Blog #29

Blog #28

Some of the actors working in the dressing room

This is a bunch of the actor rehearsing act 3

The original crew setting up the play house

Blog #27

i think the entire dynamic between lily, vincent, and grant is really the best part of our play. Just the way that we could make it so intertwined with itself was amazing.
i enjoy all of act 2 the most happens in that scene. It is just so fun to do the second act being one of the actors.
My favorite line would have to be BOO-YA when i first burst through the door.

Blog #26

I proud that i have overcome the fear of being an actor and memorized all of my lines. I am really excited to act for the first time in front of a real audience

Blog #25

Survival
* Ocean Beach.
* Bicicleta.
* 30-45 seconds.
* i had some tasty eggs.
* My house.
* Anything in my house.
* I will sit, stand and work in the classroom.
* 45ft away from the entrance to the classroom.

People
* Cyndie Volpone is my mentor and she is very excited to be my mentor.
* How much she has changed since the last time i saw her.
* Only my mentor and maybe a few guest speakers in the class.
* I'm excited to be bonding with her after not seeing her in a few years.


Work
* Teaching kids how to use the technological aspects of the class.
* I would use all of my skills as a teacher and also all of my tech knowledge.
* I will learn if i want to be a teacher or not.
* I will create a lesson plan that my mentor will use in years to come.

Thoughts
* Dealing with all of the hyper children.
* Nothing has really surprised me about my internship.
* being the only other teacher there i think it will be quite easy.
* i am going to take it seriously to make sure to knock out teaching as a possible career.

And...
* If a zombie apocalypse were to happen i would be able to execute my original plan

Blog #24

I'm really looking forward to going back to my roots, i'm going to my elementary school. i want to see how it has changed and what has stayed the same, also i want to have the nice memories from when i was there.
The only thing i am concerned about is if i can get a project that will take me all of the three weeks.
I plan on teaching the children how to use the technology they have by doing a series of lessons on sea life.
My goals are to finalize the project i am doing to make sure that it will take 3 weeks and keep me busy enough.
The only question i have is when would some people be coming for site visits.

Blog #23

I think the most successful aspects of my role, was the ability to go around and hep whatever group needed it. I was busy enough to the point were i got all of my work done and also i was free enough times where if someone needed help i was right there ready to start to work on it. I think that i have worked with every single group in this entire project. Also i think that my being able to help people figure out what they are doing through the Google doc was another aspect of my role that was very helpful.

Going along with helping other groups i think that it was also one of the most challenging parts of my job. I was constantly asked to do things that differed from hour to hour. I needed to have a vast knowledge of the play to do this. I also needed to be able to be flexible in what i did, so that i could accommodate to all of the people asking me for help or suggestions. I might be doing sets for one moment then working with the playwrights for the next, then back to sets or maybe helping the actors do some games. I had to be very flexible for this to work.

I have no questions regarding the play.

I am thankful for the booming bike club that eric, jackson and i have started. I am thankful that this play is actually going to happen and is going to be good. I am also thankful that this semester is almost over. Lastly i am thankful that randy will put in my grade for the amecian icons reflection.

Blog #22

Blog #21

The Federal Theatre Project was a New Deal project made to fund theatre and other artistic performances during the great depression. The main goal of it was to give out of work artists, directors and playwrights work, the secondary goal was to promote relevant art and give poor families entertainment. The project was important because it was used to stimulate the economy, most theatrical professionals were out of work because of the depression and it as used to give them all jobs so they could be put back in the economic stream. Also it really helped rising theatrical professionals, many talented people were found during this project, it really helped stimulate not only the economy but also the artistic world. One reason the federal theatre project was controversial was because they were putting limits on what people could put in plays. One of the big ones is that no figure head could be slandered in a play. This was controversial because people thought it went against the freedom of speech. Also it was controversial because people thought that the money they were putting towards theatre could be better spent in other places since it was a depression.

This was a play that was put on by the federal theatre project.

This was a very controversial play put on by the Federal Theatre Project.

