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 * Hi, Group 1,
 * You're off to a good start! Re: formatting--the wiki reacts strangely when there's empty space at the beginning of a line--for instance, if you indent a paragraph by hitting the space bar, or if you paste in text that has been formatted like that. Good luck on your project!
 * Stevenarntson 17:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi Group 1,
 * This research is getting off to a good start. I'd recommend ultimately trying to get a good controlling thesis at the top, that gives the reader the "lay of the land," for the paper, especially since the topic is so broad. For instance, "Population control and resource management are two ways the world can be made more sustainable. For those in developed countries whose birth rates are lower, focus should be on reducing consumption. For those in developing nations, population control is a higher priority. Both courses have their complexities, and in the end, it is the relationship between all of these nations, and their ability to understand one another, that will allow reforms to be peacefully obtained." Then the paper can follow the course suggested. Or something like that! :)
 * Stevenarntson 19:08, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Hey guys, Katie here.

I'm trying to get some formatting done tonight, so be sure to check back frequently. I will probably just put the formatting separate from all of the date dumping so that we can organize everything later.

KatieManske 22:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I threw up a basic layout for out information at the bottom of the group site. Slowly learning to control the wiki editing tools.  Will post a data dump later.

KatieManske 01:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Hey guys, just a reminder to get your stuff filled into the format at the bottom of the group page. Even if you don't have all of your research, and it isn't final, please at least post what you're working on (a thesis of sorts), so we know what to expect.  I'll be posting more by Wednesday.

KatieManske 07:41, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * One thing I forgot to add. Keep track of your sources and be putting them into MLA at your convenience.  I'll add a sources section to the formatting soon so we can start getting them up there and organized.

KatieManske 07:46, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi Group 1,
 * The structure of the thing seems like your current best focus--there's some good information here which, as Katie notes, needs to be distilled into your form without repetition of facts, and allowing for the different viewpoints you've collected. Additionally, I remember talking to you all about education being an important part of your proposed solution--I still think that's a good idea.
 * Stevenarntson

 * Don't forget to get all of your work up in the FORMATTED SECTION tonight! We need the entire page as close to finished as possible for out overview tomorrow morning!

KatieManske 17:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Well, that didn't go as planned. I was hoping to have my paper finished, but I threw up an outline of what I'll be writing about so we can at least talk about it in the morning.  Hoping you guys get your stuff up too.  Ignore the bazillion edits on the page too: Wiki and I were having a small fight over formatting.

KatieManske 09:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi Group 1,
 * I like your contemporary viewpoints thesis, "Factors such as religious context, economic standpoints, and ethical ramifications all play a role in dividing people on the issue." I'd like to see something similarly concise for your solutions piece, as well. Reading that piece, I was reminded of Obama's "spread the wealth around" quote--the importance of trying to find a worldwide wage parity in good to emphasize, in concert with efforts to reduce consumption; if only one of those things happens, there will be strange consequences for sure, but both happening together, moderately, perhaps could lead to some successes.
 * Best, Stevenarntson

KatieManske 08:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey guys, moving all of the unformatted stuff to this page. DON'T FORGET TO PUT YOUR MLA SOURCES IN THE SOURCES SECTION!

Markm 04:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC) Sorry Ive missed class twice guys ive had the flu or something. Its been really shitty I can barely eat. Could you guys get me up to speed on class?

Markm 03:38, 11 February 2009 (UTC) The earths population started out very slow. It gradually grew from a.d. 1 and had a few set backs like the black plague which may have reduced the world's population from about 450 million to about 375 million in 1400. It wasn't until the 1900's that it started picking up at a alarming exponential rate. I feel like we are very similar to mold on a piece of bread. First there is only a few tiny spots of mold, then the next day a quarter chuck is gone, then the whole things gone. We are the advance form of this scenario, because we can't solve this overpopulation by just buying a new slice of earth, and this idea also made me come to the conclusion that we are the enemy of the earth, as if this is our purpose to multiply and kill the earth. In killing our host we end up killing ourselves, unless we start to act like the smarter parasites who keep their host healthy enough. I think unity and education play a huge role in fixing this. On the exhausting our resources subject, there is only about 4% out of the 17% of earths surface that we thrive on that can be farmed on. I think we should really be pushing hydroponics and other techniques.

Gerry Wihardja

This morning i got involve in an accident.. my car was hit badly on the back.. i want to go to class but the process took me like 3 hours until the tow truck came.. im really sorry I've missed class.. do we have anymore class next week?

KatieManske 22:05, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

The vast number of the World's population increases drastically every single day. No single group is completely at fault and we must take the time to spread awarenness of our own population. Everyone thinks that the population crisis is somewhere else. The US media focuses on China and Africa but does not take into consideration the amount of resources that the average American uses.

The world population as of 7:30 last night was 06,840,273,886. By the time you read this article this number will have grown by more than 50,000. Every day there are over 300,000 births and over 14,000 of those births occur every hour. Now some of you may be thinking well hey people are dying too and yes every day there are over 100,000 deaths, but this also means that every single day there are 200,000 new people on this earth. So lets put this into terms that we all ca understand. Everybody know how big Safeco filed is right? Well Safeco field can seat 93,242 people. So every day over two entire Safeco fields are filled to max occupancy. Looking at the world populous when from 1988, the year I was born, it seems that in my lifetime the population has grown by over 1 billion people. So as you can see the world population can grow very quickly. It took all of human history until 1830 for world population to reach one billion. The second billion was achieved in 100 years, the third billion in 30 years, the fourth billion in 15 years, and the fifth billion in only 12 years. In 2005, world population exceeded 6.5 billion people, growing by nearly 80 million per year

Over 10 years ago John Holdren wrote an article that shows us exactly what determines our total energy consumption. It says total energy consumption, equals population size times the average per capita energy use. So if E * total energy use, P * population size, and e * energy use per capita, we can say E * P x e. This equation basically states that if we fail to control our per capita consumption we will never solve our economic problems. Today's "ecological footprint" measure is an elaboration of Holdren's equation. In the US, per capita consumption is higher than in developing countries. This equation proves to the US especially that we can not just simply ignore this issue. With regard to oil use, for example, adding one person to the US population is like adding about 15 in China. (www.overpopulation.org)

GerryWihardja

There are now at least 5.8 billion human beings on the planet, and according to the United Nations, the population of earth is expected to grow to around 7.9 billion by 2050 from time to time, the earth has been overcrowded by human. There was a time before when human population are still manageable. But as we entered new millennium, the population has become over growth and over limit. People never think about the impact anymore. They don’t realize what over population could do to the society. One of the obvious example is “pollution”. The more population in one region could lead to pollution. More human being means more needs and more products to be produce, means more industry built and as in results, pollution has covered the earth. Trash everywhere, the increase of toxic on the air, the increase of non-recycle product. Another impact of over population is crime. As we can see, many crimes appear as the city population increase. The more people out there, the less jobs available. This kind of thing will brings the world into unsafe place to live in. One example I could mention here is developing country Indonesia. Indonesia is a large country with many nature skill spread within this country, but the government didn’t concern about the people’s family plan. For them it is taboo to tell and teach about the family plan. Therefore, up until nowadays, many low class people like farmers, fishermen, are still blind about what over population could do to them in the future. Although since decades ago, the family plan has been introduced to the community and expected to decrease the population. Another impact we should be concerned is health. Unlike rich family, the average populations mostly don’t really care about their health and their family’s health. What they should care is their infant’s health. Since they can’t afford for a vaccination, immunizations, or regular appointment with the doctor, many infants and senior suffer from illness like TBC, polio, yellow fever, and many other illness that caused by germs and unsterile environment. That is why many countries like Thailand, China, India, mostly Asia and beyond, has offered free medical checkup and treatment for those people who couldn’t afford to pay a doctor. As we go through the impact of over population, we can now discuss about some ways to help preventing this from taking control the earth. On Europe, the government stated that the first, second, and third child in the family, are free from school fee and others. While the rest won’t get any covered from the government, therefore, the Europeans are concerned to only have three or less than three child in the family. Introducing the family plan to the society is actually one of the best solutions of this problem. It will be very helpful to prevent out numbering in family. It also has some product that would protect people from sex disease. The rest is all depends on the family itself. Some countries like Germany, their government will be willing to give award such an extra cash to the family if they could maintain of three or less children within. This could also be a good way in helping the world from over population.

