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For this assignment, I simply looked up a Chinese news article and took a section out of it to be plugged into google translate. The resulting translation did not make much sense to say the least.

According to news that the branch 72 , at 7:50 on the 6th , a 15 year old woman in the subway car R is an Asian male metamorphosis invasion , according to victim testimony indicates , the incident when the car is traveling R 4 Avenue to cross 36th Street , suddenly sitting beside a woman about 20 years old Asian man began to steal the victim touch the thighs and back . Under victims panic in Dekalb Avenue subway station to escape , but the metamorphosis of man actually not give up , followed the woman out of the subway together , and continue to rub the back of the victim until the woman escaped from the subway station , the man then fled the scene hurriedly under

It’s kind of unfortunate that one of the most spoken languages in the world cannot be correctly formatted and translated for everyone else. Come on google.

For this assignment, I decided to base the story on Merrill Shale having sold his wagon and upgraded after he started raking in poker winnings. I originally tried with both Autotrader and Ebay motors, but the code was seemingly too sophisticated for X-ray googles, so I went to craigslist instead, which turned out to be pretty far from perfect as well. I could not get access to the other images on the scroll, so I found a vehicle posted that only had one photo. Then, I started remixing the elements so they would make more sense for the story I was telling. I was moderately pleased with how it looked in X-ray goggles, but when I published it, the code was apparently somewhat jumbled. I attempted to ascertain why or see if I  could, perhaps, resolve the issue with my albeit limited html knowledge, but x ray would not let me click on the actual page because it has too many elements.    This is the link to the page,  and here is a screenshot of what it looked like in xray.

I found this assignment extremely interesting. The first part of the assignment asked us to think about open source tools:

Count the number of open source programs you are using on your computer today. How many commercial software programs could be replaced with free and open source alternatives. I counted 4 commercial products on my system. If you need to, use a browser to get a list of open source programs which are available in place of commercial software.

Open source technology and information is incredibly important. It allows individuals the opportunity to learn and share data on equal levels (at least in terms of the applications they are using).

Regarding my time at UMW, I’m thankful for my professors who spend the time to find open source information for their students. It shows that they understand the financial burden text books and software applications may place upon students. If open source platforms are adopted for educational resources, it allows a standardization of information. One of my favorite professors at UMW (Dr. Greenlaw) will be hosting a conference this summer in Fredericksburg on this topic. He hopes to share that open source textbooks are just as good as the ones publishers sell. The main benefit to them? EVERYONE can access them.

In terms of software and technology, another web tool that I find incredible is Office Libre. Microsoft Suite tools are necessary for every student and working professional. These tools cost a hella lot though. Software such as libre allow for individuals who may not have the financial means to access microsoft tools a chance to create documents and information of the same level.

I realize this post came off as a rant. I’m thankful though that this assignment allowed me to think about my opinions regarding web tools and hopefully share those ideas with you.

I’m gonna admit, I used a friends pinterest account to gain access to their website. This is because I’m tired of creating all these darn accounts and trying to keep up with them. I’m a simple person, and I guess this can be conveyed into my dream room. I screen shot each image I found on pinterest as well as embeded the link to the website with the photo.

Of course I’d want a hammock bed in my room. Those things are soooo comfortable.

Throw in some candles and fun lanterns

And some wide open windows. That’s all I need.

The three and a half star assignment Personal Search Engine wasn’t too hard to complete.

I used X-Ray Goggles to alter a preexisting search engine.

https://thimbleprojects.org/manzelmo/54873/

The google search page was edited to resemble my product seen above.

I played with the page until it was pretty bare, and I added a couple icons. In reality the icons represent nothing. I just threw them there for scenery. When clicked on, they don’t actually link to anything. All of the other buttons should be functional and self explanatory.

I changed the Google image to Frequently Asked Questions because Google has transformed from a search engine where relevant links pop up in response to queries to an engine that can almost certainly answer questions you type into it.

For this assigment worth 4 stars, we were supposed to create our dream room from pinterest pictures. I chose to do this of Harry from Harry Potter’s dream room, because I took it upon myself to do an entirely Harry Potter themed Web assignments week, and I had a lot of fun with it.

This took me about fifteen minutes to do, because I have my own pinterest account and know how to work it well, and know the Harry Potter books really well so I thought I’d know what Harry would like.

Here are the pictures of the things that Harry would like in his dream room!

Harry’s cage for his pet owl, Hedwig:

Harry’s Comforter (red for his Gryffindor color):

An old-fashioned dresser:

A cozy bookshelf right next to Harry’s bed:

and lastly… a photograph wall where he’d put all his memories:

I’m applying the four and a half star assignment How It All Began to this webpage. It directs us to detail the conglomeration of a group.

