This journal is about a man named Mark that survived the French Revolution. He had experienced many things during the revolution, however in the end, it all left him with nothing.
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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
This picture depicts the guillotine: A ruthless monster, which during the Reign of Terror, struck fear in the minds of all
Source of the Image: https://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/distress/1819.htm
Between 1787 and 1799 , a revolutionary movement shook France that caused massive changes in France in terms of economy, religion, and more. The Revolution’s purpose was to get rid of the feudal system, disband a kingdom and its monarchy, and establish civil laws and fairer representation of all peoples under governance. This WAS the purpose of the French Revolution, and the actions that the people of the revolution took certainly changed how France functioned as a country. However, like all other Revolutions, the French Revolution speaks out a clear message. In the end, the more things change, the more things stay the same. Our video tells the tale of a fallen monarchy, a new dictatorship, and countless souls lost. This is the French Revolution in Plain English.
Let’s say that you don’t know an answer to a question. You have to go to the library to get a book with that information that you seek to know. You don’t know the location? You have to find a map. Where are you going to get a map? Or are you going to stew in your own curiosity? Before Google was invented in September 1998 September 4th, people all around the world had limited access to information. The book Google it, tells us the story of two fine young men called Seregy Brin and Larry Page: the inventors of Google, and how their school project in Stanford created a search engine that would change the world in terms of entertainment, safety, and simplicity. Want to learn how Google created a ship made of gold, self driving cars, and a plan that could cure human aging? Well then, just Google It!!
For my notebook page, I researched about the mobile app Pokemon Go. The company that created Pokemon Go: Niantic is related to Google, so I just wanted to see how the app structure or idea was similar to Google since it was a major success as well. Pokemon Go was invented on July 6th 2016, and from that moment, its popularity began to skyrocket. The reason for that was Pokemon Go was a game that combined fantasy and reality together. In the game, you can catch Pokemon by going to certain locations. The more time you spend outside, the more benefits you had such as hatching eggs, earning candy, and capturing legendary Pokemon from raids. Instead of looking at their screens and sitting at home all day, players could now go outside and explore new locations and making socializing with people that also played the game along the way. Pokemon Go was a game that focused on the user rather than profit like Google, and now is one of the most popular games in the world.
This page covers the success of Google, and about how it was different from other websites. Google chose to think of benefiting the user rather than making profit, and put themselves in the position of the user. This was set Google apart from the other websites. Websites such as Yahoo and Excite only cared about making profit. Their were advertisement links everywhere, and made it uncomfortable for the user. Now google is one of the most influencial companies in the world, but it was not a piece of cake. They had to borrow money from investors, and stole power from their schools just to sustain the business. However in the end, their innovational thinking, and hard work paid off.
This is the town-hall debate preparation. This just brings up the central idea of the book with some supporting detail and quotes. Our central idea was that innovation and resilience is the key to success. However, during the debate, a participant said that that Larry and Seregy’s success could have been because of their past experiences as well. Taking a look back at the book, and researching more about Larry and Seregy’s childhood, I began to notice that their childhood played an enormous role on how they ran their company. Besides that, there was a quote that I found on page 79 that said “We often talk about a brilliant visionary Steve Jobs was, but there were probably millions of people that were as just as talented as he was. The only difference is that they had limited access to education and didn’t live a place where innovation was the norm”. This quote taught me a valuable lesson that our childhood and past experiences plays a major role in shaping our future, and that we need to provide the future generation with opportunities like Steve Jobs so that each and every one of them has a chance of changing our wolrd.
This cover the cause and effects of the book Google It. Just like the second page, this page focuses on Google’s success with a few quotes and evidence showing how their past experiences also had a huge impact on how they ran their company.
Am I Humanist? by Wontaek Jo [STUDENT]
This project was about taking a look at the different aspects of humanism, and whether if I agree to it or not. Humanism is a belief that we have the ability to enjoy nature ourselves, and not let god be in our life too much. It turns out that I am not a humanists. To be exact, I am 36% humanist. Believing that we can live our own lives, doing what we want to do, is in my opinion a terrible thing to do. This is because sometimes in life, religion is the only thing that is holding us together. It prevents us from doing wrong, and lets us know what needs to be done, and why we need to do it. It is the boundaries in our society between sanity, and doom. Getting rid of that is like making us a lamb to the slaughter. It makes us fall into a hole that we can never escape. As much as I believe that straying away from religion is a bad idea and totally disagree on that, I do believe that god put unlimited potential in human beings. God gave us talents to achieve goals, and to change society, and I think that it is important to use that potential for the right purpose. It also forced us to take responsibility for our actions, and figure things out based on scientific reason, rather than depending on one divine being to solve all our problems. For me, humanism is a thing with 2 faces. It sometimes disgusts me in life, because life shows me how much I need god, but it’s belief in human potential makes me work harder for the things that I want to achieve. It also taught me the importance of standing alone, and enjoying your life as an individual.
This app is for my grandpa, and I am making him an app which makes the things that he hear louder
My found poem is from a story called lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl, and my poem focuses on the internal and external conflict of the story. Before I get into to identifying the internal and external conflict of the story, I would like to explain about the protagonists and antagonists in the story. In “Lamb to the Slaughter” Mary Maloney kills her husband with a leg of lamb, at the beginning of the story (even though that part is the climax), and the rest of the story continues with Mary Maloney facing internal conflicts inside her mind, while she tries to fight against society when the authorities come to investigate (person vs. society). In the story, Mary Maloney had one simple goal, and that was to be with her husband, and I feel like she was the one who affected the plot and conflict of the story most so, I think that it is safe to say that she is the protagonist. Her husband on the other hand has a goal that is the opposite to Mary, to leave Mary behind, and because of his actions and his words, it leads to Mary committing murder which is where 2 main conflicts sprout. The internal conflict that Mary faces in her head, and the external conflict that Mary faces up against society, so I think he is the antagonist of the story.
In my poem, I wanted to focus on the internal conflict that Mary has in her mind because it is the most unexplained conflict and I wanted the reader of the poem to know the sadness and suffering that Mary Maloney faces because many people will focus on Mary dealing with society, while not taking a close look on how she feels at that moment, because there are multiple such as “She couldn’t feel anything at all.” (Paragraph 38 line 1), or “Began to cry her heart out.”(Paragraph 76 line 4). In the poem, I added the phrase “he’s dead.” (Paragraph 81 line 1) because that is another important part of the story, and I also added the information “she will never see him again” (this is a phrase from different words of the story) because she WILL never see him again physically and mentally.
For the different fonts that I used in the found poem, I used fonts that would best describe the specific word or phrase. For the picture I selected a man walking alone in a dark background, because I think that that really resembles Mary’s situation. She has lost everything, and she is forced to walk alone to face the consequences of her actions or whatever she does in her life.
I thought that this story was interesting. I like reading mystery novels, and I thought that analyzing the conflict and making a poem out of it was a great experience.
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