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The art project's for this quarter weren't as bad as the previous ones. I feel that I was a little bit more engaged in these pieces of art. I took my time, and made sure that each one was completed and looked the way I wanted them to. However, I feel that there were a few art pieces that I wish I would have spent more time on.  I enjoyed doing the sculpture, because I took my time to make these flowers look like actual flowers, and I was learning a new skill while doing so. I enjoyed copying a piece of art by an artist, because I think I really impressed myself with how diligent I was with making my drawing look like the original drawing.  I wasn't really fond of doing the bike drawings, because there were many parts of the bike, that should be included in the drawing, but were difficult to draw. If I was to improve on anything this quarter, I would perfect my pieces of art. Sometimes I feel that what I consider "complete", may not exactly be completed. 

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Duct Tape Flowers


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Copy a piece of art work by a famous artist

Original By: Alex Katz



My Drawing:

Draw the Bike three times (Sorry for bad quality pics)

1. all line

2. just shading

3. just negative space

Draw from observation OUTSIDE

I choose to use corn/bomb design to represent my element because it is uses in both crops, and bombs. I also added flames because my elements ability to burst into flames when it is exposed to air.
Based on its properties the backgrounds range from a sunny farm land to a fire in the dead of night. I am very happy with my plates, mostly negative appearance. However in the future I want to use a less labor intensive process.  

Natalie Sanchez 
Aquí está el link a mi proyecto final del cuarto final. 

La experiencia de la guerra Civil en España era una de horror. Todo el mundo vivía con miedo todos los días. Franco gobernaba a España usando la intimidación, entonces todos  ciudadanos tenían miedo de vivir por miedo de desplacer a Franco o a sus soldados. Sabían que Franco era un dictador muy violento, y que iba a castigar a la gente que se oponían a él. Mi proyecto es una serie de poemas que explican la vida horrible durante  la guerra civil en la perspectiva de dos niños (Ofelia de "El Laberinto de Fauno" y Moncho de "La lengua de la mariposa"). Quería enseñar que Franco usaba la intimidación para controlar los ciudadanos de España. Los niños expresa que viven en terror en la España de Franco, entonces hacen todo lo que están supuesta hacer, para no caer en manos de Franco o de los soldados. 

El proceso de escribir estos poemas no fue difícil para mi porque escribía dos poemas por clase de español. Me dio tiempo de terminar el proyecto porque la Srta. G nos dio tres días en su clase para terminar nuestros proyectos. Usé las películas y las escenas de violencia y de terrorismo de parte de Franco oh sus soldados para escribir mis poemas. incorporé una escena de las películas en cada uno de mis poemas. Al fin, me gustó el proyecto. Me ayudó entender mejor cuan difícil era vivir durante la guerra civil en España. Me gustó la libertad que tenía de escribir lo que quería y de escoger en cual perspectiva escribía mis poemas. Me gustó el detalle que usé en mis poemas. cambiaría la presentación de mis poemas. me gustaría hacerlos más atractivos físicamente. 

Reflection 

My project is a story book, but it was put in a video format. 

I like the whole story i feel as if it was really good, and also explanatory. 

I think i should've added some type of music something calming and like i guess childish sounding 

    When it comes to art I enjoy letting my art express my feelings and personal interests. When I am drawing or building or painting I like to show who I am through my work. I try hard to make things look good. I want to show myself that I am good at what I do through my own eyes. If I think I did something well, then it doesn’t matter what someone else thinks.

 

    When I work I usually just try to go with the flow. I try hard to fix my mistakes. When I start my work I have a general picture of what I want to make so I base all of my decisions on the original picture and manipulate it until it comes out in a way that I like. I use whatever materials I have that I feel will work to express that particular picture.  My technique constantly changes each time I draw something or build something or do any kind of art. My themes are always based off of things that I like or enjoy. Like swordplay, medieval based mythology and music that I enjoy. I draw images of the things I like and draw things that inspire me.