A crowd of people waiting to watch macbeth put on by the Federal Theatre Project.

Blog #20

I have been working with the playwrights and the documentations outside of my normal job. The helping with the playwrights has died down since the cold read has started but i have still been with the documentations with kick starter. I have been pushing them very hard to get the video done. I have been getting people to interview, and if they are leaving something important i fill in for them. In the beginning no one was going to do interviews with them but once i steeped in a was pushing people to go do the interviews. Now we are almost done with it and it should be finished by the end of this week.

Blog #19

This illustrates what i am going to be doing when the play goes into the final stages. I need to be there all the time making sure things are being done right and done well. I should be directing everyone when we get near the end and keeping everyone calm. I need to make sure that things don't fall apart so that our play can be as good as possible.

I also need to be making sure that these cold readings that we have can be as helpful as possible. I should be actively trying to make the cold reads a good use of time.

During the performance i will be making sure if something goes wrong it is put out as fast as possible. I need to keep the play going no matter what, doesn't matter if the set burns down, i need to put it out and keep the actors acting.

Honors post #2

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern literary breakdown.

Up until One month ago I had one general rule for writing, make it seem as real as possible. This was a divine law for me, to make a good play you had to follow this exactly. One month ago something magical happened; I opened Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, this shattered my reality. I was dumb found, how a play that was so widely respected could violate the divine law. I couldn’t believe that people enjoyed a play so much that so blatantly screamed “you’re watching a play!”

This was until I read it for myself, I was instantly caught up in the hilarity of what it was saying, I didn’t care if I knew it was a play. Knowing that only made it funnier for me, normally I would read it just for the humor aspect. Since I was under the guide of the great Randy Scherer I delved deeper into the play, doing this made it much more enjoyable. I was getting the hilarity and I got the deeper meaning, making me think about if life is one big play and we are all actors. It changes my perception of reality making me think about if I really have free will or if I’m just another Rosencrantz thinking he knows what is happening. Also it makes me question who I really am, am I just an actor or do I have a true personality that I am free to change and manipulate at my own will. The more I read the deeper I get into the thought of my own mortality. I think that this is what Tom Stoppard wanted when he wrote the play; I think that he wanted people to start to question the world around them.

Tom Stoppard used Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to get people to think about plays, he opened people’s eyes to what happens when a character exits a play. Even though when the character that exits is not in the play thus making him non-existent. Tom decided to take an exit in hamlet and make an entrance in this play, he took all of the little thinks that happened in hamlet and made them big ordeals. By doing this he breaks down hamlet in a sense, you can use this play as a literary breakdown of hamlet, at least a literary breakdown of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s point for being in the play.

By doing all of these things right Tom made a play that broke the divine rule but made it amazing in spite of that. By breaking down a character in a play and talking about his mortality it makes all of those who read it question their own mortality.

New Yorker Theater Critiques.

There are many things you need to do to write a successful play, it is not an easy process to go through. There are many tools you need to master to make the play an interesting and cohesive entity. There are very many tools, but most are very specialized for certain things. As a playwright you need to know which tool to use and at what time, which is where the real challenge comes in. Out of the many tools there are three that I have found to be the most useful in writing a successful play; foils, characterization, and conflict. With these 3 specialized tools used correctly you can make an amazing play even better.

First off foils, these are characters that are the opposite of another given character; this can be used to further show character traits of people. When used correctly foils can give away subtle things about a character that would otherwise be un-noticed. To make the best use of this you need to make it so more than just one character has a foil, it is best when all characters have at least one. Foils are even better when characters have multiple foils, thus showing even more about a character. I think that to integrate this into out play we need to make other people then just Vincent have a foil. At the moment Grant is a foil for Vincent, but we need more people to foil Vincent. Also we need characters to foil other characters then just Vincent. I think that if we could do this right then it could make our play a deeper more thought provoking play.

