Hello! This is my Capstone research report on how climate change in affecting animals living in the Antarctic. Please enjoy!
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This video was made by Lucas Yu and Yao Liu. It shows a simplified version of the Mexican Revolution. The video covers everything from Porfirio Diaz’s dictatorship to Alvaro Obregon’s presidency, and how one single revolt to attempt to end a dictatorship resulted in around a decade of war and blood.
One of the big ideas about revolutions presented in this video is that revolutions are often made of many chain events. For example, in the Mexican revolution, the initial goal was only to overthrow one leader. However, every time a president was replaced, the new president wouldn’t be much better. This process between election and rebellion lasted for around a decade until the people of Mexico were finally satisfied.
One thing I learned about revolutions is that there is always a reason for every revolt, rivalry, and battle, whether it may be land, social inequality, poor living conditions, or something else. People demand for something when they revolt, and if that demand is not met when the revolt is successful, they will likely start another rebellion.
Thank you for taking your time to read. Enjoy the video!
The book “Lost in the Antarctic” by Tod Olson is about Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica in 1914. The story gives a thrilling and action-packed experience as Olson drags the reader onto Shackleton’s ship and into the Antarctic. In the harsh deserts of Antarctica, Shackleton and his men face many hindrances, including the cold, illnesses, and living in extreme destitution. As the journey proceeds, another challenge rises upon the crew – Getting to Antarctica is one thing, but getting back is another
Big Ideas:
Central Idea: The harsh environments in the expedition
This page shows the tone of the main settings, which is a main factor of the story. The settings in this story play a big role as the “antagonist” of the story, as Shackleton and his men try to fight against nature. Harsh environments is a central idea because the unforgiving settings are described by the author multiple times, and directly connects with the storyline and the conflict, which is mainly “man vs nature”. This idea also connects with the theme with the book “be grateful”, since the environments give the men harsh conditions to cope with.
Theme: Be grateful for what you have
This page is about the cause & effect of Shackleton’s ship, The Endurance, sinking. This is the climax of the story, as not only is it a big event, but after the ship sinks Shackleton’s character also changes from being a forever-optimistic leader to more of a discourage and desperate person as he starts to show some pessimism to his men. In this section of the story, the author starts to communicate to the readers the theme of being grateful of what they have, as he starts to emphasize the men had to face, such as destitution, hunger, and depression etc.
This page shows the theme of the story which is to be grateful of what you have along with evidence and quotes from the book. The theme of “be grateful” mostly comes from the author’s descriptions of the harsh conditions that the men had to face after the climax of the story, when The Endurance sinks, which the crew took a huge hit both physically and mentally. Cited in blue are some examples of the descriptions that the author used to create pictures of the extreme conditions the men lived in. It becomes a motif throughout the book, and the idea of harsh conditions keeps on appearing again and again. In these quotes, the author is implying that we should not complain about our lives, as the troubles we face is nothing compared to what the men are facing.
This section further adds on to the theme to be grateful, as in these two quotes, Shackleton’s men are being grateful for what they have left, instead of complaining about the many things that they don’t have. They started to become grateful for everything edible, solid ground, and still being alive. Through these quotes, the author is implicitly communicating with us calling us out to stop complaining about whatever “unfairness” or “bad times” we are going through, and to instead be happy about what we do have – a safe shelter, stable food sources, heating, education, etc. – everything that Shackleton and his crew does NOT have.
I would highly recommend Lost in the Antarctic as it is a fun, action-packed read that raises awareness about the topic of war, and pervades gratefulness. Thank you for your time, and I hope that my notes have helped give a better understanding of the big ideas of the book.
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My found poem was created with the words of the short story “lamb to the slaughter“. In the story, Mary and her husband Patrick have a conflict, where Mary is pregnant and needs Patrick to help with work, while Patrick wants to leave Mary because it’ll do better for his work. This part of the story starts at paragraph 40, after Patrick breaks the truth to Mary, who went to get the lamb for their dinner.
All right then, they would have lamb for supper. She carried it upstairs, holding the thin bone-end of it with both her hands, and as she went through the living-room, she saw him standing over by the window with his back to her, and she stopped.
When she came back, she saw the ambient back view of her husband, and that is where my poem starts. I did this because I thought that this was the part where they really separated, this is the part where the villain turns on the hero, where Anakin Skywalker turns into Vader. I pictured a dark shadow of the husband’s back view by the window, which is where my title came from.
At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.
I had to include parts of this part because this would be the climax of my short story. This is where all the action is, where the protagonist’s feelings take over herself, and she loses her mind and lets it all out in an instant. In this instant, everything changed. Mary was now a lone to-be mother, completely in shock of what she just did.
She stepped back a pace, waiting, and the funny thing was that he remained standing there for at least four or five seconds, gently swaying. Then he crashed to the carpet. The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped bring her out of the shock. She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a while blinking at the body, still holding the ridiculous piece of meat tight with both hands. All right, she told herself. So I’ve killed him.
This is the part in the story where Mary realizes what just happened. In this part of the story, She is the one that starts changing, because before this happened, she was the victim, and Patrick was the clear antagonist, trying to leave Mary. After this part in the story, Mary chooses to hide the murder, and we can see Mary’s inner evil start coming out. I used the words “violence, noise, shock”, to create suspense, and to illustrate an aftershock/reaction.
For the background, I chose a dark, gradient photo because it creates an eerie feel, you can find them here! For the text, I used different colors to blend the extra text in with the gradient background for a better effect on it. I also used a stick-like font, because really synergised with the background and colors, and makes it look more creepy.
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