Thursday, April 28, 2016
Friday, April 22, 2016
iMovie Tutorial
1. I learned mostly about how to start your movie, add pictures, audio, video, type, etc., and how to share your video with other people.
2. I knew basically nothing about iMovie, just that you could use it to make mini movies.
3. I didn't know that it could make such professional-looking videos.
4. Getting the project to look the way it looks in my head.
5. My photos, because I have my own DSLR camera, so I don't need to rely on borrowing one, and I can go at my own pace.
6. I'm an abstract kind of person, so I know I want to do something thats not like baking a cake or a basketball game. I'm thinking about shooting life as it changes throughout the day. Maybe taking some pictures of the moon setting and the sun rising, the dew on the grass, the afternoon sun, etc. I don't know yet.
2. I knew basically nothing about iMovie, just that you could use it to make mini movies.
3. I didn't know that it could make such professional-looking videos.
4. Getting the project to look the way it looks in my head.
5. My photos, because I have my own DSLR camera, so I don't need to rely on borrowing one, and I can go at my own pace.
6. I'm an abstract kind of person, so I know I want to do something thats not like baking a cake or a basketball game. I'm thinking about shooting life as it changes throughout the day. Maybe taking some pictures of the moon setting and the sun rising, the dew on the grass, the afternoon sun, etc. I don't know yet.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Opinions Story
Has the industrialization of agriculture helped or hurt humans?
As a country industrializes towards a manufacture-based society, agriculture also industrializes and changes. But is this change in the way we produce food for better or for worse?
Industrialization has resulted in a rise in commercial agriculture, which produces more product and a stronger profit than in subsistence farming. Commercial agriculture also has created more jobs, and has provided an faster and cheaper way to feed a growing population.
But the effects from the rise in industrialized agriculture are not all positive. Commercial agriculture may seem productive on the surface, but there are hidden environmental, economic, and social costs that come along with it.
Industrial agriculture has also resulted in agriculture that degrades and depletes resources, destroys economic opportunities, and increases food contamination, resulting in more food-borne illnesses.
As a country industrializes towards a manufacture-based society, agriculture also industrializes and changes. But is this change in the way we produce food for better or for worse?
Industrialization has resulted in a rise in commercial agriculture, which produces more product and a stronger profit than in subsistence farming. Commercial agriculture also has created more jobs, and has provided an faster and cheaper way to feed a growing population.
But the effects from the rise in industrialized agriculture are not all positive. Commercial agriculture may seem productive on the surface, but there are hidden environmental, economic, and social costs that come along with it.
Industrial agriculture has also resulted in agriculture that degrades and depletes resources, destroys economic opportunities, and increases food contamination, resulting in more food-borne illnesses.
Commercial farming has effected the environment in a number of ways. One way is by the enormous amount of energy and water it uses. Agriculture is responsible for about 20% of fossil fuel use in the U.S., and accounts for 70% of global water use.
Agriculture has also effected the atmosphere by emitting harmful gases and particulates that are not easily absorbed and cycled, which has led to a contribution to global warming. The runoff from factory farms contains hazardous waste and pollutants that effect people and other organisms living near the farms.
Although industrial agriculture has created more jobs, the low wages and horrible labor conditions resulted in a pay cut for local residents. Because of this, most farms must hire immigrants to work for them.
The rise in commercial farming has closely followed the sharp rises in industrialization that the world has seen in the past 200 years.
The increased use of industrialized types of agriculture will only continue to rise, because local farms cannot compete with the low product prices of commercial agriculture. Local farms eventually switch to factory style farming, just because it is cheaper and there is a bigger profit gain.
Some argue that the industrialization of agriculture has raised the general standard of living around the world. Although this was once true, we are now regressing in time. Pollution and climate change are now global issues, which have resulted directly from the use of commercial agriculture.
Although the amount of people who are concerned about the effects of industrialized agriculture is low, we are here, and we can make a difference. We must get more people informed of the negative consequences of factory farms, and how that effects us, as humans.
Commercialized farming simply cannot meet the needs of a growing population in a world running out of resources. The only solution for the consequences produced by industrial agriculture is to switch to sustainable agriculture. Switching to sustainable agriculture is not an option; it is necessary to the survival of the human race.
