On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did work time and on Thursday we did a Lab with dry ice learning about atoms,liquids,gases and solids. In humanity's we revised our writing pieces we did based on Steinbeck. I also took some time to work on my own landscape photos I have taken in photoshop. Project JobI am doing phase 2 of the project displaying the home photos. We have a plan we just need the materials. Photos I edited in Photoshop/TakenI am working on uploading the photos I took on a fancy camera up in the mountains with all the wildflowers. I used mostly a Wide lens to get those shots so there nice. ChemistryWhat did we do? We put some dry ice pressurized tube that turned dry ice to gas then to liquid. We then got our own pieces and but them in bekers and watched them bubble up or put pennies on them. What did you learn? I learned how atoms worked in solids,liquids and gasses. Also how to make clouds in a water bottle and a match. What questions do you have?
Any remaining thoughts,wonderings or things to celebrate? The tube thing was cool. HumanitysOff in a corner looking over Azria vista lies a place called Sunset cliffs. Where it has rocks upon rocks looking over the sea and the tide pools. Having hidden caves carved out of centuries of rain and wind. Scratchy bushes are along the paths and the occasional tumbleweed will roll by with the sea breeze. Trees will ach over the sides with some dead and some thriving. Shallow canals house sea snails in there hard shells avoiding danger. Sea animals who wait for small fish to come so they may have their next meal but instead are met with a finger from a curious human above. Old concrete, narrow stairs are in the corner leading down tourist, locals and surfers downs to the beach, Within the caves collage kids party throughout the night spray painting the walls and having fires. The ground littered with beer bottles from the nights before. The smell of various narcotics fill the hidden places of Sunset cliffs. Sunset cliffs though to a young girl is a place of happiness where she could not worry about anything else except finding the swing hidden in the tree dome and watching the sunset through the trees. Person who critique it - Eman The main contrast you can see right away is between the rock and the sea. The rock is very dark and rigid compared to the flowing blue sea reflecting the sunset. The sunset has many different shades of orange and then the sun just kinda highlights a bunch the water and contrasts against the clouds. The sea gets darker and darker as it goes further away from the sun giving the sea more depth and texture. The way things are positioned in this photo kinda reminds me of a painting with the sun directly over the water and the rock right in front of the photo on the left. It’s like three different sections in one photo, along with the colors being drastically different from one another they all contrast against each one another.
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This week we worked on our independent projects and we also did a fier lab with Andrew burning different stuff in the dark. We also went to a gallery down in liberty station with a bunch of glass and metal printings of photography and looked around there. In humanities we wrote about s place that has an effect on us. Humanities"Think of a place that has an affect on you...tell us about it"Off in a corner looking over Azria vista lies a place called Sunset cliffs. Where it has rocks upon rocks looking over the sea and the tide pools. Having hidden caves carved out of centuries of rain and wind. Scratchy bushes are along the paths and the occasional tumbleweed will roll by with the sea breeze. Trees will ach over the sides with some dead and some thriving. Shallow canals house sea snails in there hard shells avoiding danger. Sea animals who wait for small fish to come so they may have their next meal but instead are met with a finger from a curious human above. Ol concert, narrow stairs are in the corner leading down tourist, locals and surfers downs to the beach, Within the caves collage kids party throughout the night spray painting the walls and having fiers. The ground littered with beer bottles from the nights before. The smell of various narcotics fill the hidden places of Sunset cliffs. Sunset cliffs though to a young girl is a place of happiness where she could not worry about anything else except finding the swing hidden in the tree dome and watching the sunset in the trees. Sunset Cliffs to me was an escape from real life. As a kid I would only see one parent at a time most of the time because my dad worked during the weekdays and my mom stayed home with us taking us to school and then later on even homeschooling us. Then on weekends my mom worked as a waitress then later a bartender and we were left with my dad. So we were left inside a lot of the time but on the weekends my dad would sometimes take me and my sister to sunset cliffs and there wa this swing there that we always played on and just it was a place where I could be myself and not worry about doing chores or deal with my sister. Just a place where I could find inner peace. For awhile we didn't go though because my parents started working on houses over the weekends and I stayed home with my sister doing chores and watching shows. Not having very much human contact. But then one day we went back for my sister's birthday and we were going to go onto the swing and but the whole tree dome was torn down due to college kids partying there to much. After we discovered that it wasn't necessarily that even that sparked it but that was the beginning of my childhood ending and me growing up beagin. Nothing bad about growing up it's just nerve racking when something that was kind of a highlight of you growing up gets destroyed. ChemistryI stated doing research on galaxies for my independent project and I am going to order watercolors and start creating the posters.
