I guess I should start with a short introduction about my family and myself. I am afraid I do not know a whole heck of a lot about my mom’s side of the family… my mom’s mom is Canuck whose family went to Canada sometime in the 1700s for fur trading and lumberjacking, while my […]
Read On No CommentsI have to say, the first thing that popped into mind when I opened the guide for Scratch was that I was looking at the really old version of MacPaint or that old Apple program where you could create your own fairytale (I don’t remember what it’s called, but I remember always wanting to remake […]
For my final project, I wanted to focus on immigration patterns during the early 1960s, when my own family immigrated. Using their information as a type of case study, I want to find out how many people came over in the same fashion they did (on a cruise liner, the Dutch SS Statendam, and in […]
The Hurricane Memory Bank was enthralling. Even the first story on the list can hit home for anyone. Imagine moving to a brand new home, all of your stuff is there, you haven’t even settled in yet, and you have to grab what you can and leave immediately because a big storm is coming… then […]
For my ngram viewer search I decided to see which words for immigrants was more popular within American English. I was surprised to see that “alien” had always been the more popular term to use, though I have to see this chart with bias as knowing that “alien” doesn’t only mean someone from another country […]
I can’t tell if Mr. Tufte is being funny with his article or not, and if he’s not then I feel he’s certainly over-exaggerating. Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches […]
For my chart using historical data, I just went out to find a complete list of United States Presidents (yay, elections are in 2 days! unless you voted early! PLEASE GO VOTE.), tallied up how many times each party had been elected since the beginning. George Washington had no party affiliation, therefore he is the […]