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Ryan Shaw Capstone

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Student Name:

Ryan Shaw


In school mentor’s name:

Mr. Baird


Topic Summary:

The goal of this project was to research and create a way to teach people how to play chess and to understand chess strategy.



Project Abstract:

The inspiration of my capstone is my love for chess and my love of playing games like chess. Games like this help me with developing my problem solving skills, so that I can use these skills in real life applications. When I realized this, I wanted to help other people who might not have the same experience. I decided I was going to research and take a study of how quickly people improve at playing chess with an ELO scoring system, so that I could actually graph and use the data, then use that information to create a comprehensive website so that anyone could learn how to play chess and learn how to use simple problem solving strategies.

Capstone:
http://ryanshawcapstone.weebly.com

Annotated Bibliography:

1. "World Chess Federation - FIDE." World Chess Federation - FIDE. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.


This is a resource that will help me significantly in the coming weeks. It is a very popular, and much visited website that many chess players visit to research chess and to play online chess. This will help me get an idea of how to teach people chess and how to accurately gauge a person’s chess abillity.


2."E.I.01A. Laws of Chess." World Chess Federation. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

This source will help me explain chess to those who have a larger than average understanding of chess and the mechanics. It will fall under advanced categories on the website, and I learned more about chess and why some of the mechanics are there inside of the game, by looking at these rules and their explanations.


3. "Chess.com." Chesscom RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

This is a list of chess openings, some famous, some advanced, used by the top chess players in the world. These players used the techniques that are described in detail in this web page to describe the amount of thought and the process of the moves and openings by taking the reader through the moves one by one. A very useful tool to show to beginners and show them how thoughtful and interesting chess can be.


4. "Chess.com." How to Play Chess: Rules & Basics -. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.

This is a source that could help me a large amount with teaching people how to play chess. While I have an understanding about how the game is played, I don’t know how to teach a beginner as well as someone like my mentor, Mr. Baird, a chess teacher. I need more resources like this one that will help me understand how to teach people how to play chess.


5. "Chess.com." Advanced: Strategy. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

These are examples of strategies used in chess games, not just openings, but also thoughtful uses of detailed chess strategies. Each of these strategies could be something simple that could help a beginner, or it could help a person that has an advanced understanding of chess, or someone tha


6. "5 Year Old Teaches 2 Year Old to Play Chess." YouTube. YouTube, 08 Dec. 2008. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

This source is a youtube video that shows a 5 year old describing how to play chess and how to use the pieces to a 2 year old. Then he describes how to play the game. While I thought this wouldn’t be useful at first, I quickly realized that this is a useful video to show how easily one can learn chess, and learn how to play it. The resource will help me find the perfect way to teach a new player how to play the game.


7. "Lecture Notes." Lecture Notes in Game Theory. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

Game theory is still an important part of my project and this is a list of lectures, a few of which I have watched, describing the approaches to game theory, and what game theory means. I can easily find use in this source by showing a few lectures as introductions to intermediate players and as a way to show players how important it is to understand the game and how game theory works with chess and what that means.


8. "Get Your Elo Rating Here!" The Automated Chess Rating Utility. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

"Cognitive Ability Test." RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

These are two sources that have the possibility to estimate or score a person’s chess playing ability. There are a few different ways to do this, but the first one of these sources estimates a person’s ability by giving them a few example chess problems, where the player describes the correct way to proceed to check mate. While this is happening, the computer keeps track of how the person is doing, and at the end, gives them an estimated ELO based on their answers. The second source is one that tests cognitive ability. While the first source was an estimation, this is an actual test, and I can use both to see if there is a correlation between chess and brain function, or at least the scores of the two.


9."HTML." W3Schools Online Web Tutorials. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.

Since I will be coding my website, I will need to frequently use resources to finish programming the website, and to accurately code, I need a reference guide. This is a guide I’ve used in the past to accurately code and code with a lot of efficiency. I’ll be using this citation to guide myself through coding the website, which will be a helpful resource in showing new players how to play.


10. "Improve Your Chess." How to Improve at Chess. Top 10 Reasons for Stagnation. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.

