Monday, March 7, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Eco-Event 3: A River in an Ocean?
In Cenote Angelita, Mexico a team of divers decided to dive into the near by ocean. And while they were down there, they found a underwater cave that looked interesting. They had no idea what they would find next. The diving team discovered a "river in the sea". At the bottom of this cave was a river that had surrounding islands and trees poking through. As the divers researched this "river" they soon found out that it was not water, and that it was a thick layer of hydrogen sulfide gas similiar to what can be found at the bottom of sewer water. Regardless of whether they redefined the laws of science this team of divers made an extrodinary discovery.
When I first saw this and took a look at the pictures I was shocked! I was thinking to myself, how could a river be in an ocean? Just by looking at the pictures, everything looks legit and it really does look like a river and some unexplained phenomenon. But as I got to reading I quickly learned that it was just a thick layer of gas. Even then I still thought that these divers made a cool discovery. To check out the pictures and article click here.
When I first saw this and took a look at the pictures I was shocked! I was thinking to myself, how could a river be in an ocean? Just by looking at the pictures, everything looks legit and it really does look like a river and some unexplained phenomenon. But as I got to reading I quickly learned that it was just a thick layer of gas. Even then I still thought that these divers made a cool discovery. To check out the pictures and article click here.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Eco-Event 2: Technology Helps Process Dinosaur Footprints
Scientist are using computers with 3-D modeling to understand dinosaur footprints. They have discovered that the for a animal to leave a everlasting footprint it depends on how much the animal weighs and some part has to do with the conditions of the soil. Scientist have found that since weight is a huge factor to leave footprints, that their could be so many more different types of dinosaurs that are unknown. So using this technology they can study land and it gives palaeontologists the chance to re evaulate over 100 million years of history. To see the full article, click here.
At first when I read this article I found it interesting that our technology now can figure out what happened over 100 million years ago. I will always think that what an accomplishment our society has achieved. Also I feel like what else is left out there in the world that is undiscovered and if it will be discovered. Or will we have developed the technology to be capable of uncovering the hidden secrets of this planet that we live on. I have also had an interest in history and this article justs sparks it even more. There are still so many questions to be asked and hopefully our society has the people to answer them.
At first when I read this article I found it interesting that our technology now can figure out what happened over 100 million years ago. I will always think that what an accomplishment our society has achieved. Also I feel like what else is left out there in the world that is undiscovered and if it will be discovered. Or will we have developed the technology to be capable of uncovering the hidden secrets of this planet that we live on. I have also had an interest in history and this article justs sparks it even more. There are still so many questions to be asked and hopefully our society has the people to answer them.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Eco-Event 1: Yellowstone About To Erupt?
Yellowstone National Park has risen ten inches in the past 6 years or so, is this normal or not? According to some scientists they believe that this is normal for the park. They have noticed in their records that Yellowstone has a history for rising in one decade and then the next decade it will decrease back to about the normal size. But on the other hand, some believers see these sudden elevations to be a sign of another eruption coming soon. Go ahead and check out the article here and let yourself be the judge.
When I first saw this article I immediately thought of the movie 2012. In that movie, (if you havent seen it) the world pretty much comes to an end and its all from Yellowstone National Park erupting. Some people say that the park has the potential to be a "supervolcano" and could possibly be an apocalypse. Honestly I don't really know what to think about this except I hope that some movies never come true.
The Ridges Rhetoric Writing
One day my mom tossed me a book and said, "dont ask any questions, just read it and you'll thank me". So without arguing I began to read and I read about a man in the 1970's who was charger for raping three girls but had pleaded not guilty for reason of insanity. This man was forced to go to Athens, Ohio and was a patient at the Athens Mental Health Center. I quickly then turned to the front cover and read the title, "The Minds of Billy Milligan". Ever since then I was so interested in what Billy Milligan had to go through. So when I heard about this project I knew exactly what my topic was going to be, Athens Mental Health Center, otherwise known as, The Ridges. I started researching the history of the building and saw that there was a lot of information like being open for over 100 years, caring for thousands of different people, and now being ranked as one of the scariest places on earth. The main aspects I was trying to focus on were the unique history of the building, how to appeal to my audience, and how to fulfill the purpose of my promotional piece.
This project being a history project, I knew that The Ridges was going to be a good place to focus on. I had two reasons for choosing The Ridges as my topic, one, because I thought it was a unique spot because not a lot of people know that much about it, and two, because my mom went to school here at OU for sociology/social work and got to spend some time working with some of the patients at The Ridges and she told me so much about how she loved it. When I was looking for the history of the facility, I found two websites that were really helpful. The first one that I read talked about everything that has gone on since it opened until it was unfortunately shut down. The second site that I looked at told me all about the history of the buildings such as who built them, who designed them, who the architect was etc. What I was specifically lookin for was all the stories and any events that might have gone on at The Ridges and I found the first website to be more helpful. The thing that was kind of difficult was to find good information from when the building first started since it was over 100 years ago, so I did my best to find things that stood out like how many rooms there were and that the nursing school was inside the hospital. Personally a lot of the interesting facts happened later in history like the presence of Billy Milligan and the treatments that went on their. The one thing that stuck out to me and that may be weird to the people looking at my flyers was that the hospital changed its name over 9 times during the time it was open. When I saw all of the different names it had I felt like I had to put it on my flyers because I didn't know any other institution that has changed its name like that, so I thought that was an important piece of The Ridges history.
