This week we did a lot in both classes. Monday we had a socratic seminar surrounding the statement "People are responsible for their own American Dream. Agree or Disagree," we also made and tested Hydrogen Balloons. Tuesday we had another socratic seminar centering around the statement, "Wealthy people have a responsibility to help poorer people. Agree or Disagree," we also discussed independent chemistry experiments. On Wednesday we talked about what types of writing you like, and researched different types of writing, we also coated papers. On Thursday we did research on one of three places, Owens Valley, Salton Sea, Flint, Michigan. We also did research on the damming of Hetch Hetchy and developed pictures. Friday we continued research on the Hetch Hetchy damming. HumanitiesOwens Valley: What happened? -Water was diverted from the Owens Lake to the City of Los Angeles in 1913, and by 1926 Owens Lake was dry. The dry bed of Owens Lake has produced enormous amounts of windblown dust since the desiccation of the lake. Did we need to do it? -I don't think we needed to dry up Owens Lake completely, L.A. was wasting a lot of the water rather than leaving some for the people who lived there and putting some back into the environment. What is the Water Rights impact? -The water right makes it so that we have the right to make use of the water from a stream, lake, or irrigation canal. -The impact of this right is that we can and will take water we need even if the environment we take it from needs it more. The Owens Valley is a perfect example of this, we didn't think about what taking water from the lake would do to the environment around it, only that we needed it. Now it's a dust bowl and all dried up. What is the landscape impact? -The impact on the landscape that the taking of the water had was that the lake completely dried up and in turn the environment around the dry lake didn't get the water it needed, so that dried up as well, now it is all dried up and wind picks up the dirt and blows it around. It resembles a dust bowl in a way. Damming the Hetch Hetchy: Should we have dammed the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy? -I don't think damming the Hetch Hetchy was necessary, in the article it says that there were other readily available sources, but damming Hetch Hetchy was easitest. They destroyed a beautiful landscape because it was easiest and would make them the most money, rather than choosing another source. Was California meant to support this many people? -I don't think California was meant to support this many people, it does, but possibly wouldn't if we left the environment how it was originally. There would be a lot of cities that wouldn't be here or be as big, so no I don't think California was meant to support this many people. Are our landscapes worth saving? Why? -I think that our landscapes are worth saving because if we keep on the track that we are on, soon there won't be any landscapes left. We are killing the beauty of our state. How should water be managed in California? -I think that we shouldn't dam, but I know that it is a necessity because otherwise we wouldn' t have any/not enough water. I think we have a successful water system but need to build less dams. ChemistryIn order to complete this experiment “Hydrogen Balloons” we had to add substances together to create the correct chemical reaction that would fill out balloons with Hydrogen. First we took C6H8O7 (Citric Acid) and a Magnesium Ribbon. We had to make sure that the Magnesium Ribbon was completely in the bottom of the flask on top of the Citric Acid, we had to make sure that none of the Magnesium Ribbon was caught in the neck of the flask so that it would all dissolve. Next we poured Water (H20) into the flask that held the Citric Acid and the Magnesium Ribbons in order to activate the Citric Acid. Once the Citric Acid was activated we had to quickly put a balloon on the top of the flask to catch all of the Hydrogen that the dissolving Magnesium was releasing. Once the balloon was filled with Hydrogen we tied it off. As a result of the chemical reaction the flask got quite warm and due to Hydrogen being less dense than air, the balloon floated. Once we tied our balloons we attached it to the end of a wooden pole and lit a candle on a fire retardant surface, we then put the balloon over the flame and it popped. When the balloon popped the Hydrogen inside went up in flames, creating Water. After the experiment was completed I had a few questions. What is the lowest amount of heat required to pop the balloon? Is fire the only thing we can use to pop the balloon and have the Hydrogen go up in flames? Why does the reaction of the Citric Acid, Magnesium Ribbon, and Water make Hydrogen as a byproduct? What would happen if we used bigger quantities of the substances and a bigger vessel for the Hydrogen?
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This week only had four days in it so we had to do a lot in a little time. Tuesday we looked at photos from the previous week and had another piece of writing due for the thousand word piece. Wednesday we coated as many pieces of paper that we could and had a discussion about the fear of the dark. On Thursday we talked about how John Steinbeck "keeps it real" in his writing and printed negatives and developed photos. Friday we had work time to finish our thousand word piece and finish Of Mice and Men. HumanitiesMy plan for the landscape portion of the project is to take my final photo over Spring Break because I will be in Italy and I would like to get a really unique photo. ChemistryIn the beginning we made emulsion. In order to make the emulsion we had to combine AgNO3 (Silver Nitrate) and NaCl (Sodium Chloride). We first had to combine gelatin and Sodium Chloride together and dissolve it using 50 ml of water. Once the gelatin and Sodium Chloride dissolved completely, we added the Silver Nitrate. Adding the Silver Nitrate caused a chemical turning the emulsion white and making it light sensitive. The chemical reaction also turned the AgNO3 (Silver Nitrate) + NaCl (Sodium Chloride) into AgCl (Silver Chloride) + NaNO3 (Sodium Nitrate). We did this all of this in glass beakers suspended in hot water. The next step of the process was to coat paper with our emulsion. We reheated the emulsion in the suspended beakers and used a sponge brush to put three even coats on the paper, drying in between coats. After all of the paper was done we printed out our negatives, which we created using photoshop. In order to develop our photos we placed our pictures and negatives together under a glass sheet and used an ultra violet flashlight to expose the emulsion for a couple seconds. We then put it into developer fluid, when it had developed to our liking we quickly transferred it into a stop bath to keep it from developing further. From there we put it into fixer and finally a wash to rinse all the chemicals off. Once this process was complete we dried them. Once they were dry, our photos were complete.
