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Unfortunately the computer continues to hate me. Not only did this blog mess with my video, cutting out around 6 crucial minutes, YouTube did the same thing. It might take some time to get things sorted out, but as soon as I get the chance, the complete video will be on this blog.

Jobs I'm interested in

Jobs I'm Interested In:
Writer: Michigan wage average: 48,550                          US wage average: 68,060
Fashion Designer: MI wage average: 60,580                   US wage average: 73,930
Makeup Artist: MI wage average: 52,110                        US wage average: 63,710
Archivist: MI wage average: 54,740                                US wage average: 50, 140
Criminal Investigator: MI wage average: 80,700             US wage average: 75,720

I think these jobs sound fascinating. I love art, so a writer, fashion designer, or makeup artist would be interesting, and I love solving puzzles and problems and knowing I can solve them, as a criminal investigator might have a hand at. I like specializing in one thing, such as a time period, as archivists do.

My Bucket List

 UPDATE: IMPORTANT! FOR SOME REASON THIS SHORTENED THE LENGTH OF MY VIDEO- YOU'LL HAVE TO GO TO YOUTUBE AT mmmmmmmm wmv_2 under the user Jordan F.

Whoever has to grade my bucket list

To those who are supposed to grade my bucket list, it will be on the share drive on Monday because of technical difficulties. It won't be on this blog or YouTube until later also because of technical difficulties. Sorry.

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A Powerpoint on Brazil

Reflection Post on Country Research Project

For the past few weeks, our class has been working on researching countries with the intention to present our research to each other as a powerpoint. The country I researched was Brazil. Doing this research rekindled a love in me for traveling, and I enjoyed looking up beaches and monuments in picturesque and culturally-rich Brazil. I also enjoyed designing the powerpoint, using lots of color. What I didn't like so much was having a limit to the amount of words per bullet. If I have information that I think is interesting, then I'm going to share it, whether it's five or fifteen words. Also, it frustrated me when I didn't have enough room on the slide to fit pictures. They need to make those things bigger. What I would have enjoyed about this project would be researching something we find more interesting. I did like the country idea, and I thought it would be cool to learn a lot about them. Which it was, but so would be researching our favorite fairytales, or Native American tribes, or just something that wouldn't feel like a task, something we would be eager to know more about. Agree?

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Harriet Tubman Podcast

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

Araminta Harriet Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland,  to enslaved parents Ben Ross and Harriet Green somewhere between 1820 and 1825. As her mother was a slave, Araminta (who later changed her name to Harriet at the time of her first marriage), was a slave from the start. Because of this, she never acquired a formal education, though her mother did set a powerful example for her by standing up to her owners when they intended to sell one of her sons. Young Harriet's family was destined to be split up though, for in the near future, her owner's son would sell at least three of Harriet's sisters to a faraway plantation. Harriet had other struggles as a child, too. Violence was a part of everyday life for her. Once, as she was walking in a field, she saw a runaway slave with his owner after him. She refused to help restrain the slave. A two-pound iron weight was then thrown, either directly at her or at the slave. It hit Harriet in the head, and caused her seizures, intense headaches, and narcoleptic episodes throughout the rest of her life. Another time, Harriet remembers being lashed five times before breakfast.

Harriet's family was a large one. She was one of the nine children born to Ben Ross and Harriet Green, though many of the children were split up and sold. Later in her life, in 1844, Araminta Harriet Ross married John Tubman, a free black man, and became Harriet Tubman, going by her middle name to honor her mother, and taking her husband's last name. Harriet was still a slave when she married John. It wasn't uncommon for black families to have both free and enslaved members. Harriet Tubman's marriage to John fizzled out as Harriet began making many trips to lead slaves to freedom. While she was gone, he remarried. When she came back to take him and his family to liberty, they decided they wanted to stay where they were. Harriet did not remarry herself until later in life when she married Nelson Davis in 1870. They were married for 18 years until his death.

Harriet's occupations and achievements in life are many in number. She was very active during the Civil War. As a Union spy, she helped provide the North with ways to overpower the South and restore order to the once-United States. As a war nurse, she provided badly-needed nursing care to black soldiers and newly-freed slaves. Harriet Tubman also became the first woman to command an armed military  raid when, in the June of 1863, she guided Col. James Montgomery and his 2nd South Carolina black regiment up the Combahee River to Confederate outposts to destroy stockpiles of food, cotton, and weapons and free slaves, eventually numbering those liberated to over 700. After she stopped being a war nurse, she went to Washington D.C. and practiced nursing there. Harriet was also a civil rights activist and a humanitarian during her lifetime, and did many things to help those around her. She made 19 trips on the Underground Railroad altogether, and freed more than 300 slaves, though not all of those were physically guided by her. To some, she gave directions on how to reach freedom. Harriet's first trip taking slaves to freedom was when she led her niece Kessiah and Kessiah's family to Philadelphia. She earned herself the nickname "the Moses of her people".

