Call me Alice. A third-estate peasant that used to have a perfect family. Josephine, my daughter, meant the world to me. And Pierre, my husband, I also love him a lot. All of these people will lie in the deepest part of my heart. Please read my miraculous journey on how I survived the French Revolution.

After the French revolution, the country was still ruled by a single man, a dictator. Napoleon became the ruler of France as he was very much liked by the citizens. After the Revolution, France was still in poverty and there was still Catholicism in their religion. France failed to establish a constitutional monarchy or representative government. It started with King Louis and ended with Napoleon.  What changed after the revolution was that it put an end to the feudal system, and disbanded its monarchy. It also established civil laws and more fair representation of all the people under governance. 

This is the French Revolution in Plain English. In this video, we are talking about the important events that caused the revolution. In my opinion, I think that the French Revolution was not worth it. After the French Revolution, the country was still ruled by a single ruler, and the structure of France didn’t change vastly. The only major change was that France was now a republic other than a monarchy.

My design is a machine that can make a taco turn into a burrito. I used a bottle to represent the machine because i first cut a hole in the plastic bottle which represents the hole the taco is going to go through, then you can make the machine close the hole off and squeeze the taco to turn it into a burrito. But because my materials were limited, I just used some packages of paper to represent the “lid” of the machine when it should be closing. My group didn’t come up with alot of design ideas, i’m pretty sure we only had n3 that we could actually use so i only have one design that i made.

• my biggest success was for designing the prototype when I didn’t have alot of materials in the hotel i’m living in.
• my biggest obstacle was to not having access to that many materials compared to on campus design class.
• something i’d like to change about my prototype would be to make it neater and be more aesthetically pleasing to the people using it.
• Something i learned about myself during the project was that during the project, i struggled many times to find an idea from my  client about food waste, but listening to the my clients idea i got some inspiration and I think that helped me a lot.
• Skills i learned or developed during this project was to design a prototype on my own and to make the prototype on my own. Finding out that i had to do everything on my own and not having my friends around me was a really difficult thing for me because usually in design class i would have my friends and i work together, i find that when i’m working with my friends i usually would work faster than working by myself.

this is 3 photos of my prototype.

this is my brainstorm web for the ideas my group and i were going to choose from.

this is my first prototype design, during the process of making the prototype, i figured out that my design was kind of hard to manipulate so at last, i made some small changes to my first sketch.

this is the edited version of my first sketch, which is also my final sketch and the one that manipulates to my final prototype

If i did this again, one thing I would do differently is to make the chair a little more of  a square shape because it would be hard for someone to sit on it. My biggest success was making the handrail because it was really small and fragile to make.

My biggest success was making the balls because we kept on hesitating what material to make it out of, and at last they used my idea of Styrofoam balls with some hot glue around the ball to keep it from sliding down.

One thing i’d like to change in our game is the setup. I would like to make the box higher so the person inside the box could have more space to control the game, not getting all squished together.

One concern that was shared with me was when the 4th grader banged the ball down, the skewers/sticks could poke our head. I think its a little dangerous because if someone pushes it really hard, it may hurt someones head.

The prank

Snow. Big white pieces were falling out of the sky, in the most heavily way I could ever imagine it to be. Instantly, I see my mom’s car be buried by a mountain of snow. Listen, I hear squeaks of Christmas carols as if they were playing them outside. Walking downstairs I see the tiny Christmas star shining above the Christmas tree, I look to see if any gifts were placed down early before Christmas and yes, yes there was.

I look under the shining tree with LED lights strapped all over the tree, I pick up the Christmas present which was wrapped nicely with a llama wrapping paper, on top of that was a small ribbon my mom and I made before Christmas.

From: George

To: Isla

I look at the present, slowly my hands decide to pick it up, I give it a big shake and then knock on it. Rectangle, the box was the shape of a rectangle form, I sit on the cold hard floor in the basement just quietly thinking what surprise is waiting for me to open up after Santa comes.

My brain was too excited about the present, I tear a little piece of tape off the wrapping and slowly without realizing it, a small iPhone sign appeared on the box. Printed, I look,

“This can’t be!” I whisper to myself trying not to get caught snooping presents.

Suddenly I hear running from upstairs, I quickly look over, phew, it’s just my dog playing with her furry little bunny that’s head was soon-to-be bitten off.

Please don’t make this a lie, I said to myself, anxious for Christmas. Better get going, I don’t want to get caught snooping on presents before because this was my first time ever snooping on something and lying isn’t a very good idea to do when you’re a beginner. Slowly, I walk upstairs tipped toed so I don’t make creaking sounds but my dog isn’t helping at all, what she’s doing is stomping on the stairs so it’s super loud. Thankfully, my mom and dad didn’t hear us.

Here, finally I fall on my pink fluffy bed, all the air releases with a loud whizzing sound. I lay down on my bed, thinking. What will I have for Christmas? Is it a phone? Yes a phone. I thought because downstairs I already saw the iPhone sign. I take what I use every Christmas, my secret weapon, a fortune teller. I write 4 papers: iPhone, iPad, Hoodies, Dog. I randomly pick one out of the fortune teller, it was actually just a hat but I use it every Christmas to determine my gift, it was never wrong. This can’t be! I thought, as I look very closely at the paper that said, iPhone. I sit in disbelief, no, no, no.

The morning came, my dad however, was busy playing very LOUD Christmas carols, I got dressed as fast as I could and ran downstairs. Swish. I could almost hear the sound of the wind passing me, I run to the Christmas tree and search for my Christmas present. Searching as if searching for my lost dog, at last, I find it! But this time, the present looked slightly different than before. It’s fine, it’s probably just the angle im seeing it in right now. I think in my head trying not to burst to stress. Back, I slowly tear off the wrapping paper for my present and again, I see the iPhone sign. But this time I tried to act surprised like I’ve never ever seen it before, that’s mainly because my mom and dad were by me. I keep acting surprised,

“OMG, mom dad I can’t believe this!” I shout.

Then after I open the iPhone box, I see this white letter-formed paper that wrote,

“you’ve been tricked haha! You get one free snowboard for daddy and a snowboard shoe from mom.”

I looked to my right, which was where my dad was standing and he was laughing so hard he was chocking on water, I guess this was the day I found out that my dad can sometimes