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Describe the Q3BM: what was the assignment?  What did your group decide to do and why?

The Assignment was to make a website to help the experience of a spanish speaking person coming to Philadelphia. We had to include places, event, types of food, and ways that the culture is different in Philadelphia. 

What did you learn from doing this project?  

I learned about some Philadelphia event that I have never even heard of. I also learned where some things were in Philadelphia that I never saw before. 

How do you feel about your final product?

I think that overall the project worked out okay. The website turned out to look very cool. 

If you could do your project all over again, what would you do differently/the same?

If I could do this project all over again, I would plan out exactly what I wanted to say for each topic before I just started writing it all in spanish. 

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Describe the Q3BM: what was the assignment?  What did your group decide to do and why? 

• We had to pick a part that we learned from this section, watch a few videos and use them as examples. Then we had to apply what we knew to our favorite places with our table. My group decided that we would all do different things and then combine them all at the end of the project.

What did you learn from doing this project?  

• I learned how to give people directions and to apply that all onto a website.

How do you feel about your final product?

• I feel good. My group did all of their parts for the work and that made the whole project come together. There are a lot of parts with pictures. 

If you could do your project all over again, what would you do differently/the same? 

• I would make sure that we add more pictures and know how to work the google sites better.

Link to Project: https://sites.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/final-product-spanish/

Reflection:

Describe the Q3BM: what was the assignment?  What did your group decide to do and why?

     The Q3BM was to create a site about what places that you as a person like going to and want other people to go to. You were suppose to talk about what you like about the places and pictures of what the place looks like. We decide to make different pages that group the different things; Events, Restaurants, etc. Then, we each put our place on each page. We did this so it is organized and categorized.

What did you learn from doing this project? 

     I learned how to describe my favorite places in a way that would be appealing to other people. Also, how to write a 'how to' in spanish. I usually do them in English. Also, I learned how to use word reference, I didn't know about that website before.

How do you feel about your final product?

     I feel as though we need to do a little more work like add certain things, like the homepage. But after that, the website would be complete and acceptable. 

If you could do your project all over again, what would you do differently/the same?

     I would have started earlier and made sure everything was correct. Also, that everybody had their things together. 

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The assignment was to make a website for tourists to learn how to act, what to see, what to eat and just what to do when they come over. I learned a lot about how to describe what I want to say and how to turn something that is normal for me into a good description. I feel like it's ok but we definitely could have done a lot better. I would work a little harder on the website part of the project. 

For our 3rd quarter history benchmark, the students of Ms. Laufenberg's class all participated in the National History Day. The idea behind NHD is that each student researches a famous part of history, gathers both primary and secondary sources, then completes the project in however they see fit. The theme of this year's NHD was, "Revolution, Reaction, Reform." Therefore, each student had to take a part of history that had to deal with somewhat of a revolution, a reaction, and then the reform to see where it is now. And I took it from the perspective of one of the influential people in the United State's history; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and how with his nobel leadership, discriminated minorities were able to overcome the struggle, and become equal to everyone else.

 "Decline in Cigarette Smoking Since the 1980s." Cigarettes and Health Issues Related to Smoking. Smoking Statistics, 29 July 2009. Web. 08 Jan. 2012. <http://www.smokingstatistics.org/Decline_in_Cigarette_Smoking_Since_the_1980s.asp>.

This source was used throughout the project in a way to quote for my tumblr, and it lead to me to the Surgeon General warning idea that I also used for my paper. This link was the foundation of my understanding of what kind of time period I was in and the types of things I would be speaking about. It is basically a copy of my paper without the actually copying in process. This link states the history and background to tobacco. It leads off into commercials and advisement. Then it goes onto how the banning and regulations made against tobacco. Also leading up the publication that smoking cannot be in public areas. It also went into giving stats on the amount of deaths and states that banned tobacco from the public. This site was like a mini doing of my tumblr project. I even use the bottom image of Uncle Sam in my project so show how he influences America

- Cleveland, Emily. "Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act." Minnesota House of Representatives. Web. Jan. 2012. <http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/ss/ssmciaa.htm>.

