Spring Break HW 3

I read the article What Really Happened to the Titanic? on scholastic.com. The R.M.S. Titanic was the prized ship that crashed on it's way to New York and many were killed. The article brang up a scientific theory on how it exactly came to sink, which went off the usual theory of how the ship hit the iceberg. It brang up a theory that involved illusions and water columns of pressure. I agree with some aspects of this article and i don't agree with others.

I agree with the aspect of the article that helped cause the sinking called thermal inversion. "The Titanic, he says, sailed from warm Gulf Stream waters into the freezing Labrador Current. There, the air column was cooling from the bottom up, creating layers of cold air below layers of warmer air." (What Really Happened to the Titanic, by Jennifer Walters, scholastic.com) This often makes a haze which means they couldn't have really have saw the iceberg before it was to late.


I disagree with the aspect that there was another ship and with the thermal inversion saw a smaller ship, also when the ship sent Morse lamp they couldn't see it. In other information it was shown that it would take many hours for another ship to come help. It seems odd that just because the ship was not huge the other ship wouldn't even try to save anyone. In other information they often say that the ship Californian came later and didn't see them then. This aspects makes me doubt this theory.


There will always be other theories about the famous sinking. Many will say they hit an iceberg, others may say other things like there was a mirage. But no doubt the prized R.M.S. Titanic sunk killing 100's of men, women and children, unprepared with now enough life boats. We will always remember the great tragedy and the untimely deaths to the  civilians aboard. Through all the theories about the sinking that will always be a fact.

spring break HW 2

1.) What the student did wrong is that he/she needed to either put a star after that quote and then at the end of their post say the URL or when using the quote say from which  website and article directly into your post like this:  http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html from he  article "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings". Then it would give full credit to the website and it's article and if it has an author so it wouldn't be plagiarism. 


2.) Vangough's painting Starry Night has plenty of emotions and visual elegance like "There is a peaceful essence flowing from the structures. Perhaps the cool dark colors and the fiery windows spark memories of our own warm childhood years filled with imagination of what exists in the night and dark starry skies."  (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html

Title of article: "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings")

3.) 3 ways to avoid plagiarism is... 1.) Put the orgin of the quote before or after the quote itself. 2.) Have a cited sources page at the end of the post. 3.) Put a number or symbol next to the quote and later on put the orgin of the quote in the post. BUT MOST OF ALL ALWAYS SOMEWAY GIVE THE WEBSITE, ARTICLE, BOOK OR PERSON CREDIT!

Spring Break HW 1

I liked Diana's post on "Much a do about nothing" and Josh's poem "What is America".

First i want to talk about Josh's poem. Reading this was a privilege. When i drove down south this spring break, in states like South Carolina and Georgia i saw bumper stickers and billboards plastered with phrases like "TAKE BACK AMERICA" and "AMERICA LAND OF THE BRAVE AND FREE", yes they were obnoxious boasting about how "were the best" but his poem shows the cold and painful truth about our sugar coated nation. Wile driving through the south i passed Trayvon Martin's home town which brought me a chill down my spine. For example a young boy can be murdered for basically being black and yet the racist murderer isn't charged for it for over a month, that is are so called fair justice system. Or like Josh brings up the 13 million Americans who can't find work. There will always be problems, we will always have to struggle but we have to keep trying. Anyway his poem bang tears to my eyes, it was written in a way that is hard to describe so the best way i can is to say in a perfect structure with simple yet meaningful words, so perfectly put together it's positively divine.

I liked Diana's post very much. I liked how she kept it simple only using the details f the performance she needed to, saying what she liked, what she did not, her favorite characters and things like that. But she did elaborate very well using the details she needed to use from the play. Very nice short and sweet.

Sometimes i feel like i put too much summary and not enough about the actual context in the article, book or any type of text. I also like to elaborate, but sometimes i admit i go over board, now i understand that you have to keep it simple. Elaborating with too much summary or unnecessary dialogue can damage your post even if you have a good idea.