One of the interface ideas Kay and Goldberg mention about the Daynabook that illustrates Manovich’s idea of automation is the drawing/painting feature. First of all, the drawing/painting program is made up of 0’s and 1’s and bits. The program has algorithms and codes that make up the shapes and paint brushes and etc. Now relating this to automation, if the user wants to manipulate a picture or create one of their own all they have to do is click certain icons like the shapes or paint and the computer does it for them. The user relies on the machine to create these images for them, instead of their skills. The user does not have to completely be involved. The article mentioned something about children using the Dynabook, children are less critically
I liked the short story "Greyling" very much. The story by Jane Yolen was very touching and it was filled with adventure! At the beginning of the story, the fisherman and the fisherman's wife were very lonely and they wanted a baby. While fishing at the sea, the fisherman noticed a abandoned seal. When he took it home, he realized it was a selchie. The selchie could turn from seal to man. The fisherman and his wife kept the baby and raised it as their own. This part of the story made me very happy because hopefully they would't be so lonely anymore and the selchie baby named Greyling could have a happy home. Yet, the fisherman and his wife would not allow Greyling in the water because they feared he would swim away. Whenever a huge wave
Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.
Chapter 30 begins with Niska collecting stones that speak to her, in order to build a fire. Xavier is fading away, while Niska tries her best to keep him alive with her stories. She figures that she knows of no medicine or other methods to help ease Xavier’s pain. She want to tell him of his first hunting story alone when Xavier was 6 years old. When tracking a moose, he found a rare chance to witness a mating dance of grouse. Xavier forgot about fear as he watched the dance; however he was hungry, so he shot the female strangler. The next day, he and his aunt tracked and killed the moose. They were proud and returned home for a feast with other awawatuk. Xavier told them of his hunting story by dancing, from then on, he was nicknamed, Little
Stevenson tells the story of Trina Garnett, the youngest of twelve children from a poor section of Chester, Pennsylvania. She grew up in poverty and regularly witnessed her father abuse her mother and her siblings. After her mother died at the age of 9, she and her sisters ran away from their sexually abusing father. After moving between relatives, Trina always ended up homeless. When she was 14 years old, Trina and her friend broke into a friend’s house who they were both forbidden from visiting. Trina decided to use matches to find her way through the house and accidently caught the house on fire. Her friends who lived in the house died from the fire. The mother of the two boys was convinced that Trina intended on murdering them. Trina was
“Between Shadows” is a fiction standalone book written by Kathleen Cook Waldron. Ari is a 12-year-old boy. His grandfather recently passed away after promising Ari they would spend the summer at his cabin together. Ari, his aunt, and his dad go up to the cabin to clean it out and figure out what to do with it. Ari soon finds out that in his grandfather's will, the cabin is left to him. He can do whatever he wants with it. Ari learns that his aunt and dad both want to sell the cabin and he has no say in it. Ari will do anything to save his cabin.
In the story “A Summer Tragedy” wrought by Arna Bontemps the old couple is Jeff and Jennie. Jeff is crippled because of a stroke he has a fear of one of them dieing and the other living. Jennie is a blind old frail woman who is not afraid until they get ready to drive off the cliff.As a married couple they are good they have been together really long. They obviously lived a good life.
Writing is most of the time a dull and exhausting activity that some students tend to avoid when their ideas are not completely precise, and they do not know what they can do because they do not have the appropriate plan. However, in her book, writing your journal article in 12 weeks, Wendy Laura Belcher gives lots of wonderful and practical ideas to make of writing an amusing and pleasant exercise, through many charts that can help the writers to write down their ideas, to schedule the tasks they will pass through, and by means of explanations about the types of articles, concerns (that each person has towards writing), obstacles, structures, evidence and more. The main purpose of this book is to help people to develop writing skills and overcome those barriers that are showed up at the moment of starting to write. Her writing is too persuasive that
The first way that Atwood attempts to incorporate problems that humanity is facing in the futuristic setting of the book is by displaying the effects of global warming as researched, predicted and imagined. Atwood tries to show what happened to the spaces of the world that we are familiar with “It was like going to Harvard had been, before it got drowned” (173), in this small sentence Atwood speaks volumes on the effects of global warming that will be discussed further in detail in the next paragraph. Another example of this can be seen here: “A mile or two to the south, a salt marsh is forming on a one-time landfill dotted with semi-flooded townhouses” (148). Another part of the global warming phenomenon is the rising temperatures on the planet
The book points out that most conduct disorders have been tied to parent-child relationships, inadequate parenting, etc. Do violent video games contribute to these disorders as well?
Between 1998 and 2000, Kari Matchett had a supporting role in The Rez and after that became the main star in Power Play, playing as Colleen Blessed. Later on in 2002 she played the role of Kate Filmore in Cube 2: Hypercube. And in 2003 she worked alongside Timothy Hutton in Syfy’s miniseries titled Five Days of Midnight. In 2004 she played the role of a detective called Elain Bender in the series Blue Murder. In the same series she was a guest start who was a murder suspect, and went ahead to get a Gemini Award for that role.
“This is a terrible idea.” Percival gave a solemn shake of his head. “Absolutely terrible.”
ote: This was originally with 'A Burning Wish' but I thought since Dayron's part didn't really go with the title, I decided it could have it's own story.
Rules is the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Catherine, who does not have a disability herself but has a younger autistic brother, David. Her brother routinely has to go to occupational therapy, which is how Catherine meets Jason, physically deformed, unable to speak, and uses a wheelchair. She just wanted a normal life, which is nearly impossible when having a brother with autism. Caring for David and trying her best to keep him out of trouble usually occupy Catherine’s day-to-day life during one summer vacation. She’s spent years trying to teach David the rules from “keep your pants on in public,” to “saying 'excuse me' after you burp” or “you can yell on the playground, but not during dinner.” David has little sense of social norms,
The book I read this month is called A Night Divided, by Jennifer Nielsen. A 12 year old girl named Gerta lives a restriclful life in East Berlin. One night, a night that will change Gerta’s life forever, her dad and brother go to West Berlin to seek for jobs and homes. That same night a wall that seperates East and West Berlin, known as the Berlin wall goes up. Seperating there family for good, or so they thought. Devistation hit the next morning when Gerta, her mom, and her brother woke up to find that their dad and older brother may never be seen again. Four years later after living through the years missing their family in West Berlin. Gerta and her younger brother Fritz recieve a paper from their dad telling them to dig. Over the weeks
Alex Homeyer #8 November 15, 2017 Ms. Colman Language Arts 8II Forget Tomorrow Truman Report Forget Tomorrow, by Pintip Dunn is about a girl named Calla Ann Stone, her sister Jessa, and her childhood friend Logan. They live in a futuristic world that relies on the future to know what to do. Sadly, Calla’s memory is of her killing her younger sister, and she has to run away from the government.