I made these changes because thought that my images needed to be bigger and pop out more. I put the big picture of the hockey player with no teeth at the back so that it would both stand out, and cause the looker to unconsciously focus on the other elements of the slides.
I also tried to make all of the words to have contrast against the pictures, and I didn't use many words. I tried to make it so that you got the point of the slide through seeing the pictures, not through words.
I researched how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became a law. I used an online collage maker called Glogster and used pictures and video to make a collage of everything the bill went through to become law.
"Civil Rights Act of 1964." Wapedia . Web. <http://wapedia.mobi/en/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964>.
"Civil Rights Act of 1964." Spartacus Educational . N.p., n.d.
Web. 9 Nov 2010. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil64.htm>
"HISTORIC SPEECHES JOHN F. KENNEDY Civil
Rights Message June 11, 1963."Presidential
Rhetoric . N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov 2010. <http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/historicspeeches/kennedy/civilrightsmessage.html>
"Civil Rights Act (1964)." Our Documents . N.p., n.d. Web. 9
Nov 2010. <http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=97>.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B.
Johnson, 1963-64. Volume I, entry 11, pp. 8-10. Washington, D. C.: Government
Printing Office, 1965.
I changed my slide so that i could make everthing bigger.As Ms Hull Showed us in class. But I also used shapes to take out the unessary words out of my lebron picture. The elements that i still used were that i still bleed my pictures and that ii contrast my Shirt color with the Color of the Expanition point.
The original slide is not as eye catching and at a glance you couldn't consume all the information. So the new slide has all the new things in it. I had everything in a decent organized form so it wasn't really eye catching. There also wasn't a lot of bleed effects.
The first picture of me had many things in the back round that would distract you from me. The new picture has a simple back round.
My slide is simple and easy to see, by the way of the font size. Also you can see there is unity between my phrases and name, which all make up my personality. Then there is contrast between the background, my name, and the phrases. All the phrases are white and all the letters of the name are going vertically and are red, which create repetition. Overall a well done slide.
Above was my original slide that I presented during class. Below is my revised slide that I changed using elements from Presentation Zen. I changed these simple elements which made my slide a lot better. All I did was deleted the picture on the right and make all of the words/letters bigger. I made the letters/words bigger so that people can read it quicker and easier. I think this slide (below) is better than the slide above.
The first picture is my old Key Note Slide converted into a PDF.
The second picture is my new slide.
While seeing everyone's presentation, I realized that I could have made my slide a lot better. And so I thought of many ideas in my head. Here are my ideas:
I changed my formatting for my pictures because Ms. Hull and the website said that people see from left to right first. So I made it easier by putting it the pictures on the left. Eye catching pictures!
I also changed my wording and wasn't afraid to make my words huge and change the coloring.
This is what I changed on my slide! I hope you like it!
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Recently I have noticed a big change in the style of art
that I create. I have been moving further and further away from illustration
and moving into music. I have been playing the guitar since sometime sophomore
year and it's practically possessed me. On my off time I spend hours upon hours
practicing, learning new songs, tunings, chords, and techniques. I am intrigued
by how the instrument works, and how different voicings and types of chords can
invoke different feelings in the listener. I prefer using acoustic guitar when
learning or performing music because it feels more personal to me, and I feel
like I can put more soul into my work acoustically then if it was being
distorted through speakers.
Bottle Cap Poster
When starting this quarter Miss Hull introduced us to the
artist Aurora Robson. Aurora specializes in creating artwork out of plastic
bottle caps and bottles. When she started creating these works they were made
to reflect upon nightmares she used to have as a child. She connects these
nightmares to the collective nightmare of the overuse of plastic that affects
us all and is destroying the environment. We created posters to inform the
school of a bottle cap drive; in this way we could keep some bottle caps out of
our oceans and landfills and provide material for Aurora to use.
Project
For our assignment we had to create a piece of art that
revolved around the theme of recycling.
At first I had no idea how I could connect both music and recycling
together, but then it came to me; last year for a physics project I built a
three stringed guitar out of a cigar box, a piece of wood, and some odds and
ends. Even though the guitar didn’t work very well as a conventional guitar, it
worked perfectly as a slide guitar. My father also fairly recently discovered a
beautiful guitar thrown away in the trash with some very fixable problems.