 * KatieManske 04:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Hey guys,  Just a reminder that we can still edit the page until tomorrow.  Was hoping to see some more changes, but if you're happy with your section, then that's fine. I think we had some cool research, and it was a fun topic.  I sent out an e-mail about this already, but very few people have posted their sources, much less formatted them and stuck them in the right place.  I can't help you there if you don't even have links to websites up.  I'm trying to get Camille's formatted now (although some of these websites are pretty funky, and it's been tough finding info), but its important that you take a few minutes to do that tonight. E-mail me with any last minute questions.

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Round 1

Pt.1= The initial visit

My first ever visit to the sculpture garden was awesome. I was impressed before I even saw it upon learning that the grounds the garden sits on used to be a parking lot. There are a wide variety of styles of works and sculptures, many of which I found to be incredible. I definitely was digging the large scale sculptures(ie-Serra's Wake piece.) because they gave me a sense of interaction with the work. (Like the individual human experience was part of the piece.) There were however 2 artists' whose work I didn't really care for initially.(Louise Nevelson and Beverly Pepper.) After some thought, I decided that Louise Nevelson's Skyscape 1 was my least favorite. I thought it was too flimsy. The sculpture looked cheap, like it didn't belong with the rest of the sculptures. (It looks like something I'd imagine seeing adorning an unkept garden.) Pt. 2= The investigation

Going into the research part of the assignment, I wasn't sure what to expect. I had been told that every artist represented at the garden had an extensive art back round and Louise Nevelson was no exception. After looking into her other work, I instantly respected Louise much more as an artist and found some things that she has done that I really enjoy.(Such as her Sky Cathedral piece.) She does some things in a lot of her work that I appreciate, such as using "found objects" or everyday discarded materials to construct her art. Also, pieces like her Sky Cathedral piece, were very intricate and well detailed. It seemed to me that a lot of her work had things that I would notice for the first time after many viewings. I was now ready to revisit Skyscape and see if there was anything I had missed from the initial visit.

Round 2 Aka-7 days later

I returned to the cheap looking sculpture to find that although It wasn't my favorite, it was more valuable to me than it had been just a short time earlier. I also found the same to be true for Beverly Pepper's work, which was right next door to Nevelson's. In fact, I truly enjoyed Pepper's work the second go round.(I researched her work I am aware that my "back round check"  was responsible in swaying my opinion and I suspected it would. I consider myself to be a bit of an information junky and the influx of new information helped erase some of the ignorance I had around those artists.

final
Here is my final project:

By the end of this quarter, I want to: Learn where the food that I consume comes from so I can make better informed health and moral decisions.

The majority of my information came from the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

self assessment
I began this class in my first quarter of school after 6 years off. I came into it excited to learn and excited at the prospect of being able to go to school.(This was a much different feeling than I had had growing up, when I had felt forced to go and therefore resisting it.)During my 6 years off I had studied various things and challenged myself but not in a structured class environment. There were a few things that I was reintroduced to that will be valuable for me in the future. One of the skills I was able to brush up on was analyzing the reliability of information sources. I am unaware of anytime where I put so much thought into whether or not a source was accurate as I did after a lecture that opened up by dismantling wikipedia and followed through with an explanation of all of the resources we have available to us as students at AI and as residents of the greater Seattle area.(Seattle library.)

I thought it was cool to learn that we got to pick what we wanted to do for our final presentation. I wasn't feeling good about my overall level of health at the time so I decided that I would study food to see if I could get a better understanding of what it is that I was consuming. (With the hope that I would make some positive alterations.) I found a great book that did just that(Omnivore's Dilemma) and through the process of reading it, I could feel my distrust towards big corporations grow. My alternatives to the big corp food system was through local organic food suppliers and hunting and gathering things myself.(which I have yet to do.) I feel that I am doing a mediocre job of eating healthy even though I have a good idea of what it means to eat healthy. So in the end, I can say that I have been successful in learning things but not as successful at applying them.

I get feelings of anxiety around getting up in front of a class and presenting and unfortunately, during my time away from school, I did not change in this regard. My final presentation was on the last day of class which gave me plenty of time to prepare for it, but I didn't utilize much of that time, choosing instead to wait until the last minute to piece together my presentation. I think there is a correlation between being unprepared and being nervous in presenting, but have yet to really do much about it. I gave my presentation, nervous the whole time, and then when I was seated I asked someone sitting next to me "on a scale from 1-10, how nervous did i look up there?" to which he replied, you did fine. So, unless he was just being polite, I also have to consider that maybe everyone is a nervous wreck to some degree while presenting even when they don't appear to be.

Anyways, overall I had a good time in a class that sounded like it wouldn't be(Freshmen seminar 101 is pretty ambiguous and generic sounding.) and I was able to get an understanding of just how much is out there in terms of resources for me as a student of AI. This has been a valuable experience in terms of my education and I couldn't have been happier with the teacher I had.(I know that may sound like I am sucking up but I have asked around and it appears that there are at least 2 other teachers teaching the freshmen seminar class. From the various testimonials from various students, it appears like I got the best deal.)

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 * 1) REDIRECTThe Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Baltimore Ravens 23-14 to advance to Superbowl 43 against the Arizona Cardinals

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Chris Kerls was born on Oct. 13,1973 in a tiny city called Camp Hill,Pennsylvania(5 miles south of the capital-Harrisburgh). I have lived there until high school graduation,(1993)then moved to Everett,Wa. 1 year later I moved back to Pa only to take care of my grandparents. My grandfather passed away in 1998.My grandmother,who is still alive today(94)is in a nursing home in Pa.Our family sold the house in August 2005,and at the end of September(same year)I drove from Pa to Port Orchard,Wa,traveling through 14 states including Pa and Wa, with a 1 day pit stop in Colorado Springs, Co. The total trip took 4 days.I have been living in Wa ever since. I currently reside in Gig Harbor.

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"I've always wanted to"{research}travel to Victoria,BritishColumbia,Canada Location:Southeastern end of Vancouver Island;southern tip of Saanich Peninsula;65 miles northwest of Seattle. Description: Metropolitan area of approx. 290,000 residents;Provicial Capital;Oldest city in western Canada;Downtown business distrct overlooks Victoria Harbor;Surrounded to the west,north,and east by residetial areas and suburbs of Esquimalt, Saanich and Oak Bay respectively. Victoria was named after the Queen of England who ruled from 1837-1901;which has retained the charm of it's British heritage.The Songhees Indians were natives to Vacouver Island when they encountered a "smoking tree" approaching offshore in the spring of 1843.they couldn't realize how life was to change the isolated ever-green covered island. In 1851 it had established it's first governing coucil, comprising James Douglas, John Todd, and a Captain Cooper.The first steamship to visit the area, called the "Beaver" carried the chief factor for Hudson's Bay Company.(It's considered the oldest charter company in the world.)The company was seeking it's third base,more northerly, for its rapidly expanding trade system with the Pacific Northwest Indians. The company had monopolized trade in beaver skins, sea otter fur, and other commodities until that point. At this point, I unfortunately, hit a wall because of my backround, but I did research on what to do to travel in and out the United States. I did the research off the internet and printed out a total of 6 pages of legalities on how and what to do. Here is a summary: I would have to contact the U.S. Embassy and apply for a special waiver to leave and re-enter the U.S., then I would have to take the approved documents and apply for a passport. When all the necessary steps are taken and everything has been approved then I would be able to execute my original plan to travel to Victoria, Canada. The whole entire process is going to take 3-6 months if not longer. That is just for the special waiver and passport. Hopefully this is a reasonable explanation on my part of being in a slump for the last couple of weeks. The disappointment was so extreme I was about to give up on this whole entire project. I took some time to rethink and redirect my project from its original plan. Although I still plan on making my travel to Victoria, Canada, I also feel that this will help to accomplish other places outside the United States, for example "I've always wanted to" go to Amersterdam, England, France, Italy, and Germany, along with Mexico, and The Bahamas. As far as staying inside the country, "I've always wanted to" go to Las Vegas, The Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, Mardi Gras, and Walt Disney World. I'm going to redirect my travel from Canada, to Las Vegas. Before I get into the research and planning for Las Vegas, I want to say that the trip to Canada was as follows: I was going to drive up to Port Angeles and then take the ferry into Victoria and stay there for 3 days and nights and explore as much as it would deem possible in that amount of time. I will accomplish this destination, but for now I'm setting it aside. Moving on, I really want to go to Las Vegas as much as I want to go to Canada. What I am planning so far is that I will go to Las Vegas in July 2009, for 4 days and 3 nights, after the second quarter of school is completed. My plan for Las Vegas is schedled for July 6-9. I went online and checked out package deals ( cheap tickets.com/LasVegas and found that hotels are going for as low as $40 per night and round trip airfare is $200 from Seatac to Las Vegas. I have not purchased anything yet, but I plan on doing that at the end of April or beginning of May. As far as the other places within the country my goal now is to make and accomplish these destinations on a yearly basis until I succeed, all the while setting forth to apply for the special waiver and passport while I'm still attending school to convince the U.S. Embassy to approve the special waiver to "continue my education worldwide." Thank-you for helping me create and set goals for some things that "I've always wanted to" do.                 sources:International Dictionary of Historic Places Vol.1 Americas{AIS Library};Google-victoriabritishcolumbiacanada,scroll down to information,click-on"special info links"then scroll down to picture of "Spring Apple blossoms at Henderson Park in Oak Bay"

