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• What did you like about this project?I enjoyed the freedom to do whatever we felt like doing at the time. What was most challenging?Picking what do while staying in the guidelines of the project • Describe the most interesting fact or event that you investigated. In interesting history of the English people many things I thought would take year to do they got done in no time. • How do the actions of individuals impact the historical record? They impact is heavy and lite in different areas but it's really the event that do the impact. • How influential can one decision be in the historical landscape? One decision can change history.If one major event is changed the historical landscape could be upside down. • How could this project be improved? Not much maybe more of a storytelling element the people that wrote a story could possible say they are feeling more of the english part of the project. • If you had it to do over, what would you change about your process for the project? Nothing really I just say remember to say on top of the deadline of the project
• What did you like about this project?I enjoyed the freedom to do whatever we felt like doing at the time. What was most challenging?Picking what do while staying in the guidelines of the project • Describe the most interesting fact or event that you investigated. In interesting history of the English people many things I thought would take year to do they got done in no time. • How do the actions of individuals impact the historical record? They impact is heavy and lite in different areas but it's really the event that do the impact. • How influential can one decision be in the historical landscape? One decision can change history.If one major event is changed the historical landscape could be upside down. • How could this project be improved? Not much maybe more of a storytelling element the people that wrote a story could possible say they are feeling more of the english part of the project. • If you had it to do over, what would you change about your process for the project? Nothing really I just say remember to say on top of the deadline of the project
What if Fred Vinson had lived through Brown vs. Board?
- What did you like about this project? What was most challenging?
I liked that I had free control to change something in history. It gave me the opportunity to choose something I was passionate about and change it to my liking. On the flip side, it was hard to pick something to change that would give me the outcome I wanted. - Describe the most interesting fact or event that you investigated.
Although I had studied Brown vs Board several times I was unaware that the judge died in the middle of deciding the verdict. I was also unaware of how esteemed he was. - How do the actions of individuals impact the historical record?
They impact it in a small way at first but it's like a butterfly effect. One person's absence may start a whirl wind of change. - How do systemic changes impact the historical record?
These can change history quickly and easily but maybe not in the expected fashion. - How influential can one decision be in the historical landscape?
One decision can totally change history. This case would have changed history regardless but my version of it was a completely new America. - How could this project be improved?
I feel as though there wasn't enough english in this. I'm not sure how the storytelling part could be improved but thats what I would change. - If you had it to do over, what would you change about your process for the project?
Rather than deciding how I wanted 2011 to be first I should have brainstormed ways the initial change could alter history.
Link To My PDFs
What If.. Osama Died in the 1980s.
- I enjoyed this project because it allowed to me to show the world the direction I wish America would go in without pushing my opinions on anyone else. The most challenging obstacle was overcoming my fear of "What if I do this? Then someone saying well that's not how it would've happened. The project really showed me that the world is a lot more like teenagers in high school, than it would be like adults. In my project, I have one person completely changing the way the past 30 years happens, and he isn't even American. Systemic change causes the history of everything to be altered, because all we really have is within one system or another and if we change one little event, it could start the snowball effect. This project could be improved by.. I don't really know this was a well designed project. Maybe turn this into a quarter long project, the first half being about making your change, then the second half being grouping up with 3 or 4 others and seeing debating how the world would change if we all did our events. If I had to change my process, I would find different sources, less about Osama and more about Middle East relations.
What If America Lost?
What I liked about this project was finding out more about my birthplace, Puerto Rico. I found some really interesting facts about it that I had never been told before. What was most challenging, though, was finding out how one thing might affect another. I spent hours just researching how America not having PR could affect the both of them. The most interesting fact I found was that the U.S tried to buy PR from Spain for 160 billion dollars. I was amazed at how a land, a culture, my own people could have a price tag. Everything is connected like a chain. One event happens, and it affects the entire thing. A person could decide to be at the wrong/right place at the wrong/right time and the entire world could change. One decision could create or make other lives including nature.
I'm not certain how this project could be improved. I didn't have any problems with the project itself. But if I had to do it over, I would probably focus a little more on America and how they're affected as opposed to only focusing on Puerto Rico.
