Jan
18
2012
Cassandra
…B is for Business, C is for Child Labor……and so on…. Finally, another installation of Article of the Week! Not that I was looking forward to it or anything, that exclamation mark is misleading… Ok, this week’s topic is on the many audits that Apple has done this year for the farther branches of their [...]
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Nov
16
2011
Cassandra
Welcome back to another round of Article of the Week, starring an article about the possibility of colonizing other planets. Also featuring notes that I took during my reading, because, hey, it’s required. Recently, two possibilities have been brought to light, one of which I will be discussing in this first paragraph. It has been known that [...]
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Nov
08
2011
Cassandra
…nah I got nothing. Hey, creative titles are hard to think of sometimes! I used diigo to take notes on the article. WELL ANYWAY, the focus of this week’s post is an article about the recent massive floods in Thailand, the aftermath of three months of heavy rain and the cause of over 500 deaths. Families and [...]
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Nov
08
2011
Cassandra
Previously we were working on a project using Photoshop and Animoto to represent our personality through our face. We retrieved eight photos from Flickr of eight objects/ideas/food we liked and incorporated it into our faces, showing our true colors and our true self that our normal face cannot always show. It was a very fun [...]
Tags: gr8, middle school
Nov
07
2011
Cassandra
…and I’m not talking about soccer…. In the beginning of the year, I had a goal to gain at least 3,000 pageviews on my DeviantArt account, which I achieved (I have 3,501 pageviews at the moment). I had to draw and submit more drawings and I tried to draw more popular fanart instead of artwork [...]
Tags: goals, gr8, middle school
Nov
07
2011
Cassandra
“ Now that you have completed two assessments, does your final grade (to-date) represent your learning of our Algebra thus far? Why or Why Not?” 87.5% is my final grade for Algebra. I think this grade DOES represent my learning so far because there are a few topics I’m not very clear about, but otherwise most [...]
Tags: goals, gr8, middle school
Nov
02
2011
Cassandra
In 2005, Steve Jobs, the man we all know to have brought Apple into our daily lives gave a captivating and moving speech at Stanford University about his past experiences and how they had driven him to pursue his career and live his life to its own potential. He spoke of the three main events in [...]
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