This is an online chess school that has the ability to teach people about chess in a different manner than I’ve seen before. Using this site, I can teach the new players how to play in a way that I hadn’t before realized and I can now accurately use to teach new players. While teaching chess before this, I would’ve used the same techniques as the other sites, I can now incorporate these new techniques in teaching chess to new players and advanced players alike.


Ryan Shaw Self-Portrait Assignment

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These are three pictures of myself that I chose to represent me. While I understand that they aren't exactly "selfies" I don't really take those, so I chose pictures that I think represent me. The first picture is one of my friends and I. That's something that we are all defined by: the people who we befriend. The next picture is one of my family. Same as before, family is important, and they define me whether I like it or not, same as everyone else. The final picture is a picture of me, because despite what other people think of me, and despite how I think, I am me, and there is no one else like me. 

RShaw What writing means to me.

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Whenever I write, I get a look at what I really think. My mind is focused on writing something so much, that I get great ideas about whatever I'm writing about. Writing really helps me work better on things that I'm working on, if that makes sense. I don't really write in my spare time though, because I think that writing requires a lot of focus. 

Ryan Shaw Annotations

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Interview(Cheryl Kramer):

  1. I’ve been hearing and reading a lot of info about health care insurance costing a lot of money. Why is that?

The overall wealth of the city of philadelphia isn't as high as it should be, while the cost of healthcare continues to rise.


  1. Who do you think is responsible for the cost of insurance?

INsurance Agencies and government subsidiaries

  1. How do you think we could fix the problem of over-expensive health care?

Obama is fixing many of these problems with the new medicare plan, Obamacare.


  1. How has the cost of healthcare change over the past 5 years? What would it be like in the future?

The cost of health care has risen over the past 5 years, but because people aren't making enough money, less and less people are able to get health care.


  1. Who are the main people that are affected by the cost of health care?

Those of lower income, who can't afford it.


  1. What do you think of Obamacare?

I think that it'll help America and that it will help Philadelphia in particular, because it help those who can't afford health care, because it makes their employer buy it for them.


  1. How could the cost of healthcare decrease?

Obamacare is partly helping that, but if health insurance agencies would make special plans for those of lower income, or those who can't afford it.


  1. I read that there are about 137,000 adults who don’t have health insurance, is this number correct? How many children are out there who doesn’t have health insurance?

an estimated 190,000 people don't have insurance in philadelphia. Very few of them are children, because of CHIP.






. "Ambulatory Health Services(Health Centers) ." Public Health of Philadelphia. N.p.. Web. 15 Feb 2013. <http://www.phila.gov/health/AmbulatoryHealth/hc2.html>.
This website is a list of the health-care centers in the philadelphia area. With this information, I am able to find a place to interview someone about the Philadelphia health care system, and why a lot of people can’t afford it.

. "Health Insurance Programs." Philadelphia Unemployment Project . N.p.. Web. 15 Feb 2013. <http://www.philaup.org/health/hc_ins.html>.

This site has told me a lot about health care in Philadelphia. It’s let me know how it works, and also, a few of the available plans for low-income philadelphians.

. "Benefits Summary." Independence Blue Cross. N.p.. Web. 15 Feb 2013. <http://www.ibx.com/individuals/find_plan/low_income/special_care/benefits.html>.

This site gives us a great idea about how much health care costs at its cheapest. As a plan meant to give the most coverage at the lowest cost, it shows us one of the best possible situations of health care cost.

Barret, Kathrine. "Philadelphia's Healthcare Factsheet."healthcare-NOW.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Feb 2013. <http://www.healthcare-now.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/finalphilafactsheet2.pdf>.

This pdf has given a lot of facts about how much health insurance costs the city, instead of the average person. This gives us a broader idea about where the money goes that we spend on health insurance, and what kind of legislature is being passed that is helping us.

Ellis, Glenn. "CITY HAS FINE HEALTH CARE, BUT NOT FOR ALL." The Philadelphia Tribune. The Philadelphia Tribune, 14 Jan 2013. Web. 15 Feb 2013. <http://www.phillytrib.com/healtharticles/item/7401-city-has-fine-health-care,-but-not-for-all.html>.

This article is a great example of something along the lines of what we’re trying to say. The article tells about the health insurance coverage for philadelphians, and the problems that a large portion of philadelphians face.