midterm
Part 1 Olympic Sculpture Park Find a sculpture you don't like, Manipulate yourself into liking it. When I walked to the park on Thursday the first piece I had seen was the "Typewriter Eraser", scale x. I continued on and looked at other sculptures, with the fact that this artwork gave me the visual of a broken guitar and the strings going in different directions, because it had no neck. I particularly didn't care for the stone plaque for reading what the artwork was made of and painted with. I read the quotation from Claes Oldenburg, who is one of two artists, the other is Coosje van Bruggen, to my surprise, is a female.(It was only because of the name.) Here is a quote from Claes Oldenburg: "I make my art out of everyday experiences, which I find as perplexing and extraordinary as can be. We don't copy the objects we use, we try to transform them and we hope to go on transforming as you look at them. The idea of endless public dialogue...visual dialogue... is very important to us." I arrived home and immediately went online to learn more about the artists, as I was intrigued to discover what other work they could enlighten me with. To my amazement, they have sculptures all over the world! Their artwork consisted of bowling pins, a buried bicycle, cutting knife through a wall, a clothes pin and a toothbrush with paste mounted on a part of a sink! They have so much more online than what I have mentioned. If you haven't explored this already, I encourage you to check it out. (Google- Claes Oldenburg). I went back to the park and took a closer look at the "Tyoewriter Eraser". I discovered that looking at it again and from the back of it, I was able to manipulate my mind into thinking it could be a bagpipe. Therefore, I want to go back and see what else I might be able to transform it into. I was so fascinated by all the artwork that I discovered from these artists, I completely forgot about finding other artists that would relate to theirs. I feel in a sense that, with sculpted artwork, in a weird way, they're all related in a sense that they are larger than normal size and life, for that in one way or another, because they base it on one's unique experience that has transpired in their own lives, even if it is taking everyday objects to mainipulate one's mind of what they may make out, or their creativity to pursue what their own personal goals would set out to be.

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Self assessment- What I have learned in this class is how creative thinking was administered through different ways of reflecting ones ability to be creative in their own way and the age groups were from young adults to adults up to and including their mid 30's. I know how to organize things and scenerios but I am not a well organized person that I have to learn how to do. I thought I did well in getting projects and homework done on time (except this one!) As far as keeping paper work and taking notes, I am scattered all over the place even though I have a 5 subject notebook and 3 folders I'm always finding myself having to reorganize, but this is how I am at home and been this way for years and its driving me up a wall! I feel prepared going into the next quarter, but I know by the time the quarter is over it will be that I wasn't as prepared as what I thought I should,would, and could have been. I feel that the "I've always wanted to" project would have contributed to the other students in class because they could have a misdemeanor and knowing that they would have very difficult time to leave and re-enter this country. I am not assuming anything but my educated guess is that out of 20 or so people in the class the other people that have had to more to get their passport than others in this country. I feel that I have the worst case scenario, with having a felony record that happened 10 years ago, but it will never go away. How do you maintain organization? How do you stop procrastinating yourself? What are the steps to maintain organization? Where and how do I begin maintaining organization and stop procrastination? Repitition? I see it, but what do I do with it? I have answers but they are not or don't work, or does it?

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Who ever really writes about themselves? I am just who you think I am: Me. With me, what you see is what you get, no lies, no hidden baggage. Art is pretty much my bread and water. Carving down the mountain, while riding to a piece of music you created can be summed up in one word: PRICELESS. I try to do my best in all my art wither it be freestyle snowboarding, or drawing up another tattoo idea. AND....Yes I have tattoos and piercings, and yes I drew them all myself. Being creative is just my fuel to the fire. I love making things and love being around people that spark those vibes and have me try new things. I run my life with one question in mind "If people's lives where books, would anyone want to read mine?" I'd like to think so.

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Who ever really writes about themselves? I am just who you think I am: Me. With me, what you see is what you get, no lies, no hidden baggage. Art is pretty much my bread and water. Carving down the mountain, while riding to a piece of music you created can be summed up in one word: PRICELESS. I try to do my best in all my art wither it be freestyle snowboarding, or drawing up another tattoo idea. AND....Yes I have tattoos and piercings, and yes I drew them all myself. Being creative is just my fuel to the fire. I love making things and love being around people that spark those vibes and have me try new things. I run my life with one question in mind "If people's lives where books, would anyone want to read mine?" I'd like to think so.

midterm
'''Part one: Misology assignment'''

Not having a chance to actually explore my new surroundings in Seattle I was extremely pleased to visit the sculpture park for the very first time. Even from the distance while walking towards the park I was impressed by the different sizes of the sculptures in all their wonder. Once inside the park I was hard pressed to find a sculpture that I did not like, all of pieces of art seemed to be of a one of a kind quality; each having their own specialness about them. After walking around the park for about an hour, I managed to find a sculpture tucked up in a corner of the park that I originally did not see and was glad that I didn’t. The sculpture dubbed “Skyscape 1” created by Louise Nevelson was just clumsily put together, and in my opinion a piece of art that was not given much thought. Overall, this piece just disturbed me that it was among all these other pieces of art, and not really have any consistency in the composition.

After walking through the park I came back home to research further on the artist Louise Nevelson. On the first few websites I found about the sculpture park and the artist that have their work displayed there, I learned that each artist had a rather substantial role in the art community. Later on after doing an image search for Louise Nevelson’s art, I found to my surprise that she has very large collection of respectable art that made me second guess her sculpture in the park. After finding the her art work like the sculptures “Wedding” and “City on the High Mountain,” I began to like the finite details in the sculptures and how from a distance the pieces form into another piece of art. With this knowledge I figured I should take another look at her art in the sculpture park.

When I returned to the park I went back to this cluttered looking sculpture that was called “Skyscape 1” trying to find the value in it. To my surprise I looked at the art threw new eyes and noticed the actual “skyscape” in the art, rather then it just being random pieces of metal put together in an abstract manner. I guess the goes to show you cannot always judge a book, or in this case sculpture, by its cover.

final
Here is my outline for my final project.

Kyle Russell

By the end of this quarter, I want to: Learn how to make and fiberglass a longboard skateboard from scratch.

The research component of this goal is to: Read and research how to construct a longboard, types of wood used along with other materials. Also some background history on the world of longboards.

WEEK 2 research and creation of material list

WEEK 3 begin collecting materials

WEEK 4 research on how to build a wood press

WEEK 5 (midterm) construct wood press

WEEK 6 begin to press wood to get shape

WEEK 7 cut board into shape, sand, and fiberglass

WEEK 8 add final paint to board and parts

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Andrew Ching was born on febuary 9th 1987 in Seattle, WA. He is a musician who is studying audio engineering at the Art Institute of Seattle. His dream is to make records, drive fast cars, play sold out shows and make millions of dollars. How he will accomplish this is a story all in itself, but with hope, command, and a willing perseverance to chase down an ambition far greater than anything he has ever confronted, his desires may someday become real. At an early age, Andrew was surrounded by an artistic family. His mother always loved to sing and his father would never fail to impress him with countless drawings that showed both the angles of modern architecture as well as the abstract open world that encompassed him. Often his days where filled with the very foundation of what pulls him through life still to this day. Music provided a chance to escape his waking life and he spent countless hours underneath an elderly wicker chair listening to records in his childhood living room. Timeless artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the original soul bands of the sixties and seventies, that his mother and father loved so much, subconsciously became his influences even before he had any idea of what he wanted to do in life. Today, apart from playing music around the Seattle area, Andrew Ching exists as a young producer and songwriter, eager to make a name and a living. His work can be heard live under the band The Freetown and online at www.myspace.com/AKCproductions

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Group 2 Research Assigment

reflective assessment
My experience of analytical writing was very different than similar classes I have taken. The main reason for this is because of the online component that it centered around. I think that was a great step forward in terms of creating a community for students and teachers, but I think that like all first attempts, problems that arose. As a group, communication is so important. When things are going to get done, how they are going to be completed, organized, who is doing what etc. These are questions that normally can be answered in class, but becuase all of our work was online, it was not easy to examine it while we discussed it. Then again, it could have been the motivation of our group that created these problems.

