The most productive piece of my process in making the magazine was that I got the requirements done very soon, helping me with getting other requirements needed to get done latter on. Those “other requirements” are critiquing other peoples work and making my pictures nicer, as well as working on the layout.
I had a hard time making up a decision on which article I was going to choose, my first idea was to make up a paper on what an internship is and what some things to know are before going into an internship would be. Then I changed it to be my photo essay combined with my interview. Then I changed it again to be my interview. Dealing with the extra time I had with finishing up my paper somewhat early, I edited my three pictures I would latter use in my article. My process for the article is somewhat off because the hard drive crashed, so I remade my article on another computer with another group.
My help with other group members was very helpful not to say the least. As I waited for my group to finish with their own article as I was in line to edit my paper, I helped other needing people, both in my group and outside my group. I would switch off of that if I found something to fix on my paper.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Socialist Obama!
While I was going through some articles I found a particularly interesting accusation that I thought was not based on any information besides opinion. But instead I followed a link that was embedded in the article which lead me to a very surprising article. The first article I found was http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_socialism_matters_1.html where the main point of the article addresses the history of socialism and how it considered to the point of where we are today starting from the 1920's. Even though I was not quite to interested into falling too off-topic into the interesting facts of Nazi-Germany's Socialist state. But at the top of the article I found this interesting little link that I have been meaning to bring up. This link quickly showed the strange finding of http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-obama-was.html, which is an article that addressed the fact that Obama used to be involved in the “New Party” which is a “political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA”. Well, very interesting yes? I have more. Further within the article it bring up the fact that the New Party's website deleted an article from October 1996. But it was not deleted from the non-profit organization http://archive.org/ which archives numerous popular websites. Which pulled out a nice little juicy piece of evidence.
“New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.”
You can see for yourself at http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html and http://web.archive.org/web/20000622142249/http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html with its earliest archive at 2000.
But as the first article went on from that point, it brought up “...To most people, it just means Obama is a more liberal Liberal, or a leftier Lefty, and they already knew that.”
As for the original question of “Do you feel that the label 'socialism' is applied appropriately or correctly to Obama, his proposals or his policies?”, I think Americanized socialism is correctly applied to Obama,but his policies follow a mixture of democratic and solcialism.
“New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.”
You can see for yourself at http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html and http://web.archive.org/web/20000622142249/http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html with its earliest archive at 2000.
But as the first article went on from that point, it brought up “...To most people, it just means Obama is a more liberal Liberal, or a leftier Lefty, and they already knew that.”
As for the original question of “Do you feel that the label 'socialism' is applied appropriately or correctly to Obama, his proposals or his policies?”, I think Americanized socialism is correctly applied to Obama,but his policies follow a mixture of democratic and solcialism.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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.
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
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.
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.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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... |
Friday, February 27, 2009
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!
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!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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
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
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