- The Government and the Courts -Suing The Tobacco Companies - Settlement, Billion, Documents, and Industry Http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2134/Government-Courts-SUING-TOBACCO-COMPANIES.html#ixzz1j6Q8kFJ5." Library Index. Web. <http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/2134/Government-Courts-SUING-TOBACCO-COMPANIES.html>.

This page gave more of the history to tobacco and the wars. It gave details onto the suing done to tobacco companies and the health cost that companies had to pay to make up for lying to the communities. It also showed the reaction effect that after Mississippi did it’s suing, and then MANY other states decided to sue too. With this link I used it to understand know what types of damage was done after the warning was given out to the public and how they reacted to it. From there I was able to conclude the next step.. How they went even further in the banning chain to end tobacco for all. It is the war between people and big tobacco companies. It states some things about how people went on shows and did interviews about companies making the unhealthy level of their cigs even worse, but I didn’t use that information.

- Heloma, Antero, Markku Nurminen, Kari Reijula, and Jorma Rantanen. "Smoking Prevalence, Smoking-Related Lung Diseases, and National Tobacco Control Legislation." Medscape. Chest, 20 Dec. 2004. Web. <http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/495890>.

This is a site of a bunch of stats that can explain even more lung cancer death, but it’s a bit more recent into the 80’s and 90’s. More like it ranges from 1960-2000. There was a research assignment constructed and this is the link that shows the results and objectives of the information. It all states increases in male, yet a slight decrease in female. It says that 20% of people die from lung cancer due to smoking. I used these statistics to look at what happens even further into the future, now talking about the time of banning in public places and ads rather than just the warning. It even gives information on Europe smokers, but that didn’t pertain to me. Things for tobacco started to REALLY decrease in the 1980’s but I wondered why so far after the warning? That was around the time they decided to put labels and show people what they were smoking, which scared people, so it went down in rating.

- McGrew, Jane. "History of Tobacco Regulation." DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy. National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. Web. Jan. 2012. <http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/nc/nc2b.htm>.

This link was used to show the history of the tobacco regulation. Regulating and giving laws to tobacco companies and the communities use of tobacco. Very similar to the other links, but I used quotes given in the site. Quotes from someone named brooks, I’m not sure who that is, but I stated the link I found it when I used the quote in the tumblr I made. Two of the quotes were used actually, one talks one this poem about how tobacco is bad and the other quote talks about a shortened verse from a book that describes a woman’s weeping for her husband. I am supposing these of quotes of tobacco poetry the man brooks made.  This link goes further than just quotes from men named brooks or gottsegen, it also goes into more regulation for publication, for revenue, tobacco revenues, and taxing on tobacco. I just used the quotes and a few facts.

- Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, Walter J. Burdette, William G. Cochran, Emmanuel Farber, Louis F. Fieser, Jacob Furth, John B. Hickam, Charles LeMaistre, Leonard M. Schuman, and Maurice H. Seevers. "Smoking and Health (1964)." Profiles in Science. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 27 Mar. 2002. Web. 08 Jan. 2012. <http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/ResourceMetadata/NNBBMQ>.

These are the reports of the Surgeon General. His FIRST document that explains the connection between tobacco and cancer. He gave us the truth about tobacco and how it really is not good for the communities’ health. If people smoke it more, than they have a higher chance of dying. Which lead onto people going crazy because of their health. I used this pdf link, as a background onto the start of people seeing tobacco as a bad thing. I used a quote or two from her to give proof and explain the history of tobacco’s bad.  This research was conducted with loads of scientists, not just one man. I got that confused at one point. The document goes over everything like the study, the criteria, conclusions, cancer, what is in cigarettes, cardio diseases, other things that tobacco can do to harm our health, and so much more. It has 15 chapters

- "Clean Indoor Act." Health.State. 1975. Web. <https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/viewer?url=http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/indoorair/mciaa/ftb/mciaa.pdf>