As for myself, I did learn important knowledge through the weekly meetings of the class. I enjoyed how the class examined the fact that no writer actually writes something in 5 easy steps. I think that this is something that a school of artists and creators needs to discuss more and I think understanding this should be a necessary goal for anyone who does anything creative. What I feel I have yet to learn is more about myself as a writer. I know that I have the potential to improve my writing both creatively and technically, but the group aspect made it hard to do so.

What I felt I did well in this class is come up with ideas that contrasted with the rest of the group. I was sort of the rogue in terms of my ideas. I don't know if I was able to express them, but usually group projects tend to cause conformity within each member. This being said, I could have put in more hours writing. The online concept made it possible for others to carry more weight than others. I did do my part, but honestly I could have put in more effort ad time.

In reality I think most GE courses here at The Art Institute act more as a test to prove that one can stick it out for the credit. I typically don't learn enough so that I would be able to advance to the next level of that subject. With this class, I enjoyed going. I didn't like getting up at 6 am in the morning, but I enjoyed being there once I had woken up and I feel that I would be able to take on another class. I will certainly use the knowledge that I gained from this course within the rest of my studies here at school and beyond.

Hopefully my contributions to the in-class discussions were useful to someone. Hopefully some of this information will help in structuring future classes and hopefully I will look back and remember at least one thing...other than don't get your head stuck in an elevator door at the exact moment of a malfunction. Honestly though, this was a valuable class.

AndrewChing 09:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Andrew Ching

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User:Charlenebrossow

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I'm currently studying Interior Design at the Art Institute of Seattle, and hope to someday design the interiors of yachts. I spend what little free time I have with my fiancee, and my Border Collie Leia.

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Charlene Brossow

GE 100

02/07/09

I have only been living in the area for a short time, and wasn’t sure what to expect when I got to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Much to my surprise I enjoyed almost all of the pieces that were displayed. Although some of the pieces were not exactly my “taste”, I could at least see the artist’s creativity coming through. Then I came to the piece by Roy McMakin. It is an untitled piece of three mismatched seats, a concrete bench, a plastic garden chair rendered out of bronze, and a cardboard office box made of steel.

At first I walked right by it, thinking that the bench was simply just a bench, and I didn’t even notice the box or the chair, but as I looked at it again I realized it was a sculpture. After studying it for a minute I decided that I really didn’t like it. To me it had no creativity what so ever. The other artists had a least made something new and different, all Roy McMakin did was take things that already exist, and make them either steel, bronze, or concrete, put them together and call it art.

After doing some research I discovered that this collection is actually part of a much larger installation at The University of California in San Francisco. That collection is mostly more of the same benches, boxes, and chairs, with a few boulders added. The collection in San Francisco makes more sense to me, because he was trying to make it look like a “wild party” had recently happened, and was showing his “sense of humor”. After learning this I disliked the piece at the sculpture park even more, because now it felt out of place.

After doing some research on Roy McMakin I discovered that he had another piece at the sculpture park, so I went and checked it out. That sculpture is called “Love and Loss”. This piece also includes concrete benches, but adds tables, an illuminated “and” sign, and a live tree. I liked this piece much better, because it wasn’t simply just seats and tables, but spelled out on them are the words “love” and “loss”, with the “and” sign connecting the two words. This showed a lot more creativity, and emotion. I also looked into other works of McMakin’s and found that he makes furniture and is also an architect. The more of his work that I looked at, the more I disliked it. Although I do like clean lines and “modern” design, I feel that he takes it a step to far, almost taking design and creativity out of it completely.

After doing all my research and going back and looking at the piece again, I disliked it even more; however, I do understand it now. Since Roy McMakin is not just an artist, but also a furniture maker and architect his  work blurs the boundaries between these disciplines, which at least explains the piece at the sculpture park.

In the end, my feelings about the piece are about the same as they were in the beginning. Which is actually kind of exciting to me, to know that my first instinct was right. It is nice to know; however, that though I may not be able to change my mind about the piece, at least I could come to understand the artist’s vision.

Bibliography:

•	"Permanent Collection." The Seattle Art Museum. 2009. The Seattle Art Museum. 7 Feb 2009 .

•	Lisa, Cisneros. "McMakin Describes Work at UCSF Mission Bay." University of California, San Francisco. 04 OCT 2004. University of California, San Francisco. 7 Feb 2009 .

•	Roy, Roy McMakin. "Domestic Furniture, Domestic Architecture." Domestic Furniture, Domestic Architecture. 7 Feb 2009 .

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By the end of this quarter, I want to: Have my dog complete a basic obedience class.

The research component of the goal is to: Research dog training, especially "clicker training", and where we can go after basic obedience, such as agility.

Week 2: Register for class

Week 3: Get ready for class (vet visits, vaccines, etc.) and begin research

Week 4: Class starts...Basic commands-sit, stay, lay

Week 5: Begin working on loose leash walking and staying at a distance

Week 6: Work on "leave it" and "back up" with distractions

Week 7: Advanced loose leash walking with distractions

Week 8: Stand for vet exams-teeth, nails, etc

Reflective Assessment
The Art Institute is the third college that I have attended, and I felt that I had already learned most of what was taught in this class; however, since I am new to The Art Institute it was somewhat helpful. I did learn about our library and other resources, which was very beneficial, I have already used what I learned for my other classes. I feel that I did pretty well in this class, I completed all the assignments and I was very pleased with my work, unfortunately I did miss a class, but that was unavoidable. The main assignment, “I’ve Always Wanted To”, was my favorite part of the class. I picked a goal that I knew would keep me interested, and I made sure I stuck to my week-by-week timeline. I was very pleased with my self for not only completing my goal, but also being very happy with the end result. Overall I was happy with how I did in the class, and my participation, and I look forward to continuing my journey at The Art Institute.

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 Business and Its Publics - Spring 2009

Instructions: For terms not contained in the Course Glossary:

1. Click on "edit this page" (above)

2. One student will enter a business term, followed by his/her name and Cohort name. For example, EPS (J. Jones, NOLITA).

3. Another student will provide the definition for the term, followed by his/her name and Cohort name. For example: Earnings per share; a company's earnings divided by... (A. Smith, BROOKLYN)

4. Professors from Inquiry and Discourse sessions will occasionally enter terms that need definitions.

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 Business and Its Publics, Section 21 - Spring 2009

Instructions: For key terms not contained in the course Glossary:

1. Click on "edit this page" (above).

2. One student will enter a business term, followed by his/her name and Cohort name. For example, EPS (J. Jones, NOLITA).

3. Another student will provide the definition for the term, followed by his/her name and Cohort name. For example: "Earnings per share: A company's earnings divided by..." (A. Smith, BROOKLYN)

4. Professors from the Inquiry and Discourse sessions will occasionally enter terms that require definitions.

"Due Diligence" (S. Barocas)

Due diligence is a process done by hedge funds, mutual funds, investment banks and any other type of investor that is planning on investing in a security or company. The process involves reading through quarterly and annual earnings reports, listening to conference calls, researching analyst reports and even calling up the company to ask them questions. The point of this in depth research is to understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the company's future earnings. The process can take as long as a few months or as little as a few days, which may be deemed inadequate by some. The purpose is not only to ensure that the investor makes sound investments, but to protect from litigation in the case that the investment is a bad one. (M Khanarian, Financial District)

"Non-Contractable Quality" (M. Chien, Financial District)

"Vertical Integration" (W. Tenenbaum, Financial District)

In microeconomics and management, the term vertical integration describes a style of management control. Vertically integrated companies are united through a hierarchy with a common owner. Usually each member of the hierarchy produces a different product or service, and the products combine to satisfy a common need. It is contrasted with horizontal integration. Vertical integration is one method of avoiding the hold-up problem. A monopoly produced through vertical integration is called a vertical monopoly, although it might be more appropriate to speak of this as some form of cartel. Andrew Carnegie actually introduced the idea of vertical integration. This led other businessmen to use the system to promote better financial growth and efficiency in their companies and businesses. (R. Raghunath, Financial District)