Famous artist drawing:

 Tim Burton:

One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6PfJZSqh0&feature=related

To produce the sound of the guitar, the player had to pluck at each string.

The way he changed the note was plucking at different parts of certain strings and holding certain strings down towards the top of the guitar. The guitar is shaped regularly. The strings are straight down from the top of the guitar to the middle. The big part is shaped as like…a circle with its two sides squished in. The creation and change of the sound makes me think of tension and the length of each string having something to do with the pitch. I think that as you tune the guitar, which is pulling the strings tighter or loosening them, you affect the damping. Since it would affect the damping, the sound would either travel slower or faster depending on the tension of the string.

 

Two

In a guitar, the sound is produced when you pluck the string of course. The thing about it is that when you hold your finger in different places on the string of the guitar, the sounds changes. The reason this is so is because the wavelengths change, giving you a lower sound the longer the wavelength, and a higher sound the shorter the wavelength, the frequency of the wave is also affected by the wavelength. When the wavelength is short, the frequency is high and when the wavelength is long, the frequency is low. In order to change the wavelength you must hold your finger at certain parts of the guitar string, making the string either shorter or longer when you pluck it with your other finger. The sound is loud because of the vibration. In the guitar there is a hole in the middle and a box kind of thing behind it. The vibration bounces off of that back piece of the guitar and out through the hole.

To change the pitch of my instrument, I will do the same. I will hold my fingers down at a specific spot on the string and pluck it. The physical characteristics that are important in this instrument are the length of the string and the tension of the string.

I will be using wood and copper strings. I chose to use these two things because they are also used in guitars, harps, and other string instruments and they all get good sounds. To play it, I will pluck the strings at certain parts. My plan to construct this instrument is to build it just like how a harp looks….or as close as I can get to one.

 

 

 

Sound is produced by my instrument by the wave traveling though the bottle and dispersing before finally interacting with the water. You would change the pitch either by changing the shape of the bottle or the distance between the water and the point it is being stricken from. I will be using water bottles filled with precise amounts of water set to 5 musical keys. It will be played by striking the top of the bottle and making the sound reverberate though out the bottle. My plans for construction it are simply acquire water bottles and fill them with set amount of water. This instrument is rather simple and I have no outstanding questions about it.

​Similar to my instrument: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvquq1kg-lQ

The water bottle xylophone is played by a person striking bottles filled with different amounts of water there. The bottles are filled to specific amounts so that the waves change distance they have to travel to crash in the water. You change the notes by striking a different bottle. The note is formed when the striking of the object against the bottle shoots into the container and takes a set amount of time to disrupt the water in the bottle producing a different note. This makes me think that sound is changed and produce by sound waves interacting with a medium of different distances and tensions in order to create the unique sound. I think you can conclude that with a longer distance for the wave to travel the deeper the sound will be because the more spread out the wave will be at the point of impact.

Name: Einsteinium, Origin: After Albert Einstein

Symbol: Es

Atomic Number of Protons/ Electrons: 99, Mass: (252.0) amu

Valence: It goes up by 2 each shell. 

Discovery: Bec, 1952 by Albert Ghiorso. Universirty of California, Berkely, Argronne, and Los Almos.

Uses:

Classification: Rare Earth

Something Interesting: This was man made.

1) My element is Rubidium.

2) As seen in the picture below, my element can be used for atomic clocks, use in medical procedures. This element is more of a side element and can be highly reactive to other elements. Rubidium is also used as the purple firework.


3) For my print, the idea of an atomic clock seems liked an easy concept so I stuck with it. It was either an atomic clock or fireworks. 


4) For my final print, I basically stuck with my atomic clock idea and made it pretty. 


5) I think that my final print is good in my standards, because I am not very good artistically. But I believe that it could be better.

