For all the folk that want a basic refresher on writing an essay!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Communication
Some things can even communicate non-verbally with, such as images and films with a deep meaning. Although no words are spoken, many things can be taken out of this video, and it communicates a message to you. Even without words.
Link if you cannot see is here: "These Four Walls"
In the video it symbolizes communication as well because, it starts to travel all over, and communicate with the outside world, and the possibilities are endless. Communication has existed for years, and has changed a lot. Its interesting how. Tell me about your ideas about Communications in the comment section below.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
PREZI!
For those who don't know what Prezi is, it is an amazing web 2.0 tool that you can use to make presentations with. Unlike a regular boring slide show, Prezi is a whole different presentation all together. Its like a flow chart kinda presentation and you can zoom, twist and turn words and ideas. It really maximizes the whole point of a presentation. Main ideas, then details about it. You can insert images and YouTube Videos as well, and even change the theme of the whole presentation. One main thing is that there is NO SLIDES. It is all one big thing, its really amazing, so amazing that I can barely describe it. I recently used it for many presentations in school, and you should too if you don't already do. It puts a new spin on presentations!
Prezi
The Life Of Richard Trevithick
This is a biography of an inventor during the Industrial Revolution I had to write for History. I found it interesting and you may like it too. Enjoy~
Richard Trevithick, you may know him as the father of the steam locomotive, and the high-pressure steam engine. However, did you ever come to think of how or why he was recognized for these things? Let’s start from the beginning of this British inventor’s life, and learn of his story.
Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), was a British inventor and engineer. He contributed to the development of the steam locomotive. Trevithick was born on April 13, 1771, in England in the county of Cornwall, a tin-mining region known as lllogan. Richard spent much of his youth at Illogan and attended the village school. The schoolmaster described him as “disobedient, slow and obstinate.” His father, who was a mine manager, considered him a loafer, and throughout his career Trevithick remained scarcely literate. However, he displayed an extraordinary talent in engineering. Because of his intuitive ability to solve problems that perplexed educated engineers, he obtained his first job as engineer to several Cornish ore mines in 1790 at the age of 19. He was also very interested in the steam engines that pumped water from the mines.
Because Cornwall has no coalfields, high import costs obliged the ore-mine operators to exercise rigid economy in the consumption of fuel for pumping and hoisting. Cornish engineers, therefore, found it imperative to improve the efficiency of the steam engine. The massive engine then in use was the low-pressure type invented by James Watt. Inventive but cautious, Watt thought that “strong steam” was too dangerous to harness; Trevithick thought differently. He soon realized that, by using high-pressure steam and allowing it to expand within the cylinder, a much smaller and lighter engine could be built without any less power than in the low-pressure type.
As technology during that time advanced so did Trevithick. Based on Watt’s low pressure steam engine, Trevithick though and built his own engine, that was better and had more power. In 1797 Richard Trevithick constructed high-pressure working models of both stationary and locomotive steam engines that were so successful that he built a full-scale, high-pressure engine for hoisting ore. In all, he built 30 such engines; they were so compact that they could be transported in an ordinary farm wagon to the Cornish mines, where they were known as “puffer whims” because they vented their steam into the atmosphere. By the early 1800's, he had developed a new engine that was soon used in most of the local mines. This high-pressure engine was the model for most, later steam engines. Trevithick's steam engine could generate significant power because of its design. The steam exhausted from the boiler to drive the piston was directed up the chimney, creating a powerful draft in the firebox. The result was more pressure—and more speed. But Trevithick's locomotive was simply too heavy. It only made three successful trips because every time, the seven-ton engine broke through the cast iron rails.
In 1801, Trevithick designed and built a steam-powered carriage that ran on the road, known as the puffing devil. In 1804, he built the first steam locomotive to run on rails. It pulled a load of iron along a railway for horse-drawn cars. In 1808, he exhibited a large locomotive in London. None of his locomotives were financially successful, because they were too heavy for the roads and railways of his time. But Trevithick did prove that steam-powered locomotives could be built. By 1804 Trevithick had produced his first railroad locomotive, able to haul 10 metric tons and 70 people for 15 km/9.5 mi on rails used by horse-trains at the Penydarren Mines, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales. A few years later he hired some land near Euston, London, where he set up his money-making novelty ride. He also applied his inventive genius to many other machines, including steamboats, river dredgers, and threshing machines. But he will always be best remembered for his steam locomotives.
Impetuous, reckless and eternally hopeful, Trevithick was always so bursting with new ideas that he failed to carry projects patiently through and turned eagerly away to fresh challenges.
In 1816 he sailed for Peru, to install his engines in the silver mines, but the war of independence broke out and South American patriots began destroying his machines. After years of ups and downs, in 1826 he went to Costa Rica, where he proposed to build a railway from the Atlantic across to the Pacific. He was broke and close to starving when he was rescued by Robert Stephenson, who paid for his voyage home to Falmouth. There is no question that Trevithick was a gifted engineer and inventor. He was a failure as an entrepreneur, however. He died penniless in Dartford on April 22, 1833.But because of all his contributions to the steam engine and locomotive, it paved the way to our future today. Without him many things would not exist including our railroad systems. And to the Cornish, he is somewhat of a hero to them and to us he was a great inventor in history.
Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), was a British inventor and engineer. He contributed to the development of the steam locomotive. Trevithick was born on April 13, 1771, in England in the county of Cornwall, a tin-mining region known as lllogan. Richard spent much of his youth at Illogan and attended the village school. The schoolmaster described him as “disobedient, slow and obstinate.” His father, who was a mine manager, considered him a loafer, and throughout his career Trevithick remained scarcely literate. However, he displayed an extraordinary talent in engineering. Because of his intuitive ability to solve problems that perplexed educated engineers, he obtained his first job as engineer to several Cornish ore mines in 1790 at the age of 19. He was also very interested in the steam engines that pumped water from the mines.