What is the difference between Capital markets and Financial markets? (W. Tenenbaum, Financial District)

"The Capital Markets are a subset of the Financial Markets. A Financial market is any place where buyers and sellers transact products from stocks, to bonds, currencies, commodities, derivatives etc. The Capital Markets are a system where institutions (governments, corporations etc...) can raise capital either through the stock market (equity financing) or the bond market (debt financing) to meet their needs. (Khanarian, FD)

"Industry Group" (V. Garcia, Financial District) A way of classifying individual stocks or companies, based on common types of business. There is no official standard for industry group classification. Investor's Business Daily has a proprietary model that is popular and Reuter's Baseline uses another. Some general industry group classifications are drug retailers, forestry products and semiconductor equipment. (J. Bieber, Financial District, information from investopedia)

"Economies of Scale" (M. Nacario, Financial District) Situation in which a firm's output can be doubled for less than a doubling of the cost. (X. Zhang, Finanacial District, glossary definition from Micro text book)

"Liquidation" (S. Kim, Financial District) When a business sells all of its assets in order to discharge its liabilities (S. Luo, Financial District)

"Corporate Downsizing" (C. Bark, Financial District)

Organizational restructuring involving outsourcing activities, replacing permanent staff with contract employees, and reducing the number of levels within the organizational hierarchy, with the intention of making the organization more flexible, efficient, and responsive to its environment. (S. Kim, Financial District)

"Keynesian Welfare State System" (C. Bark, Financial District)

"sustainable development" (S. Luo, Financial District)

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future genrations to meet their own needs. (S. Kim, Financial District)

What is the difference between insolvency and bankruptcy? (Khanarian, FD)

Insolvency is a business's judgment that they do not have the assets to pay off their debts. While bankruptcy refers to a court of law ruling that a company cannot pay off their debts and possibly enforcing laws to repair the situation. (J. Bieber, Financial District)

"collective bargaining" (S. Kim, Financial District)

Collective bargaining is a process organized by workers in which they discuss their respective work environment with their employers. In this way, they can improve their work environment, pay, employee benefits, etc. It is also a practice in which representatives from unions and companies meet to negotiate a new labor contract. (M. Chien, Financial District)

"corporate governance" (S. Kim, Financial District)

Corporate governance is a set of customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled. It also includes provisions that can affect a corporation's stakeholder relations and involved. (M. Chien, Financial District)

"Stress Test" (M. Nacario, Financial District)

A stress test in its general sense is when certain parameters are specified and then predictions are made regarding whether the body could survive that sample scenario. Recently, Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled his stress test for the nation's banks. The Treasury estimates an average unemployment rate of 8.9% in 2009 and 10.3% in 2010. furthermore, a 3.3% contraction in GDP is predicted as well as a further 22% decline in housing prices. If under these conditions, the bank is still well capitalized, then it has passed the test while banks deficient of capital in this scenario will fail. (Khanarian, FD)

In the financial markets, "stress tests" are often conducted to evaluate the resilence of a portfolio of investments against crashes. Traders/quants and other risk managers will ask questions such as "what happens if the Dow Jones drops 15% in a day?" Then they will plug in these disastrous predictions into their model and see how they will affect their investment. One very interesting (and more philosophical) aspect about "stress testing" is how much "stress" you should subject your portfolio to? 5%? 10%? or 50%? Banks used to choose the number base on historical data with the underlying assumption that whatehver has not happened in the past(say the current crisis) will not happen in the future. Such assumption is flawed. Before the Black Monday in 1987, no one stress test 20% drop because such a crash seemed inconceivable. However, by eliminating such a possibility, banks made their models more susceptible to rare events. (Chen Chen FD)

"Utilitarianism" (M. Chien, Financial District)

"Utilitarianism"'s philosophy roughly is about giving the greatest amount of utility to greatest number of people. An action that (unfairly) damages a few but brings overall benefit is deemed desirable under utilitarianism. An interesting notion about utilitarianism is "what is utility?" Many people think utility is equivalent to happiness or pleasure; but the latter two are actually two distinct ideas and may lead to very different path of action. According to Wikipedia, the definition is as follow : "Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribution to overall utility: that is, its contribution to happiness or pleasure as summed among all persons. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome: put simply, the ends justify the means." (Chen Chen FD)

Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) (H.R. 1409, S. 560) is pending legislation in the United States. Its text states that it would "amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an easier system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes."[1] The latest version was introduced into both chambers of the U.S. Congress on 10 March 2009.[2]

In order for a workplace to organize under current U.S. labor law, the card check process begins when an employee requests blank cards from an existing union, and requests signatures on the cards from his colleagues.[3] Once 30% of the work force has signed the cards, the employer may decide to hold a secret ballot election on the question of unionization.[3] In practice, the results of the card check are not presented to the employer until 50 or 60% of employees have signed the cards to help ensure winning the election.[3] If the majority of votes favor the union, the National Labor Relations Board will certify it as the exclusive representative of the employees for the purpose of collective bargaining.

If enacted, EFCA would require the NLRB to certify the union as the bargaining representative without directing an election if a majority of the bargaining unit employees signed cards; however, employees may still request a secret ballot election if 30% of employees petition for one. The EFCA would, according to Christopher Beam, "allow the employees—rather than the employer—to decide whether to hold a secret-ballot election." (Chen Chen FD; Source: wikipedia) PS: Thanks to Alan for correcting my misconception

Liquidity (M. Chien, Financial District)

Liquidity refers to the ease at which an asset could be converted to cash while having minimal effect on the price of the asset. Stocks and money market funds are considered to be "highly liquid" while real estate is an asset that can take weeks or months to "liquidate." Because liquidity is important for many investors, there exists a "liquidity premium" which is the extra price an investor is paying for having liquidity in the asset they own. (Michael Khanarian, FD.)

Bear Market Rally (S. Kim, Financial District)

Often when an equity market is in a sustained downward trend there are occasionally sharp increases in stock prices (sometimes as great as 20%) The reasons for bear market rallies are often unknown, but usually driven by traders who believe stocks have fallen too greatly and therefore aggressively buy. When examined from a longer term perspective, bear market rallies do not counter the existing downwards trend. (Khanarian, FD)

Equity Market Rally (S. Kim, Financial District)

Toxic Asset (S. Kim, Financial District)

There is no exact definition of a toxic asset, however it generally refers to an asset that no longer remotely resembles the original value of the asset. A mortgage backed security, for instance, may start as a normal asset, but becomes toxic when a number of the underlying loans become delinquent and the payments stop coming. A credit default swap may also become toxic if the counter-party backing the contract goes bankrupt, such as what happened with Lehman Brothers. In theory toxic assets can regain value and no longer be considered toxic, however banks often choose to simply write them off their books if recovery seems unlikely. (Khanarian FD)

Public-Private Partnership (Khanarian, FD)

A Public-Private Partnership is a contractual agreement between a public agency (federal, state or local) and a private sector entity. Through this agreement, the skills and assets of each sector (public and private) are shared in delivering a service or facility for the use of the general public. In addition to the sharing of resources, each party shares in the risks and rewards potential in the delivery of the service and/or facility. (S. Kim, Financial District)

Equity Share (S. Kim, Financial District) Equity Share refers to the federal agency’s, state’s, or (sub)contrator’s share of participation in the value of property that is sold, transferred, or retained by an entity. It is calculated as the participation in the acquisition cost of the property multiplied by either the sales proceeds (if sold) or the current fair market value (if transferred or retained). (www.twc.state.tx.us/business/fmgc/fmgc_appa_glossary.doc) (S. Luo FD)

Adversarial Collaboration (S. Luo FD) An investigation carried by two disagreeing parties, who agree to collaborate on conditions (time frame, location, number of trails)that satisfies both parties. It is hoped that both parties would then accept the results of the investigation as "fair" and settle the dispute.(http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/pub/wp/edm/edm_2003_07.htm) (S. Luo FD)

Use Allowances (S. Luo FD)

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This is the page where I will directly enter the TeX markup and see if it succeeds

This document tries to explain the working of the working of the lookup table program. Note that this program is later separately implemented as a function, as the aim is to write a lookup table to memory

Introduction
The program included generates a lookup table of $3 \times 3$, i.e., it generates a lookup table that gives the result of all possible termwise multiplications of a 3-element stream by another 3-element stream. This can later be looked up just by referring to an array index defined by the two bitsreams, which greatly reduces the computation time.