QUESTIONS: Why does Silver Nitrate turn your hands black? What does the fixer in the development process do? This week was a short week do we crammed a lot into 4 days. Monday we worked on our Dorothea Lange thousand word piece and did some reading on Of Mice and Men, in addition we coated papers. Tuesday we went to Balboa Park to take pictures and look and the Museum of Photographic Arts. Wednesday we went to UCSD to get our final pictures and processed our final photos, started our thousand word piece based on our final portrait, and coated papers. Thursday we continued working on our thousand word piece and turned our processed photos into negatives. Humanities
These are my final photo before and after processing in Photoshop. Thousand Word Piece based on my photo (Historical View) Hijab is an Arabic word translating to veil. The hijab is worn by women who are Muslim, a hijab is worn for modesty. Muslim men and women are required to to be modest while around unrelated members of the opposite gender. A hijab helps with this, it hides the hair and makes sure that none of the chest is exposed. It was also worn so that a man would know a woman for her mind rather than her body, so she is respected and not judged by her beauty, so she is treated equally. In earlier times, it was required by Muslim law that women wore a hijab. Now women have the choice to wear it or not. It all depends on how they feel. ChemistryThis is my final photo as a negative.
This week I accomplished a lot. On Monday we looked at pictures from the super bowl and went over them, talking about what we saw, we also started planning our final photos. Tuesday we continued reading Of Mice and Men, worked on our thousand word piece, and coated paper with the emulsion that we made. Wednesday we had a discussion centering around Of Mice and Men and looked at some of what we will be exploring in chemistry this semester, we also had a photoshop workshop. Thursday we worked on our thousand word piece and got it critiqued. Friday we worked on finalizing our thousand word piece. HumanitiesPlan for Final Photo My plan for the final photo is to go to the central library, a college campus, or dog beach. I want to show everyone a part of themselves. Right now I want to show people playing with their dogs or studying because I think that everyone likes to learn new things and likes to have fun so people will be able to relate to the photo I take. I want to go take pictures at these places when they are fairly busy so I get as many good photos as possible. ChemistryDuring this weeks workshop, we learned how to process photos using Photoshop. I took the unprocessed photo(left) and turned it to black and white. After that I adjusted the level of severity the different tones were at. I then adjusted the levels, and finally the brightness and contrast to get the final processed photo(right).
This was a good week. Monday we went out and took portraits with natural lighting and then in professional lighting and with a professional camera we took portraits, and started our 1000 word piece. On Tuesday we continued taking professional portraits and set up the dark room and continued our writing. Wednesday we had a Writer's Workshop to help perfect our writing and had a photography workshop on composition. On Thursday we started reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and had another Writer's Workshop and we made our photo emulsion. Friday we looked our portraits and if we desired, did retakes. HumanitiesComposition The subject, two young children, are standing slightly to the left of the center, on one of the lines of the rule of thirds grid. The older of the two has her hand behind her younger brother’s back, leaning into him. They are both thin and are most likely malnourished. The older of the two is wearing a dress and fixing her hair, while the younger one is wearing a shirt and shorts and looks to be waving at the camera. Their facial expressions are difficult to read, although they look neither happy nor sad. The children are standing in front of a tent in which they probably live. There also seems to be some type of structure that they are standing in front of. The children do not look dirty, although they do not have shoes and could look cleaner, they are standing on a path made of dirt. Historical This photo was taken during difficult times, not only for these kids and their family but for everyone. The Great Depression hit and about a year later The Dust Bowl. These kids, located in San Luis Obispo, had it hard. They were the children of a Migrant Mexican and lived in a labor camp, in a tent. The Great Depression was a big recession in the economy that was caused by a multitude of different reasons, the most predominant being the stock market crash. People had invested money into the stock market because it was doing well but the stock prices fell. When people tried to sell their stocks and get their money back, it made the stock market fall even further and crash. Companies were failing and people were losing jobs, which meant they couldn’t buy as much, and in turn the companies didn’t have to make as much product, which led to more people losing jobs. To make matters worse, The Dust Bowl hit the great plains about a year later. The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms that circulated around midwest. Farmers had land and successful crops, but they kept planting and harvesting without fertilizing the soil, resulting in the deprivation of nutrients, and it all turned to dust sitting on the ground. When winds started up, it picked up all of the dust easily and blew it around, making the air unbreathable and causing people to run for cover. It got so bad that people were hanging sheets over their doors and windows to keep their houses dust free, making so that they couldn’t leave and in turn they weren’t making any money. Most people ended up migrating to the west to find work and to live in safety. When they reached the west they were lucky if they were able to secure a job as a migrant farmer. Emotional I can’t imagine what these kids are feeling. They might feel scared because of everything that’s happening, losing their home to the dust bowl, having one of their parents work their butt