I’ve chosen to describe how the Andean Volcanic Belt, which is composed of the Northern Volcanic Zone, Central Volcanic Zone, and Southern Volcanic Zone, came together.

During the Cambrian Period the Nazca plate started to subduct beneath western South America. This resulted in a continental arc environment known as the Andes Mountains. The Nazca plate’s subduction beneath South America has given birth to three volcanic belts: the Northern, Central, and Southern Volcanic Zones.

The formation of these zones began during the collision of two lithospheric plates. The denser plate, which was the Nazca plate, subducted below the less dense plate. While subducting, the denser plate, which is seafloor, dehydrates over a range of depths up to around 100km releasing aqueous fluids. These fluids are large ion lithophile rich and flow into the overlying mantle wedge, enriching it. Pargasitic amphibole is considered to be the central storage site for water in the hydrated mantle wedge. This mantle wedge is dragged down by the subducting slab where it eventually encounters isotherms which heat it. Being heated, the mantle becomes magma due a depressed melting point derived from hydration. The magma flows upwards becoming more buoyant as crystals fractionate out and decompression melting occurs, furthering its melt content. The extrusion of this magma at the surface of the earth rapidly cools the molten rock. Over time this repeated process created the Andes Mountains.

Part of a test I had a couple weeks ago dealt with continental arc formation. When I read this assignment, the first group to come to mind was the Andes Mountains.

I completed the four star assignment Harness Relationships: Make a Map with Kumu. 

The assignment asks us to organize information into a web map. I chose to organize the lifecycle of rocks into a web map.

In this assignment I organized existing information about the relationship between rocks and their environment to create a map.

I chose to base my map around the rock lifecycle because my major is geology. This cycle can be complex with regard to all of the thermodynamic, applied stress and chemical reactions, etc. But all of those reactions can be represented by such a simple two dimensional web map.

I completed the assignment Storytelling Within the Web.

I altered a story on the web using X-Ray googles. The article was about the Sister Wives’ attempt to challenge Utah’s polygamy ban.

Here is my link to the original story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/11/appeals-court-rejects-sister-wives-polygamy-lawsuit/82904702/

Here is what I’ve created: https://thimbleprojects.org/manzelmo/53386/

The most challenging part about this assignment was brainstorming what type of alterations were to be made to the article. I thought it’d be funny if the wives forced their husband to choose from among the four of them.

For this assignment, I had to create a Buzzfeed Personality Quiz of anything I wanted with at least 3 results with descriptions and 6 different questions. This sounded like a fun and interesting assignment that I felt that I could accomplish, so I started creating my own Personality Quiz on Buzzfeed.

Personality Quiz Link

I just needed to figure out what the results would end up being after the end of the Personality Quiz. I tried to think of memorable video game characters with different personalities, but the only the characters that I could think of were in games that were too mature for a personality quiz to have. That’s when I thought of my favorite video game characters that were cartoons of Ratchet and Clank.

Ratchet and Clank was one of the first video games that I ever owned where it combined artistic humor through animated characters that you could play as in a video game that could be played as a kid or as an adult. In fact, I just ordered the PS4 remake from Amazon a couple of days ago and there is an animated movie about to be released into theaters.

The different personalities types that I decided to use for results were the main character of Ratchet, Clank, Captain Qwark, and the villain of Dr. Nefarious. Ratchet is always the brave character that will do what he thinks is right for saving his planet and fighting anything in his way to help anyone that needs help. Ratchet is also a hard-working engineer that is the muscle of knowing how to fight the villains and always uses an aggressive approach to situations. While Clank is the brains that thinks of smart tactics and is filled with information as the sidekick to Ratchet; but he mostly always goes by with a conservative approach. Then there is Captain Qwark who always gets the credit for every good deed that Ratchet does, but is actually clumsy and a goof-ball that will cower in the face of adversity. He is the all talk and no action type of person. Then lastly there is the villain of Dr. Nefarious who constantly thinks of creative ways to try to get rid of Ratchet, Clank, and Qwark as they pursue him. Even though Dr. Nefarious is hilarious in the way that he thinks, he is still pure evil.

After I had identified the personality results, the assignment became easy because I just had to come up with vague questions dealing with different personality types like genres about music, favorite sports, movies, hobbies, how they deal with adversity/rivals, and how a person would describe themselves. Then after I had come up with all the questions I identified which answer choices would match each character and added an appropriate image for each question.

To conclude, I had a really fun time creating a Personality Quiz using one of my favorite games of Ratchet and Clank as a theme. After doing this assignment, I feel like a kid again because I’m about to play some Ratchet and Clank in a few days when I receive my order from Amazon.