$3 * 3$ Lookup Table
Consider two bitstreams (00|11|00) and (11|00|11). According to the scheme that we use for representation (00 = +1, 01 = +2, 11 = -1, 10 = -2), we have these two bitstreams as

$$\begin{center} \begin{tabular} \hline \texttt{Stream1} & 00 & 11 & 00\\ \hline \texttt{Stream2} & 11 & 00 & 11\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center}

Therefore, these streams are actually

\begin{center} \begin{tabular} \hline \texttt{Stream1} & +1 & -1 & +1\\ \hline \texttt{Stream2} & -1 & +1 & -1\\ \hline \texttt{Multiplication} & -1 & -1 & -1\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center}

Thus, the end result is equal to : $ -1 + -1 + -1 = -3 $$$

Now, we want to store this result in a location, which is defined by \texttt{Stream1} and \texttt{Stream2}. One could store this in a two-dimensional array, or in a linear one. In this implementation, it has been stored in a linear array due to declaration constraints on higher level tables. Therefore, the result will be stored in location $ 001100110011$, or in other words, $0x333$.

\textbf{Note}: At this point, the program can be checked by modifying the print statement to print the results for desired bitstreams.

\section{Construction of the Table}

The idea behind the construction of the table is very simple. All numbers from $00-00-00$ to $11-11-11$, ie from $00$ to $3F$ in hex are taken one at a time in the outer loop. In the inner loop, the termwise multiplication of each of these streams is taken with every other possible stream, i.e. again from $00-00-00$ to $11-11-11$ and stored in the location defined by the two streams. One immediate scope for improvement is that repetitions in the table (caused by interchange of indiced of the inner and outer loops) may be avoided by means of a better loop structure).

\subsection{Bit Masks} Since each element of the individual streams needs to be separated in order to perform the termwise multiplication, we create bit masks to separate out that element. For example, in order to separate 10 from $11-10-00$, we create the bit mask $00-11-00$ and OR it with the sample, and shift the result left to get the actual sample.

\subsection{Level Shifting} The decimal values of the binary samples, and what we have designed them to be, are tabulated below \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|} \hline \hline Sample & Decimal Value & Required Value & Offset\\ \hline 00 & +0 & +1 & +1\\ 01 & +1 & +2 & +1\\ 11 & +3 & -1 & -4\\ 10 & +2 & -2 & -4\\ \hline

\end{tabular} \end{center} Thus, if the offsets are applied according to the initial values of the corresponding elements.

\subsection{Index} The index has to be of the form \texttt{Stream1Stream2}. This is done by multiplying the entire bitstream of \texttt{Stream1} by $2^{length}$, which is $2^{12}$, i.e. 4096. This is then added to \texttt{Stream2} and the resulting index is \texttt{Stream1Stream2} The result of the termwise multiplication and addition is stored in this array element.

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My reflection of this class is that it unfortunately fell on my priority list because of my more labor intensive audio classes. The class discussions were a blast, as per the norm in an Arntson class. I really enjoy getting into those debates over random issues that take place so frequently in this class. As I'm sure was evident, I enjoy voicing my opinion, and at most times am receptive to the opinions of others.

As for the quarter long assignment, I enjoyed the diversity of my groups individual topics within the grand topic. My personal research had me watching a movie called "Bigger, Stronger, Faster..." which is a documentary of steroid use, and users. This got me thinking about the generalizations that are made about steroid users and the usage of said drug.

I also found myself recollecting what I had read in Jose Canseco's book, "Juiced" about his own personal steroid use, as well as the use of others around him within the realm of Major League Baseball.

Unfortunately, with our group suffering from "TMI" I chose to keep information about both out of our page. I instead chose to focus on what people see when they see steroids... The risks. I felt like by giving information on the subject in that manner, I could remain more objective, while still expressing a viewpoint.

My later efforts were put forth towards editing the paper, which I focused mainly on spelling. This was not very time consuming, as I have Firefox, and it shows me where spelling mistakes are... So therefore it was quick process.

If I had it all to do over again...

Tough statement to explore. Sentence fragment is a sentence fragment.

I guess I would reach out to the other groups earlier in the quarter. I found that the division of the class that the groups created prevented me from knowing a great deal of people. Over the course of the last few days when we broke free of our current groups I found that I greatly enjoyed the company of some of the "others". I only wish that some of those relationships could have been more open earlier.

Thank you for reading my reflections on your class. I hope that I have you for another class in the future, as I have always enjoyed them.

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User:Cadieblaser

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My name is Cadie Blaser, raised in Centralia WA. Through out school I was involved in many activities mostly sports. I still enjoy skiing, playing golf year around and horseback riding. Another passion of mine is to travel, Ive been to pretty much every historical place in the US. Three years ago I traveled to Switzerland and parts of Italy. Last year I attended Western Washington University for a year. I now attend the Art Institute in Seattle for Interior Design. I hope to design and decorate restaurants hopfully in California or Arizonia. I have lots of goals and plans for myself and cant wait to see where life takes me.

reflective assessment
Going into this class I was a little skeptical about what it would consist of. I figured since the course was called Analytical Writing, we would most likely be writing a few different types of essays. Instead we were required to write a group essay about a issue in our society. At first, I thought this would be an easy task but was quit mistaken after a few weeks. We decided to write about college and its effects on students education and coping with the change from high school to college. We decided to split up our paper into sections, mine being about the cost and financial help. I also touched on helpful ways of preparing student's and their parents along with different issues they don't consider when thinking about further education after high school. Researching was probably the easiest part for finding various sources which applied to my subject. The hardest part for me was not procrastinating and getting together with my group. I feel we struggled with the structure of our paper but after our meeting on the 10th week, our paper began to flow. It would have been much more helpful to combine our paper earlier in the quarter. For me, I thought writing independent papers would be more work but came to find this particular assignment more challenging. It wasn't trying to work together but more of thinking on the same line as my other group members so our paper would work well. If I were to take this class over, I would definitely start earlier than I did and get together with my group on a more regular basis. Overall, I feel I gained more knowledge about social issues in our country along with researching and collaborating in a group.

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User:Lindra Chunadi

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As you can see, my name is Lindra but I would prefer to be called Verena. It's a long story, some sort of middle name that's not in the middle if you want to consider it that way. So anyway, I'm from Surabaya, Indonesia (that's in South East Asia in case you don't know), and came to Seattle on Fall 2007 for school (Audio Production). I'm on my sixth quarter attending the program, hopefully will graduate next quarter. I dance, I play music, I'm not very good at describing myself so the best way to know me is as simply as to hang out with me. Probably that's one of the reason why I have to take analytical writing.

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Portal:Social entrepreneurship/indicators

The aim of this page is to be a dashboard of indicators of how we are doing in terms of usage of this wiki portal.

For now, please list ideas.

In general we could use the list of Categories to identify those which could act as indicators - count them from time to time, to see the trends over time.

 * Number of profiles - use Category:Social Entrepreneur - count the number of pages so categorised
 * number of case studies - use Category:Case Study (Social Entrepreneurship)
 * number of members listed here
 * number of people with a home page categorised as Category:People Interested (Social Entrepreneurship)
 * number of learning resources - use Category:Curriculum (Social Entrepreneurship)
 * number of news items - Category:Case Study (Social Entrepreneurship) - see list of Categories
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Hi I'm Adam. I'm in Audio.

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Hey Steve, you are most likely going to be the only one who reads this so here is to you. You are a great guy with smart ideas, good morals, and a mind that questions. Your class is great and I really did get some writing skills out of it (which hasn’t happened from an English class in years). Your views on the world are oddly familiar, which might be why I have liked Wednesday mornings this quarter. Because of these things I can actually pay attention in class, walk away with knowledge and write something decent. I picked up a number of good writing tactics. For one I used to stick away from writing about something I didn’t have a clue about but not anymore. I will always need to rewrite my papers twenty times before they are error free, but don’t feel bad there is nothing anyone can do to help me conquer that. As far as the wikipedia system goes, I loved it; good idea. You should also try it with an individual focal point instead of group collaboration. But in the end you ran a good English class, taught me some good skills, and you’re a good guy. Keep it good Steve.

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The top Report is indicated by [1].

Rules to review the top report, Comments to classes

 Warning: There are many errors that cannot be all pointed out due to time constraint, including in the top Report. On the other hand, the best features of any report in a given report series are listed in The Best of R_# wiki page linked to at the bottom of the Report Table; these best features, together, represent a composite work of the class that comes closer to an ideal report. Egm6322.s09 14:46, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

 I forgot to login the last time that I changed this webpage so I am adding this box Egm6322.s09.bit.la 22:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

(a) : The deadline for any report is always on a friday, unless extended by formal announcement (e.g., to accommodate the travel schedule of students, etc.), or upon a reasonable request.

