Monthly Archives: November 2012

Project Update

Our group just met again a few hours ago to refine our project outline. We’ve confirmed our group focus on the more recent Presidential elections, starting with the Bush-Gore 2000 controversy and continuing on to mention the Democratic and Republican … Continue reading

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Working in Groups

Communicating with other group members and equally dividing up the workload are really important parts of a creating a successful group project. I know that it’s incredibly frustrating when a major history project is due and your teammates haven’t even … Continue reading

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Artist #10: Jonas Jödicke

In addition to mastering traditional art mediums like watercolor and graphite, Jonas Jödicke is a really skilled digital artist from Berlin, Germany. He does a lot of paintings using illustrating software tools like Photoshop CS4 and Hanvon “Artmaster” tablet, with … Continue reading

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WIP: Electoral College

My group is still working on narrowing down our project topic to a specific part of the Electoral College controversy. There have a been a handful of elections where the winning candidate actually had the lower popular vote, so we … Continue reading

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Being Thankful

“Ugh!! Why is the Internet so slow?!” “What! ANOTHER Chem Homework?” Within the past week or so, many of us have probably thought something similar while writing our WordPress blogs, loading our Gmail inboxes, or else attempting to complete our … Continue reading

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Artist #9: Yukie K.

So, for the past couple of blogs, I have been writing about artists from Deviantart.com. This week, I’d like to focus on some of my friend, Yukie’s work which is really neat. In high school, I decided to take Introduction … Continue reading

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History of a Public Controversy: Electoral College

My group just met today to pick our public controversy topic, and after some brainstorming, we decided to focus on the American Electoral College system. Although with its justifications in the past, the Electoral College has become a divisive issue … Continue reading

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Aftermath of the Election

So at about 11PM Eastern Time, the crucial swing state Ohio turns blue with an incredibly slim division — 50% of the vote going to Obama and 49% going to Romney, effectively declaring Barack Obama the winner of the 2012 … Continue reading

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Artist #8: Zoran Milutinovic

When people ask me whether I am “a dog or a cat person”, I usually respond in favor of the canine; I mean, dogs are loyal and reliable – not to mention happy and playful with just about anything – … Continue reading

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Visual Aids for TED Talk

My paradigm shift essay was on modern conceptual art and how it has evolved from the preceding Dadaist and Pop Art movements of the twentieth century — picking up new stylizations like a deviation from realist techniques and a “democratization” … Continue reading

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