Characterization is a necessary device in a play, most of the time it is done without really thinking about it. When writers use characterization without thinking about it a lot of the time it comes out crude and unrefined. Seeing how this is one of the most necessary devices it needs to be done very well. Adding personality to a character needs to happen or else the play is completely unbelievable. In out play we have done a good job of this with Vincent and Grant. Unfortunately I think that on most of the other characters it could be done better. This might be because there are a few scenes missing but, I don’t think that most of the characters have a very deep personality. It is just a surface level personality that makes it so you don’t fall in love with the characters. Since this is so important we need to give the characters a deeper personality so people with enjoy our play.

Finally one of the last literary devices that need to be in a play is conflict, this is an obvious one. Without conflict a play is boring and intolerable, think of life if it had no conflict, it would suck. This goes for a play also, with no conflict it sucks. Plain and simple, having a conflict isn’t you only thing you need to do to make it great though. You need multiple conflicts through different characters; you need conflict within and conflict between people. The more complicated the conflicts get, generally, the better it can be. I think that in our play we have done this quite well, we might want to add some inner conflicts with liz and Torry but for the most part I think that it is good. As long as we add foils and better characterization then I think that this play can be something great. I think that with these three devices our play can easily be that much better.

Blog #16

Rosencrantz and guldenstern is about what happens off of the stage. It is about the life of a person inside a play that doesn't know he is there but makes subtle hints at the fact that he is inside of a play. It is meant to really tell us about what happens to the characters in a play and what happens in a play when someone exits. The entire thing is about how these two characters are like when they are outside of hamlet, it is about all the things that happen when there is an exit. The line in it describes it perfectly "every exit is an entrance somewhere else" this is exactly what the play is trying to show us.

blog #17

Vincent: I don’t stalk her. I just people watch, her specifically.

I think that this is the best line in the play, it is a great joke and it tells us more about Vincent. I think that this is a great use if diction, i think that Vincent defending himself by say “I just people watch” makes the joke work. If you had used some other way of wording it then i don’t think it would have been as funny and it wouldn’t have shown as much of Vincent’s personality. Using this wording makes Vincent seem like he knows what he is doing but tries not to show it. Also it kind of shows Vincent’s not-confrontational personality, it shows that he doesn’t want to confront the fact that he stalks Liz but he knows it is there. This gives us a very early look at his personality that will leave people wanting to figure out more about him. This will make out play all the better, the more people are into it the more people enjoy it. Also i think that grant is one of the great parts of the play, he if a very blunt and visual person and i think that it makes the play funny and interesting.

blog #15

The most important concept that i took away from hamlet is that you need to give the chars a life outside of the play I never really thought about that before i read hamlet. I didn't use that tool in my own work so i think i can make my work have a deeper understanding. If i can utilize that device correctly I can really improve on my writing skills.

Doing the digital essay furthered my understanding of how women were treated back in the old days. I already knew a decent amount but i had never had a discusion about it before the digital essay. This helped me form my on theories about it, and mold new ones that i didn't previously have.

Blog #14

#6 What significance is Ophelia to Hamlet... and to Hamlet?

#8 Explain Hamlet's conflicted feelings about suicide.

#10 Show how relationships between various characters create tension throughout Hamlet (you choose the characters).

#12 Explain the treatment of women in Hamlet and it's effect on the play.

Blog #13

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1x-CnPqCPnm4p60Na1ximtueNp_WDqkWm8GIOZVlaN27z4tN2rAXgsnftCqHE&hl=en

The first piece is a very, very rough draft of what we have already shot. The second is the script for the diary entry's.

One we get more footage and voice over the script it is going to depict Ophelia's views on everyone thus answering the questions. It will be super fantastic because its going to be all flashbacky and cool.

I think we will cut down some of the script because it is too long. Also we might get rid of some of the video because we wont have enough time to shoot it all.

I think that cutting down the script will be an easy fix, But the taping will be a little bit harder i think that we will have to work on the weekends to get all of the work that we need done.

blog #12

I have been working fairly closely with the playwrights, brainstorming with them about ideas for the bookstore. While i was there we came up with one of the characters and a scene. The character is going to be another person working at the store and he is going to be a very mean person. He is going to be a very annoyed towards customers that ask for certain books that he doesn't like. We made a scene that was someone coming to him and asking for twilight, he hates that book so he was very rude. He said he wouldn't help the customer and told him/her to read a different book instead. We also got the idea of having random guest people from out production be and actor for a short time and come into the bookstore as a customer (not one of the regulars).