(b) : void for now.

(c) : 21:00 UTC = 17:00 EDT = 5:00 pm EDT = 4:00 pm EST. From the first Sunday of November, the Eastern time changed back to the EST, and we used 22:00 UTC = 5:00 pm EST.

(*) : Team merged into Team Mafia.

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Overview
''' Before you read our post, please view these 3 ads. These are 3 examples of the extreme measures modern advertising has taken. This is the pinnacle of sexual advertising. Commercial 1, Commercial 2, and Commercial 3. They each highlight a different aspect of the issues within our topic. The 1st commercial highlights the "place of a woman" in society. And that women should defy their home-maker instincts, and become a sexual animal. The second commercial highlights how men in the commercials objectify women. The commercial speaks for itself. The 3rd commercial highlights the sexual preying upon men's sexual responses. '''
 * Our group originally wanted to discuss the problems of sexuality in food advertising, but decided to broaden the topic into all advertising in general. We did this because we found that sexuality has been spread throughout all media, and that food advertising is just the icing on the cake. We want to attack the problem, as it were, head on. We want to attack the head of advertising problems, and not just an obligatory limb.

 * Our group also decided to focus solely on heterosexual advertising. The reason for this is purely time and space constraints. Most advertising in today's modern world assumes that the viewer is a heterosexual male or female. There is a small percentage of ads that target other sexual identities, but we decided it best that we stick to the majority.

 * We also decided that we were not going to go into detail about every single type of advertising media. We focused mainly on television ads, and print ads. We did not go into detail about advertising in music, movies, billboards, radio, or other extraneous forms.

1. Summary
 * We are a group comprised of 4 males, which means that we do not have the insight or opinion of any women. Since these issues concern both parties, we are writing this paper strictly from an outside point of view, through the lenses of being men. We cannot speak for women, and their thoughts or feelings on these issues, we can only infer and insinuate on their position, from our own experiences.

We believe that issues within advertising started around the time that mass media was introduced. During the year of 1924, rules were set up to encourage advertisers to govern themselves with a code of "ethics". These codes left room for advertisers to push the limits of modern indecency. Ever since then, companies have been becoming more and more sexually driven in terms of their advertising. The breaking point was during the 60's and 70's, when perfume and clothing companies began to set the "standard" for print and television ads. Perfume companies began lacing their ads with sexual promises. Clothing companies began to show their clothing models with less and less clothing. This timeline has then set the stage for our modern performers. These companies put out sex heavy ads, and we the consumers, think nothing of it.

We believe that the problem is tri-fold. The first issue is "Gender Performance" based on physical features/actions. This refers to the portrayal of men or women in ads in such a way that the consumer either consciously or subconsciously believes the portrayal. The issue of true beauty often comes up when talking about this. Men and women are expected to look and act a certain way to attract the opposite sex. The second issue is "Gender Roles". Much like the first topic this issue deals with portrayals of how society thinks a gender should act or what roles they should play to be successful in our society. Often issues of women becoming home-makers, and men going into the work force. The third issue is that of "sexual response" and "sexual objectivity". Men's sexual responses are preyed upon; blatant sexual ads are shown, targeting heterosexual men. Women are objectified; They are used as objects, or prizes for a man's success.

We believe that the solution to these problems is also tri-fold. The first step that needs to be taken is of the people. Without pressure from the general population, no other parts of our solution can take effect. People need to make the consumer's choice, and "boycott" those products which take sexual advertising too far. Some people can even talk to a lobbyist and get involved with congress. That leads us to our second solution, the government. The government needs to regulate and encourage advertising agencies to uphold a code of ethics. The third leg of the solution is the advertising agencies themselves. Without pressure from the first two solutions, the advertising agencies will keep putting out what makes them money. But with the right people behind the wheels, agencies could find alternate ways to pay for products, other than sexual ads.

History Of the Problem
As we look into the causes and effects of modern day sexuality woven into our advertising, we must also evaluate the history of this issue. There are many problems that pertain to this subject facing our world today, many of which have deep rooted causes found throughout the history of advertising. Mass media has been the key to advertising as early as there were consumers to influence. The term “mass media” rose from the early 1920’s, with the advent of national radios, widespread newspapers, mass-circulation magazines, and even early television. Although books and prints had been advertising to the masses for thousands of years before this, the term “mass media” was coined and exploited during the early 20th century. During the year of 1924 the AAAA (American Association of Advertising Agencies) devised a code of ethics that were to be followed by all American advertisements. These codes stated that the following were unethical:

 * false or misleading statements or exaggerations, visual or verbal
 * testimonials which did not reflect the real choice of a competent witness
 * price claims which were misleading
 * comparisons which unfairly disparaged a competitive product or service
 * unsupported claims, or claims that distorted the true meaning of statements made by professional or scientific authorities statements, suggestions or pictures offensive to public decency

These set of rules, however upright they may seem, are very vague in nature. They leave a lot up to the imagination, and leave room for advertisers to push the limits of “ethics”.

One would expect companies that promote products of perfume or clothing to portray messages of human sexuality. The sexual themes within these brand types go hand in hand with the product they are advertising. But even companies like coca cola have been subtly tapping into this motto of “sex sells” with the shapes of their bottles. As early as 1915, bottles from Coca-Cola have been becoming increasingly shapely. Some have even likened them to the curves of a woman's body. Examples can be seen here. Another prime example being the Bremen brewer with the "St. Pauli Girl" mascot. She has gotten more voluptuous and revealing as time has passed since her introduction in the mid 80s. Even their latest campaign shows how closely the American population has linked beer and Women together. In some of their advertising the women are made out of beer.

But advertisers have not always pushed the idea that sex sells. During the second world war, after the United States entered the war in 1941, a new type of advertising reined. Political advertisements. These ads were aimed at certain demographics for a purpose. One very prominent example was Rosie the Riveter. American women answered the call of advertisers to enter the work force. Men were on short supply, and America needed a way to persuade women into joining the war effort. They focused their advertising on making women look strong, giving them masculine traits, and accrediting them to much of the wartime efforts. This is an example of positive sexual advertising. (You can read more about the effects this may have in the solutions section.)

As soon as the war was over, however, advertising hit a key turning point in its evolution. Women were no longer needed in the factories, and were therefore encouraged to return into their roles of the home-maker. This brought the United States into the era of the Pinup Girl. Women were portrayed as glorified home-makers, usually posed in locations and settings where they were waiting at home for the men to return. (Examples can be seen here, here, and here). This time period, we believe, was the turning point for sexual themed advertisements. It started to clearly define the roles of men and women within those sexual advertisements. (See the contemporary issues for examples of both sides). This was also a time period when advertising pushed the limits of the "code of ethics". The general population was becoming more and more open to risque women and lewd behavior.

Just about a decade later during the late 60's and early 70's, perfume and cologne companies took the stage for sexual advertising. A company named "Aviance" started printing magazine ads, and airing television ads that specifically targeted women. (Two examples can be seen here, and here). As you can see, there was a transition of roles. The women were encouraged to step out of their former home-maker status, and become a sexy woman at night. The commercial tells the viewer "I've been sweet and I've been good, I've had a whole full day of motherhood, but I'm gonna have an Aviance night."

Other cologne ads took a much more direct approach towards men. Some companies even had outright promises, or pledges, about the sexual outcomes and encounters one would have while using the products. One company, Jovan, was very brash and to the point when it came to advertising towards men. Their advertisements contained very little imagery, but the scenes they depected were subconsciously sexual. The magazine ad seen here shows a married man touching a woman's leg (presumably not his wife). This encounter was no doubt brought on by the sexually enhancing perfume. Tag lines such as "Get Your Share", and "Sex appeal for sale. Come in and get yours", were commonly used blatant themes to set the mood.

Another company that has set the modern wallpaper for advertising has been Calvin Klein. The clothing company figured out that sexual advertising sells an incredible amount of clothing or perfume. (Of which the company sells both). Ever since its introduction in 1968, the company has been putting out high volumes of risque ads. These ads get the company press. Even “In 1980 he featured a 15 year old Brooke Shields purring ‘Nothing comes between me and my Calvin’s.’”