Rshaw Español Proyecto

Posted by Ryan Shaw in Spanish 2 - Gierke on
Yo éra muy interestar, y màs o menos intelegente. Yo muy gustaba mi familia. Mi familia es muy importante, y muy intererasante. Mi amigos éran David Pratt, Sean Kennedy, y Kevin Griffin, nosotros jugámos mucho.  Yo portaba mi libros. Yo pensaba mi profesión seré científico.

Yo es muy interesante en ingeniero y en científico. Mi personalidad es muy bien, y yo es optimista. Yo asisto escuela y jugo “Ultimate”. Yo porto mi computadora y mi diario de escuela. Yo tomo ingeniero, español, biochemica, matemáticas, inglés, y historia. Mi personalidad ahora es bien, y pesimista.

Yo seré muy interesante, y muy inteligente. Yo vivé en Alaska. Yo haré profesión de ingeniero, y yo haré responsabilidad mucho. ¡Yo estaré muy contento! Mi mundo es muy mejor porque mi acciones.


Spanish Stuff

English Journal 46

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What did it feel like to be stuck in the corner, simulating what the Jews in night felt?

 

It felt extremely crowded. Not only this, but we would also have to sleep in conditions like that. It would be inhumane, and we would have spent the entire day like that.

 

In the book, they spent days there. In the 30 seconds that we did it, everyone was already uncomfortable. Not only this, but we felt violated. It’s inhuman to do that to someone.

 

History Journal 11

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“If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.” ~Theodore Dreiser, 1941

 

“Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the people.” ~Karl Marx, 1884

 

1.     The first quote is very interesting, it talks about the fact that religion forgives and it lets you do so much more than what is necessary.

2.     The quote by Karl Marx used the word Opium, which was also mentioned in Animal Farm, by George Orwell. 

History Journal 42

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Is colonization good?

 

Short term- extremely bad, can wipe out entire populations (Native Americans) but at the same time, can be good by bringing new technology. This could be bad through, because the populous could not know how to handle the new technology.

 

Long term- can be good or bad.

 

The nations that arise from Colonization, such as America, can be extremely influential and become a great nation.

            It’s important that the country that starts the colonization encourage a new country, and that it lets it be independent if it wants to. 

España Proyecto-Ryan Shaw

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What was the assignment? What did your group decide to do and why?
What did you learn from doing this project?
How do you feel about your final product?
IF you could do your project all over again, what would you do differently.

The assignment was to make a guide for visitor's from Spain. We decided to do the common things of Philadelphia, and we tried to explain the things to do while in Philadelphia.

I learned a lot of vocabulary, and sentence structure.

I think that people from Spain would find this guide moderately useful. 

I would try to find better instructions, and get my work reviewed by the teacher.

E2.U4.Q2BM.RyanShaw.Español

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38644022/Spn.m4v

I couldn't get the Audio to work in the flv.

Primero, yo me despierto en mi cama a las 6:00.


Después, yo me ducho con jabón y champú.


Entonces, yo me seco, con la toalla.


En cuatro, yo me pono, con vaqueros azul, la camisa , botas negro, y cinturón negro.


Entonces, Yo cepillo de dientes.


Entonces, Yo me desperto mi hermano.


Finale, Yo voy a la escuela.

Gberesin Language Autobiography

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​I. Introduction:
In this project we are are showing how language has effected our lives and how it can define some aspects of us. What was difficult for me about this project was how personally I have never been discriminated against, I guess that was the hardest part. Once I had the idea to talk about unity and division through language based differences it was simpler and my experiences just flowed out. 