Honors post #1

English

In most cases I strongly believe that flashbacks are a very easy way to explain a twist in a plot line that should be figured out by the audience. I think that when a flashback is used it is abused in such a way that it will make the story less interesting. For me this is because when most flashbacks are used they explain too much to the audience. When most writers use a flashback they will abuse it and make it reveal too much of the plot, this gives the audience too much information and makes it so that they don’t have to think about what they are watching thus losing interest. When they lose interest they will not enjoy the story to their full potential and they will not understand the deeper meaning. In most cases this is true, but in some special cases authors can use flashbacks to their full potential.

One author that I believe uses flashbacks to their full potential is Christopher Nolan; I think he uses them especially well in Memento. The entire movie is being told backwards, you are shown an event and then for the movie you are seeing the events that led up to the larger event. At the same time you are being shown flashbacks of his life in a different timeline. The entire movie is one big compilation of various flashbacks into this man’s life. This gives it the effect that the story is being told in reverse; normally I don’t enjoy those kinds of movies. This movie doesn’t end like you would expect it to; in the last scene Nolan adds an interesting idea. He makes the audience think about reality and perception; he poses the question of what is true and what is manufactured. If he used something other than literary devices I think they idea he got across wouldn’t have been as potent.

Nolan makes you believe that the main character (Leonard) has done something that he has been striving for and makes you believe that it is something very noble. Throughout all of the flashbacks you figure out how he got to the point in time that you see him. You find out a lot about him and you really start to think he is a good guy. In the end you are shown that Leonard’s reality is just so twisted and manufactured that he doesn’t even know what is true. This makes you question what you really perceive as a person and what you can trust to be fact. It also makes you think about what reality really is, makes you wonder if reality is one big thing or if it varies from person to person. This idea was put across very blatantly, but it makes you think deeper. If Nolan made the plot play out differently I don’t think the audience would have seen the same picture.

Using the flashback plot line that seemed to go in reverse really added to the idea of the movie, whenever you saw something, you didn’t know how Leonard got to that point in time. So you would start to think of possibilities of how he got there, then just like that with the next scene he would show you the truth and make a new reality for you. This got me thinking of what reality really is, because you didn’t know what happened you would forge an idea and stick with that one. Until that idea is proven wrong you believe this to be real thus making it your reality. Now this leads me to the conclusion that Nolan was trying to make you think that reality varies from person to person.

Reality seems to be a bigger theme in many movies and stories in general, people like to question if things are real or not. Most movies that try to do this can do it pretty well since it is a very easy thing to get across. Although most movies don’t do it in the way that Nolan has done it, he has guided you to an idea. He knows that he will get you to the idea that reality varies from person to person. To do this is an extremely hard thing to do, to not see anyone in your audience but write something that you know will guide people to one thought. It seems impossible but since Nolan took a very powerful literary device and used it he did a very good job of making it possible.

History

Many things make up a great play; you can’t just have one thing and have everything else be terrible. That would completely drown out whatever you did that was amazing. It doesn’t matter if the dialogue is amazing and puts you into the world of the play if your set is completely bogus. There are so many things that you have to do right to make a play great, but I believe that one of the more important things is that you need a captivating set. Without a good set your audience won’t be brought into the world of the play. There are various ways to make a good set; it completely depends on the play that you are making. You will never see a set that is completely similar to another one, which makes it so sets are very diverse and interesting.

