The Pecha Kucha I watched was about the virtual world and how one architecht used it to explore and create things. He even used it to collaberate with Egyptian architects to design a shopping mall. They also used it to connect Egyptian and American architecht students.
While the concept was really amazing the spoken part and pictures didn't quite match up. The was a long pause for most of the slides. But his pictures really drew you into what he was saying.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Article Response
Plagiarism Lines Blur For Students In The Digital Age by Trip Gabriel is an article explaining the recent rise of plagiarizing students. Most of these students reported did so willingly knowing it was wrong. Some believe that if it's on the internet and there is no author listed, like on wikipidea for example, it is common knowledge and does not need to be cited. However this is not true and they still need to be cited. You still need to give credit where credit is due. If you need a bit of help here's a picture for ya, 
This is what you don't do. You have to give credit to those who helped you with your work. Simply taking out bits and chunks and tweaking it doesn't work. Its like making a meal and simply saying the name instead of saying whats in it. You just can't do it because people will hesitate to try. Same with plagiarism, if you put all this info in and don't credit your sources people will hesitate to trust your information and you can get in a lot of trouble for it. Kicked out of school even.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Vegetables In China
Alex, who wrote to me from China, talked about having a vegetable garden. That stuck out to me because my family grows a variety of fruits and vegetables in our back yard. And though it is a little tough, it's still all things you can grow easy.
According to an article written by Chery Teal on ehow.com in China they grow several different vegetables. Such As; cucumbers, spinach, celery, garlic shoots, green peppers, cilantro, broccoli, lettuces, snow peas, canola seeds, artichokes, green onions, string beans, corn, sweet potatoes, ginger, tomatoes, radishes, red and chili peppers, garlic, potatoes, leeks, cauliflower, lotus root and onions, purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip. Yard long string beans are served on birthdays to represent long life.Alex said that he and his family eat the vegetables out of their garden in their meals.
These all seem like good vegetables to grow in one's own garden, in fact I grow many of them in my own back yard. Along with strawberries and other things. All of the vegetables are very good in nutrients and could easily be something you use to help sustain a healthy diet as my family does. Many of these vegetables are essential ingredients for a vegetarian meal.
According to an article written by Chery Teal on ehow.com in China they grow several different vegetables. Such As; cucumbers, spinach, celery, garlic shoots, green peppers, cilantro, broccoli, lettuces, snow peas, canola seeds, artichokes, green onions, string beans, corn, sweet potatoes, ginger, tomatoes, radishes, red and chili peppers, garlic, potatoes, leeks, cauliflower, lotus root and onions, purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip. Yard long string beans are served on birthdays to represent long life.Alex said that he and his family eat the vegetables out of their garden in their meals.
These all seem like good vegetables to grow in one's own garden, in fact I grow many of them in my own back yard. Along with strawberries and other things. All of the vegetables are very good in nutrients and could easily be something you use to help sustain a healthy diet as my family does. Many of these vegetables are essential ingredients for a vegetarian meal.
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
purple eggplants, orange carrots and the Chinese turnip
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/facts_5465104_vegetables-grow-china.html
Monday, October 27, 2014
Face To Face
Sayema Hameed's story shocked me a little but I wasn't overly surprised by the racism he encountered. I'm not overly surprised by their holding of him based off of his name and appearance.Especially in the time of crisis of 911.
Kiyo Sato-Viacrucis put plainly into words the love one has for their country. Just as one love their families for almost no matter what they do you love your country no matter what it does.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Reading Response Three: World War Z
World War Z, written by Max Brooks, who has published many zombie survival books by the way, is an amazing book that I believe accurately describes the psychological response in a zombie apocalypse. Let me start off by first saying that it is nothing like the movie. At all, personally I think the movie was an insult t the book. First off, the book is not focused on one character. None of the stories in it even have the same narrator. At most the reporter who "wrote" the book asks questions. He is the only reoccurring person in the book. And it is only through explanation of setting or questions.
