the time line section here while you can see the event list here. Also under each event you can see some of the resources I pulled from to craft my project.

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Voting Polls Interview

Posted by Mckelly Timothy in American Government - Laufenberg on

Me: 1. What motivated you to vote?

Ms. Boykin: My grand daughter goes to Temple and told me Joe Sestak was personally handing out flyers. That showed dedication I had to go vote.

Me: 2.  Do you vote every election?

Ms. Boykin: I vote at every Presidential Election.

Me: Do you know why we vote on Tuesday's ?

Ms. Boykin: Yes! Because they assume I don't have anything else to do. Just kidding, I remember asking my dad why, and I think he said something like way back , people went downtown all the time on Tuesdays to go to the markets. It was the most busy day so they kept it on Tuesdays, to keep a strong vote turnout.

Me: Where do you encounter the most campaigning ads?

Ms. Boykin: On Tv and on my dag' gon porch!

Me: Did you learn about voting in school?

Ms. Boykin:Nope!

Me: Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or do you deliberate in the booth?

Ms. Boykin: Most of the time I know because I mainly go vote during Presidential Elections.

Me: Thank you so much for your time Ms.Boykin.

Ms. Boykin: No problem.

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Christine/Thea/Natalie Language barrier

Posted by Natalie Sanchez in Spanish Literature - Gierke on
Nuestro grupo creó un podcast que explicaba la experiencia Latina Americana en los E.E.U.U.  Usamos partes de las historias de tres mujeres latinas, quienes migraron a los EEUU: Yolanda García, de "Como las muchachas Garcías perdieron sus acentos", Negi, de "Cuando era Puertorriqueña", y la madre de Natalie. Es es un cuenta de progreso y éxito.

Aqui está. :)

Que lo disfrutes. 
 
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Un Verano en Espana (Justin, Sasha, Ryan, Catherine)

Posted by Justin Pullins in Spanish 2 - Gierke on
*The purpose of this project was to TEACH NOAH SPANISH!
*For this project, we wanted Noah to be able to: 

(1)...say where and when he's been to places. 
(2) be both informative and entertaining in speech.

These were are goals as well, but we also wanted to be able to:

(3) create a video that clearly explains the past preterite tense in a clear way.


*We decided these goals because we believe that they include all of SLA's core values, and that they are the key fundamentals to the unit.
*And for our questions to Noah? 


Why did you choose to move to Spain without knowing Spanish? 
Did you enjoy our video? 
Which video have you seen that was the most informative?

Emma, Luna, and Franky

Posted by Emma Connell in Spanish Literature - Gierke on
Introducíon:  Cada persona en nuestro grupo leyó un libro que se trata de la experiencia latina en los Estados Unidos. Pensábamos, como un grupo, en los temas de estos tres libros, Cuando Era Puertorriqueña, Esperanza Renace, y De Como las Muchachas Garcia Perdieron el Acento. Dimos cuenta que un tema grande en todos los libros es el cambio de identidad. Entonces buscábamos ejemplos de eso.  En cada libro, una personaje se muda a nuevo lugar y pierda algo que tenía. Conectábamos el idea a la experiencia de la madre de Emma Connell, quien vivió en el Ecuador por un año. En el podcast, contamos las historias en el forma de diarios.




Spanish Diaries

Esta Vida Latina

Posted by Emma Hersh in Spanish Literature - Gierke on
El tema general de este proyecto es para adapatar con culturas extranjeras. Nosotros usamos los libros "Cuano Era Puertoriqueña" y "Como los niñas Garcias perdieron los accentos" y una entrevista con Martha Robles sobre su vida llegando a los Estados Unidos. Todos las cosas que usamos contiene historias sobre personas que llegaron a los Estados Unidos cuando eran adolescentes. Todos ellos lucharon para poder adaptarse a una cultura extranjera.
Estudiantes en el grupo:
William Marsh
Martha Robles
Emma Hersh

