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Newon's Capstone

Posted by Newon Dennis in Capstone - Latimer on

I will be creating my own line of Liberian-Inspired prom dresses. There will be hopefully about six or seven dresses in the collection and I will be having full involvement in in everything that goes one. I plan to study and learn more about fashion design and more in college and it’s practically all I could think about since ninth grade. The product I’m creating is even more appropriate because then I’ll have something to start up on when I head to college and when I create my own business. Like I said before I’ve had this project in mind since ninth grade because I knew it would make applying to colleges much better since I would have my own line already out and doing well.

Here a link to my Capstone blog:  http://libcapstone.blogspot.com/ 

Newon Dennis' Q1 Food Benchmark

Posted by Newon Dennis in Science and Society - Best on
​Calla Recipe

Calla is a traditional Liberian pastry.

Ingredients:

Self-Rising Flour - 3-4 cups

Water as a substitute for Milk -2 ½ cups

Olive Oil as a substitute for vegetable oil – 3 cups

Organic Sugar- 1 cup

Recipe:

1.Get out a clean bowl and pour in Aunt Jemina’s Self-Rising Flour until it fills about 1/3 of the bowl. Sprinkle in the desired amount of sugar and 2 and half cups of water. Stir thoroughly to remove lumps in batter. Leave batter to rise for about 5 to 10 minutes. Time can increase if needed.

2.Pour oil into a pot until 2/3 full and set on the stove to heat. When batter is raised, head to the stove to heat up Olive oil and begin dropping blobs of batter into the pot. Depending on pot size, drop in as many blobs as you can so each blob can fry thoroughly.

3.Calla will turn over its self on each side. When both sides are done place the calla into a strainer onto of a paper cover plate. Continue until batter is finish. Let finished Calla cool and serve. ENJOY!

Analysis:

For my meal, I would guestimate about 2% would be processed and the rest would be whole food. I used brown eggs, water, and organic sugar. But I used processed self-rising Flour so I say 2% of my meal would be processed. There are some dark sides from eating my completed meal. I you ate this single meal every day, regardless of the organic substances inside. You could easily get high cholesterol, high-blood sugar, maybe even diabetes from eating this single sugary meal. A lot of my ingredients were hard to grow myself considering I don’t own a chicken for eggs, a sugar cane plantation of a wheat field and grainer for flour. So it’s a little complicated. So it sadly commercial process is the only choice I have but organic productions were more common in this dish. My dish is a simple African pastry that was made into a healthier treat when you change certain ingredients.


Personal Reflection:

I’ve learned that the majority of food I take in isn’t food. And it’s really disgusting to find out that the substances you take in for nurturance is actually causing more bad than good. And the fact that people in the food industry aren’t doing crap it makes my blood boil. The biggest problem about our food system is how it’s produced. Watching the movie Food Inc. and seeing the slaughter house scene was really confusing and hard to watch. Because I was watching harmless animals being killed mercilessly by big businesses who aren’t even giving the animals room to grow and play. They have holes in the side of the bodies, wobbling around on dead carcasses or being randomly crushed to death by giant machines. And it’s sad because they people who work in those kinds of factories and slaughter houses “can’t afford to not work at these abusive meat packaging factories.” Then, to add insult to injury these big meat packaging factories have skanky deals with Immigration offices to take some of their undocumented workers every day.

So if I have to go complete vegetarian, or learn to make a farther trip to find organic store and supermarkets. I’ll do what I have to do refrain from eating crap. Especially, McDonald’s! Now to be honest I’m human and I’m a girl, who will have craving, so I might slip up from time to time, but as long as that food is entering my body every once in a blue moon, I still plan on try to find alternative to the fast but addictive fast food.


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Musical Instrument Blog #1

Posted by Newon Dennis in Physics - Echols on

Since I was a little kid, the one instrument that’s always captured my attention was the guitar. It was something that could be used for so many different types of genres for music. Hip hop, rock, classical. It captured every sound. So the beginning of this year our school finally got a real music. Who was cool, fun, amazing at some many different types of music and he was an awesome friend. Mr. Newman has taught me a lot about the guitar, some good, some awesome. But such an amazing and interesting kind of instrument.

Playing the guitar takes a little time to really grasp, because you can play the guitar in two types of methods, using tabs and/or chords. For personally chords are much more fun and easier to play but tabs always good to learn especially if you want help with fingering. First you would place your fingers on the chord or sting you want to play then depend on the volume of mood of the song give the strings a strum and if you playing tabs you may have to play that one string first and move to another string so you strum the one string first then move onto the next one using the beat of the song to guide your strumming speed and/or strumming pattern.

