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!
Attach VIDEO (add content below as MULTIMEDIA) You will need to convert to FLV format via Adobe Flash Encoder. (All laptops have it) Here's an example of what it will look like.
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.
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 E-band's interpretations.
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 E-band's interpretations.
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
As an artist I feel free. I know when I create something form my imagination it can't be criticized or re-explained but it can definitely be unwanted and that is fine with me. When I create something it always has a meaning behind it. I was extremely excited when I found out I had art this year, I've wanted ever since our required freshman class but never got it. I'm looking forward to continuing the year as it bring on new challenges and broadens my view as an artist. This quarter we went to see Aurora Robson's work on bottle caps and what she does to eliminate some of the trash left on this earth buy humans. Her art as beautiful, what really amazed me was the time her and her team spent working on the project.
Seeing this project in the making had inspired us to make bottle cap posters. Here's mine:
My next project was to create something of of recyclable items, it could be anything. I decided to make ballerina because I've been dancing since I was three so, dancing is something that means a lot to me. It took me a while to figure out exactly how I was gonna create my ballerina but I finally got it. Here is my finished work:
The purpose of this tutorial was to tach Noah the difference between conjugating preterite and present tense verbs. Also, how to use the phrase Qué tal?. Mostly to tach him that Spanish can be fun. Noah should be able to conjugate some words in the preterite tense and present tense, such as hacer. and ir. These goals are important to the group because we think that we would have benefited most from learning these things. So why not give the perfect advice for a Spanish student, from another Spanish student. I would really prioritize much more appropriately. Also, i am very proud of our final outcome. I know it could have been much better but i did as best as i could.
How much Spanish have you learned so far Noah?
And How much did you learn from our video?
Link TO PDF- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2195984/Spanish%202-%20BM.pdf
Research Question: Like other initially controversial scientific theories, will evolution one day be universally accepted by society?
Evolution has been a controversial theory since the first day word reached out about it. But, this is not unlike many other theories which we consider true and indisputable today. For example, Copernicus' Heliocentric theory and Newton's gravitational theory. Copernicus' Heliocentric theory basically asserted that the earth was not the center of the solar system, but the sun. At the time, everyone believed in geocentric theory which said that the earth was the center of the universe. This theory was so novel and unprecedented, people were quick to scorn Copernicus and dismiss the theory as nonsense. The dissension around it did not end for later Galileo defended it. He was a supporter of Copernicus and was put on trial by the Catholic Church for defending something that they felt contradicted religion.They wanted the theory banned. This is almost the exact same scenario with evolution today. The Copernican theory gained legitimacy over time and became universally accepted. Newton's theory of gravity had similarly controversial beginnings yet no one contests it's admissibility today.
If history has taught us anything, it's although initially controversial, theories with strong foundations such as Evolution do become universally accepted over time. There is evidence of evolution gaining more support today. Although just 39% of Americans believe in evolution, as indicated by a Gallup poll in 2009, that number has been on the rise, especially with the newer generations. 74% of people with a post graduate degree believe in evolution. There are some creationist museums today that include evolution in their displays. Perhaps one day even religious people can believe in the basic concepts of evolution while still holding faith in their religion at the same time. With the number of people who believe in evolution on the rise with newer generations, it is safe to assume that we will one day live in a society which almost unanimously accepts evolution as true.
NOTICE: The video is designed for background use during a speech. It does not contain speech but does have music. Below is a link to the google doc that we referenced for information during our speech