This is the link to my website, I'm sorry it's a dropbox link.
I'm not certain how this project could be improved. I didn't have any problems with the project itself. But if I had to do it over, I would probably focus a little more on America and how they're affected as opposed to only focusing on Puerto Rico.
This is the link to my website, I'm sorry it's a dropbox link.
What if? Urban Music QWhite
· What did you like about
this project? What was most challenging?
One thing I like about this
project is that it showed everybody true creativity. Giving us a project where
we could have changed a part of history of our choice was truly amazing. The most challenging part was creating
points of diversion. I had to go into point of different point of people life
and change the outcome. It was hard to
change something that had a big on peoples lives.
· Describe the most
interesting fact or event that you investigated.
Rapper
Little Wayne when he was only 12 years of age shot him self in the chest with a
9 mm gun owned by his stepfather. He hit his chest only 2inches away from his
heart. I didn’t know that about him until reading biography .
· How do the actions of individuals impact the historical
record?
Action
of individuals have a big impact on historical record depending on who you are.
If you somebody important people are going t care what’s going with you.
· How do systemic changes impact the historical record?
Same
way as any other change If people care about whats changing it would have a
impact on them but it means nothing if people don’t care.
· How influential can one decision be in the historical
landscape?
A
lot because lets say look at the oil spill if the person who owned the company had reacted when he
first saw the oil spill then when it got big, what would have happen there no
would been as much damage.
· How could this project be improved?
If
I could have been there at my points of deversion to actually see what happen
and then change the outcome it would have been so much more detailed.
· If you had it to do over, what would you change about your
process for the project?
Do something that had nothing to do with somebody creativity, because if one person didn’t do it for sure somebody might have came up with it afterwards.
What If Emmett Till lived
My project changes the traffic death of the young boy murdered in 1955 for a cause that was not worth it my presentation will expose the cruelty of the south and how he would have helped change it if he would have survived. This project had a deep affect on me because of the research it made me search my grandmother was a teenager when this event happend and she gave me me insight as to how it felt to live and that time and to here the events that took place the way she feels and i feel are totally different but are the same in a way because my reaction was how could people be like that ,and her reaction was a more emotional approach ''Again
English/History BM
MY Prezi
I think the most challenging part of the part of this project was coming up with the point of deviance what would change if it happened. I thing the most interesting fact about my project is probably the us makes history in the presidential election by electing Rice.
Created primary source docs:
I think the most challenging part of the part of this project was coming up with the point of deviance what would change if it happened. I thing the most interesting fact about my project is probably the us makes history in the presidential election by electing Rice.
Created primary source docs:
Nat Turner Rebellion
Citations:
Gray, Thomas R. "Natturner." Wake Forest University. Web. 07 June 2011. <http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/340/natturner.html>.
"The Nat Turner Rebellion." History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. Web. 07 June 2011. <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6811>.
In this project I liked how we were able to re-create history. There weren't any limitation which made the project that much more interesting and that much more challenging. The hard part was that because of the infinite things to do, there were infinite outcomes that you had to think about.
Specifically when it comes to my project, because I changed something that happened so long ago it was hard finding evidence to draw a reasonable conclusion. Whilst doing my research I discovered that Nat Turner believed he was a prophet. Nat Turner was very religious and intelligent which was rare for a black man in his time.
Nat Turner was the leader of a rebellion which failed however his actions lead to the massacre of hundreds of black men and women. What I did was I took what Nat Turner did, made it different and caused more of a systematic change. Nat Turner himself created controversy between the north and south. His rebellion and slaves escaping to the north created tension. The relationship between north and south grew sour causing war. The decisions of Nat caused a war.
I believe that I could improve on this project with more assembly time and research on other character in my story. If I could redo this project i would research Martin Van Buren because he played a major role in my story too. The research I did was sufficient but I would rather have a more in depth look at the man.
