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In this unit, we analyzed social issues of racial discrimination and medical advancements during the 1900s. We analyzed text by writing TIEAs and spoke in a video mentioning the themes that were used in the text and connected the text to a global issue that we chose.
ILOHL TIEA
In this unit, we learned about what was important to us personally and wrote an essay about it. After writing the essay, we made a video reading our video and visually showing the essay. I think that this assignment helped me understand what I really believe in.
In The Crucible Act 1, Reverend Parris is trying to find the person responsible for Betty’s sickness and the witchcraft activity in the forest. He interrogates Abigail and Tituba, who participated in the witchcraft activity. Since practicing witchcraft is a sin and punishable by death, Abigail and Tituba starts to name names to stop the accusations against them. When Reverend Hale asked if Abigail conjured witchcraft, she immediately blamed it on Tituba as soon as Tituba enters. “She made me do it! She made Betty do it!” (40) When Tituba was accused, she was threatened for being hanged and confessed to working for the devil. “I don’t know, sir, but the Devil got him, numerous witches.” (42) Abigail and Tituba named several names and blamed them for working with the devil. “Aye, sir, and Goody Osburn” (44) “I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!” (45)
This situation reminded me of movie court scenes, where the judge is trying to find out who is guilty of their crimes. In the movie “Sully” the pilot was in a situation where he needed to land the plane on water as an emergency landing. In court, they had different witnesses and victims to testify for the court case. This was a very similar situation to when Reverend Hale and minister Parris interrogates Abigail and Tituba.
In this assignment, we got to collaborate with students from another school in Ohio. The students from Bio Med Science Academy were supposed to make a video based on the script and storyboard that we (KAS students) write for them. The script and storyboard are about a personal reading book that I read called the maze runner.
Me and my partner communicated with emails and social media (snapchat), we discussed the camera angles and the dialogue in the character scenes in our project. Even though we were able to communicate over social media, it was still difficult because of the different time zone.
Script
This was my second time writing a script for a story, it was still a little confusing because I didn’t know how to arrange the conversation between the protagonist and antagonist. I didn’t want the script to look exactly like how the book is written, so I tried to change how the character talked and the order that the character talked in, but I didn’t change the main point of the scene.
Storyboard
My first time drawing a storyboard was an interesting experience. At first I didn’t know what a storyboard was, but after looking at some examples, I tried to draw what I thought the story and setting should look like. I think drawing the storyboard helped my partner with making the movie trailer because it can help her know what should or shouldn’t be in the movie trailer.
Overall experience
I think this was very fun to work with someone oversea and getting to know how different schools focus on teaching different subjects. In Bio Med Science Academy they focus on teaching technology and science, but in our KAS english class we were learning about writing a script and storyboard. I think the process of putting together different types of our specialty and making it into a collaborative project is very interesting.
My partner is Allison. She is from Ohio. On her Flipboard and blog, she wrote that she likes dogs and taking pictures. There is also I would like to know her favorite foods and the type of exercise she likes to do. We both really like dogs and
Amedeo Avogadro was the first scientist to find out that elements could exist in the form of molecules instead of individual atoms. He is mostly known for his hypothesis that different gases with equal volume contain the same number of molecules, therefore they are the same temperature and pressure.
Personal life
Amedeo Avogadro (full name: Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro) was born in Turin, Italy on August 9th, 1776. His mother was Anna Maria vercellone, a noblewoman of Biella. His father was Count Filippo Avogadro, a highly intelligent lawyer. He was born into a noble family, so he was able to receive a good education. Even though he is mostly known for his scientific law, his education didn’t start with science. Because his father was a very successful lawyer, he was pressured to follow his family tradition and study law. In 1792 he graduated with At age 20 (1796) he was awarded the doctorate degree in canon law, then started to study ecclesiastical law.
Eventually, he lost interest in his legal career and started to study math and physics during 1800. At first, he started his research on electricity, then he became a member of the Academy of Science of Turin at 1804 and a demonstrator position at 1806. At 1803 he wrote a paper with his brother (Felice Avogadro) about his experiment on the electrical behavior of the salt solution, then published it. He became a professor at Royal college of Vercelli for natural philosophy at 1809. In 1820 he became a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Turin.
Even through Avogadro was born into a noble family and is part of a high-class society, he was quietly religious and he believed in hard work. He lived a simple life and married Felicita mazz in 1818, then had 6 sons with her. Avogadro was a simple man and believed that his discoveries were facts, he isolated himself with only his work and didn’t work with other scientists. Avogadro’s work was not accepted until after his death. In 1856 he died in his hometown of Turin, Italy.
His contributions to science
During that time period, the studies for atoms were very limited and often times wrong. With Avogadro’s interest in how the particles of matter behaved and how they came together to form chemical compounds. He studied the work of other scientists (John Dalton and Joseph Gay-Lussac) and found out the mistakes that were made, and corrected them by using his numbers and law.