The set is a tool that can be utilized in very many ways, it can do so many things to make your play so much better and have a deeper quality of meaning. With a set there are a couple basic things that you need to do to make it work, but after those are created it is really open to interpretation. This gives it so much room to be made up and above the standards of the rest of the play. Since it is so opened ended you can really play with the little things that add the depth to it. It is all of the little things that you don’t notice in a set that make it all the better. In my opinion the less people notice about the set the better it is, if during the play people get distracted by the set then I think it takes away from it. That is why you add the little things to it so people don’t notice it during the play at all, making it so that their attention is completely focused on the story and the characters. When the audience isn’t focused on the set and how good or respectively bad it is then they will get more out of the play, thus enjoying it more thoroughly. On occasion there are times when making the set the center of attention is a good thing.

On the occasion that the set should become the center of attention it should be because you want it to. It should be when something very dramatic happens with the set that adds to what the characters are doing. I believe that movies are a great demonstration of how set should be used, in most movies during conversations nothing is really happening in the background. This brings more attention to what the characters are saying, giving you a deeper understanding into what they are saying. Then when the only time attention is brought to the set is when there is some event that advances the plot. Now this is harder to do in a play since the set is much more prominent because the audience is much more immersed in a play then a movie. This being said I think that if you can do it right the set can add much more to a play then a movie.

With a movie no one really says “Oh wow the set adds so much to that movie”, but when you come out of a play (at least all of the plays that I have seen) people come out talking about how good the set was. When a set is commented on after the play and not noticed during the play, you know you have made a beautiful set. If the set is made in that way then it adds depth to the play, people will walk out of the theater and be astounded at how great the play was and also how great the set was.

Nobody will ever walk out of a play and say ‘I didn’t really look at the set”. The set is the first thing people will see when they walk into the theater; it sets the precedent for the entire play. All the more reason it has to be good, if people see a garbage set then they will be regretting paying to come see the play that you have created. It is for this reason that I think that one of the biggest aspects of theatre is the set. The play is nothing without a great set.

Blog #11

As a production manager i had to make a power point with my other manager. It was very easy to do this, Lynette and i work very well together. Most people i work with either do to much or to little but with Lynette she pulls her own weight. I cannot see any challenges at the moment but i do think that some will come up soon while we get further into the project. I am most interested in the fact that for once the students are really the bosses of the project. We are given guidelines yes but, we pretty much govern ourselves for most of this project. It is the first kind of project that has really been like that for me.

Blog #10

The only thing that has changed for me coming into 11th grade is that we actually have a decent amount of homework. Normally the homework is pretty light but this year it has been laid on pretty thick and i enjoy it. Other then that nothing much has stood out to me, yet.

The thing that stands out to me the most about this class is that, Randy is the exact opposite teacher of charlotte, my freshman humanities teacher. She was very heavy on 5 paragraph essays and on an exact formula to get it right. Randy is very focused on using writing tips to make our writing better and not a certain format.

I think that reading animal farm really got me thinking about polotics and about the russian revolution. This was a subject that i had never really touched on so i went and researched it a bit and it is actually really interesting. Also it got me thinking about how all people will become corrupt from power.

I think that i am putting more time into my writing, and i am using people as resources more. I am using people to get critiques a lot more then i used to, i used to be very against critiques because i didn't like people reading my work, but then i realized that i am writing it for people to read. This made me realize that people would much more enjoy my writing if it was error free.

Blog #9

The biggest aspect of the play for me is that shakespeare created a plot that is still used today, he created something that has been reused thousands and thousands of times over. That really amazes me, how someone could do that, for me the only reason hamlet and romeo and juliet are not the most successful pieces of writing in the world is that the bible exists. If the bible wasn't here then i think that hamlet would be the most successful pieces of writing.

I think that one of the most important parts is when polonius goes to tell the king and queen that hamlet is acting weird. Act 2 Scene i

Next i think the ghost is one of the more important parts of the play because he advances the plot of the play so that it isn't just a revenge story for no reason. Act 1 Scene iv

I also think that the new king getting with hamlets mother so fast was one of the bigger parts because i don't think hamlet would have been so mad at the new king if he had waited.

