My Photoessay

1. What article(s) would you like to write for the magazine? What photography could you contribute? Art? List three different ideas for your major contribution.

For the magazine, the biggest subject I can write about is how SpaWar creates a robot from beginning to end. This is NOT my photo essay, as for I cannot get all the pictures required to show it from paragraph to paragraph. I do not have access to all the sections of the process, it just cant happen to time constraints.
Secondly, I would like to write a paper on an internship how-to explaining the do's and dont's from my point of view.
Thrid, Showing pictures of robots from SpaWar and writing what they do and how they were designed to change Space, Naval, Air, or Land based missions to help the military intelegence and/or save lives.

2. Suggest at least one (or more) possible title for the magazine. This could be a title with or without a subtitle. For example, I work for UnBoxed: a Journal of Adult Learning in Schools.

High Tech High's Best [one of my two favorites]
How Internship Works [my other favorite]
Internship Times
The O'Highly Factor
UnTernship

3. Suggest a topic for an article that you were personally like to read in a magazine inspired by the internship semester.

I would personally like to read up on the do's and don't about internships; also, if I was in 10th grade right now, I would definatly read up on how to set up an internship by yourself.


PS:
I think the journal should NOT be organized by name, but by topic so that people can view what they are interested in and not have to go through a mad scavenger hunt.

Ratings of importance at SpaWar Unmanned Vehicles...

Name	Level	description
Profit:	Not important	Funding is more important, there is no actual sales per say since this is a government development facility.
Social Welfare	Not-important	This is not the Welfare division under the government, nor is this section allowed to use its funding outside the customers contract.
Advertizing	Non-existant	Products made are specificity limited to the customer and is not allowed to be released to the public unless granted by the government.
Promotions	Normal	Like usual people get promotions while some people avoid them to keep out of PR
Indusrtry	Not importiant	We do not get funding from factories
Markets	Somewhat imporiant	We need to get our pieces somehow, if they are overpriced, the funding goes away
economics	Very Important	This cycle usually entices both companies and the government to either fund or not fund us
Politics	Extremely importiant	This is a government facility, you saw what bush did to stem cell research!!
Information	Not-importiant	We already have it, they probably know what area 51 really is!!
specialization	Important	Everyone is a specialist at something there. Wither at PR, wiring or programming...

Immersion!!!

I am most excited that I get to work on robots! I am finishing up the Google Sketch-up designs. I am going to try to finish up the Google Sketch-up so I can get to coding, what I think is the Lego robot, which I have done before, but its always fun to do.
I am also going to help tear apart one of the old robots wiring!

I do not have that much stress about immersion, because I have already done most of this stuff before.

So psyched though for internship, I think it will be amazing!

Outstanding blogs

Looking through various peoples blogs I have seen some pretty cool blogs. We have some pretty well done blogs that deserve to be pointed out.

Diana Barlow has caught my eye when she wrote her six paragraph paper for her economic advice for Obama. She makes the point very clear with both her writing and a nice video at the bottom as a side piece of evidence she found. Her paper started out very simply of what her main objective was, as well as using a quote at the same time. "'Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages'..." using evidence if not once, twice in every paragraph.

Chandler's "Two Cents" for his honors blog was also fascinating as he established his points with page numbers as references to the book as well as quoting it from the book itself. "...he discovers that Daisy has married Tom Buchanan. 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!'(Page 116)".

As well as Paul's blog on "things to do on interviews"... he laid out his points in much of an orderly fashion rater than paragraph form. This form of writing is simplistic yes, but is used wisely, it can prove to be sweet and to the point, rather that to read 50 blogs that have block text.
"Generalized Questions or Prompts
Simple open-ended questions will often yield complex, unique and interesting responses. These type of questions or prompts require the individual being interviewed to lead the content of the discussion in the direction of their choosing."
Which he also bolded the topic sentence before he laid down his points

How progressive was the progressive era?

It was not too progressive for the upper class, but it actually benefited the middle class. Which is pretty good due to the gilded age that occurred not to long ago. This era occurred from the massive industrialization period that they were facing, thus demanding reform for social, political, and economic standards. California, Oregon and Wisconsin were notably taking the lead in enforcing these changes at the time.

One big reform was the development of the sixteenth amendment. The sixteenth amendment restricted congress from abusing income tax. Income tax was then changed by requiring an appointment among the states basing it on census results. As for the creation of the seventeenth amendment superseding articles 1 & 3 by forcing either a normal election or special election of the event of one of the two senator seats. This will allow the seat to be open when a leave of absence is in effect with one or more senators. And as well as the nineteenth amendment granting women their rights to vote regardless of their gender. I shouldn't really need to point out what is important about that.

Science + Humanities? Nahh....

It may seem like these Science and Humanities cannot meet, but they are actually very crucial for them to link together. If you take the subject matter in extremes, science would not be able to write down their data if humanities was not involved! But in the more reasonable aspect, we need humanities to get across to people about the discovery or evidence. Science can only go so far before it is just plain useless if it cannot get into the public. With humanities, the subject matter is introduced into the public for viewers to be aware of their findings. But not only that, but humanities also makes the subject more "Human"-istic, whereas the intense scientific words are droned out with more simpler words (or is at least tempted to). It looks like humanities is dragging the load along pretty well huh?

So if we put this in an analogy; We have our materials full of scientific information that is waiting to be shipped to its customers. But before it can be shipped, the materials have to be tested before shipped (this is editing from humanities). Then we have to make sure the product will look applicable to the customers (what audience this article is trying out for, changing the wording to make it simple for children, or complex for college level reading). Eventually Public Relations takes over right about here and actually does the shipping, but I guess you get the point. Without this process, we might be giving information to customers that they do not understand, or is not how they expected it to be.