I decided to do an image overlay on Google Earth of the city where my family’s from. I played with it for a while and got it as close as I possibly could. Over time it’s natural for riverbeds to change shape and move, so I’m sure that’s what happened, and the old map is […]
Out of these three pages I found Hypercities to be the most usable and interesting. It was fun to go through different locations and see how they’ve changed and developed over the years. To start I just looked up the county of Fairfax. My dad used to have a huge map of the county and […]
Stanley Engerman, noted that much of the scholarship Pessen reviewed examined only either the North or the South. Few works were explicitly comparative, testing the similarities and differences across the sections. Another participant, Thomas Alexander, concluded with a discouraging, if accurate, summary: “there is still little agreement on how all of these [factors] interacted to […]
For my chart I decided to look up the percentage of men enrolled at GMU vs. the women. Some sites had varying information on the subject, but the average is 44/56: I found the time we spent in class going over how to make a chart using Google’s app was time enough for me. […]
In many ways, this was all my fault. My accounts were daisy-chained together. Getting into Amazon let my hackers get into my Apple ID account, which helped them get into Gmail, which gave them access to Twitter. Had I used two-factor authentication for my Google account, it’s possible that none of this would have happened, […]
Purpose Nature Extent Effect I tried keeping these four things in mind while evaluating the TIME Magazine Corpus website. 1. The purpose of the website is to catalogue the words used within TIME Magazine between 1923 until the present, show how often words were used, how the meaning of certain words have changed over time, […]
The first thing that caught my attention with the Amen Break video is that at first it did not at all sound familiar to me… I tried thinking real hard about it, and even though I listen to artists such as Nero and Skrillex, I could not really place my finger on the drumming sample. […]
The Heavy Metal Umlaut, I think, was the more interesting piece for this week. Watching the editing of a Wikipedia page in real time was fun, and watching the “vandal” was funny. Seeing how simple it is for just any one person to edit an article willy nilly is useful because people need to keep […]
To find an op-ed on a labor dispute involving public school teachers before 1970, I went straight to JSTOR. Search parameters: school teachers and labor and dispute > years 1900 – 1969 > article or review A lot of articles came up, but a lot of them were also (supposed to be) unbiased reviews of what the […]
I’ve never really used ProQuest as a database for any of my classes before. Well, I might have learned how to use it back in High School or my first year or two of college, but it’s a pretty standard database so finding what I was looking for proved to be fairly easy. I think […]