Jenna

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

A New Beginning or Another Nightmare

Many people say that the more things change, the more things stay the same. One of the most important things in history is continuity and change. There are also continuities and changes throughout the Cuban revolution. One continuity of the Cuban revolution is the form of government. While Batista was in power, the form of government is dictatorship. And when Castro came to power, the form of government stayed to be dictatorship.

Many things in Cuba continued to happen, however, things also changed throughout this period of time. One Change after the revolution is the quality of people’s lives. After Castro came to power education and healthcare became better for people in Cuba, which is a success reform. Another change during the revolution is Cuba’s economic system. After the revolution industries, including sugar, oil, and banking were nationalized.

A New Beginning or Another Nightmare – Cuban Revolution

Challenging the Impossible – Lost in the Antarctic

Lost in the Antarctic, a nonfiction survival story, written by Tod Olson, tells how 29 men embarked on an impossible journey, crossing the Antarctic continent. It all started with a sign that read “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition”, where Ernest Shackleton invited 28 men onto a journey to the coldest, least populated place on Earth, the Antarctic. So, in 1914, the ship Endurance took 29 men on to this journey challenging the impossible. The crew was trapped on the ice for almost two years, during this period, they faced many difficulties, one of the biggest being the extremely harsh conditions in the Antarctic.

 

When I first started reading this book, I found a lot of central ideas, and also found themes of the book that are worth learning. Here are some of the central ideas and themes.

 

As mentioned before, harsh conditions are a huge difficulty, but I found that the crew actually made time for entertainment. So I came up with the theme: A balance between work and rest is crucial.

 

Throughout the journey, Shackleton and his crew were under a lot of pressure, both mentally and from the Antarctic. So I create a pressure map to list out these pressures.

Finally, the success of the crew must have been largely due to the leader, Ernest Shackleton. So I came up with the theme: A responsible leader is crucial in a team.

This is a photo of Ernest Shackleton.

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Thank you for making it to the end of my blog post! If you are interested in adventure and survival topics, check out this book! Here is a link to this book on amazon Lost in the Antarctic.

More Freedom, More Respect – Humanism

How humanist am I? by Jenna

App Design – Work in Progress

This PowerPoint is the process journal for my Summative App. This is updated each class.

Murderer? Barber

The found poem above was taken from page 4 of the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez. It shows an internal conflict of the barber, the protagonist. In this passage, the protagonist is struggling to decide whether to kill Captain Torres or not. And finally at the end of the story the protagonist decided not to kill Captain Torres, “I don’t want to be a murderer”, “I am only a barber” (page 4), he thought to himself.

Utensil Challenge

Part 1: Divergent Ideas:

The ideas that we came up were, chopsticks for noodles, peanut pincher and a cup that can cool water very fast. The first idea we came up was the chopsticks for noodles. We came up with this idea because one of us just had noodles for lunch, and she thinks that the regular chopsticks was too slippery for noodles. Than we came up with the idea of the peanut pincher. Because we already had the idea of picking up food with something similar to chopsticks, we thought that when picking peanuts the honey on the peanut will make dirty, so, we could design something that don’t make your hands dirty. The third idea that we came up with was the cup. We got this idea because we heard that other groups are talking about cold water, and we thought that if we add ice to the water, the water will taste bad, so we designed this cup that you put ice on the outside, so the taste of the water won’t change. 

 

 

Part 2: Feedback & Refinement:

The most feedback that we got is that we needed more explanations, so we wrote more to make the drawing clear, and we wrote the problem that the utensil is solving, to show the difference between the two similar designs. And a feedback said that for our third drawing, the cup, ice will fall down when we drink the water. I think they think this way is because we didn’t draw so clearly, so we drew the drawings more clear, to better show our thinking.

 

 

Part 3: Reflect & Share:

The problem that our utensil is solving is that when you are eating honey coated peanuts, you will get your hands dirty, and if you use our utensil, you won’t get your hands dirty. The material that we decided to make the utensil out of is reusable plastic, because it won’t pollute the Earth, and also because if you only want to use it one time, it’s going to be cheaper than buying a wood peanut pincher. The strengths of our utensil is that your hand won’t get dirty when you want to eat honey coated peanuts, especially when you are working, your computer won’t get dirty. The weaknesses of our utensil is that it might not be just right for every peanut, but we think that if we make the curve for big peanuts, it can still pick up the small peanuts.

Welcome to Your New Blog!

When you blog you create posts and posts are categorised according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you. If you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:

  • An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category.
  • Body – this is where you share your learning. This can include text, images, embedded videos from Dragons’ Tube or elsewhere. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging? Do they want to keep reading?
  • Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner

Click on the images below to learn more about blogging:

 

 

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