The use of sexual advertisements from fragrance and "hip" clothing companies has paved the way for our modern era. One can draw clear cut lines from the early days of Jovan, chanel, and Calvin Klein to the modern days of Axe and Tag bodyspray, Abercrombie and Fitch clothing, and Victoria's Secret lingerie. For each one of these companies, you can find numerous critics that say the companies are displaying too much. Abercrombie and Fitch for example was accused of issueing soft-core porn in their quarterly brochures. (They were pulled in 2003, but may be making a comeback within the next few years). Axe and Tag body spray are accused of "objectifying women" and "preying upon the sexual impulses of men".

The history of advertising reaches far and wide, and seems to be getting more blatantly sexual as time passes. A great example of this is the Coppertone Girl then and now. Where are we headed with advertising in the United States? How can we find a solution to this contemporary issue?

The Contemporary Situation
1. Sexual Advertising Issues Concerning Men

Sexual exploitation in advertisement is a multi-faceted problem, one that is not limited to demeaning and undermining the intelligence of women and minorities. Men are also frequently targeted in advertisements through insecurities, gender-role stereotypes, and even fantasies.

A large category of tv commercials using sexual themes are in no way meant to arouse the audience, but to use insecurities relating to perceived gender roles to convince the audience that they need a certain product. One approach uses gender performance as the focal point, whereas the other focuses on the concept of "manliness". The latter is clearly visible in this Hungry Man tv dinner advertisement which you can view via the link initially shows several construction men sitting down for what you can only assume is their lunch break at a work site. They're all drinking smoothies with relatively feminine colors: pink and light orange. An authoritative figure, probably their boss, walks up to them and tells them to ditch their smoothies and grab a Hungry Man tv dinner, a meal for "real men". This advertisement essentially states that for one to be a real man, they have to eat Hungry Man, or at least a meal with similar components. It also infers that smoothies are unmanly.

In terms of gender performance, an example of what you might see is a commercial in which its characters are doing culturally typical, gender specific activities, where the male character might be sitting on a couch, drinking a beer and watching a football game, while the female character is in the background cleaning something. Often times, the male character will ask his wife to grab him another beer, and she'll complain about how he never helps with the chores. A commercial like this might be used to advertise a cleaning product, or even in some cases the brand of beer that the male character is drinking. The problem is that through inferring that this situation is typical, the people making the advertisement psychologically re-enforce the very stereotype of a normal household that they're making fun of.

It's important to distinguish this "machismo" aspect from the use of attractive characters to lure the interest of a captive audience. The Hungry Man commercial discussed above uses common male insecurities to create the impression that if you don't eat their tv dinners, you aren't manly enough. Another common approach in advertisement is one where the advertisement creates the image that because a person used a certain product, they are sexier in the eyes of others, particularly people of the opposite sex. In this Axe Body Spray commercial, a man rides a bike through a suburban neighborhood and delivers newspapers. As he does this, all the women on the block stop what they are doing and stare at him longingly as he continues to ride by. At the end of the commercial, he walks into a house full of women who are sitting around looking aroused. When he comes through the door, he opens up a bible and pulls a bottle of Axe Body Spray out of it. Suddenly the viewer makes the correlation between the body spray and the horny women, and if the commercial was successful, comes to the conclusion that using Axe Body Spray will make them look sexy in the eyes of women. This is one of the more common techniques in television advertisement, and though obvious when in use, seems to work fairly well.

2. Sexual Advertising Issues Concerning Women

The sexual exploitation of women in advertising is abundantly apparent and is used in basically every aspect of advertising today. Women are used to sell anything from men's cologne to food products. Sex sells, everyone seems to know it, and women seem to be the best way of going about. This presents a problem with gender performance for women. They see these women in television ads wearing next to nothing and of course they are stunningly beautiful and often times seductive. This is what has been presented as the copybook woman. When commercials like this Lynx Deodorant video are viewed, they describe this picture that every woman needs to look like. To take it even further, watch the scanty dressed women tear into an apartment of a girl who is depicted as a "goody-goody" type girl and is worried about ironing her clothes and her mother. The dancing women convince her to succumb to the scent of the deodorant and she vanishes into a red mist. Only to reappear transformed into another beautiful half-naked woman. It then cuts back to a bus where the same girl starts to sing and the seduce this man, all the while obnoxiously smelling him which is obviously the scent of the deodorant.

The Lynx Deodorant ad also brings up the issue of "sexual response". The woman are undoubtedly set in the position that they are a sort of prize for the man who uses this deodorant. The entire ad consists of these women resisting the scent of the man on the bus, until finally they give in, and the man who smells the best gets the girl. Women are not ignorant of this either. From personal experience, whether a man or woman, it's most rightly true to say that women know that they can be used to sell a product.

It's also important to mention the gender roles of women in this commercial. It puts this image in your head that this women doesn't need to stay at home and take care of anything. She needs to disregard what she's supposed to do and become this sexual animal. This is interesting to look at looking in the past. It was considered normal for women to stay at home, basically playing the stereotypical stay-at-home mom. Now it's definitely clear that times has changed, and advertising companies know it. They know it because it works.

The people
Awareness could be a turning point in the fight against sex in advertising. The people must become aware of the issues if they are ever going to be addressed and solved. Sex in advertising will never be toned down if more people do not take direct action. People need to band together and really fight against sex in advertisement. There are various ways everyday people can help.

Spreading awareness is the first step. People who are unaware of the issues in sex in advertisements should become informed; if they do not believe it is an issue at least they are aware of what is happening. If a huge number of people boycott products that use people as sexual attention grabbers it will make a difference. A nation-wide boycott could get immediate results, if, it was supported by enough people. Everyone can make a difference on an individual basis as well: talk to a lobbyist, write letters to your senator, or work with your local governor. The government is one of the best tools we can use to fix problems in our country. Why don’t we use it?

The government
The government alone could prevent any form of sexual exploitation in advertising. The first set of rules American advertisers had to follow was not made by the government but by the advertisers themselves. If the government made laws to regulate the advertising world the rules would not have been twisted and turned to create the corruption we have today. The AAAA decided in 1924 that they would protect public decency. This “rule” has not only been broken but also completely ignored. One might ask, “What can the government actually do?” Subsidies, laws, and political advertisements. The greatest influences on advertising, was a political ad that empowered women to be stronger, get into the workforce and help the country, the Rosie the Riveter. This ad was the turning point in American culture. Rosie the Riveter was one possible way for the government to make a difference.

The Government could pass laws making it illegal to display indecency in advertisements. This will only happen if the people join together and influence the government to take action as well. The government would have to set a standard of decency and make it enforceable over many years. Also the decency standard must be able to adapt to the changing culture of America. The next thing the government can do is a system of subsidies. They could give subsidies to production companies who don’t use sex in there advertisements. Rewarding decency with money is slightly countered intuitive but it is a step in the right direction. It’s not a perfect system but its better then what we have now.

The advertising agencies
Advertising agencies are on the front lines of change. If the people change the ad agencies will change if the government makes a change then the ad agencies will make a change. And if the ad agencies actually do change it will progress the culture of the whole country. Companies like Calvin Klein and Victoria Secret are responsible for the indecency of advertisements. They bent the rules, and decided what is moral, what is decent, and what society will tolerate. These companies will not stop making sexually exploiting ads on their own. The simple fact that sex sells will continue to drive the advertisement industry. What we need is an advertising company that is run by people with morals; who believe in decency and a better society. Wilson and West was an advertising company in the 1980s: they were mindful of the viewers, they did not want children to see anything bad, they did not want to exploit anyone to sell a product. Wilson and West ran a company that followed a few simple guidelines.

 * Identify target audiences and appropriate media more carefully in order to minimize antagonizing non-users of the products.

 * Educate employees about the relevant rules, and ascertain that agencies and media know and apply them, too.

 * Pretest ads in terms of sex-and-decency reactions, and check them in advance with the media, self-regulatory bodies and other relevant advisers.

 * Consider "demarketing" particular products and services as well as abandoning advertising approaches based on sex and other objectionable appeals - after all, some industries and companies prosper with little advertising or rely on more socially acceptable themes.

If more ad agencies followed these guidelines the nation would be a better place. But because this is never going to happen by itself the people must act. Spread the word, get involved, write to your local government leaders, and if its possible support, sponsor, or startup a small advertising agency that follows a decent standard, for the peoples sake.

*EXTRA*
Suffice to say that as long at people desire to be attractive to others, and as long as people desire romance, intimacy, and love, advertisers can show how their products help meet those needs and desires. Whether we like it or not, products play a role in society’s intimacy equation.