Hi Edubloggers,
Today, I will be reviewing a book that has been a favorite for me. The book is called Fahrenheit 451 by American writer Ray Bradbury. The Genre is Dystopian fiction. Although the book is recommended and targeted to young adults (18-30), the reading level is about eight-ninth grade. I rate this book a five out of five and highly recommend this book to people who like science fiction.
Bye,
Chad
Hi Edubloggers,
This is pretty late, but here is a emoji quiz I dare Hamilton fans to take. Being a Hamilton fan myself, I constructed a emoji quiz of Hamilton songs. Anyway, see how many you can get and put the answers in the comment section! Good Luck!
Did you get them all? Here are the answers
So how many did you get right? Put it in the comments.
Bye,
Hmschad
Hi Edubloggers,
Wow! These 10 weeks of blogging have passed quickly! In order to officially close the Winter 2018 Student Blogging Challenge, I will do a evaluation and audit.
Q. How many weeks of the challenge did you participate in?:
A. Up to today, I participated in nine of the ten weeks (I inadvertently forgot to do week 4.)
Q. How many posts did you write in the ten week period
A. In the ten week period, I wrote eight posts total.
Q.How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers, or other visitors?
A. I got two comments from oversea bloggers.
Q. Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?
A. The post I enjoyed the most writing was from week 9, because it helped me undust an old hobby of mine, coding! Also, the website has introduced me to a plethora of coding games to test my knowledge.
Q. Which web tools did you use to show creativity on your blog?
A. I believe the web tool that showed creativity in my blog was my theme, which showed nature simply and the snow icon.
Q. What are your plans for your blog now? Will you keep posting?
A. Currently, my class continues using our blogs to write posts of our interest. For me, I will be writing about crisises and my opinions and thoughts.
Finaly, here is my audit. All the answers came from my mom.
Q. What were your first impressions of this blog?
A. It looked very simple, yet positive. Not too distracting.
Q. What captured your attention?
A. The picture.
Q. What distracted you on the blog?
A. The snow kind of threw me off a bit since the picture is a fall scene yet it is snowing.
Q. What suggestions do you have to help me improve my blog?
A. Add more pictures and details into your post. Excite the readers.
Anyway, thank you for reading! Have any questions for me? If so leave a comment on any post and I’ll try respond ASAP.
Bye,
Hmschad
Hi Edublogers,
In this post I wanted to talk about my experiences with Hour of Code. Before I started it, I was a bit skeptical because I didn’t think I would be pretty good and that I would give up before a hour has passed.
However, it was the complete opposite! Having experience with another coding site called Scratch, I don’t feel like a stranger to coding. However, since I haven’t creating an animation for a while, I felt like I could attempt the advanced activities.
I tried the “Build Your Own App” activity, which was pretty challenging, yet requires a idea and creativity. I realized how we take for granted apps made by produces and how much hard work they put into a app.
I want to take the time and encourage you readers to play this coding game and many others in the link above. The producers have put a lot of effort into compiling a website to learn, practice, and review coding.
Bye,
Hmschad
Hi Edubloggers,
For this week’s post, I tried using the text section on this post to italicize and bold words by using this helpful link.
After trying it out for a few minutes I feel like it is pretty easy to remember and had no difficulties with imputing the links. I feel like I’ve taken the text section for granted knowing there are a lot of easier shortcuts such as just pasting the link onto words. I guess somethings I learned were just some of the basic codes. I tried the more advanced codes and I had no technical issues. It sort of helped me appreciate coding before these less cumbersome alternatives.
Hi Edubloggers,
In this week’s post, I will talk about a few objects that I think bring up Bon Odori or the Bon Dance. Just to give a brief introduction, the Bon Dance is a Japanese-Buddhist holiday when we honor the spirits of one’s ancestors. Lately, especially on Hawaii it has become more of an anticipated social event where you don’t have to be Buddhist. Anyway, here are the objects you’lol definitely see at a Bon Dance.
When you first see a Chochin, you may think it is just for decoration, but it has a much more spiritual meaning to it. Buddhist believe when the spirits come back to Earth, they might not know who they are or where they are. So we write or laminate names on the Chochins so they can find the way and light up the night. You might even see them dancing when the wind blows the lanterns.