AQUI

Recycling Project

Posted by Brianna Perrin in Advanced Art - Hull on

When starting this project I didn’t have a set idea on what I wanted to do. I never had a solid idea on how I wanted to make a project out of recycled material. At first I thought, wow a project made of recycled material this is a good idea. But I didn’t want to add none recycled material to it, I wanted to be made out of all recycled material. After thinking about a few ideas and sketching some ideas out I started coming up with some projects. I didn’t want the projects of projects just to do. I wanted them to be connected to me or relate to me somehow. What I had decided to do was paint over used cardboard boxes and cut and past letters and words from recycled magazines. After cutting out the letters and words I planned on making a poem about our environment and how recycling is a good idea. At first I didn’t have a poem on how to write it so I found a recycling poem that a 4th grader had made, cited it and used it as part of my project. The world’s greatest artwork wasn’t finished in a day, and neither was mine. But I plan to finish the poem idea and place it on the school wall so that every one can see it.

Another idea I had was similar to the artist we saw at the exhibit. Her name was Aurora Robson. She took her nightmares and made them into her own creations. She took plastic caps, bottles, and string. She cut them and made them look like jellyfish and flowers hanging from the ceiling. My idea was to make the bottle caps and bottles into a collected of flowers. In my head I thought of paining them a light color so the glossy effect from the bottle still showed. I just started this project a few weeks ago and it’s taking me some time to do this project. I hope to also complete this project for the second quarter benchmark as well.

These projects that we are doing is tying into a quote that we are all probably know. Someone else’s trash is another person treasure. The students of advanced art took this quote into consideration without even realizing it. We’re helping our community and giving the thrash/ recycled material a voice. A voice that hopefully will be heard.

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Garbage Chic

Posted by Maximilien Marton in Advanced Art - Hull on
​A Very Trashy Dress
by Maximilien Marton

Artist Statement
When I think of statements like "Go Green," I think of a fashion statement. I realize that it is terribly pessimistic of me, but today, it would seem that when one says they are "green", it is almost like they are saying that they just bought that expensive pair of jeans everyone wishes they had. I constantly see celebrities on the news talking about what they have done for the environment.
Observing this unfortunate reality, I perceived an idea for an art project. I figured that if I take this hypothetical fashion statement, and turned it into an actual fashion statement, I could turn the negative to a positive. This is why I decided to create a dress out of a recyclable materials. I chose garbage bags as my medium, simply because they are black. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the phrase "green is the new black", and because of that phrase, I coined my own, stating that "black is the new green".
Unfortunately, I was unable to finish my dress. It took me a very long time to figure out a design, but eventually I settled on a v-neck dress with cascading newspaper along one seam. Around the later days of my process, after cutting, gluing (I still have some burns), and assembling the dress, I realized that I didn't have enough time to finish. When I realized this, I found out another horrible truth. My mother's boyfriend was looking for a trash bag, and picked up my dress. attempting to open the "bag", he tore the art by both seams. That was about four weeks worth of work, down the drain. You can imagine how livid I was with him.

Pictures
Sketches
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The Dress So Far and the Dress Form That I Made (Duct Tape)
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Bottle Cap Poster
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The inspiration for my poster was resources being wasted, as you can see, the pepsi bottle is being emptied and wasted. Thus the slogan for the poster, "DON'T WASTE!"
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Iraida Serrano Quarter 1

Posted by Iraidia Serrano in Advanced Art - Hull on
​Listening to music is a way for me to detach myself form the world when I'm stressed.

No matter where I am, if i can find a way to listen to music, then i would be happy. This is why i decided to make headphones and music notes out of newspaper. Seeing as no one barely reads the paper I thought it would be best to combine something that people almost always do like listen to music when they are stressed, with something that people wouldn't even consider to do when they are stressed, like read a paper.

At first, when I began to wonder how I was going to make headphones, i simply decided to make them 2-dimensional. After i saw how it would turn out, I thought to my self that wouldn't making it 3-dimensional make it more appealing to the eye.