Some people like to see The Ridges as an empty mental hospital and some people like to think of it as a haunted facility. So I had to pick which audience I tried to appeal to with my flyers. I decided I wanted to attract people like myself who see The Ridges as both a top twenty scariest places on earth and also a history rich insane asylum. I have always enjoyed ghost stories/hauntings and have been strangely attracted to insane people like Billy Milligan. Through my flyers I wanted it to look somewhat creepy, so that's why I decided to pick a cool text font like chiller and as well as making it blood red. Since I made flyers I wanted them to be easy to read and put a lot of pictures and not have too much text, kind of like a power-point.
My purpose for my promotional piece was to design something that was easy for audience to follow. I did this through creating flyers that were easy to read and understand. I wanted to make a timeline sense of feeling because I felt like you could follow the history of The Ridges the easiest that way. I also thought that my pictures and detailed descriptions of them could give the reader a good sense of the history of the buildings. I made 3 flyers and each on had a specific part in time for example, 1874 to 1943 was the first flyer and then 1943 to 1969, was the second, and lastly 1969 to present. The reason I made three was simply because on the second flyer I couldn't fit the rest of the information on it so I had to make a third flyer and that is why the times aren't evenly spread out. But after this I felt like this was a good idea to not try and cram everything onto just two pages and make a third one even if it wasn't as long as the first two. As I was looking up the information I saw a couple of short stories that involved The Ridges and I decided I should somehow include them in my piece. So I made a seperate part called "Stories, Hauntings, and all the above". This section includes just some of the ghost stories that surround The Ridges and other stories that involve the history of it. This part was personal to me because this is a reason why I'm interested in The Ridges and everything it has been through.
As of now The Ridges are closed down and is not an operating mental hospital anymore. But when it was, it was a fully functional hospital that treated thousands of different people and went through so many changes to try to stay afloat. Through all my research I learned a lot of information about the facility and tried to include some of my findings into my promotional piece. I feel like I completed the purpose and what I was going for, and that I attracted my audience with my piece, as well as promoted the unique history of The Ridges.
This project being a history project, I knew that The Ridges was going to be a good place to focus on. I had two reasons for choosing The Ridges as my topic, one, because I thought it was a unique spot because not a lot of people know that much about it, and two, because my mom went to school here at OU for sociology/social work and got to spend some time working with some of the patients at The Ridges and she told me so much about how she loved it. When I was looking for the history of the facility, I found two websites that were really helpful. The first one that I read talked about everything that has gone on since it opened until it was unfortunately shut down. The second site that I looked at told me all about the history of the buildings such as who built them, who designed them, who the architect was etc. What I was specifically lookin for was all the stories and any events that might have gone on at The Ridges and I found the first website to be more helpful. The thing that was kind of difficult was to find good information from when the building first started since it was over 100 years ago, so I did my best to find things that stood out like how many rooms there were and that the nursing school was inside the hospital. Personally a lot of the interesting facts happened later in history like the presence of Billy Milligan and the treatments that went on their. The one thing that stuck out to me and that may be weird to the people looking at my flyers was that the hospital changed its name over 9 times during the time it was open. When I saw all of the different names it had I felt like I had to put it on my flyers because I didn't know any other institution that has changed its name like that, so I thought that was an important piece of The Ridges history.
Some people like to see The Ridges as an empty mental hospital and some people like to think of it as a haunted facility. So I had to pick which audience I tried to appeal to with my flyers. I decided I wanted to attract people like myself who see The Ridges as both a top twenty scariest places on earth and also a history rich insane asylum. I have always enjoyed ghost stories/hauntings and have been strangely attracted to insane people like Billy Milligan. Through my flyers I wanted it to look somewhat creepy, so that's why I decided to pick a cool text font like chiller and as well as making it blood red. Since I made flyers I wanted them to be easy to read and put a lot of pictures and not have too much text, kind of like a power-point.
My purpose for my promotional piece was to design something that was easy for audience to follow. I did this through creating flyers that were easy to read and understand. I wanted to make a timeline sense of feeling because I felt like you could follow the history of The Ridges the easiest that way. I also thought that my pictures and detailed descriptions of them could give the reader a good sense of the history of the buildings. I made 3 flyers and each on had a specific part in time for example, 1874 to 1943 was the first flyer and then 1943 to 1969, was the second, and lastly 1969 to present. The reason I made three was simply because on the second flyer I couldn't fit the rest of the information on it so I had to make a third flyer and that is why the times aren't evenly spread out. But after this I felt like this was a good idea to not try and cram everything onto just two pages and make a third one even if it wasn't as long as the first two. As I was looking up the information I saw a couple of short stories that involved The Ridges and I decided I should somehow include them in my piece. So I made a seperate part called "Stories, Hauntings, and all the above". This section includes just some of the ghost stories that surround The Ridges and other stories that involve the history of it. This part was personal to me because this is a reason why I'm interested in The Ridges and everything it has been through.
As of now The Ridges are closed down and is not an operating mental hospital anymore. But when it was, it was a fully functional hospital that treated thousands of different people and went through so many changes to try to stay afloat. Through all my research I learned a lot of information about the facility and tried to include some of my findings into my promotional piece. I feel like I completed the purpose and what I was going for, and that I attracted my audience with my piece, as well as promoted the unique history of The Ridges.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Writing in Winter: Relationship with Place
Writing in Winter: Relationship with Place: "My relationship with 'place'? When i see that question, I see it as asking what is your position in this world? This is a very good questi..."
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