TLDR:

• Book title: Lord of The Flies
• Scene title: Piggy’s death
• This scene is from chapter 11, page 181
• This scene features 5 characters and two major objects
  • Top Left: Roger
  • Top center: Roger
  • Top Right: Maurice
  • Bottom Left: Piggy
  • Bottom Right: Ralph
  • Object 1: Conch Shell
  • Object 2: Boulder
• Piggy dies by getting hit by a boulder, that was released by Jack, which shows how dangerous it is when humans become “savage.”

Background

I decided to make the scene from Lord of The Flies, as I can ofter relate to some of the allegories behind the story, such as but not limited to, savagery vs. civilization.

This scene takes place on mountainous part of the island, which is the setting for most of the novel. The scene in on chapter 11, page 181, and features characters Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Roger, and Maurice. Some other notable figures include the conch shell, and the bolder atop the hill.

Summary and Significance

The scene I made was a recreation of the scene in Lord of The Flies chapter 11, where Piggy, one of Ralph’s right hand men, tries to convince Jack’s tribe to come back and co-operate with all the boys in order to survive, but ends up gets crushed by a rock, that was released by Jack.

How Jack Before chapter 11, Jack encouraged his hunters to come and abandon Ralph’s tribe and form their own. Jack’s new tribe makes a camp/fort on top of the hills on the island, this included a rock, which was held on a ledge by a stick. The tribe soon become “savage” and only have fun and kill animals on the island, this would later influence their choices that lead to the death of Piggy.

This scene is significant because Piggy symbolizes civilization and reason among the boys. So, if he dies it could be considered as the end of civilization and the start of complete savagery. The death of Piggy is also important as his death means that Ralph is alone and will be a new target for Jack. If Ralph also dies, the boys will be doomed.

Reflection

After learning about Alice 3 and all its aspects, I can comfortably use the concepts I learned while using Alice 3, such as inheritance, procedures, joints, and instructions to make animations, and can even use these concepts while using programing languages like Java or Python for future lessons! This project give me an opportunity to use everything I learned during these few weeks to make a scene that features all of these.

I created a dance that synchronizes multiple objects in order to makes them move at all the same time.

In this class we followed a tutorial video called “Making A Synchronized Dance Using Inheritance.” With the goal of learning about the basics of inheritance. Here are some things I learned from this experience:

1. Inheritance: Characters from the same class have the same traits, and are passed down to subclasses.
2. Difference between classes: Different classes have their own special traits that are the same for all subclasses.
3. Synchronization: Using inheritance to make a procedure that can be used to synchronize multiple characters in a class.

Some challenges I encountered included:

• Animating multiple joints at the same time (same class)
• Quickly finding a joint through the drop-down menu

I believe that now that I understand how inheritance works, I am able to easily make scenes using synchronisation, as well as, knowing how to animate specific joints in order to make characters appear more lively. Furthermore I also learned how different classes have their own traits.

In today’s lesson we learned how to find and change the actions of individual joints of a object. This included playing around with the turning of neck and back joints. This video shows what i made using that knowledge. I encountered some struggles during this lesson when it came to getting used to going through dropdown menus to find the individual joints.

In this class we watched a quick 3 minute tutorial on the basics of Alice 3. I also learned 3 new things; How to add objects and where to find them (blueprints), How to add or shorten duration for each procedure, How to make objects move using position procedures, and also how to give each object their own dialogs.

Main Objective:

The main purpose of this bridge design project is to achieve the cheapest bridge that is capable of supporting the standard testing truck. Other objectives included: learning how bridges work, understanding different types of bridges, and learning about how some of your peers are better at designing structures than you.

Challenges:

I experienced many challenges and had to adjust the design to take into account the many factors such as compression, tension, potential buckling points, the distribution of force, and of course, making the bridge CHEAP! I went for a trial and error approach when testing which materials handled tension best and which could be used to handle compression. In the end I made all the trusses out of hollow tube which was much cheaper, but I also accounted for the loss of strength by making the beams out of quenched tempered steel, a stronger material overall.

Failures and Successes

As I mentioned before, I used a trial and error approach during the designing of the bridge, which although took a long time, paid off as I was able to significantly decrease the price compared to my original designs.

Process

Adding joints

Planning the overall design. I was aiming for a standard truss bridge.

Road beam

Added a solid quenched steel bar to the bottom to take compression from the trusses. It acts as a floorbeam

Upper cords

Added upper cords: takes compression force.

Building main trusses

I added vertical and horizontal members (and struts) to the bridge.

