The final project of 2017, was a very creative, multi subject project based around four different elements. The first element was Revolutions, the second was Crain Brinton’s Theory, the third was steampunk ascetic, and the fourth was circuitry. 
Together this unrelated elements made an amazing project, that was not only entertaining for the creator, but also interesting for the viewer.
The first element was Revolutions, and was based in the humanities field of learning. It started out were we were able to pick our revolution out of the six that were available, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Meiji Revolution, the Xinhai revolution, the Irish Revolution or Easter Rising, and finally the Russian Revolution. Below I have posted a video of the keynote that we used to pick out our revolution group.
I picked the French Revolution because it was the one that interested me the most. Next we had to pick five to eight different events from our revolution. For our first metaphor machine element we picked the 1789 storming of Bastille. 
This was the first big event in the French Revolution showing the incubation stage, that’s when something out of the ordinary happens and the people were just getting ready for what was about to happen. the second metaphor machine element is the forming of the jacobin club which shows intellectual opposition, this is where the people speak against the government.
The Next element is the 1791 flight of Varennes, this is when the king tried to run away from the revolution that he saw coming. This was an act of class division and moving into the moderate stage of a revolution, it was also a crisis stage this I will talk about later in the four steps to Crain Brinton’s theory.
The fourth element to our machine is about Robespierre a Revolutionary leader, he was overthrown and locked up in jail in 1794 showing the crisis stage and a radical revolution. Our last element shows the end of the revolution and the lives lost during it. The revolution ended in 1799 with Napoleon Bonaparte coming in to power.
During the time that we were learning about the revolutions we also learned about the steam punk aesthetic and Crain Brinton’s theory which I have previously made posts about during the actual project timeline. Here are the links so be sure to check them out:
For the circuit aspect of the project our group created a series circuit and parallel circuit to help with the metaphors. A series circuit is a closed loop circuit with more than one resistor, they tend to take the form of a rectangle, in a parallel circuit there is also more than one resistor but they are arranged in many different pathways. Here is an example of a series circuit we used as the ballon popping mechanism for our group.
For the last part of our project our group created a movie documenting the machine. Unfortunately I could not help with this part of the project because I was away on a personal trip with my family, but this is how I think it went. First my group created a script explaining the metaphors and parts of the machine. Next they gathered video and images of the metaphor machine. Finally they pulled in extras imagery from the internet and edited it together using an app called iMovie. I think that they did a fabulous job on the movie, which I conveniently have posted below for your feedback. Tell me what you think of the movie in the comments below.