II.  Language Autobiography:
          Language is a tool, a tool that can unite or divide a people.  Language unifies those within the same culture and divides those who do not share the same culture.  In this autobiographical essay I will be writing about how personally my family have never been discriminated against, but I have felt the barriers that language creates when in another culture.  My travels to Costa Rica showed me what it feels like to be speechless, and my grandparents told me how their families were discriminated against when they came to America.
        I traveled to Costa Rica when I was in eighth grade, knowing little Spanish.  We went there to do community service for a small town named Turrialba.  This community has a slightly different form of Spanish than other parts of Central America.  Through this difference in dialect it has brought this small mountain community closer than ever to each other. My reasoning for this is that when you are in such a small community you need to be close to each other to survive. A lot of times people cant afford to feed their family three meals a day, they share all food and invite anyone off the street or stranger for a hot meal and a bed. This town was extremely small and was three to four hours from the closest city, the capital, San Jose.
        I did not speak much Spanish, and we were staying in local townspeople’s homes.  My “Madre” was a very nice lady, a grandmother of about 70 years old.  She lived with her grandson and occasionally a few people would drop for meals.  Meals were very loud, but we students were very quiet. We did not want to make fools of ourselves trying to communicate with the locals.  We mainly sat there, smiled, and said please and thank you.  Even though we were very welcomed and people were really nice, I felt separated form everyone else because didn’t really know them.  
        A memory I have of this significant barrier is when, a few nights in, I asked my Madre where I could go to do my laundry.  I thought I knew how to ask that in Spanish from a dictionary I brought, but I was wrong.  I ended up sounding like an idiot.  She looked at me like I was crazy, and said “ Que?” So I repeated the phrase more carefully and slowly.  She repeated, looking like I was even crazier, “Que?”  It turned out I was saying, “Where can I going my washing?”  Over time, she shushed me and grabbed my laundry, called me “Tito” meaning cute, and chuckled.
        Sometimes language isn’t necessary.  Some kids invited me to play soccer with them out in the street, just by holding up a soccer ball and waving.  I immediately understood and we began to play.  All that was necessary was the soccer ball and the gestures. Thinking in a bigger perspective all language is, is a expanded version of gestures. Sometimes Language isnt needed when the act in which you are trying to do is portrayed in the same way for both cultures. In this case it was the act of play.    
        If I were to go back to Costa Rica, I would make sure to learn more Spanish.  The language barrier, even though it was a good experience, was frustrating at times.  Getting on a bus, getting directions, all of this was made more difficult than it needed to be.  When talking with strangers the language barrier is harder, and the things you are asking them for are more complex.
        My grandfather carries a small black book in which he has in every language the words “hot water.”  He drinks it as tea for some reason.  It can be quite embarrassing in public when my very Jewish grandfather tries to ask a Chinese waiter for hot water in his own language.  It is embarrassing because they never know what he’s talking about, because he has a Yiddish accent whenever he speaks any language. “hey waiter, hehe, can I have some bai kai shwai?” “excuse me?” the waiter would say and so he would repeat, “Can I have some bai kai shwai?”    Once he has confused the waiter enough, the waiter gives up and asks him in English what he is talking about.  Usually this makes the waiter uncomfortable or it is the source of a good laugh for the waiter.  This divides or unites, depending on the sense of humor of the waiter, and the seriousness of which it is told.  It doesn’t cut it to learn one word of a language.
        I for one do not speak Yiddish.  My grandparents do, and my mom understands it, but cannot speak it.  Over time, the Yiddish language has slowly disappeared.  All that is left in America of Yiddish are curses, jokes and different words for food.  I think the reason for this is that America is very intolerant of other languages, and when an immigrant comes to the country, it is harder to get jobs and do anything in a bustling economy when you don’t speak the language.
        Overall, when immigrants come to a country, their connections to each other and to their culture will slowly evaporate, unless they are in a really close community.  My grandparents, on my mother’s side, were bilingual as children because their parents were immigrants.  On my father’s side, my grandparents were not immigrants, but their parents’ parent’s went through those troubles.  It is amazing that even though we are of the same family, if I were to talk to my great grandparents on my mother’s side, I would not be able to talk to them.  This comes to show that language when moved to a different culture unites and divides.

Rshaw Language Autobiography

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Introduction:


The purpose of this project was to create a language autobiography. In this biography, we explored our ideas about how you speak a language and how it affects how you live. In this project, we wrote about our past experiences with language, and how are lives are different because of it. In my autobiography, I discuss the way that language not only affects how you speak, but also, how you think and act. In this project, I had a difficult time relating past experiences with the project.



Ryan Shaw December 22, 2011

Language Autobiography BM

Many kids are born into a family that speaks a foreign language. They learn the language of their parents and, in most cases, also learn the language of the country where they grow up. These children may seem to always have an advantage. We think that these bilinguals have a extreme advantage over others, mostly because they can think in two different languages, and their vocabulary is almost doubled. This can may be untrue however. In some cases, kids who are bilingual, or even trilingual, are affected by how they speak one language, by another language.  