So there you have it. A pair of headphones slightly larger than normal ones, that represent two things that people wouldn't combine. I mean, who would want to read a boring newspaper while listening to awesome music? I know I wouldn't want to.

Dylan Cordivari M.P 1

Posted by Dylan Cordivari in Advanced Art - Hull on

     The idea behind this piece of art is the idea of life coming from the strangest of places; this specific example being technology.  It is meant to symbolize that I’ve noticed that even though some people think that technology can bring about the demise & downfall of society, it can also bring us life in various ways. 

 

     I collected materials that I felt could represent technology: an extension cord, dvds & cds, a mother board, a cd stand, glue, & wire.  I glued each cd & dvd, stacking them onto the cd stand.  Then I cut the extension cord, glued it to the cd stand, & wrapped it with the wire tightly to make it stand up straight. I then glued the motherboard to the top, to make the sculpture look like a flower in a pot.

 

The project was of importance to me, and using the recycled pieces of technology really made the project good for the environment. It also made sure I showed that life really can come out of the weirdest part of the world. This project showed me that simple things and simple people can make a difference in the world.



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Quarter 1 Benchmark: Interview of The Bill

Posted by Kamille Granby in American Government - Laufenberg on

Name of Bill: Respect of Marriage Act

This is an interview between a man named Tom and a Bill. (:

The bill was introduced on September 15, 2009.

The process was stopped on October 19, 2009.

Less Talk, More Law

Bibliography

http://www.hrc.org/issues/13530.htm

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03567:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3567

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3567/text

Spanish Interview

Posted by Sophia Henninger in Spanish 2 - Gierke on

Sophia Henninger

Nick Manton

Tenzin Ngawang

The purpose of this project was to teach Noah some Spanish basics so he could survive on his travels in Spanish speaking countries. We had to incorporate some things we had learned like past and present tense verbs. 

Though we did not break up the video in sections such as, "Past Tense Verbs", "Present Tense", "Greetings", etc. If you follow along it is easy to understand the conversation. 

We used a interview format because this might actually be a situation he enters in another country. Interviews are also places where you are judged on the way you speak. We found that using a plausible example could improve the quality of the video

After watching our tutorial, you will be able to...
  • greet people in spanish
  • talk about past education
  • talk about past and current occupations
  • ask & answer questions about personality and attributes
  • say goodbye

Watch our video!

Fuente de la Juventud

Posted by Jennifer Landham in Spanish 2 - Gierke on
​ The purpose of this project, is to teach Noah and other viewers how to speak spanish, at least at a spanish one level. We are going to help you and other understand spanish by using a connection type of video, which gives you real life situations that some may relate to. In our lessons you will learn how to conjugate verbs, the alphabet, count, and also how to speak simple words. Our goals were to help you learn how to use spanish words to ask where something is, and basic Spanish one terms. We put our script and our video in a certain form that we and others would understand too. For our final product, I think the group is most proud of the fact that we were able to pull off this project despite that obstacles we encountered. If given the chance to start over, I'd like to get things together ahead of time or at least on task, that way we don't have to rush everything at the end.

Q1 Benchmark

Posted by Kristina Chiev in American Government - Laufenberg on
This is a story i've made up about the Anchor Baby Law which is also called "Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009.

Backstory: Illegal immigrants cross the border and give birth to a child. That child is called an anchor baby.


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Over The Summer...

Posted by Ronald Jackson on
A tutorial by Kim, Ronald, and Marley


Over the Summer ...
The purpose of this video is to teach Noah and other how to congregate verbs into the past tense. After watching this video you should be able to have the knowledge of how to congregate verbs into past tense and use it as a helpful guide. The video shows an example of a real life situation where conergation  happens and then gives a more detailed explanation in English so that the viewer (Noah) is able to understand. We are really proud of the keynote because it is clear and easy to understand. If we had more time we would of recorded more.
Does this video help you any in understanding how to congregate?



http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2243105/Spanish%20Benchmark.flv