Act 1 Scene ii

Blog #7

I think the best part of the exhibition is how well the pictures match up with the artist statement. I was expecting there to be a few that didn't really have much to do with eachother but all of the ones that I have read work well. Also I like how creative people got with thier pictures people really seemed to go above and beyond with the pictures. When i think self portrait i think your face has to be in it but i didn't think that someone could symbolize their face and make it work as well as kiva and diego did.

http://dverduzco.tumblr.com/

http://kivahmnts11.blogspot.com/

Blog #8

I think what stands out to me most is finding out about people through the paper they wrote. I have never had a paper which brought in a personal aspect the way that this did. I'm still not sure why it did so much, I just feel like I've never put this much personality into a school paper.

I feel really good about my paper and picture, I feel like this was a very good first project for me. It got me integrated back into the school system. Also I feel like I tried to make this a good paper instead of just getting through it, like I normally do.

I hope that we make a good book and that we can have a strong first book. I have published 2 other book at high tech so this is pretty normal for me. I'm not to stressed at the moment but i'm sure once we get further into the publishing process.

Blog #6

My Paper -

The Criminal Do-Gooders

Leo Troast

It was a sunny Saturday morning, I had just woken up and saw my dad sitting on the couch watching television. I decided to go sit next to him and see what he was watching; I saw that he was watching the news. The current subject of the driveling reporter was the Geezer Bandit. He caught my interest, other than overhearing conversations at school I knew nothing of him. After the newsman stopped talking, my dad asked me what I thought about the Geezer Bandit. I said what anyone else would say, I thought he was just any other person who thought he was above the law. I didn’t think much of it, until I heard about all of the changes that banks were making thanks to him. Then I realized that even though he might just be some guy who robbed banks, unknowingly he was helping them by, increasing the security in the bank system. I came to the conclusion that he was helping banks more than hurting them.

I spent the next few days thinking ab out it off and on, spacing out in class just to hatch new crackpot theories about criminals influence in the world. I had been thinking about different criminal icons that I could obsess over, I came up with a two ideas, Al Capone and Frank Abagnale. They both had done illegal things that sparked a reaction, this reaction changed peoples minds about how safe they were and forced an action. What they had done might have been bad but vast amounts of people have been helped because of their actions.

During one of my longer spacey moments I asked how I could use my new found knowledge for good. After thinking about that for a while, I came to the sad realization that I couldn’t change anything. I didn’t want to believe it but I couldn’t think of any ways it could help me or anyone for that matter. I certainly didn’t want to become a criminal to change the world, unfortunately that’s all that I thought I could do for future generations. I was searching my brain of a way this could help but it was futile, I decided that I needed to consult my dad. The next day I sat down at the table and told him my predicament, he was silent. Then, he said “No, there is definitely a way you can help people”, just like nothing had happened he finished his coffee and walked away. Like he loved to do he was going to make me figure it out on my own. I was to frazzled to think about it at the moment.

I decided to let my mind cool down with some mindless video games. Hours had past and it had only felt like minutes, I hadn’t had any thoughts on my mind during the game play. The second I stopped gaming it all came flooding back though, in that flood I spotted something. I spotted an idea, I didn’t need to rob banks, or be a mobster. I just needed to be able to achieve a big enough splash in the waters of our world to spark an idea of change in someone. What all of the criminals had in common is that they all made people realize something was wrong. They took people out of their state of mind, I need to educate people to make sure they never get into a state of mind in which they think everything is good. Once you get into that state you wont see all the problems with this world. I need to educate people so that they never think they have a perfect working system, so they will always find flaws and change it. This is the only true way to get a perfect system.

My Picture -

Blog #5

The writing tip that seems most useful to me right now is Concerts, not pancakes. It helped me a lot writing the american icons essay, when I first started it I couldn't really figure out how I was going to start but using concerts, not pancakes I just decided to go with what I had. I picked a starting point and an end point and went with it. This is a problem I have a lot so this will help me a lot in the future.

The only thing I want the editors to look at is if I got my idea across and people can understand it. Everything else is nice to have, but I think that if the idea doesn't get across then the paper isn't worth reading so for me I would love it if all of their attention was focused on the idea and nothing else.