After some cheap repairs he gave the guitar to me. So there I had two
instruments that both had a relation to recycling, so all I needed was a song to
record.
My choice song was “Loser” by Beck. There was no real
rationale behind this choice besides it has a prominent slide guitar riff in
it.
I recorded the song in three different parts, the slide
guitar, the lead, and the sitar (which I arranged for guitar), and then pieced
them together using GarageBand. I was going to record the bass in the song
also, but my bass amp died on me during the recording process. Once I have the
amp fixed I would like to go back and complete the song, and maybe add some drums
with a drum machine.
Meat eating has been said to go as
far back as 2.5 million years for humans. Fossils of tools used to butcher meat
are found to have gone back that far. It is believed that we started eating
meat because of the competition for food between other species. Craig B.
Stanford points to an example of this in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
National Park. This forest is the only forest where mountain gorillas and
chimps live together. Chimps eat meat while Gorillas don’t meaning that they
can coexist together because they have two different diets.
How meat eating affected the evolution of humans
Long ago when humans started to eat meat it triggered tons of
evolutionary changes. For one thing, our jaws have gotten smaller so we can
chew meat better. And because of our diets being chocked full of meat we have
evolved to have an improved ability to process cholesterol and fat. Also, scientist say that eating meat
helped our brains to grow bigger and our figure slimmer. All these positives
from meat though did not happen until we started cooking meat. To get the
caloric energy you get from meat you have to cook it. So we really didn’t start
reaping the benefits of meat until we discovered fire.
Being a meat eater isn't all positive
But everything that has evolved
from meat eating was not good. Because our jaws are downsized are teeth cannot
fit inside. So it’s rare to find someone who has perfectly straight teeth that did
not have any dental work on them. Also us evolving to cooking and using forks
and knives has made out big teeth useless because our food is so soft.
Sources:
Mayell, H.
(2005, February 18). "evolving to eat mush": how meat changed our
bodies. Retrieved from
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0218_050218_human_diet.htm
Joyce, C.
(Producer). (2010, August 2). Food for thought: meat-based diet made us smarter
[Audio Podcast]. NPR Series: The Human Edge. Retrieved from
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128849908
This picture from left is of castings of teeth from a chimpanzee, Australopithecus afarensis and
a modern human
My old one had two pictures in the slide, but my new one I put the pictures together to make it better. I made the background lighter so we can see the picture more clearly.
It is no easy task to predict what the future of
the human race will be. According to US News, “Humans are evolving
faster than ever before, picking up new genetic traits and talents that
may help us survive a turbulent future.” The human race,
which is a quite intelligent, evolves everyday. Until recently
scientists believed that the human evolution had slowed down, due to
the lack of visual changes, failing to look deeper into the issue.
Human are now evolving within their genomes and DNA, it has been
scientifically inferred that with so many changes within the human body
as opposed to the physical features, will one day start to change
humans outer body.
A recent study in the news, (available on livescience.com) shows that speculation
that changes in human mating patterns may be contributing to the
increase in autism. Others track how humans have morphed in response to
changing circumstances, including enhanced abilities to metabolize
sugar and fight disease. One of the biggest changes within human DNA is
that some humans are becoming more resistant to the HIV virus and it will
become more common in the future, as well as changes in human body
makeup. One of the factors of that is that it a new form of DNA testing
helps parents choose the genetic makeup of their children, rejecting
embryos with inherited flaws or embracing those with desired
traits—such as being the right sex. The future of human evolution is
based on the future of new testing techniques.
Sorry this is late, I thought I uploaded, but didn't...
Hello everyone, and welcome to Germantown 19144. What you are about to experience are a series of videos shot directly in Germantown Philadelphia. These videos include much of the areas information. This includes crime statistics, employment statistics, living statistics and more. The project itself was assigned by Douglas Herman to AIR stream, as a quarter one benchmark. The other activities in the benchmark included a timeline, participating and or volunteering with a local civic center in the community, and more. Our local neighborhood representative is Rosita W. Youngblood. Some background on Rosita Youngblood is that she was elected to serve as a representative on April 19, 1994. She created a variety of community outreach programs. She involved in College fairs, Thanksgiving and Christmas basket giveaways etc. She is apart of multiple committees to advocate for some of the issues that are dear to her such as Public Welfare, Domestic Violence, Personal Insirance and many more.Please enjoy the videos.