What If? Taking the power out of the NAACP
what if Prezi
What I liked about the project was the same thing that I disliked about the project. For this project we got to choose the topic and the way in which we would present the information that I have found I liked this because it gave us the freedom to be in charge of what we wanted to do, but at the same time I rather do things that have a rubric and specific steps to follow because I find it easier that way. When I was doing my research the most interesting fact that I found was that most of the people who were already involved in the NAACP were people who did not have a lot of power but had more of a faith in what their organization stood for which created power. I like this because I thought before I need the project the only reason why the group got anything done was due to the fact that there was power in the group but that did not turn out to be the case, which made my hypothesis not entirely factual so this added a twist to my project. The actions of specific individuals is made up of the reasons why the historical record is impacted, for instance if Martin Luther King Jr. was not born this would have made a huge impact on the historical record which would be changing the record completely. Also the way in which historical events happen is different too because if something happened before the time it was suppose to happen that could make sense. One decision can influence historical events because usually when things happened back then then that stirred up a whole chain of events. Throughout the project I had a certain way that I wanted the project to look like and a certain way that I wanted to story to be told, if I could have improved anything for the project it would be the way I choose to present it. If I could do it all over I would like to have more of a solid topic when I first started I had two topics in mind so it took me a while to start the actual process of getting the project started. So I felt like with research and other things I had to rush a little but I am still happy with the final product.
What I liked about the project was the same thing that I disliked about the project. For this project we got to choose the topic and the way in which we would present the information that I have found I liked this because it gave us the freedom to be in charge of what we wanted to do, but at the same time I rather do things that have a rubric and specific steps to follow because I find it easier that way. When I was doing my research the most interesting fact that I found was that most of the people who were already involved in the NAACP were people who did not have a lot of power but had more of a faith in what their organization stood for which created power. I like this because I thought before I need the project the only reason why the group got anything done was due to the fact that there was power in the group but that did not turn out to be the case, which made my hypothesis not entirely factual so this added a twist to my project. The actions of specific individuals is made up of the reasons why the historical record is impacted, for instance if Martin Luther King Jr. was not born this would have made a huge impact on the historical record which would be changing the record completely. Also the way in which historical events happen is different too because if something happened before the time it was suppose to happen that could make sense. One decision can influence historical events because usually when things happened back then then that stirred up a whole chain of events. Throughout the project I had a certain way that I wanted the project to look like and a certain way that I wanted to story to be told, if I could have improved anything for the project it would be the way I choose to present it. If I could do it all over I would like to have more of a solid topic when I first started I had two topics in mind so it took me a while to start the actual process of getting the project started. So I felt like with research and other things I had to rush a little but I am still happy with the final product.
POD: Huey Newton/ Black Panther Party
Here is my project.
This has been a very interesting benchmark. This has been the most difficult to process to me and I still feel like I am not getting the assignment. Creating primary source docs for my project has been confusing me until today. Finding existing primary source documents were easy for me since the earliest date of my project is in the late 60's. I decided to pick Huey Newton as my point of divergence because I not only wanted to think of a different outcome, but dive into the information and history associated with him. I liked that we had the ability to choose our own Point of Divergence because it helped us be more creative and original. The challenging part for me was when I had to put all my information into one easy to follow presentation. I decided to use Prezi because it was visually pleasing and adds "pop" to a project. It is amazing to see how one individual action can impact the outcome of a nation. I could of improved my project by adding more created documents and going in-depth on the present day outcome of my Point of Divergence. If I had to do it over I would change the time it took me to complete this assignment. This was the first time I was a little concerned about getting my assignment completed on time.
This has been a very interesting benchmark. This has been the most difficult to process to me and I still feel like I am not getting the assignment. Creating primary source docs for my project has been confusing me until today. Finding existing primary source documents were easy for me since the earliest date of my project is in the late 60's. I decided to pick Huey Newton as my point of divergence because I not only wanted to think of a different outcome, but dive into the information and history associated with him. I liked that we had the ability to choose our own Point of Divergence because it helped us be more creative and original. The challenging part for me was when I had to put all my information into one easy to follow presentation. I decided to use Prezi because it was visually pleasing and adds "pop" to a project. It is amazing to see how one individual action can impact the outcome of a nation. I could of improved my project by adding more created documents and going in-depth on the present day outcome of my Point of Divergence. If I had to do it over I would change the time it took me to complete this assignment. This was the first time I was a little concerned about getting my assignment completed on time.
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