Exam Review

PowerPoint Presentation Reflection

         This country research project was a very fun project for me. I really liked how we had to research on a country that we knew nothing about and got to get experience in good research and talking in front of people. Of course i didn't necessarily love going up and presenting to the class, but after i got up there i was fine i think. A few things that i would change is that i would want to provide a map so that my fellow classmates can see what my country looked like, and i would want to separate the places i would want to visit into a few different slides. All in all, I really liked this country research project.

Bessie Coleman Podcast

Script and Collage

 Bryce Crawford

2-7-13

5^th hour

Bessie Coleman Script

            Bessie Coleman’s life began on January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas. Although some say that she was born four years later, this is her actual birthdate. She was the 10^th of 13 children in her big family. Her father was one-fourth African-American and three-fourths Choctaw and Cherokee Indian, while her mother was African American. Their family ran a cotton-picking company in Texas. Even at a young age, it seemed as if her family knew she was going to be great. In 1901, frustrated by racial intolerance, her father moved back to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, but her mother decided to keep the rest of the family at home.

            Bessie’s older brothers struck out on their own, leaving Bessie’s mother with four daughters under the young age of nine. Her mother needed to work as a cook and a housekeeper to make money, so Bessie had to take care of her siblings. When her mother realized that Bessie excelled in mathematics at the age of 8, she became the family bookkeeper. She was a Baptist (as was the rest of their family) so she learned how to read by reciting the bible every night at the dinner table with her siblings. She attended a one-room school in Waxahachie, which was a four-mile walk every day, and finished all eight grades. You could tell right at this moment that she really wanted to be a successful person.

            When she was young, she used to read books on African-American heroes such as Harriet Tubman. She enrolled at the Colored Agricultural and Research University, which was a teachers college in Langston, Oklahoma. When she moved in with her brother in Chicago, she got motivation to amount to something and to become a pilot. So she moved to France, where she completed a ten-month course at the Ecole d'Aviation des Freres Caudon at Le Crotoy in the Somme. On June 15, 1921, Bessie received her pilot's license from the renowned Federation Aeronautique Internationale. Her birthdate was listed as 1896 (the year she had given passport authorities in Chicago) rather than 1892 -- making her appear 25 years old instead of the 29 years she actually was. Although Bessie was not the first black woman (or even the only woman in her class) to receive a license from the FAI, she was the first American to obtain her pilot's license from the French school. She was also the first licensed black pilot in the U.S. On September 3, 1922, Bessie gave her first performance at an air show at Curtiss Field, near New York City. She also began lecturing in black theaters, churches and schools, not only in Texas, but also Georgia in 1925, where she was becoming famous. Her fans called her Queen Bess or Brave Bessie.

On the evening of April 30, Bessie and her mechanic-pilot took the airplane for a test run. It malfunctioned and the mechanic lost control. Too short to see over the cockpit's edge, Bessie was not wearing a seatbelt so she could lean over to check out the field. The plane suddenly accelerated and flipped over. She plummeted 1,500 feet. Upon impact, every bone in her body was crushed and she died. Three funerals were held in Jacksonville, Orlando, and Chicago. Over 10,000 people attended these funerals, and people all over the world mourned over her death. Bessie Coleman was truly an American hero.

Works Cited

. "Bessie Coleman." Women in History. N.p.. Web. 14 Feb 2013. <http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cole-bes.htm>.

. "Black History." gale.engage.com. N.p.. Web. 14 Feb 2013. <http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/coleman_b.htm>.

. "Bessie Coleman." pbs.org. American Experience. Web. 14 Feb 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX02.html>.

Pictures:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman

http://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/bessie-coleman/

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txecm/bessie_coleman.htm

http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/women/coleman.cfm

Fair Use

For fair use, you are allowed to use up to 10% for texts, and 1000 words for things like essays and articles. You may use a single photograph, but no more than 5 by the same author. You may use up to 10%, but no more than 15 images from a single publication. You can use up to 10%, but no more than 3 minutes from a single movie, TV show, or song.

Some of the advantages of having a Flickr account is that you can upload your photos to the website so that people can view them and have them on their Flickr account in a gallery. I personally think that this is a great website for social media interaction. I know that I will be using this website a lot!

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Reflection

Over the past few weeks, we have learned a lot about online safety. Being safe online is very important, and one thing that you can do is to be aware of the website you are on. If you thing that this website will give you viruses, than get off of it immediately. Also, we have learned about cyber bullying. Cyber bullying can be very difficult for someone to go through, so if you know someone who is being bullied online, you need to tell an adult, tell them to block the person, and save all of the evidence so you can go to the police if you need to. We have also learned about  how identity theft can completely ruin families, and how often it really does happen. One of the most important things you need to know is that about half of the time this happens, it is by someone you know.

RSS Subscriptions

Cnn.com

bhslang.blogspot.com

adam15.blogspot.com

pcworld

monroeeveningnews

news scientists

RSS Feed Assignment

1. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication 2. It works by bringing information to you without actually going to your website. 3. The two benefits to using one is that it brings you information quicker, and the reader gets timely updates on a regular basis in one spot 4. RSS feeds bring the information straight to your website without going to your website, a feed reader has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar to Net News Wire on Mac OS X, and an aggregator is a Web-based or installed application that aggregates related, frequently updated content from various Internet sources and consolidates it in one place for viewing 5. An RSS feed is a Google reader product. 6. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the reader’s feeds URL or by clicking an RSS icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process 7. It costs nothing

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New Technology

This article is about how robots are becoming more useful in our society. It says that over 1.1 million robots are used as industrial workers. In the future, robots will be able to perform tasks such as medics, traffic police, bionic enhancements, and even soldiers! Advances are even being made in the making of the robot, as they may be able to swim, shape-shift, and learn to fly. I am very excited about the future with all of these new robots and new technologies, and i hope you are to!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9973-instant-expert-robots.html

Christmas Break

I had a very fun Christmas break. My basketball team had an early practice almost everyday, which wasn't that bad. We played in a tournament on the 27th and 28th, but we lost both of our games. On Christmas Eve my mom's side of the family went over to my Grandma Sharon's house for dinner and presents. On Christmas morning my family went to church for the first time in several years, so it felt really good. Then i went over to my dad's for presents and dinner at his house with his side of our family. On New Years Eve i had a few of my friends over and we played ping pong for most of the night and had a really nice time. Over the span of the break I started watching a TV show called "Breaking Bad", and it is slowly turning into my favorite show. On the last day of break I watched this for about 6 hours after my practice. This is how i spent my Christmas break.