For example, John Dalton was known for advancing the knowledge of chemistry with his atomic theory, but he made mistakes about the way elements combine to create compounds. He originally thought that water was made up of one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom, but Avogadro’s law showed the elements can form molecules instead of being an individual atom. Joseph Gay-Lussac observed that when 2 liters of hydrogen reacts with 1 liter of oxygen gas, it forms 2 liters gaseous water. Avogadro’s explanation for Gay-Lussac’s observation was that after the reaction, when all of the hydrogen and oxygen gases have become H20 gas, the volume of gas falls to two-thirds of the starting volume.
Avogadro’s law
In 1811 Avogadro published a paper called Journal de Physique. His paper showed his hypothesis which was that all gases with the same volume, temperature, and pressure have the same number of molecules. After realizing Gay-Lussac mistake and correcting it, he became the first person to find out that elements can be formed as a molecule. Many other scientists like John Dalton believed that only compounds can form molecules.
After studying other scientists Avogadro wrote 4 other papers about the physics of matter, but almost all of them were ignored. 4 years after Avogadro’s death, Stanislao Cannizarro presented it at a conference 1860.
Why was his work ignored?
Many famous and more well known scientist like John Dalton and Jöns Jacob Berzelius disagreed with Avogadro’s theories. He didn’t try to make himself famous or known, by traveling around and spreading his theories. He stayed at Turin, Italy most of his life.
Avogadro’s numbers
6.022×10^23 is the number of particles in a atom or molecules. These number is now one of the most important numbers in science, it has become part of the basic knowledge of chemistry. Avogadro didn’t calculate this number, instead he created by following his hypothesis and work.
“My studies of the natural sciences have particularly involved that part of physics which looks at the atomic world: the properties of molecules, the forces involved in their movement, the heat capacity of different substances, expansion of gas by heat, and the density and pressure of gases.” -Amedeo Avogadro
With his studies with his hypothesis to his numbers, Amedeo Avogadro has made a big impact in with science by using his knowledge to develop the understanding of chemistry.
Sources
Scientists, Top, and List Scientists. “Amedeo Avogadro – Biography, Facts And Pictures.” Famousscientists.org. N. p., 2017. Web. 20 Nov. 2017.
“Amedeo Avogadro | Italian Physicist.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N. p., 2017. Web. 20 Nov. 2017.
“Amedeo Avogadro Conte Di Quaregna Facts, Information, Pictures | Encyclopedia.Com Articles About Amedeo Avogadro Conte Di Quaregna.” Encyclopedia.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 20 Nov. 2017.
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“Amedeo Avogadro.” En.wikipedia.org. N. p., 2017. Web. 20 Nov. 2017.
Nowadays every child, teenager, or even adults have social media accounts, and it can be very useful, but very distracting. Although it is useful for communicating, is it really necessary? These apps distract teenagers to the real world. Studies according to A kaiser family foundation study from The Washington Post has shown that kids between 8-12 years old spend about 6 hours per day and teenagers spend at least 9 hours on average. “Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, and value as an individual.” -David Amerland
Social moment, Toronto by VV nincic via (CC BY 2.0)
Social media causes many problems like lack of verbal communication, cyberbullying, low self-esteem, or depression. Personally, I think a big problem for girls is being insecure of your body and wanting to compare it to others on Instagram or Facebook. Teenagers would want to get more likes on their photos and posts. Researchers at UCLA did an experiment on the brain activity of a teenager when they see a certain amount of likes on their social media page. The research showed that the teenagers were highly influenced by the number of likes the photo had, and a part of the brain that was active was linked to visual attention.
Overall I think teenagers like me shouldn’t be so focused on the media because there is a lot of quality of daily life that can’t be learned by social media. There are also good things about social media like how it can help you meet new people, or help you communicate with friends.
Social-Media-Roadmap 750×280 by Yoel Ben Avraham (CC BY-ND 2.0)
All three of these images relate to each other because they change in a way. The butterfly image changed the color of the wings, the weather changes in picture 3 and the birds change in picture 1.
The internet is can be dangerous. Strangers can use your photos or your name as an advantage for fame. Social media like snapchat or Instagram can show your location, this can lead to people being followed or stalked. Sharing too much personal information is dangerous because people can steal your identity and pretend to be you online.
To avoid strangers stealing your identity, keep your account on private and only accept the friend request of people you know. Keeping your account on private will prevent other users to access your information like your post, captions, or location.
If the account isn’t set up properly then the accounts can be hacked or stolen.
internetSafety ghost by paul Klintworth (CC BY-NC 2.0)
https://www.howtogeek.com/179777/ask-htg-can-people-really-find-me-using-photos-i-post-online/
http://www.ncpc.org/topics/internet-safety/social-networking-safety