It starts with a prelude of the "author" explaining why he wrote the book. Because he had originally gotten the information together for a history book but was stripped of the human aspect. And so he put his work into this copy of World War Z. The entire book is a collection of stories from different survivors. From the supposed patient zero in China, to the end of the "war". I quote war because it wasn't technically a war. More of just a fight to survive. It hadn't become a war in my opinion until they started to try to take lost land back. Any way enough of my personal vendetta against "war", the story starts out from a doctor's point of view in China. He is called to a village to investigate a child and five sick adults who were bitten by the child. He later finds that it was not the first case and that it is spreading. So you never really know how it started. As the story continues it talks of how it spreads to different areas through sick people reanimating after death, and refuges getting past. That's if a horde hadn't attacked. Israel was smart and started preparing after they had heard the rumors. Many countries did not fallow suit. After it got bad and more zombies started popping up everywhere people started blaming the government, the military and basically anyone who hadn't done enough to stop the apocalypse from happening that wasn't themselves. In a section called THE GREAT PANIC it tells of how people freaked out. How they looted or ran or attempted to shelter themselves. A group of celebrities built a fully zombie proof living area, and hired guards to guard them from zombies, but were on live television broadcasting their safety and location. The guards(one of whom is telling the story) do nothing as a mob of civilians over run the place because they were hired to protect against the dead, not murder the living. It goes on to tel of how countries around the world attempt to turn the tide. Governments rebuilding or isolating places to live. Some by blowing up a foot pass making it impassible, others, like Russia, who dropped chemicals on bridges to kill anyone who wasn't infected. And shot the ones who remained. Then it goes on to talk about how the United States held up by going moving to the west coast and training the survivors how to survive on their own. And reorganizing the air force for supply drops across the country. It tells of a soldier who's plane crashed in the middle of a zombie infested territory and how she survived thanks to the help of someone named Mets, who saw the plane crashed. However the military believes that she was hallucinating the voice.
This is a picture from the cover page of the book depicting the battle of Yonkers, a military standoff against a horde of zombies made to look fancy for the media. However they were badly defeated and with so it had the opposite effect than was originally intended.
" 'Shhh... it's okay, baby, it's okay...' [Her hand moves down from her face to her throat, tightening into a strangeling grip.] 'I won't let the get you. I WON'T LET THEM GET YOU!' [Sharon begins to gasp for air.] [Doctor Sommers makes a move to stop her. Doctor Kelner puts up a hand. Sharon suddenly ceases, throwing her arms out to the sound of a gunshot.] Warm and wet, salty in my mouth, stinging my eyes. Arms picked me up and carried me. [ She gets up from the table, mimiking a motion close to a football.] Carried me into the parking lot. 'Run Sharon, don't stop!' [This is a different voice now, not her mothers.]" World War Z pages 75-76
The quote above is narrated by Sharon, a twenty-six year old who was a child when the panic struck. Her and her mother were holed up in a church with a group of people when the zombies came. After they started breaking through her mother attempted to strangle her. However her mother was shot and she was rescued by someone in the group. I chose this quote because I believe it accurately describes the different levels of stress responses people have. And how certain people react to what happens when faced with immenent death with their children nearby. Unsure of their fate they make rash choices. I think it shows THE GREAT PANIC section perfectly.
It starts with a prelude of the "author" explaining why he wrote the book. Because he had originally gotten the information together for a history book but was stripped of the human aspect. And so he put his work into this copy of World War Z. The entire book is a collection of stories from different survivors. From the supposed patient zero in China, to the end of the "war". I quote war because it wasn't technically a war. More of just a fight to survive. It hadn't become a war in my opinion until they started to try to take lost land back. Any way enough of my personal vendetta against "war", the story starts out from a doctor's point of view in China. He is called to a village to investigate a child and five sick adults who were bitten by the child. He later finds that it was not the first case and that it is spreading. So you never really know how it started. As the story continues it talks of how it spreads to different areas through sick people reanimating after death, and refuges getting past. That's if a horde hadn't attacked. Israel was smart and started preparing after they had heard the rumors. Many countries did not fallow suit. After it got bad and more zombies started popping up everywhere people started blaming the government, the military and basically anyone who hadn't done enough to stop the apocalypse from happening that wasn't themselves. In a section called THE GREAT PANIC it tells of how people freaked out. How they looted or ran or attempted to shelter themselves. A group of celebrities built a fully zombie proof living area, and hired guards to guard them from zombies, but were on live television broadcasting their safety and location. The guards(one of whom is telling the story) do nothing as a mob of civilians over run the place because they were hired to protect against the dead, not murder the living. It goes on to tel of how countries around the world attempt to turn the tide. Governments rebuilding or isolating places to live. Some by blowing up a foot pass making it impassible, others, like Russia, who dropped chemicals on bridges to kill anyone who wasn't infected. And shot the ones who remained. Then it goes on to talk about how the United States held up by going moving to the west coast and training the survivors how to survive on their own. And reorganizing the air force for supply drops across the country. It tells of a soldier who's plane crashed in the middle of a zombie infested territory and how she survived thanks to the help of someone named Mets, who saw the plane crashed. However the military believes that she was hallucinating the voice.