This is a breakdown to the clean indoor air act. It gives great specifics to what exactly goes on when dealing with this act. It gives definitions to what a public place is, what smoking is (things I used for my project), and for some reason what public transportation is. It states what is a prohibited place to smoke in, penalties, and responsibilities of the community. I used definitions in my project to state what EXACTLY terms mean when dealing with the idea of smoking and a public place. From reading, I can understand that the clean indoor air act is to make the air surrounding the community a lot cleaner and healthier for people to breath in. not specifically for the smokers because they already have bad lungs. It is more for the people who do NOT smoke, so they do not receive such a deadly reaction to the second hand smoke floating around.

- Thun, M., C. Day-Lally, W. Flanders, and C. Heath. "Excess Mortality among Cigarette Smokers: Changes in a 20-year Interval." Purmed Centrel. American Public Health Association. Web. Sept. 1995. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1615570/>.

This was a link filed with data about stats on the death toll when it came down to tobacco. The years ranged up to the 1990’s, and it gave the differences in death for men and woman. It was an original study, with graphs and charts from the 1960’s up to 1988. It shows that lung cancer death rates have increase in both sexes, but for smokers and non-smokers. Which could be a result of second hand smoking. It stated that lung cancer is the largest smoking death among the white middle class. It also shows weird texts pages and charts that are a bit hard to understand so I didn’t use them much. But I used the information of the 1960’s, to show when the warning came out in 1964, that they got their data from somewhere to show how lung cancer relates to smoking even if it was not the exact data he used.

- P, A. "MINNESOTA DOCTORS BEGIN EFFORT TO END SMOKING IN THE STATE." NYTimes.com. 18 Nov. 1984. Web. Jan. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/18/us/minnesota-doctors-begin-effort-to-end-smoking-in-the-state.html?scp=10>.

This is the other New York Times article that I came across which talks about Minnesota and their struggle to try and end smoking in general for the state. I used this one quote found where a doctor said how could they try and tell others to stop smoking if the patience see them smoking? Which is why smoking in work areas, hospitals, and publics schools got banned to not influence or harm the ones around them. They are trying to encourage and basically brain wash people into hating smoking so as the years go by, people would want to smoke less and less… making the state smoke free. This article was written in 1984, which shows that the wanting of a smoke free state hasn’t shown much progress, since I’m sure people still smoke there. It also gives quotes from patience to doctors about their habit to wanting to quite but just not being able to.

- "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette." YouTube. Ed. Jack Mcgoldrick. YouTube, 11 Nov. 2006. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI>.

I used this video as a starter to my project. I loved the video itself, that in the end I recreated the second half of the video with my partner and I. We ended up using the voice over and everything! It was lovely how it came out! Looks pretty legit. I didn't know how to site the source for YouTube, so I just used the username of the video up loader. Which, I know isn't the original source of the video, but the video is primary. Obviously, a doctor smoking is awful and I use this as the first commercial before the first article as a way to show how smoking was promoted in the past.

- Scurry254624. "(Forgotten Mascots) - Joe Camel." YouTube. YouTube, 30 Nov. 2009. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgVAdukH1mw>.

This link was used as the ability for another "copy" to show the coooool joe camel that Tyree can be. Also meant for comedy reasons, because it pretty hilarious how a like they look in the video. I wasn't very fond of the setting to the clip split screen, but it looks better than anything else that was tried. This video was used before the reaction article that talked about the "ban" of cartoon commercials. Great direction to commercial then video.  

- Psychotronic42. "Flintstones Cigarette Commercial." YouTube. YouTube, 18 Jan. 2007. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c>.

There was space that was needed and this video filled the extra space. Meant for comedy, information, shocking, and yet very interesting promo to tobacco smoking. Another sign to Tobacco companies campaigning to the younger generations. I sometimes wonder if this video was made my "non official" people, and if it was A real commercial let out years ago. Companies lied about how good this taste!

If Tyree puts his in something OTHER than link format then I'll add them. 

