The Pecha Kucha presentation that I found on the website and decided to watch is called 'Superior Skydiving' by: Lyn Langlias. I enjoyed the presentation, it was full of helpful information, like how to become A and B certified. She had many good things going on during her presentation, but there were a few things that could have been fixed, during the actual the presentation, and during the online portion that isn't live.

Some of the things that were done very well are as follows: her information, her knowledge through experience, and her enthusiasm towards her topic. I liked all of the personal pictures that she had and all of the personal stories connected to them. It made me feel like I was a part of the crew. I also enjoyed all of the mid-flight pictures, especially since I've always wanted to go skydiving.

Now, I didn't really find many things wrong with the presentation. There are only two things that I could find. The first one deals with the presentation as a whole, and it is something that everybody is susceptible to, it's not just her. When she was giving the presentation, she paused for almost 15 seconds while trying to find out where she was at on her script. She should have made sure to keep track of where she was at. The next thing has to do with the online portion. While watching the video, there were a couple of times where the pictures did not show up and all I got on this end was audio.

Other than those things, I enjoyed the presentation, I enjoyed the topic, and I enjoyed the enthusiasm. Over all, I thought it went very well. Now its time to go skydiving

Its The Cost To Get Buried That Will Kill You

I was not really sure what I was going to research for this post, but I think that I have found something very interesting, something that I definitely would have never learned outside of this project. I was looking through what I thought t be the shorter and less "full" response, even though it had les information, and was really short, it held the key to my project. A topic that I knew nothing about. What cemeteries in China looked like, I figured that they look like the cemeteries in America, they do, but times 10.


In The United States, there is approximately 316.1 million people, with 50,000 graves. In china, there are  approximately 1.357 billion people, and 3,000 cemeteries. This has cause the price of the burial land to go up exponentially. From the usual 15,000$, up to 48$ million on the black market, and for the prime real-estate, up as high as 3.5$ billion. According to the Smithsonian's website, the
plots of land set aside for graves could run out in as little as six years. And even though the population is not growing as rapidly as it used to be, t is still a huge country, and people will always have the need to do the deed.

I did not get much info from my correspondence about the cemeteries, but I know that there are lots of temples and shrines. There are huge pillars that are as big as tree trunks, these shrines and temples must be beautiful works of art, all the time and effort that it took. The amount of craftsmanship that goes into a piece of art like this is incredible. Imagine being the companies who make these types of things on a daily basis?

I think that these statistics are crazy, they have just over four times as many people as we do , yet we have almost 17 times the grave yards. have. That doesn't make much sense to me, but what do I know, I don't plan on dying for a while, so its not something that I need to worry about. I looked but couldn't find this information, but I wonder what it would cost to build a burial shrine like that everyday.

 

 

Sources:

-The Smithsonian Website

-Amanda (Song Yalin) "A Crazy Night". Letter to Jack Wilson. October 26, 2014. Qingdao China

-Google Images 

Book Response: Fear

I finished reading 'Fear' yesterday, well, the ending was pretty great, I'm not going to lie; everything has changed, you can see through the barrier that has been blocking the view of the outside world for the past year. Some might think that this is a good thing, that it is now time to get out of the dome and not have the fear of starving every day, or even dying of dehydration. But in reality, its just making things worse, the kids are ignoring their different jobs, and instead, looking at the outside world, which means, that if they are getting food slower, they are going to starve faster.
Now the Gaiaphage, or Gaia as it is called now since it took over the body of a child, is walking free with all the powers of the FAYZ and plans on killing every human being alive.
Gaia is an interesting character, it is this almighty being that has the 2nd most power in the FAYZ,  and yet, while in the body of a child, it still has gaps in its knowledge of the world around it. Like something as simple as music, Gaia had no knowledge of it what so ever, to the point where it was even skeptical about it and wasn't sure if it should listen to it or not.

Although this all powerful entity can do just about anything that it wants to, it is still inside a human body, and its not one of those stories where the monster is trying to be freed, it wanted to be in the body, but that made it stronger, but also very weak. Now Gaia can be hurt, and it acts very much like a child.

Book reflection

 

Well, we were supposed to read 300 pages for this quarter so we could do these properly, well, I have already read approximately 1100 pages, so I’ll talk about the book that I am currently reading. The title of the book is called “Fear”; it is the fifth book in the “Gone” series by Michael Grant.  ß (Astrid) ß (other characters that I didn’t mention because they weren’t relevant  for my post.)

Her nick name was Astrid the Genius, she was smart, duh, she was beautiful, duh, and up until this point, she had been one of the most powerful people in these books. But now, this is Astrid, “She wore a pair of jeans and a plaid flannel shirt over a black T-shirt several sizes too big. A leather belt made two turns around her waist. It was a man’s belt, and a big man at that. But it was sturdy, and bore the weight of the 0.38 caliber revolver, her machete and her water bottle.”

Now take a girl who is smart, very religious, and very beautiful, and then give her a 0.38 revolver. She would give it back right? Or hold it while giving you a confused look? Well not her, she is living alone in the forest fighting and scavenging for her food. Killing anything that crosses her path, while exploring the forest and staying alive under a dome that is twenty miles wide. While trying to stay away from the demons that haut her nightmares and even her life, because under this dome, anything can happen, and it just so happens that the dome and everything that happens is caused by her 5 year old autistic brother.

Things you may or may not know about me.

Things you may or may not know about me.
Thing 1. I love Doug Walker
Thing 2. I enjoy sports
Thing 3. I have played Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Track, and now, Football.
Thing 4. I have a beard.
Thing 5. I went to Study Middle School.
Thing 6. While playing basketball at Study, we never won a game.
Thing 7. I like to read.
Thing 8. I don't like to write.
Thing 9. I only took this class because I didn't want to get stuck in English IV and get a headache everyday.
Thing 10. I am in band.
Thing 11. I play the Tuba
Thing 12. I love the St. Louis Cardinals.
Thing 13. I love music.
Thing 14. I love the Beatles.
Thing 15. I love the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Thing 16. My real name is John.
Thing 17. I work at Dillons on National and St. Louis.
Thing 18. I love M*A*S*H
Thing 19. I love Jazz.
Thing 20. I love being outside.
Thing 21. My favorite number is 21.