In this unit i learned about the cuban revolution.
we learned about the cause and effect of the cuban revolution, the events, characters and change. this task is to combine all of it to create a journal about the cuban revolution which combine all the things above and make them into a narrative.
The Cuban Revolution. we learned about the history of Cuba, how Batista rose to power and the corruption that plagued the Cuban government. the revolution by Fidel Castro and Che Guvara. in this video me and my partner Austin tried to show that in this short video.
The Big Thirst is a literary non fiction book that is written by Charles Fishman. this book talks about water throughout the world, how people use it, how people treat it, etc.
this book talks in depth about water. it goes from the way people use water in America to a drought in Australia. it shows how people uses water and theorises the future of water. explaining how if we don’t change the way we use water, we would be in a world wide catastrophe.
notes i wrote while reading
mind map
a bunch of quotes
what did you struggle most on this project
i struggled on creating the tree in this project because i never used affinity designer, so when i tried to make the tree i just could not get it working. i tried making it symmetrical and move the nodes to make the branch thicker. so the branches dont get too thin and break. but when i tried to make the pieces connect it just would not work. somehow later i managed to fix it i still dont know how.
what aspect of the project am i most proud of
the tree in the middle was my favourite because it just looked so nice on the speaker. it looks natural and just fit in so well. the tree is the focus of the speaker. it really sells it that this is a organic type of speaker. then having the flowers around it just made it that much better.
if i start over from the beginning what would i change
if i had to star over i would change the hight of the front facing piece because not it just looks like a big forehead on my speaker it looks kind of ugly so that i would change. another thing i would change is on the back board i forgot to stain making it a look out of place.
the theme statement of this story i think is that love changes things. in the book it constantly showed how love of something impacted what people did. in the beginning daniel saw natasha and fell in love, making him follow her and got to know each other. in the middle love made them look for each other, natasha finding daniels number from his brother and daniel going to natashas lawyers office. then in the end love made the lawyer jeremy fizgerald miss natashas court case.
in my notebook i tracked the plot of the story and in it, love kept on poping up. the love questions they did, love driving them to do things and other. love was also the motivation behind what most of the characters do. i also tracked the character development and how at first natasha was resistant to daniel but grown to accept and how daniel learned how to let go.
taco gets spilled.
prototypes
the picture to right is all the design ideas i got before. it has ideas for how to heat up fries and pizza grease and other things. the top left is my final idea.
final product.
this is what i call the taco drive through because it reminds me of a drive through.
my biggest success was finishing it and giving it a functioning drawer giving it a functioning drawer made the idea i wanted better because you put the things you want in the taco into the drawer and without it it would not be the design i wanted it to be. without the drawer this design would not have been completed. the drawer also took the majority of my time because i had to make it very precise in order to make it fit in the hole i made.
my biggest obstacle was trying to find a pipe that connects the two things and making the working drawer. i was looking for a pipe to connect it. originally i wanted to use a foam pipe. but someone took most of it and the small pieces left were split in half so i tried to find a replacement. that didn’t work. so i just glued the pipe together and used that. the drawer was also very challenging because i had to get the cuts very precise so it can actually fit in the hole that i cut it. i had to trim it a lot but eventually i manage to get it in.
something i learned about my self in this project was that if i calmed down and focused on the thing i can do it with efficiency and accuracy. because last year i tried to make something similar but i was constantly getting distracted by my friends so i barely finished it and it did not come out as good as a thought it would come out. so this time i calmed down and started intensely focusing on this project and i think it came out very nice.
something i want to change on my prototype is a control-panel on the side to add extra detail because i thought it would have been great if the person using my product could control where they want the things to be on their taco and what they want to their taco so they could have the ability to customize it.
overall i think my prototype is a success because i finished it and it looks very complete and i am happy with how it turned out. it looks clean and you cant really see hot glue hang on the side. this was a huge improvement from the things i did last year. the cuts were strait and i think i did a good job on glueing and cutting the cardboards together. the foam pipe was also glued decently together. over all i think my prototype looks very pleasing to the eye and i think i did a good job.
conflict.
the story of this is button button. the conflict is the an internal one it is Mary in her mind trying to decide if she should press the button. one person will die and she will receive 50,000 dollars. my poem is her inner turmoil deciding if she should press the button.
the story
the author
what is the most important thing of this design.
the most important is the picture of Rick Astley because it is the centerpiece of the product. this product would not exist without the rick Astley picture.
what is a skill I improved on over the course of the process
i learned how to use adobe illustrator better to cut the picture of Rick Astley. I also learned more about woodworking. for i made a picture frame and i think it turned out pretty good.
what am i proud of in this project
i am proud that i made a picture frame with some help because this was my first finished woodworking thing, and i am also proud of printing the picture on leather because this was my first complex piece. i had to trace things make a picture that way.
problem
my locker is very empty and has nothing interesting inside it. while other people have fancy things in their locker i got a sad empty locker.
inspiration
these photos inspired me because i want to put a rick astly face in a frame and put it in my locker
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