One example is when I was helping my Vietnamese foster cousin, Julia. She was having me edit her science paper and I noticed something, so I asked. “Julia, what are the differences between the sentence structure in Vietnamese and English?”

“Vietnamese has a different way of saying prepositions.” she said. So I re-read her paper, and I realized that the majority of mistakes that occurred were related to prepositional phrases. While this is just an small example, I’ve seen this in my other Vietnamese cousins, and I realized that it even affects the way that they speak. “If it affects the way that they write and speak, then could it affect how they think?” I asked myself. I dropped the idea at the time, but talking about language recently, has brought it back to my attention.

In the example, I realized how language might affect the way that we think, and I asked myself, Could it be that language affects not just how you think, but also, what you think?. I realized that I might be right. A little after I edited my cousin’s paper, I read 1984 by George Orwell. In it, there is a new way of speaking that the oppressive government is slowly forcing on its people, called, ‘newspeak’. A specific quote is from one of the supporters for newspeak in the book, “By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed.” Chaucer, Shakespeare,Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” -1984. This language is designed so that one simply doesn’t have the vocabulary to speak and think things that could be negative to the government. While I don’t think that other languages purposely do this, or that they are this restricted, I do think that certain languages allow you to only think in certain ways.

Another example is for Spanish, and the other Romance languages. Most other languages have the sentence structure of adjective-noun; In Latin languages, it is noun-adjective. This can also mean a different way of storytelling, tones, and even how the speakers talk.

This can be malicious in certain cases. Whenever I get a translation, I am always told that one word, “Is like...” then a meaning. This is because they never have a direct translation. It is hard to convey information this way, and the very foundations of communications is fragmented by this fact. The way that people speak has more to do than just communication however. If you only know how to think by using certain words, then you are virtually forced into thinking or not thinking certain things. This can affect how you act, and how you think.



Citations:


1984 by George Orwell

Ryan Shaw proyecto

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Reflection

The point of this project is to learn how to pronounce spanish, and how to apply it in a creative way. In this project, the sla values were applied by my process, how I researched, then, how I presented it. I learned preterites, and how to pronounce them. At one point in the project, when I did the voice overs, everything just worked, which was very good. I would maybe add a few more pictures, or maybe even add more captions to the pictures. I very much enjoyed this project, because it did teach me a lot. 

Revised Descriptive essay by Ryan Shaw

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Ryan Shaw September 20, 2011

Copper-English 2 Freedom in School


My high school is very different from my middle school. In my middle school, we had to wear uniforms, navy blue shirts with khaki’s with the school logo on the shirt. You had to go to classes with the rest of our homeroom class, and had little to no freedom. My old school was demanding, filling our thoughts with false freedom, saying how we had a small locker in the room, we could bring in whatever we want, and that we didn’t need a policeman in the building. In reality, my middle school was just an extension of elementary school, and it had just as many freedoms as middle school. Timed classes that you were escorted to by teachers, coinciding lunches, in which you had to sit at the cafeteria, and you couldn't move from your assigned seat.