Drive is nothing short of visually spectacular. Drive goes further than to just show itself off as a story, it exemplifies itself as a piece of art. The lighting, cinematography, coloring, and wide array of shots/angles were just some of the nails hit right on the head by the entire crew behind the making of Drive. Drive, in my opinion, was a movie that was immensely overlooked by many; that’s why I am able to consider this movie a hidden gem to anyone has yet to see it.          

There were many important scenes throughout the movie. One of the most important and impacting sequences would probably have to be the opening sequence. There was definitely a layer of mysteriousness and tranquility as Driver manipulated multiple systems to escape from the cops and create a nice diversion for his hasty escape by using the busy parking lot. This scene really established the intensity that Gosling was going to hold as the main character, Driver, throughout the movie. Another important scene would have to be the scene where Driver, Irene, and Benicio spend some time together driving down the Los Angeles River and hanging out. This established a connection between all three of them, that cannot be found between any other characters in the movie. I thought that this sequence was a good support and nice building block for Irene and Driver’s relationship as well. Another scene that I found not only important, but more entertaining was the night of Standard’s return and party. As Irene and Driver talked in the hallway, Standard and Benicio came out to take out the trash. Standard had already heard much about Driver and it was hard to say what was about to happen between the two men, Driver and Standard. At some points in the conversation it felt as though they were going to fight or even become friends. However, the meeting went fairly smoothly and there was no fight; which personally I thought was going to happen by the tone in Standard’s voice at the beginning of the conversation. 

Another scene that I found very important to the movie was the pawn-shop heist/chase scene. As Standard is gunned down; Blanche and Driver drive away pursued by a mysteriously fast Chrysler 300. Fortunately, Driver escapes the pursuers. However, this shows that they were not only being monitored but set-up. This adds an element of suspicion, wonder, and angst as Driver later tries to find out who was chasing them through whatever Blanche knows. This was a very entertaining scene and the car chase shots were on point throughout. Another scene that is very important to the overall movie is towards the end when Bernie Rose pays a visit to Shannon. During this scene, Bernie slits Shannon’s entire forearm open and leaves him to die. At this point it was clear that everything was going to spiral downward from there, ending in nothing but bloodshed. Driver later finds Shannon dead in the shop, a very powerful piece of the scene. Driver definitely appears upset over the loss of his friend Shannon and hungry for revenge. That is why I found this scene to be very important and powerful. 

Drive’s multiple story lines develop well into each other and flow nicely. On one side you have the story of Driver and Irene’s developing love and on the other side you have the bad mafia deal drama unfolding. As much development that there was between Irene and Driver, I’d have to say the story line of the mafia deal was definitely more compelling because of the immense amount of characters/heists involved. With the love story there is no fear of losing any of the likable characters, but with the mafia side there is constant fear that one of the main characters will be taken out, which they eventually are. I’d have to say the scene where Shannon is killed in cold-blood is definitely more compelling than Irene playing with broken-off crab claws at the crick. Maybe it’s just because I’m a guy that I found the crime-side story more compelling and interesting. However, I can say that the most important relationship developed on the love side, goes to Driver and Irene. It seems that Irene is the only one in the film that can bring Driver out of the one dimensional silent mood he is usually in. She brings out qualities in him that you cannot see brought out by any of the other characters. When he’s with her you see communication, happiness, and desire. Much of Driver’s character development comes through Irene’s love. You see a brighter side to Driver’s character when he’s around Irene, and that keeps the audience from getting bored of him, I think. Much of the connection between these two characters come through visual elements, such as brighter lighting and close angles. The music that goes along with their montages together also brings them together as a powerful relationship in the film. 

I 100% recommend anyone to see Drive if they haven’t and if they have watch it again and again. There are so many different things to see and notice that can easily be missed after watching only one time. I thought this was a really solid film and definitely deserved a nomination in a category other than sound mixing, I think this movie should’ve definitely been nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography due to its fresh, clean look. Enjoy Drive as a piece of art and as a darkly-spirally-webbed story.