6) If I were to do this project again, I would draw better and maybe do a different design.
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Part 2 of Special Report: 

For the Xylophone, sound is made when the bars or pipes vibrate. When the pipes are hit, the energy is transferred to the pipes which makes them vibrates which then vibrates air particles around it. The pitch of the sound depends on the size of the pipes and also the type of material the pipe is made out of. In order to make a xylophone, I'm going to get copper pipes and use calculations to determine how long they have to be to make the notes that I want them to make. After I cut the pipes to the correct lengths, I will have them sit on a piece of wood, but make sure that the ends aren't fixed, so the pipes can vibrate.

Helen Kilmartin

I did fire because when my element (vanadium) is crushed up it is flammable, not in its normal state though. I didn't do red as my print color because i thought that would be too normal, so i chose colors that popped out and looked different on fire. I chose that font because just like fire, that font is curvy but has a sharp end. I chose this one out of the other pictures because it looked like it would turn out neat, and indeed it did. 

#1

I will build, and then later on play the Flute for my group presentation. Our objective is to build an instrument, and then play it for our class. There are obstacles that we need to do such as calculation and such in order to do this. I researched the background of the Flute. To play the flute and produce sound, someone will have to blow through a hole at the end of the Flute and while blowing, there would be holes at the other end of the Flute where the persons fingers will be covering the holes and uncovering the holes based on what notes that they want to play, and to change the notes. The Flute is a basic pipe; it can have either one fixed end or two loose ends. It also has holes that are different lengths from the hole at the opposite end, which is where the person blows into.  When  i think about myself playing the Flute in order to change the sound, i will have to simply practice where at what time my fingers cover and uncover certain notes (the holes at the opposite end of the blow in hole).  Compared to waves,  the size of the flute, and where the holes are, determines the sound outcome. As the notes changes, the notes change as well

Resource :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg

 

#2

Energy from the air molecules transfer into the hole that is blown through, and they vibrate within the Flute, and as that happen, having the notes at the other end of the Flute either covered or uncovered, the Flute vibrations actually turns into sound. In order to change the pitch, the notes that are on the Flute are the holes. The hole that is farthest away from where it is to be blown into is the lowest note.  The hole closest to where we have to blow in the holes to produce sound makes the highest pitch. So to change the pitch, simply change the notes. I will just use my fingers in order to play this instrument. I will play my instrument based off of the songs notes.  If a note indicated that have to play note A, then ill have to use one of my fingers to cover up the A note. To build this instrument, I will have to have a PVC pipe for the flute structure itself, duck tape to have a fixed end flute by covering one side of the pipe, and a drill to drill holes where the notes will be.

 

 

Hi, my name is Natasha and for my History/English 4th quarter benchmark, I planned on changing events surrounding the Watergate Scandal, involving the republican party and Richard Nixon and seeing how history would have been different and where we would be in 2011.

View my Prezi Presentation here

Reflection!

There are many things I liked about this project, then there are some things I did not like or that were challenging. I liked the fact that when you actually found a topic, the way you could really change history. It was challenging finding a topic that I was interested in and then trying to make sure that whatever I would change would make sense. It was also challenging to make the primary source documents. I investigated the watergate scandal. I already knew the Richard Nixon resigned however I forgot why. So going back and researching it was cool to really find out what happened, and how things unfolded. I loved the quote I found by Nixon where he said " if the President does it, it is not illegal." It caght me off guard tremendously that after he tried to cover up having people break into the Democratic Committee Offices in order to have some type of advantage in the political race, that he would say that. He was an extremely smart guy who contradicted himself. He was President, so whatever he did affects what happens in America. For important people in the country who have a say in what happens, then each move they take, and each decision the have to make affects everything. Systematic changes impact historical records because they can change the way someone who's reading the source think. This project can definitely be improved by having more time to really get things together. If you did not have a topic by the assigned date, then you really were going to struggle. I think if the project was more detailed as well with what we were suppose to do or if we could see other students project that way we can get an idea of what we are suppose to turn in. I would change the way I approached a topic. Pick a time and really get specific as opposed to just finding an event and thinking of ways to change it.