This is a picture from the cover page of the book depicting the battle of Yonkers, a military standoff against a horde of zombies made to look fancy for the media. However they were badly defeated and with so it had the opposite effect than was originally intended. " 'Shhh... it's okay, baby, it's okay...' [Her hand moves down from her face to her throat, tightening into a strangeling grip.] 'I won't let the get you. I WON'T LET THEM GET YOU!' [Sharon begins to gasp for air.] [Doctor Sommers makes a move to stop her. Doctor Kelner puts up a hand. Sharon suddenly ceases, throwing her arms out to the sound of a gunshot.] Warm and wet, salty in my mouth, stinging my eyes. Arms picked me up and carried me. [ She gets up from the table, mimiking a motion close to a football.] Carried me into the parking lot. 'Run Sharon, don't stop!' [This is a different voice now, not her mothers.]" World War Z pages 75-76
The quote above is narrated by Sharon, a twenty-six year old who was a child when the panic struck. Her and her mother were holed up in a church with a group of people when the zombies came. After they started breaking through her mother attempted to strangle her. However her mother was shot and she was rescued by someone in the group. I chose this quote because I believe it accurately describes the different levels of stress responses people have. And how certain people react to what happens when faced with immenent death with their children nearby. Unsure of their fate they make rash choices. I think it shows THE GREAT PANIC section perfectly.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Reading Response Two
Starters
This photo is real but it portrays the war zone America had become after the spore misiles had been shot.
Starter's is an amazing book by Lisa Price. In the book there has been a war with the use of biological weapons. These weapons killed anyone who was not vaccinated. And thanks to shortages, only people under the age of twenty and above the age of sixty were vaccinated. This resulted in many orphaned, or unclaimed, teenagers who can not work because of a law saving jobs for those above the age of nineteen. The book fallows Callie, an unclaimed teenager whose parents died from a spore attack, as she tries to support herself and her little brother Taylor. She attempts to get money by renting out her body. No she's not a prostitute, she works for a place called Prime Destinations, or the body bank as it is called. They put the conciseness of an older person into the teenagers body and allows them to go out and do whatever they want. Besides anything illegal or having sex. She agrees to the job after the place she had been squatting at was bought and she was forced to leave. However, on her third rental something happens. She suddenly wakes up in a night club and doesn't know anything that's happened. All she knows is that her rental is far from over. From time to time her renter takes over or communicates telepathically. She learns of a plan to kill a Senator to end the body bank scandal. She attempts to stop her and later attempts to help in a less violent way.
“Did Cinderella ever consider fessing up to the prince, that night she was enjoying herself in the fancy ball gown? Did she even think of telling him, oh, by the way, Prince, the coach isn’t mine, I’m really a filthy little barefoot servant on borrowed time? No. She took her moment. And then went quietly away after midnight.”
This quote is talking about how she's not who she says she is and how she didn't tell her love interest that, but instead left when he wasn't looking. This turns out to be a big deal in the book as yu later find out information about him. He also becomes a big help to her. The love twist at the end is really big on this quote but I can't ruin anything.
This photo is real but it portrays the war zone America had become after the spore misiles had been shot.
Starter's is an amazing book by Lisa Price. In the book there has been a war with the use of biological weapons. These weapons killed anyone who was not vaccinated. And thanks to shortages, only people under the age of twenty and above the age of sixty were vaccinated. This resulted in many orphaned, or unclaimed, teenagers who can not work because of a law saving jobs for those above the age of nineteen. The book fallows Callie, an unclaimed teenager whose parents died from a spore attack, as she tries to support herself and her little brother Taylor. She attempts to get money by renting out her body. No she's not a prostitute, she works for a place called Prime Destinations, or the body bank as it is called. They put the conciseness of an older person into the teenagers body and allows them to go out and do whatever they want. Besides anything illegal or having sex. She agrees to the job after the place she had been squatting at was bought and she was forced to leave. However, on her third rental something happens. She suddenly wakes up in a night club and doesn't know anything that's happened. All she knows is that her rental is far from over. From time to time her renter takes over or communicates telepathically. She learns of a plan to kill a Senator to end the body bank scandal. She attempts to stop her and later attempts to help in a less violent way.