I'm hoping to get my idea across easier with some critiques from my peers. When I read it I can see my idea but I think that other people might have a little more difficulty with understanding my ideas.

Blog #4

AL CAPONE

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“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” – Al Capone

“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class” – Al Capone

“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand” – Al Capone

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I could push the ideas in my paper by talking about how I came across the thought of Al Capone and i think i could stress the ideas of not being a criminal but taking aspects of how he worked to make the world better and add those in.

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http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/al-capone

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/555446/

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html

FRANK ABAGNALE

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“What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.” – Frank Abagnale

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches. – Catch Me If You Can

“The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America” – Frank Abagnale

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I think i could talk more about how he changed and helped to show the difference between all of my icons and him to show even more contrast of how i could change things with out criminal activity.

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http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/al-capone

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/555446/

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html

Blog #3

AL CAPONE

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2.

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” – Al Capone

“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class” – Al Capone

“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand” – Al Capone

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I think the only way I could push the ideas about this man in my artist statement would be to include exactly what he did and changed. Also I think I could expand on the details of what changed and not just broadly generalize them.

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http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/al-capone

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/555446/

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html

FRANK ABAGNALE

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“What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.” – Frank Abagnale

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches. – Catch Me If You Can

“The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America” – Frank Abagnale

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This man isn’t very big in my story so I believe that the amount that I have put in I just the right amount.

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http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/al-capone

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/555446/

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html

Blog #2

Geezer Bandit

The Geezer Bandit became important to me during a conversation with my dad when he first told me about him. I had no prior knowledge of him before this conversation, my dad told me all the things he did and that banks had increased their security. I thought this this guy was just another bank robber at first. Then when I was lying in bed that same night listening to music trying to get to sleep I couldn't stop thinking about him. I was thinking about how he had changed the bank system for good. At that time I realized that even though he had done some bad things, they have had a positive out-turn on the bank system. I truly believe that what he has done is a good thing.

Al Capone

He is important is the same way as the Geezer bandit, he has done some very, very bad

things in his life. Because of him the FBI was formed and the judicial system had a complete

overhaul because of him. Now I believe more in what the Geezer Bandit did, but I think that

Al Capone was important to america.

Ellis Island

To me this icon represents both the worst sides and best sides of US. The worst side

being how they treated some of the immigrants when they came to the island. It was extremely

bad conditions, but while the conditions where bad it was one of the most important time

periods for america. During the time that Ellis Island was open the US got some of the widest

diversity in any country in the world. That is why it shows the worst and the best of the US.

Blog #1

Part 1
I am most looking forward to the play, it is really the kind of project that I like to do. I don't like the projects that just end once they are done, I like the ones that will be talked about as that amazing project. Also I enjoy the projects that have an influence outside of school and exhibition, the play is a great example of that. It is going to be preformed in front of people that will enjoy it and see how much work we have put into it.

Part 2

Summer reading was an interesting experience for me, seeing as how I never really read books over the summer time. Also it was really interesting reading Genome opened my mind to biology something that I didn't have much background in that subject. Also reading animal farm was an interesting way of learning about the russian revolution. After reading it i actually did some research about it.

Summer Reading

Genome by Matt Ridley
Recommended by - Summer Clemmons



"I want to go into stem cell research when I grow up and Genome really helped develop ideas and thoughts in my mind when I was in Biology." - Summer

"Genome really opened my eyes to the word of biology that I was relatively closed out of. I enjoyed reading it almost simply for that reason, I was learning enough about life that it really kept me interested.-Leo





Animal Farm by George Orwell
Recommended by - Andrea Loomis



"George Orwell is an astounding writer, that's why I recommended this book to you, he finds the most interesting way to tell you about government or whatever he is trying to get across. Animal Farm is criticizing Josef Stalin but you never feel like your learning about history your always entwined in the story." -Andrea

"I enjoyed reading both 1984 and Animal Farm especially Animal Farm because I like history and learning about it but George Orwell makes it so much more interesting. He makes it so you have to interpret some of it yourself." -Leo