Because Cornwall has no coalfields, high import costs obliged the ore-mine operators to exercise rigid economy in the consumption of fuel for pumping and hoisting. Cornish engineers, therefore, found it imperative to improve the efficiency of the steam engine. The massive engine then in use was the low-pressure type invented by James Watt. Inventive but cautious, Watt thought that “strong steam” was too dangerous to harness; Trevithick thought differently. He soon realized that, by using high-pressure steam and allowing it to expand within the cylinder, a much smaller and lighter engine could be built without any less power than in the low-pressure type.
As technology during that time advanced so did Trevithick. Based on Watt’s low pressure steam engine, Trevithick though and built his own engine, that was better and had more power. In 1797 Richard Trevithick constructed high-pressure working models of both stationary and locomotive steam engines that were so successful that he built a full-scale, high-pressure engine for hoisting ore. In all, he built 30 such engines; they were so compact that they could be transported in an ordinary farm wagon to the Cornish mines, where they were known as “puffer whims” because they vented their steam into the atmosphere. By the early 1800's, he had developed a new engine that was soon used in most of the local mines. This high-pressure engine was the model for most, later steam engines. Trevithick's steam engine could generate significant power because of its design. The steam exhausted from the boiler to drive the piston was directed up the chimney, creating a powerful draft in the firebox. The result was more pressure—and more speed. But Trevithick's locomotive was simply too heavy. It only made three successful trips because every time, the seven-ton engine broke through the cast iron rails.
In 1801, Trevithick designed and built a steam-powered carriage that ran on the road, known as the puffing devil. In 1804, he built the first steam locomotive to run on rails. It pulled a load of iron along a railway for horse-drawn cars. In 1808, he exhibited a large locomotive in London. None of his locomotives were financially successful, because they were too heavy for the roads and railways of his time. But Trevithick did prove that steam-powered locomotives could be built. By 1804 Trevithick had produced his first railroad locomotive, able to haul 10 metric tons and 70 people for 15 km/9.5 mi on rails used by horse-trains at the Penydarren Mines, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales. A few years later he hired some land near Euston, London, where he set up his money-making novelty ride. He also applied his inventive genius to many other machines, including steamboats, river dredgers, and threshing machines. But he will always be best remembered for his steam locomotives.
Impetuous, reckless and eternally hopeful, Trevithick was always so bursting with new ideas that he failed to carry projects patiently through and turned eagerly away to fresh challenges.
In 1816 he sailed for Peru, to install his engines in the silver mines, but the war of independence broke out and South American patriots began destroying his machines. After years of ups and downs, in 1826 he went to Costa Rica, where he proposed to build a railway from the Atlantic across to the Pacific. He was broke and close to starving when he was rescued by Robert Stephenson, who paid for his voyage home to Falmouth. There is no question that Trevithick was a gifted engineer and inventor. He was a failure as an entrepreneur, however. He died penniless in Dartford on April 22, 1833.But because of all his contributions to the steam engine and locomotive, it paved the way to our future today. Without him many things would not exist including our railroad systems. And to the Cornish, he is somewhat of a hero to them and to us he was a great inventor in history.
Dream On!
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
-T. E. Lawrence
This quote by T.E Lawrence really tells a lot about people’s perceptions of dreams. Many people dream of many things but never really act to make them come true, they just wake in the day realizing it never happened. This quote defines much of my personal philosophy in life and means to me that, you must act upon your dreams and make them possible, not just imagine them. No one in the world would have ever really succeeded in life without doing so. If you just dreamt of building a large company and being a big success, you will just wake to find that in reality nothing happened. You must act, and dream with eyes wide open, making your dreams possible!
A text that echos the meaning of this quote much to me would be no other than the novel known as “The Great Gatsby” (About “The Great Gatsby” Click Here). The plot revolves around a man known as Jay Gatsby, and his unending desire to fulfill his dream. He would be the prime example of a dreamer of the day, acting upon his dreams to make them possible. Ever since he was a boy, he had a dream of become someone of worth and wealth. At the time he did, he had nothing and things seemed hopeless, that it could only be a dream. Nevertheless he acted to make his dreams possible and his desire to reach them fueled his ambition and things became all nearly possible for him. He became wealthy, living the American Dream, but not because he just imagined about it. He worked to achieve it, taking his dreams into action. Men like Gatsby lead our nation to what it is like today, filled with many dreamers of the day.
In history many people have had many dreams, and pushed to make them exist. One significant event would be the African American Civil Rights Movement. The man who lead the movement, truly lived by this quote. Martin Luther King Jr., he had a dream and took actions to make them come true. He struggled against black and white segregation, and unfair treatment during his time, but he had a dream. A dream that all men would be equal and live together, and he didn’t just dream of this in his sleep. He envisioned it during the day, taking actual actions to make his dream possible. Some would be petitions, speeches, and movements encouraging others to take actions to their dreams as well. Now their dreams have become the reality, all through actions that made dreams possible.
In my life, this quote follows all my dreams. Nearly all I do is taking my dreams into action; taking me one step closer, until I reach them. During my 8th grade graduation speech, I spoke to my fellow classmates, using this quote to help project their futures and dreams. I believe that you must not just dream of what you want to be or do in life, but act to make it come true. At that point in time, everyone was taking the next step in their lives a moving onto high school, which can critically effect their futures. You must dream, dream with open eyes to turn those dreams into reality. So I tell you like I did my classmates, dream my friends, dream with eyes wide open, for only you can make them come true!
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