Note to self… if you have a due date for everything on a friday a months after it gets assigned… DO NOT WAIT TILL THAT WEEK TO DO THE WHOLE YEARS WORTH! Okay moving on because I don’t have time to waste ranting about my terrible time management skills. Todays blog topic is nothing other […]
The KKK Was An Effective Way Of Terrorism
Terrorism in the 1800’s became this thing that would keep the public in line and put fear into their minds. This was exactly what the KKK was doing and the reason it was such an effective way of terrorism. The KKK’s main goals was to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans. In […]
A True Cuban Adventure
For our last trip ever in the PLP program we traveled all the way to Cuba for 16 days to study to Cuban Revolution. This trip was absolutely an experience I will never forget and something that again altered my view on our world. Before embarking on this trip we started learning about the Iranian […]
Paris 1919
A blog post long overdue… but better late than never right? Anyways, back in April we were learning about the Paris 1919 conference. During this time in PLP we were learning about a few different topics but while we were doing so we were forced to try out different note style forms in preparation for […]
The One Who Finally Took A Seat
“We Didn’t Start The Fire” was a song released in 1989 by Billy Joel that the lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between 1949, the year of Joel’s birth, and 1989. Each and every event or person in that song were put there because they were significant in some way […]
Facilitation Friday’s (…not a huge fan)
You might be asking yourself, what the heck is facilitation friday? Well it is this new thing our teachers decided to try out. Every friday there is 3-5 presenters who lead a 10-15 minute discussion about a topic they chose within the era we were learning about that week. The main reason I am not […]
Snapshot Into My Life
For this next project type thing, I am going to be talking about my history. The goal of this assignment is for us to discover how the 6 key ideas of what make history, history… (as seen in my last blog post) can be applied to events in our own life. We were told to […]
What Makes History, History?
What is it makes history, history? Do you know? Because I for sure did not know the answer to this question before this unit. The textbook definition of history is “the study of past events, particularly in human affairs”. Which yes is true but that is a very broad answer. To really breakdown what makes […]
1984: Dystopia
2018, a year for turnarounds and revolutions… yet I am still handing in work late. Anyways on to why I am actually writing this blog post. Throughout this post I am going to be reflecting on a recent project the PLP 12 class has completed. Before winter break we started to learn about the whole […]
The Non-Horror Horror Film
I know I always seem to start my blog post like this but this time I honestly don’t know where to start with this one. Maybe with an introduction of the project… For this project we were to make a horror film and if you look back in my posts a big you will find […]