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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein

Monotone Monologue

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Capstone

This is my capstone projectLuke Brock 8-5 2023 Capsotone Project.

American revolution

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American revolution in mostly plain english, with haphazard anomalies

The United States of America is probably the most well-known and influential nation of modern times, yet just around 400 years ago this would be of huge surprise to any person. America was ruled by another country and the citizens believed that it was their nationality; they all thought that they were the British people, however weird that sounds. As a sensible man once said, “there is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.” The European-Americans had been wealthy British people for nearly 150 years now and had been pretty satisfied with their lives, but then again they always wanted more land for their farms. This actually became a problem as most of the other close land in the Americas was owned by the french, so the British government got this bright idea to start a war for the land. The war landed them in bad debt and so the government decided to tax the wealthy colonists. The colonists were not too into this idea and believed that it must end immediately, and thus started the American revolution.

 

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Salt, a World History by Mark Kurlansky

Salt, a World History by Mark Kurlansky is a detailed history of many human events regarding salt. The style of this book is a full informative, giving much information, but its lack of plot and consistent setting or characters provide little engagement to the reader. In salt there is a wide range of salt related history ranging from ancient and modern practices to political disputes and even salt based rebellions. Mark Kurlansky’s writing continually expands on political, economic and cultural uses of salt and its effects on history, however its form of presentation of these facts makes it challenging for it to be called an enjoyable read. Despite his book not being recommended pleasure reading Mark Kurlansky can still be seen to use techniques to express important elements of non-fiction.

 

Notes and analysis of salt can be seen below.

 

One of the major elements of non-fiction is central idea, central ideas can be expressed in non-fiction through motifs of similar events or strong explicit or implicit statements. Due to the dry style of salt motif and statements  are often clearly explicit and therefore easier see in writing, and categorise with a central idea. Below is flow chart of catorgised central idea with supporting details from the text.

 

 

Typically in life major events do not just randomly happen without any cause , so it is important that any factual book wether narrative or full informative, when telling of important events, to include the various causes and effects. It is important to realize that the whole concept of cause and effect is not as simple as a cause leads to an event which has the desired effect, rather there is typically many causes leading to event(s) that have many effects both desired and not desired. Below is a simplified showing of the indian salt rebellion causes and effects from salt.

Word choice is important to every author of any writing, as it has to be constantly carefully chosen in order to keep the reader engaged. In salt, however it is clear that the reader intrest is not the top priority in word choice and as a result the reader is not usually engaged. Salt along with many other books has other priorities for word choice; as it is so commonly thought about, it is also a great way to express theme. This can be seen in Mark Kurlansky’s sinking town of Northwich writing.

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Kurlansky’s writing often emphasises the economic uses of salt, countiuely in topics such as monopoly and currency. Below are supporting details for this specific economic based central idea.

 

 

Reflection

This is me eating. I am very proud of it because the food was good. Nothing was wrong with the food. I learned that my teammates are capable of not messing up food. I deffentaliy will eat again. By me eating it meant that others could not eat my food.

Am I a humanist

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Always fit in with society

The found poem “always fit in with society” is a poem that represents the short story “the Fan Club” by Ronan Maynard and strives to replicate the stories elements such as theme and conflict. In “the Fan Club” the main character Lura, is commonly bullied and is always alone. This information is key to the story as it is what leads the storyline, so I have chosen to include the part of the introduction were it lists all the people against the main character Lura that are considered “cold and unkind” , I have also tried to make this part unique by putting it verticality showing that Lura is truly outnumbered.  After the introduction ends Lura is then caught in a situation where she overhears the “cold and unkind people” as stated earlier plotting an attack against someone that she expects to be herself. I decided that this was important to include as Lura will continue to live out her day, make decisions, and have suspensions with that in mind. It will later also help highlight herself centered character. The next part of the story is where another character Rachel invites Lura to come to her house. This one of the largest examples of internal conflict in the story, as Lura has heard that the place where Rachel lives is terrible and uncomfortable but also thinks that it is always better to fit in with other people and chose to fake enthusiasm. I have highlighted this part in the poem by putting the two parts of the conflict on different sides showing that they are to separate sides that will not work together. We can see then that Rachel decides to go with the faking enthusiasm side. The largest example of internal conflict and the most important part of the poem come and the stories climax.  Lura finds out that the plotted attack was not on her rather on Rachel who she was beginning to fit in with. Firstly, I used “bell sounded ending the period,” as a transition to show that time is passing. As this is the climax, I found it important to describe the scene in more detail, so I took some of the key details to set the scene. In the scene the bully club has made upsetting signs that the are going to wear to harm Rachel. Then the internal conflict within Lura when the leader of the club offers her one of the signs. Again, in the poem I chose to show both side of the internal conflict, she can stay with Rachel and stay at her defense or join the attack. I have also tried to build up suspense by pointing out the mocking smile and showing the growing rhythms of claps leading up to her final decision to join the bully club. With all this in mind I think that the theme of this story is that you should always fit in with society no matter what society is doing or what they believe. This can be seen to a lesser extent back when Rachel invites Lura to her house, just Lura and Rachel would not probably be considered society but still fits with the idea that more is always better than less. However, this is mostly seen in Lura’s last decision to join the bullies where she appears to join them even when she disagrees with what most of them think and only does it because most of the people are. Finally, I think that the art perfectly represents this. Being pretty basic it shows that a lot of people are good and being alone is bad, it does say anything about those people so I think that it well represents the theme of the story that you should always fit in with society no matter they are doing or believe.    

cardboard arcade game Luke

This is my game. it is very complicated unstable brakes a lot is a little weird and badly designed but it has a theme that is the only good part. My biggest obstacle was building the catapult so addventully turned in to lunches which worked slightly better.  a disadveage about my game is that it is a lot of diffrent parts and has to be set up every time which is time consoming. Over all i think the game was some where between a succes and a fail because becuse people said they liked it but it did not seem like they whanted to give bad feedback

Heat Insulator Challenge

a. Liquid will not stay hot for a long time ( problem)

b. we stated by brainstorming separately than made one brain storm together. after that we made a all paper prototype and stared to make a final product but got a last second idea for another one so me and my parter split up on that once we tested we found that the first idea worked better but the second was a lot more removable and neater than the first but perseved heat worse. 

heat persever                                                                                   the neat

 

 

c.

c. cup insulators insulate  liquid in the cup better than non.

e. the totel loss of the first insulator was 12.5 the secound was 15.1 and with out it was 20.9 this was all over ten minutes.

r. cup insulators contain heat.

I am proud that we were able to make two insators and we were able to have one that was very neat and one that perseved heat well.

the hardest thing was that we had very little time

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