Another Bon Odori staple is something you’ll see a lot of regular attendants wear. Its called a Happi coat which is a Japanese straight-sleeved coat usually made of indigo or brown cotton and imprinted with a distinctive mon (crest). They are usually worn only to festivals. Originally these represented the crest of a family, as happi were worn by house servants. Now today, it is a well known costume.
Bye,
Hmschad
Hi Edubloggers,
Today for my Free Post I wanted to talk about the Flint Water crisis and how it affected the city physically, emotionally, and politically.
First before we get into the crisis, here is a little bit of information about the city of Flint. Flint is a city near the Flint river and is the fourth largest metropolitan, and seventh largest city in Mid-Michigan. The city is famous with their General Motor Plants. (GM)
The city which was founded in 1855 has been exposed to problems since it was founded like the deep economic depression after the 1960s, GM significantly downsizing its workforce in the area (In 1978, there were 80,000 compared to 2010, there are under 8,000,) its drastic population drop, high crime rates, and most recently the water crisis.
The crisis started in 2011 when Michigan took over the city and three years later decided to budget cut some necessities such as by switching the water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a temporary fix for making a pipe to direct water from lake Huron to the putrid Flint River.
“It had been relying on water from Lake Huron from the Detroit Water Department for about 50 years. The quality was good, but there was a lot of unhappiness about the affordability. It was extremely expensive — the most expensive or among the most expensive water rates in the country. And especially for a city with a very high poverty rate, this was really getting to the point of crisis. And a lot of folks really felt like, ‘We want our own water system. We want some more control.’ So it decided, it was under state-appointed emergency management, that it was going to switch to a new water department. And until that new water department was built, it was going to temporarily use the Flint River as its drinking water source, and sort of reboot its 50-year-old water plant to provide that.”
There were a few problems such as the old pipes, the different treating of river water, and the fact that they were not treated with corrosion control (A solution you add to the water to help keep our very old, ill-maintained water lines from breaking down and having the metals contaminate the water.) As a result of this, Flint residents have complained saying the water smelled and tasted funny. The government took action be tripling the chlorine put into the water soon causing problems of its own. Later on, samples of the water have found traces of E coli as well as lead. They have also found the water severely discolored from the natural clear color we are used to, to a dark orange-ish liquid contaminated from the failing water lines.
In march of 2015, Flint City Council members vote 7-1 to stop using river water and to reconnect with Detroit. However, state-appointed emergency manager Jerry Ambrose overrules the vote, calling it “incomprehensible,” claiming that costs would skyrocket and that “water from Detroit is no safer than water from Flint.” To save people from drinking the vile water, they have sent bottles of water to compensate.
Now here we are in 2018 where Rick Snyder is planning to stop distributing water bottles since it is believed that the plant has improved immensely and the water is safe in consume. Residents, however are skeptical, what do you think? Are the tests provable and will the crisis come to an end? Leave A comment. I would like to read your ideas or concerns.
Hi Edubloggers,
For this week’s challenge which revolves around science, I wanted to bring up the method of “plogging,” which spread through word-of-mouth, and the hashtag #plogging started popping up on social media.
According to Collins Dictionary, plogging is the activity of picking up litter when jogging. Another tidbit of information is “Single-use” is the Collins dictionary word of the year. In this post, I will talk about the origins, benefits, outcomes, and how to start plogging yourself!
Starting as a craze in Sweden to help the environment and get some exercise (squatting down to pick up trash,) plogging is starting to allure people in the United States. The origins began when people were not happy with seeing trash or waste wherever they went, so they revised the solution. Not by using some sort of new machine of gadget, but by simply putting on disposable gloves and picking up trash.
So we know that it helps the environment, but like I mentioned earlier, it is also a great way to keep fit! According to the app Lifesum, an app that allows users to keep track of their plogging activities states that “A Half-hour of jogging plus picking up trash will burn 288 calories for the average person, compared with the 235 burned by jogging alone.” It is even better to engage in the trend with friends, or even start a group!
Finaly, here is a how-to based off wikiHowto’s article.
I hope this post has encouraged you to start the trend!
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Cheers,
Hmschad