To change a note:

For chords you would simply move from the previous chords to the next one while continuing you strumming pattern. Same thing for tabs except in some cases you would be moving from one string to another or one tab to another.

A guitar has a strange shape but it’s very helpful for playing and for the player.  But a fun way to describe its shape is to say it’s like an 8 on a stick.

Basically I want to be able to try and make a guitar that is as professional as possible which means I can’t take too long to make it. I know I’ll be able to get real guitar strings for it so that’ll help with the sound and I can try and make a guitar that represent my personality as well.

 

Libby, Montana Asbestos Contamination : Nadif, Newon, Whitney

Posted by Newon Dennis in American History - Laufenberg on

a. What went well? 
Nothing really except that we turned in the project.



b. What did not? 
We barely worked with it each I felt completely useless for this project



c. What would you do differently next time?

I would rather we worked together and actually listened to each other. 



And as for these,

Be Concise

Be Visual

Be Smarter

Be Transparent

Be Different

Be Accurate

Be Attractive

Be Varied

Be Gracious

Be Creative


We were average in all of them except with creativity because our info-graph was nothing but words and pictures.

Newon Dennis' Benchmark Reflection

Posted by Newon Dennis in American History - Laufenberg on
​Our benchmark covers the arguments between the two Koreas and how they might not ever be able to decide on a agreement together to stop the suffer of both their people. Family of their families have been separated because they had to choice a side. I think that Yadi and I both covered this subject in a serious and humorous way. To make everyone understand the problem between the countries' fighting and to bring back the thought that there's honestly no need to fight over something as little as territory and government. Yadi and I tried to take as much information as we could to and put make sure not to make too much of a joke of the two countries. We only wanted to have it come out as a a fun and yet serious way to learn of the problems going on between. North and South Korea.

Aimee Willard Story

Posted by Newon Dennis in American History - Laufenberg on

Written Version:

Life

Painfully given easily taken

Easily taken, Easily taken

How can 

                                                            dying

Be something easily taken.

Being wound up in death’s 

darkness robe, struggles to be free

But yet it 

                                                             captures

Rapes you. Beats you.

Kills you. And you can do nothing

Now who would remember,

miss, think, of 

                                                           the life

Of Aimee Willard. How can I

Be remember. As that man welcomed 

Himself into my body. I felt my felt 

wilt away. I felt my heart 

                                                                 and soul

Melt and die under the pain 

of being take. By this stranger. 

For a reason I don’t know

Is this the pain of those young girls

 I never truly took seriously. 

                                                                      Of those

Young soul that never had 

a chance to truly experienced life 

to it’s full extent. To real to explain fully

To harsh. To understand To much of 

                                                                           that

If could. I’d save you all. If I could

I would be your knights. Ladies of

 the forgotten if I could I would remember

 you even when you gone. If I could, 

if I could, God, if only 

                                                                            I could

Explain to those who miss me that life

Is something you shall never 

take for granted again but how many 

times have you heard that one before

And before you know it. You

                                                                        never realize

Never forget Death is once in a life time.

Rape is the felling of losing your strengthen

Being beatings gives you that feel of lost hope

Pleas don’t let that control you

                                                                               in life

That’s only heard for so long.

Bibliography

"In Memory of Aimee Willard: Home." In Memory of Aimee Willard. BCE Internet Services, n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2010. <http://www.aimeewillard.com/>.

"Aimee Willard." Find A Grave. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2010. <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Willard&GSfn=Aimee+&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=8634995&>.

"June 2004 Executions." Pro Death penalty. Charlene Hall, n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2010. <http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/pending/04/jun04.htm>.

"Aimee Willard." Bonnie’s Blog of Crime. Web. 12 Nov 2010. <http://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/aimee-willard-murder-62096/>.

Election Day

Posted by Newon Dennis in American History - Laufenberg on
​For this election day, I was swarmed with baby sitting duties. Watching my younger brother and my twin nieces. But I didn't let it slow me down, instead I had them help me blow up all the balloons and handed them out with flyers along the way to the voting polls. Unfortunately, there was barely anyone out while we walked to the polls but we didn't let that get to us. So we shouted out to passing cars telling them to go vote and we actually got a couple honks and waves back at us. Once we got to the polls though it was back to business. I had the twins and my younger brother interview about six people asking random questions from the sheet. We luckily got to interview the Chief Elector, a voter, and some of the registration people. They even showed us how the voting boxes worked. After the interview were done, we thanked everyone who participated and went back home where we started shouting back at cars telling them to go vote. My younger brother and the twins did a great job interviewing and were a big help for me that day. I really appreciated it.
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