Final Result

Planning the overall design. I was aiming for a standard truss bridge

The final design of the bridge.
Final Price: $215,596

Price

What I learned

After experiencing how it was like being a unpaid intern who was given the task of becoming a bridge engineer for a week, I was able to learn quite a lot of new concepts. During the building process I learned how to apply the design of truss bridges, while pushing the simulator to its limits, in order to achieve the cheapest price possible. I experienced the pain of constantly adjusting the width, hollowness, and material quality to fulfill the structural integrity of the bridge while pushing the compression and tension forces to its quintessence. Overall I learned many of the fundamental concepts of bridge composition and the forces that act on them. Furthermore, I had loads of fun comparing my “almost” superior bridge with others, despite being put to second place by Stanley’s bridge, with his costing ONLY $198,000.

What I can change in the future.

Although I believe that I have already fulfilled what was asked for this assignment, there are many things I could improve on, such as understanding how the forces fully affect the bridge which could improve my ability to improve on the design, and achieve the next cheapest bridge. I also wished that I didn’t have as much school work and exams stopping me from playing around with the software 🫠.

Introduction

A cable stayed bridge, is a bridge in which the weight of the deck is supported by cables suspended by towers and are anchored in abutments at each end. It has been used in many iconic and breathtaking bridges like, the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge, Tatara Bridge, and Pont De Normandie. Its unique design, ability to span long distances, long cables that resemble a fan, and its ability to stand out makes it a very popular option for crossings across bodies of water.

Process

Adding main Towers

These are necessary to hold the cables.

Adding tension cables

These hold the Bridge Deck.

Final Result

Viola!

Compression/Tension analysis

The suspension cables are experiencing tension because it is experiencing a pulling force from holding the bridge deck. This energy is transferred to the towers.

The towers are experiencing compression from the transfer of force from the cables, that are holding the bridge deck.

The anchors also experience tension, which is caused by the pulling force of the cables that are being anchored to earth.

Costs

The final cost was $383,307.

Before I get started lets watch this video on the facts of the internet!

Introduction

Porto Business School’s video gives a few facts on the internet, the brief facts help fascinate the viewers with bite sized amounts of information about digital media, and overall reflecting on our drastically changing world.

Critical Analysis:

The internet is always growing in numbers and will never stop growing anytime soon. Billions of people around the world rely on the internet to do many important tasks like working, entertaining, learning, creating, ordering food, and lots of other activities. The video also enphisizes that the internet is just as big as our current planet by showing number comparisons of the internet and the real world. Overall the video is trying to send the message that the internet is bigger than ever before!

Relevance to Current Events or Trends: 

• We can relate to this information
• Millions use these services on a daily basis
• Its about our changing world
• A lot of things are big numbers

Conclusion:

THE WORLD IS CHANGING AND PEOPLE ARE FACINATED ABOUT THIS.

Video on Internet Search Introduction: 

Googles search engine is, as google calls it: A index of the internet cached by Google. In the video made in March of 2010, Google Employee, Matt Cutts explains how Google’s search engine works in less than 3 minutes. The video shows the process that google goes through to get the most reliable and useful result while being efficient. They use metaphors to describe complex aspects of their system, for example using “Spiders” to describe fetchers.

Major Points: 

• Google search uses a caché
• Your keywords effect your results
• Google DOES prioritize paid placement
• Spiders ‘fetch’ results

Personal Reflection: 

I think this video is a great video to show to a friend or grandfather, in order for them to understand the basic concept of how google search works. It’s straight to the point, Uses metaphors, and is easy to understand for most ages.

Conclusion: 

This video talks about the basics of Google search in a direct and concise way. Anyone who wants to learn about google search can easily understand by watching this video, despite the topic being very complicated. Furthermore you can show this to a old family member like your grandpa to help them learn more about google search!

Search term:

vtubers site:.gov

What I got:

What I learned:

Governments, corporations, and businesses are starting to use methods to stay relevant to the younger generation with topics and genres that interest them. In this example the BART in San Francisco commissioned content creators, and other people experienced in the field, to make four separate anime mascots and also sponsor two “VTubers,” (A VTuber or virtual YouTuber is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics.) to promote younger people to using the transportation system. Similar thing happened on a more well known matter when, Popular “gaming” browser Opera GX hired a VTuber to entertain fans and promote the browser. This shows that companies must find ways to catch up to other demographics and ages in order to survive in this competitive world.

Citations:

Anime Mascots | Bay Area Rapid Transit. (n.d.). https://www.bart.gov/news/anime

https://twitter.com/GXAuraOfficial

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