My high school is far more laid back, and it gives me freedom, where before, there was none. In my old school, I learned much of what I know now, but I didn’t like it. I expected that to be the best there is, since it’s a charter school. One day, at lunch in my old school, I was sitting at my assigned seat, eating lunch peacefully, with the logorrhea of hundreds of other student’s voices in the background. All of a sudden, the cacophony grew exponentially larger, and there was a disturbance in the lunchroom. I looked behind me, and there was a lunch aide, a school official who makes sure that the students follow the rules, yelling at a couple of the students. The tiled floor was shaking from her voice combined with the student’s loud conversations. It’s a large room, but it had great acoustics, and the sounds of everything resonated within the room.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME! GO TO MS. D’s OFFICE!” Ms. D was the principal and a former nun, she was a tall, lanky woman with a short brown perm, and large spectacles. Before she could walk into the hallway to her office, she came walking into the lunchroom with a frown on her face, yelling,
“I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON HERE,” the lunchroom was quiet, for the moment, “but you all need to stop talking now!” She lowered her voice, but it still sounded above the current volume. “Now it’s a silent lunch.” A ‘silent lunch’ was something that she had made up a few years ago, this was the first instance of such a phenomenon. “In a silent lunch, no one talks, you just eat your lunch, and go back to class.” Quietly, she said to the lunch aide nearest to her, Ms. Sidney, the head of the lunch aids, “Send anyone who talks to my office” She was careful to say it quietly so that it seemed like it was meant for Ms. Sidney, but loudly enough for the lunchroom to hear her.
It was humiliating, being quieted for the only free time in the day, and yet we were still being silenced by the school’s policies. My old school was filled with dread with simply following the strict rules. My old school was just like a Catholic school, without the church! In my school, everyone looked happy, with the colorful walls, and the multitude of posters scattering the walls, but inside, we all hated it there.
One day, at the lunch room, my friend Brianna wore 4 bracelets at the same time, and the principal told her to take them off. The principal actually told her to take off her bracelets, because she was wearing too many. My school was so strict with their rules that they wouldn’t let my friend wear some bracelets.  
My old school was very strict. The part that really bothered me about my old school isn’t the rules, it’s the fact that in that school, you have to keep your identity hidden. You have to wear a uniform, but not just wear it, you have to be uniform. Everyone has to be a perfect cookie cutter after another; any difference or individuality had to be dealt with immediately. That’s why I like my school so much now. There is no dress code, and everyone is so laid back. It’s calming. Instead of having to keep your guard up, you can relax. While being cliché, it’s true that in this new school, I can be myself.

Pipeline Monologue Project by Ryan Shaw

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​This monologue Project has taught me a lot. Not just about the environment, but also about acting, and monologues. They are hard to write, but only because Mr. Block pushes you to strive. In my monologues, I wanted to show what could happen, and that's why all of them are in the future. The first one is the President of the United States in the year 2059. The next one is a young man with respiratory problems, where he can't leave his home because the air is so polluted. The final man, is a historian, that is giving a lecture at a college about Obama's decision. My goal was to directly show how the future could be affected by his plan, but to show that it's because of our hunger for petroleum that's doing it, and that the pipeline is just a way to get it to us.

"An Address to a Dying Nation."

The president of the United States sits down to address the nation, in 2059, live, on national Television, in a dark, smoggy picture of New York, New York in the background.


Nation, I’m here tonight to talk about the increasing risk of natural disasters in our nation. In this year of 2059, I think it’s possible for everyone to sit down and have a serious discussion with the rest of your family about what they can do to help the environment. The carbon level is over 400, and if we don’t get it down soon... then there won’t be a nation to save. The water levels have swallowed the entire state of Florida. The evacuations helped, but there were those who stayed. Millions dead, San Fransisco is in the worst flood in the history of the US with every rainstorm with Atlanta following suit. While the coasts are flooding, the plains are having the worst drought in years. In a few locations, there has been recorded less water than most deserts. Hawaii is wiped off of our maps, leaving millions dead. The Earth that we so love, has turned against us. Our days of taking oil in any from her is over. The United States of America could’ve avoided this had it not been for the permission of major oil companies from the previous presidents to drill, and to import oil. Our world is suffering because of us, our ancestors, and our leaders’ mistakes. Please, America, do whatever you can to help the environment and stop these disasters. From the United States President, signing off. God Bless America. 

Camera Clicks and reporters asking questions as President John Jacob Jinglehimer-Schmidt exits the room.



"The Result"


In a hospital bed, a young boy is breathing from oxygen, and he has to take frequent breaths while speaking. (in the future)

All of my life, I’ve been here, in this hospital.
Takes a deep breath.
Ever since I was born, I’ve had a resipiratory disease. I can’t breathe the air outside.
Takes a deep breath.
The air outside is so bad now. Maybe-
Takes a deep breath.
Maybe I could’ve been able to breathe, years ago, when the air wasn’t so bad.
Takes a deep breath.
But now, now the air is horrible. I’ve only been outside once.
Takes a deep breath.
I had to take a tank of oxygen, and I could only visit the hospital garden before I had to go back inside.
Coughs multiple times before he calms down and relaxes.
It was beautiful. The Garden. I’ve seen pictures of the rest  of the world though.
Takes a deep breath.
It’s so smoggy. The world might’ve been a better place had we made better decisions.
Takes a deep breath.
It’s just so unfair!
looks over at the oxygen tank.
I have to breathe with this stupid tank all of my life while the other kids get to run around and have fun!
Breathing becomes more rapid.
Why am I paying for someone else’s mistake?!
Takes a deep breath.
I could’ve lived a normal life, but no! I had to be stuck in this hospital all of my life, paying for people before me’s mistakes!
Breathing becomes extremely rapid, before fainting from lack of oxygen.