After the war, Harriet moved to in Auburn, N.Y.. According to http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com, she began a career as a community activist, humanitarian, and suffragist. She appeared at local and national suffrage conventions until early in the 1900s. Harriet Tubman suffered financially for the rest of her life. She was denied her military pension, but she did get widow's pension as the widow of Nelson Davis, and later on, she got her Civil War's nurse pension. Though probably not the best financial idea, she triumphed with the opening of the Harriet Tubman Home For Aged that she purchased with a mortgage. She later transferred it to African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1903. About 10 years later, on March 10th, 1913, Harriet Tubman died, leaving behind a legacy of humanitarianism and heroism.

 

Works Cited

Larson, Kate C. "Harriet Tubman Life." Harriet Tubman Biography. Lewiston High School, n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2013. <http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com/index.html>.

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"Harriet Tubman." Women's History Month Project. Ed. Elliot R. East Buchanan Middle School, n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2013. <http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/WH/wh_intro.htm>.

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Flickr

In this post, I am going to look at the website Flickr. My class had an assignment to create albums on Flickr. While doing this, I learned about some advantages and disadvantages of this site.
       I'll do the good stuff first. Now, Flickr is a great website that utilizes the Creative Commons. I think it's great that there is a specific photo-sharing website like Flickr where the pictures are available to all without the worry of copyright. Plus, if you post pictures, you won't lose all the rights to it. You can set specific guidelines according to the Creative Commons license you choose.
       Like I said, there are some things that aren't so great about Flickr. First off, the pictures are not what I would call quality, interesting photos. Also, the search engine wouldn't find me or my friend or our pictures and we have no idea why. Another thing I dislike is that I know that there is a map feature you can add to pictures, but I couldn't find it anywhere. For part of our assignment we were supposed to add that, so it made me mad that it was nowhere to be found.
       Well, now you know how I feel about Flickr. I probably won't go on it again because, like I said, I just don't like the pictures. For some reason, they're not that good. Maybe you like it. If so, maybe you'll want to leave me a comment and tell me why. Thanks for reading!

Reflection Post

There are many things I learned so far in computers class. I have learned how identity theft takes place, and how said identity theft can be prevented, and what to do if it happens to you. I've also learned a lot about cyber-bullying. Did you know that chat rooms are where most bullies and sexual predators go to find victims? This and many other facts I have learned while studying cyber-bullying. Speaking of sexual predators, we have been learning about online safety too. For instance, never give out your address, phone number, picture, or school to someone you meet online. Certainly never agree to meet them somewhere. Tying in with online safety is password safety. We've learned things like how to create a secure password. To do this, have both capital and lower letters in the password. Make your password something that is easy for you to remember, but hard for others to guess. Keep in mind that you should never share your passwords.

These facts are just a few of the many things we learned during a few weeks in Computers class. I hope you learned something, too!

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Technology Blog Post

There is a new piece of technology I found while researching on the Internet. It's called the Universal Communicator. It's mainly for people with hearing, speaking, and seeing disabilities, but those without disabilities can use it too. It's basically like a wrist phone, and a ring included. If you don't have the disabilities, the wrist bracelet and ring go on one hand. If you are suffering from disabilities, they go on different hands to sense movement. What is does is it can convert sign language into words or a vocal message. Also, if you are perfectly normal, there is a speaker on the ring and a microphone on the bracelet so you can talk on the phone. It really is a pretty nifty device, though it probably would cost a pretty penny.

http://wordlesstech.com/2011/04/03/universal-communicator/

Guarding My Personal Information

To be honest, there isn't much personal information of mine that I handle, except for my passwords to online things. I don't share my passwords with anyone. I hope you don't either. I haven't given too much thought to protecting information, but I am cautious and I use my common sense. Everyone should.
To me, the term Identity Theft means someone trying to be you to take advantage of something you have and they don't. It could be money, reputation, friends even. In my opinion, identity theft is just ridiculous because, in all this time that you're spending trying to be another person, you could be making yourself someone you want to be. It's like you're giving them all your time, having them angry at you because of it, and then there's the constant threat of jail. All that just to get some money. It's sad, really. PA-THE-TIC. I hope everyone out there who is a victim and is victimizing someone else can change the bad situation they're in.

Christmas Break

Over my Christmas break, I didn't do much. I just relaxed a lot, played Sims 3, and did sketches for my art class. We went to Christmas Eve church, and then, of course, our family, with my aunts and uncles and cousins and such, had a Christmas party and it was nice. We had an ugly sweater contest and my dad won, so that was funny. What was especially funny was that he hadn't even been trying to win, and what he won a picture of his niece's coworker's boyfriend from the 1970s. His niece had gotten it from a White Elephant party at her work. For New Year's Eve, I had two friends over and we watched The Twilight Zone for a lot of the night because it was on a marathon. I gave them gifts of candy and a picture to hang on their walls. My friend Lily got the one that had a butterfly and the word "fleur" on it and was really pretty. Kim, my other friend, go on that had sort of a life map on it and phrases like "love" and "life" and "believe in yourself". It suited her personality and the butterfly one suited Lily's. So, that was my Christmas break. If anyone actually reads my posts (and I don't know why you would), you can tell me what you did for break and maybe what you'd like me to post. Bye :)

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