This week we worked on our chemistry experiment proposal for 3 days and then got them approved. Then yesterday we started writing about diffrent panoramic photos talking about composition and other phtotogy camera start. HumanitiesIt looks like the photo is taken in the middle of the day unlike other landscape photos that are taken during sunset or sunrise. This type of photo kinda reminds me of a photo you would see on the cover of a travel magazine. With the vibrant blue water contrasting against the green. On top of that the white really stands out against the different shades of blue and green, like if I were to do a painting of this my color pallet would just be different shades of green, different shades of blue and white. The trees closer to the front almost look like they are popping out at you like a 3D movie. I am pretty sure he put a polarizing lens over his camera because all the colors are a little bit more vibrant. Also the shutter speed is low because he was able to catch the clouds very well. I feel like I am there because the foreground is very close. I feel like I am there looking over the landscape. ChemistryI am making educational posters about different things in space. I hope to learn more about space since I really enjoy looking at it. I hope to accomplish something that I cloud sell.
This week we started off in chemistry doing the H2 balloon experiment taking notes and observing what was happening to the balloon. Then blew them up with fire. We then discussed different experiments we can do on our own and have all started planning our different experiments. We also finished our emulsion prints and finished phase 1 of our project and started talking about phase 2 which is landscape shots. In humanities we had two socratic seminars answering questions about our society. OUr first seminar we talked about if people are responsible for their own american dreams and if wealthy people have a responsibility to help the poor. We also discussed Owens Valley, Salton lake, Flint Michigan and Hetch hetchy Valley and answering some questions about that. HumanitiesSalton LakeWhat Happened? As farmers started to arrive in Imperial valley around the 20th century farmers wanted to use the colorado river to water their crops. So they made grudges without floodgates, but in 1904 the pipes got clogged by silt from the Colorado river which made saline water be carried in by the colorado river . Another intake gorde was bullit again without a flood gate. It was a popular fishing spot and tourist used to come a lot till the water increased in salinity and pollution from urban runoffs, acultura drainage, storm runoffs, killing off most of the fish spices and birds thus creating Salton Sea. Did we need to do it? No. I think we could have handled tapping into the Colorado river better. Because if we had built floodgates we would not have an overflowing amount of water coming over the dam. If they knew that the Colorado river had salt in it they should have found a way to stop that from happening and also unnecessary fish had to die and its now just sitting there getting more and more salty by each year and getting more polluted. What is the water rights impact? In 1993 the Salton Sea Authority was formed consisting of Coachella Valley Water District, Imperial irrigation district,County of Imperial,County of Riverside. They have taken some steps into remediation which means stopping the environmental damage. They say they have steps but don't list any and also they haven't taken action on doing anything. What is the environmental impact? There is a very long list of problems with the Salton sea that is impacting the environment. One of the biggest problems is that it has is that it is super salty, It has 25% more salt than the ocean. Since it is so salty fish die quickly and birds can't live there. Also nothing grows. Another thing that is happening is that there is still pollution happening from aquaculture drainage making the water even more toxic. Two years ago the atlantic wrote about how the salton sea has like these hydrogen bubbles made by decaying corpses of fish and birds were stinking up Los Angeles which is 130 miles away from the Salton sea. But it's more then just a smell, the lake is shrinking due to temperatures getting up to 110 degrees out there. and is or when that lake drys up it'll kick up a bunch of toxic dust since people are still pouring really bad chemicals from pesticides and other nasty stuff that is not good to inhale. Hetch Hetchy ArticalShould we have dammed the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy? I am torn by this question. I want to say no because it was a beautiful forest before with trees and animals. As John Muir described it "Hetch Hetchy is a grand landscape garden, one of nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples. As in Yosemite, the sublime rocks of its walls seem to glow with life . . . while birds, bees, and butterflies help the river and waterfalls to stir all the air into music. . . . These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. . . . Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.". I don't know how anyone is there right mind cloud destroy a place that sounds that beautiful. But at the same time we needed to supply people in San Francisco with more water but at what cost? Was it worth destroying a place like that? Was there another way we cloud have gotten more water to san francisco or was this the only option. So in conclusion I don't know what other options there were so I cant say no... but also I don't think a place with that much beauty should be destroyed so I cant say yes. Was California meant to support this many people? I don't think it is. Because if we have to dam places and if were in a drought then there must be to many people in California. California is only the 3 biggest state in America behind Texas and Alaska. California as of 2014 had a population of 38.8 million when Texas also based in 2014 is 26.96 million and Alaska also 2014 is only 736,732. So is the tow biggest sates have less people that the third biggest state. Than how did California get the more people? Are our landscapes worth saving? Why? Of corse they are worth saving. They are wonderful and beautiful places that serve a grate environmental purpose in our world to keep it healthily. Also there are trees that give us oxygen and on top of all that they are a place to get away from life and rediscover who you are. Evidence of this is Emerson's Nature essay explaining the spiritual impact nature has on our inner humanity helping us bring peace into ourselves again. Whenever I go on a hike or visit natural places I become myself and gives me peace to think about how I can be more of a balanced person. How should water be managed in California? I don't really know. I mean we could try reusing water by filtering the water we use. Or just people on general can try to save water around there house by doing full loads of laundry and taking shorter showers and not watering the grass so much. But other than those two things I don't know what else we can do so we can not have this many problems with our rivers and lakes, also so we won't be in so many droughts anymore. ChemistryH2 BalloonsWhat happened? The magnesium disintegrated into the citric and filled up the balloon that was on top of the flask then it explodes when you put fier next to it. Observation
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