(The following videos have their titles listed below the Germantown Timeline from the order in which meant to be seen.)
In my advanced art class we were assigned to recycle something and make something from it. To think of something that is used in everyday wasn't difficult at all. However I wanted to do something different, something that a lot of people wouldn't be quick to think of. Yet I wanted to use something that is used and should be by a lot of people. So I thought of condom wrappers and making a peace sign out of the wrappers.
Make Love Not War, was the first thing that I wanted to represent my art, but also I wanted to go a little deeper than that common phrase. So many people are caring std's and they are spreading so quickly because people are not protecting themselves. Over half a million have died of AIDS, and there are currently more than one people living with HIV and AIDS in America. It is true that not all people who have it, received it from being sexually active. However those who were sexually active that received it many of those were unprotected. Once someone has unprotected sex they are not only disturbing the peace within themselves but in their homes their loved ones suffer also.
Collecting the material for this project I would say had to be amusing. To actually get condom wrappers to recycle them was awkward, but there were some people that was able to donate to my project. I wouldn't say that this is just my art project it wouldn't be able to have it's meaning without the help of others.
When
we think of the mentally handicapped or those with mental disorders, we
instantly feel pity. We usually do not stop to wonder why or how a person
came to be stricken with the disability or disorder that afflicts them. I
find myself curious about why these disorders still exist generation after
generation even after all the scientific effort at uncovering the causes and
possible cures. A great deal of time and attention has been spent on how
these disorders came to exist and what might make them worse and how to
make them better, but there is still so much we still need to learn.
Thankfully, scientists have given us a great deal of information that can
be very beneficial in understanding, treating and hopefully someday curing or
preventing mental and emotional issues.
Recently,
studies have shown that a genetic predisposition may be hidden in people that
makes them prone to certain characteristics that when provoked, can create
emotional or mental conditions. This predisposition, in conjunction with
a triggering event or simply by the quality in that person’s environment and
upbringing can cause these characteristics to become problematic and spark a
mental or emotional abnormality. This peculiar phenomenon is called the
diathesis-stress model.
According
to this theory, when provoked, a characteristic may go into overdrive, causing
a person to have a legitimately diagnosable illness. Environmental stimuli that
may cause such a thing to happen are social issues or trauma that may have
occurred at a young age.
One
of the most common problems that can cause such a change in people would have
to do with their parents. If a young person does not receive the right kind of
attention as they are maturing, it can cause emotional and social problems for
them later in life. An overbearing or judgmental parental figure can
cause a person to have low self-esteem, which could then inflict disorders such
as narcissistic personality disorder, social anxiety disorder or even
depression. Parents who get divorced have also been shown to cause
obsessive-compulsive disorder in as children of divorced parents tend to feel
they have a loss of control in their lives and obsessive-compulsive disorder is
a disorder driven by a person’s overwhelming need and drive for control.
These
disorders reveal themselves when people who are predisposed for the
characteristics are triggered by an emotional or social stress. This ignites an
inner need to balance themselves out, mentally. Sadly, they often emotionally
overcompensate; leaving them worse off then they were in the beginning.
Sources:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Initials. (2005, May 20). Narcissistic personality disorder. Retrieved from http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/personality_disorders/hic_narcissistic_personality_disorder.aspx
Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph, MD, Initials. (2008, November). What causes ocd?. Retrieved from http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/ocd.html#
Amal Chakraburtty, MD, Initials. (2010, March 01). Causes of depression. Retrieved from http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/causes-depression
Rashmi Nemade, Ph.D., Natalie Staats Reiss, Ph.D., and Mark Dombeck, Ph.D., Initials. (2007, September 19). Current understandings of major depression - diathesis-stress model. Retrieved from http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=12998&cn=5
Cadena, Christine. (2007, November 16). How anxiety develops in children: the "diathesis-stress" model. Retrieved from http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/446920/how_anxiety_develops_in_children_the.html
3 groups from each drama class were asked to perform the same scene from Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile in three different theater style: thrust, theater in the round and proscenium. These are Y-band's interpretations.