“Did Cinderella ever consider fessing up to the prince, that night she was enjoying herself in the fancy ball gown? Did she even think of telling him, oh, by the way, Prince, the coach isn’t mine, I’m really a filthy little barefoot servant on borrowed time? No. She took her moment. And then went quietly away after midnight.”
This quote is talking about how she's not who she says she is and how she didn't tell her love interest that, but instead left when he wasn't looking. This turns out to be a big deal in the book as yu later find out information about him. He also becomes a big help to her. The love twist at the end is really big on this quote but I can't ruin anything.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Reader's Response: Thirteen Reasons Why.
This is one of the saddest books I've ever read.
It's the journey of Clay as he listens to the thirteen reasons why his crush
Hannah killed herself. Let me explain, Clay isn't supernatural in the least.
No, rather, Hannah recorded seven cassette tapes explaining the biggest reasons
for her suicide. Along with the tapes he received a map with thirteen points
starred. As he listens he goes from location to location trying to find out how
he played a role in her death. At first I thought what Hannah had done was
torturous, a terrible thing to have done. But as I continued to read her
story I understood why she did it. To Hannah it was a final goodbye. And a
final explanation, which could be a gift from heaven or a curse from down
under. Depending on your role. The author did such a good job writing how some
people actually act. I easily connected to some of the characters.
This book touched close to home for me. Not because
any of my friends have killed themselves, but because those who've seriously
wanted to turned to me and told me their reasons. I remember waking up one
morning to a phone call from my buddy Chris, he was calling to say goodbye. I
ran several miles to his house and stopped him but I can't help but think about
if I hadn't been quick enough.
All in all, amazing read, definitely a downer
though, ladies get ice cream, preferably chocolate with those little brownie
bites, gentlemen you have something in your eye.
Monday, September 8, 2014
So I guess I should introduce myself to you all. Try not to make it seem as if I'm a robot. So let's start out with who I am. I'm a 16 year old boy who works at a burger place for a living. I on my own car(1996 Honda Accord) but I may not before to long as the timing belt has snapped and I'm not sure if the valve is bent. I'll find out in the next $250 or so. As for my name, It's River Day. No my parents aren't hippies. No it wasn't a pun on anything. Mom just wanted a kid named River. My father's name is Chris Day, he was 19 when I was born. My mom's name is Charmange Payne (her maiden name is Schmidt) and was 17 when I was born. As with many teenage pregnancies my parents split. Some people I know complain about their parents being apart but I don't. I see it as life, and I'll play the cards the best I can and so what to how it turns out. See, in my eyes, life is a game. Some bad people win, some good people lose. It's life. I'll play to the best I can within the rules and maybe I'll make a comfortable life, maybe I won't. Those who truly know me know I'm a kind of yin-yang, though I doubt they'd use those words exactly. I believe you need more than just moderation, you need balance. What I'm trying to say is that I'm balanced. I'm very loyal and kind and sympathetic but screw me over to much and you'll lose that. Hurt someone I love you'll see the yin side of me. I'm a good kid, can go full on military for new parents or anyone who should be respected, but once they're gone my friends and I are more than a little devious. Balance is pretty key in my eyes. I love dogs. I own an Alaskan Malamute, practically a wolf. He scares me at night, just running up out of nowhere very quietly. I can hear a chipmunk fart from the next house over I've gotten so used to trying to hear him. The rest of my family is really scared of him. He's bit my littl sister who claims to have done nothing (bull). And now dad gets scared when he barks or growls when someone continuously gets in his face after a few warning soft barks. Hardly audible. I mean, come on, he's practically a trained killer. He's made to survive off of very little and you thought he'd be a stuffed toy? Show him respect, and he'll respect you. He's got no issue with me. He tries his wolf bark or snip at me, but I get stern with him and he shuts it. No issue. He knows I am in charge. To clarify I don't hit or kick or even spray him with water. Just a stern voice and when I'm brushing him, gently push his head down. Not enough to injure, just pressure so he'll put it down. I love him to bits but I know he's dangerous. So I'm not sure how much I've shown you me but I hope it's enough for now. I will try to post photos later and if you have any questions please feel free to ask. I'd love to share my philosophical views on life. And I love a good conversation.
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