Espaa Extra Credit

Posted by Ryan Shaw in Spanish 2 - Gierke on
​I learned a lot from changing my Facebook language to spanish. I still knew where everything was, but since I did, I learned the spanish words!
is typing...- está escribiendo...
Update Status- Actualizar Estado
Like- Me Gusta
What's on your mind?- ¿Qué estás pendsando?
Messages- Mensajes


I also learned that a good way to get used to other languages is to live your life with them.

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Element Print Project 2011

Posted by Ryan Shaw in Art - 9 - Hull on
My element is numeber 53, Iodine! My element is used to protect people from radiation, and it is a result of creating saltpeter from seaweed. My idea was to include its origin, seaweed, and it's uses, to help prevent radiation, that's why I made the seaweed and the nuclear plant. At first, I wanted to include its color, but I felt that wouldn't be very clear. I very much enjoyed this project, mostly because we had a lot time to do it and because it wasn't a primarily drawing project. I you were to change the project, the only thing I would change is to give us a bit more time to research what we want to draw.
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Negatives, RSHAW

Posted by Ryan Shaw in Art - 9 - Hull on
A. Negative space is drawing what there isn't. for instance, if drawing a pen in negative space, then you draw the space around the pen, not the pen itself.
B. I found negatives in the cut-out by cutting out the shapes in one paper, then pasting the opposite color on the opposite colored paper. In the drawing, I found that drawing the outline of the stool, then shading the areas outside of the lines worked well.
C. It helps an artist to look at negative space drawing because it helps them notice things that they didn't notice before. 
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Perspective-Rshaw

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This project started with everyone just drawing boxes on a horizon line. Then after the boxes, we followed a presentation about perspective drawing. We drew what the presentator drew. We learned the terminology, and how to draw different things. 

To complete this project, I followed along with the presentation. I made sure that I was doimg the right thing constantly
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The easiest thing to learn would be pearing how to create the box, and how to make sure everything follows perspecrive, and the vanishing point.

The hardest thing to learn would be drawing the windows and doors..



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Ryan Shaw Region

Posted by Ryan Shaw in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on

Region-


Questions I’ll ask


¿De donde eres?-Where are you from



I’ll show them what this means


Soy de______-I’m from


Soy de______ pero vivo en ________-I’m from ____ but I live in 


Yo también-Me too



What I’m going to do


I’m going to show a map of Spain, Mexico, and other spanish speaking countries, and I’m going to say where this place is and give examples.



Special thanks to my brother, Nicholas

Ryan Shaw Greetings

Posted by Ryan Shaw in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on
Greetings-



Questions I’ll ask


¿Que Tal?- How are you?

¿Y tu?-And you?



I’ll show them what this means

Mui Bien-Very good


¡Hola!-Hello


Buenas dias-Good Morning


Buenas Tardes-Good Afternoon


Buenos Noches-Good Evening


What I’m going to do


I’m going to start a conversation with someone, then if they don’t understand it, then I’ll explain it on the board. Then, I’ll start to make conversations with random people in the class.


Ryan Shaw Weather

Posted by Ryan Shaw in Spanish 1 - Sanchez on

Weather



Questions


¿Qué tiempo hace?-What’s the weather like?



I’ll show what this means



Hace(mcuho) frio, calor, viento, sol, fresco- It’s cold, hot, windy, cool



Esta lloviendo, llueve, nevando, nublado- It’s raining, it rains, It’s 

snowing, it snows



What I’m going to do 


I’m going to show pictures of different weather conditions, as I say the names of each, then I’m going to ask the class what each one means. 



Special thanks to my brother, Nicholas
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