SNO online papers
Book reviews: A Thousand Splendid Suns
1. Aimee Bozoudes
2. A review of the book A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. "...it is well worth the read and well worth the thousand splendid and not so splendid emotions it summons."
4. No
5. No, they were very confident in their opinion of the book
6. No
7. 1st-use of we
Synthetic cannabis use on the rise
1. Austin Graham
2. The use of a new drug that seems harmless, but isn't
3. "Schools should update their health books and have a new section written about spice teaching the youth more about its dangers and long term health effects."
4. Yes-they comment on the people's thoughts (who take the drug)
5. No, their opinion was solid.
6. No
7. 3rd
not finished
1. Aimee Bozoudes
2. A review of the book A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. "...it is well worth the read and well worth the thousand splendid and not so splendid emotions it summons."
4. No
5. No, they were very confident in their opinion of the book
6. No
7. 1st-use of we
Synthetic cannabis use on the rise
1. Austin Graham
2. The use of a new drug that seems harmless, but isn't
3. "Schools should update their health books and have a new section written about spice teaching the youth more about its dangers and long term health effects."
4. Yes-they comment on the people's thoughts (who take the drug)
5. No, their opinion was solid.
6. No
7. 3rd
not finished
Monday, April 18, 2016
Personal Essays
1. Make the reader be able to relate to the piece
2. Be specific and don't generalize
3. Personal essays should have more opinions than fact, avoid philosophical rants, and relate to specific, individual examples
Opinions writing preview activity
Apple refuses to violate privacy of users
1. The editorial
2. The FBI requesting (demanding) that Apple create a program that will allow the FBI to access the content of a phone.
3. "...we call for action and legislation to make sure they only do this in the correct way and only with the approval from the courts and not just if they suspect something."
4. Yes, they addressed the issue of wanting to find out if the recent San Bernardino attacks are linked to ISIS.
5. No, they were solid in their opinion.
6. No, there are no quotes.
7. 1st person (plural-use of "we")
Beyonce causes controversy
1. Fuaad Ajaz
2. Beyonce's new song about police brutality and racism towards African Americans.
3. "But apparently people think that celebrating an organization that among other things fought for equal rights...is wrong. That's like saying people should not dress up and celebrate for the Fourth of July; it's just wrong."
4. No
5. No, they were solid in their opinion.
6. Yes, there are multiple quotes from Beyonce and Angela Y. Davis.
7. 3rd
Drug dog investigations have students feeling as though their rights are being violated at school
1. Granger Coats
2. The problems with the AISD policies involving searches without warrant and permission for students.
3. "I believe the DAEP should be a punishment saved only for severe cases such as students considered a threat to the school, the well-being of students, or themselves.
4.
Social media, back at it again
Is the AP World History test worth it?
NOT FINISHED
1. The editorial
2. The FBI requesting (demanding) that Apple create a program that will allow the FBI to access the content of a phone.
3. "...we call for action and legislation to make sure they only do this in the correct way and only with the approval from the courts and not just if they suspect something."
4. Yes, they addressed the issue of wanting to find out if the recent San Bernardino attacks are linked to ISIS.
5. No, they were solid in their opinion.
6. No, there are no quotes.
7. 1st person (plural-use of "we")
Beyonce causes controversy
1. Fuaad Ajaz
2. Beyonce's new song about police brutality and racism towards African Americans.
3. "But apparently people think that celebrating an organization that among other things fought for equal rights...is wrong. That's like saying people should not dress up and celebrate for the Fourth of July; it's just wrong."
4. No
5. No, they were solid in their opinion.
6. Yes, there are multiple quotes from Beyonce and Angela Y. Davis.
7. 3rd
Drug dog investigations have students feeling as though their rights are being violated at school
1. Granger Coats
2. The problems with the AISD policies involving searches without warrant and permission for students.
3. "I believe the DAEP should be a punishment saved only for severe cases such as students considered a threat to the school, the well-being of students, or themselves.
4.
Social media, back at it again
Is the AP World History test worth it?
NOT FINISHED
Thursday, April 14, 2016
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