off trying to make enough money that will just barely let them survive. They might feel sad or miserable because they hear their parents talking about what is happening. They might feel angry, at the dust bowl, at anything thrown at them. Or they could be feeling whatever their parents are feeling, picking up on their energy and subconsciously mirroring their behavior because they don’t know what to do and what their parents are doing must be right. While they may be feeling all of these negative emotions, there is a small possibility that they might feel a small sliver of happiness. For they have each other and they have survived through bad things. They know they have to have hope. 1) Tell us about George and Lennie. George- George is described to be small and quick. He has restless eyes and sharp strong features. He seems to be the smarter of the two and make all of the decisions. Lennie- Lennie is described to be quite larger with a shapeless face. He has larger pale eyes and wide, sloping shoulders. Lennie, as written, tends to forget things and isn't that bright. George and Lennie- George and Lennie seem to get along well. George makes all of the decisions and directs Lennie around. They travel job to job together and seem to be good friends. They take care of each other. 2)What is Steinbeck saying about HUMANITY(use evidence from book) What I think Steinbeck is saying about humanity is, we leave an impression upon things that were here before us, and it's not always good. What influenced my thinking was the second paragraph of the book, where it describes a sycamore tree, and a branch is smooth beacuse of all the men who have sat on it and a pile of ashes from all of the fires burned there. This same tree is described earlier in th book and it isn't described as smooth, and there isn't a pile of ashes yet. After years of men coming and having a fire and sitting on the tree does the smoothness of the branch and the pile of ashes appear. ChemistryDiscuss why and how we set up the dark room - What is your team role?
We had to set up the dark room because we made photo emulsion and need it to develop our pictures and didn't want it to get exposed. In order to set up the dark room we had to hang wire across the ceiling and hang lights inside paper bags to act as safe lights. I am part of the clean crew. When we were setting up the dark room we were reorganizing parts of the room. Describe the apparatus for the photo emulsion and how it lets us do our work. The apparatus that we used for making photo emulsion started with a hot plate and the a pot full of water. suspended in water was a thermometer and two beakers. The beakers were suspended in the water rather than set in the water so that they don't get too hot and ruin the emulsion. Week two went well for me. On Monday we went out and took photos and talked and read an article about the Great Depression. Tuesday we made key lights and played lab safety jeopardy. Wednesday we had a photography workshop on taking portraits and went out and took photos and did a writing piece based off the article about the Great Depression. Thursday we watched a documentary on the Dust Bowl and revised our writing from Wednesday. Friday we read an article about an immigration order from Trump and the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus and from that make a t-shirt design. HumanitiesDo I think our society depends on "creating and maintaining a peon class"? Not particularly. What would we depend on them for? Certainly not money, unless by money, we mean funding, then yeah, I guess in a way we depend on the peon class. For example, schools depend on attendance for funding, but then again they depend on everyone's attendance. My question isn't how we would create a peon class, it's why we would. Why would we keep people from being able to provide for their families? Why would we deny them the ability to provide for their families? Are people that greedy? Do we really need to feel superior to someone else? So no, Ido not think that our society depends on "creating and maintaining a peon class". Although if someone has proof and a valid argument, they may convince me otherwise. ChemistryWhat do the following two equations teach you about chemistry?
1) AgNO3 + NaCl = NaNO3 + AgCl 2) AB + CD = CB + AD A=Ag= Silver B=NO3= Nitrate C=Na= Sodium D=Cl= Chlorine Whatever is in A's spot switches places with whatever is in C's spot. This week was a whirlwind. We just switched our teachers and classes and had a four day week. Tuesday we started with talking and introductions, and then went out and took pictures. Wednesday we had a photography workshop and had to take pictures using the techniques that we had just learned. Thursday we learned about lab safety, photography ethics, and wrote about a picture taken in 1957. Friday we wrote more about the picture and considered different lenses or perspectives, and wrote through that perspective. HumanitiesThis photograph shows the "process" of desegregation. It gives us a peek into what the nine students enrolling into previously all white schools, quite possibly had to deal with day to day. Being yelled and probably was the ideal scenario. Yelling couldn't hurt you physically. Unfortunately, they probably endured much worse than yelling. People were very angry with the fact that the schools were going to be desegregated, as pictured behind one of the nine, Elizabeth Eckford, this woman looks to be furious. She is yelling and screaming, mos likely nothing nice about her. Elizabeth seems unbothered by all of the hate displayed around her,this was probably something she dealt with often, most likely less violent than some of the things she dealt with. No one in this photo looks to be happy, although only one of them is angry, or showing their angry. Everyone else's faces are blank or talking to someone else. There is one person though, whom could be perceived as sad, Elizabeth. Her facial expression is giving off a sad sort of look. Her being sad could be understandable, being yelled at and all, but in my opinion I'd think she would be happy. She's making history. ChemistryNotify the teacher and others around you immediately if a spill occurs.
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