This project was part of our photo assignment. We went around the school and took photos of miscellaneous stuff. This photo was to be a Greyscale (Black & White) photo. The only difference between a Greyscale and a Black & White photo is that in a Greyscale, you can edit the highlights and lowlights of the photo. This is one of my favorite projects because the lighting in the photo is interesting. Edited in Photoshop.

 This is one of the cards that I made in adobe Illustrator. I thought that this was a fun card just because of making the grass and adding the background color and blurring for the fog. It was a cool easter card but did not get selected for anything.

This was also a part of my photo assignment. I like this photo because of the focus point and the rest of the tree being blurred out. I made the photo black and white just because no other color changes fit.

Starting our Business

We had to purchase crescent rolls, pepperoni, and cheese. We put together our pepperoni rolls and made a few dozen batches. I would imagine that we would profit about $10-$15 with each batch. I think the hardest part of making the company is all the planning and selling the product. I honestly thought that business would run a bit more smoothly and our product would sell a lot faster, turns out to be way different than what I expected.

Overall, this experience will help me later on in life because I know that I cant always be expecting the best right from the start. Business always starts out a little slow but will pick up as word gets out.

Starting and Completing our Business Plans.

Our Business plan was probably one of the most time consuming parts of starting this company. Everybody was working so hard to find out information about other companies that make and sell the same product, what all we would need, calculating our sales/profits/losses, how much employees will be paid, etc.

My job was to look up all of the costs and how much we would make/spend to a weekly/yearly rate. I had to find out how much all the supplies would cost, and how much we would spend each week to make that product. I only calculated a small amount because we would not actually know how much to spend on materials until our first few days of business. But I also had to calculate how much of that money we would lose during payday. This all played into our business plan because it calculates our sales. I also had to calculate how much we would sell our product for. I had to think of a reasonable amount of money because we also had to make a profit from how much we spend to make that product.

Being Thankful for School, Family and my Community

School is a very important thing to us as children. It gives all of us the knowledge that we will need for life. These life skills are taught to us over many years of schooling, even though I am not to sure that it needed to be 12 years of schooling, but I digress. Every student should be thankful of school because it gives us all of these life lessons that we will need to survive. I am very thankful of school because for my career choice, I choose to be an Architectural Engineer, which involves a lot of math. Luckily, my school allows students to take more than one math class a year. From me moving around a lot these past couple years, I have fallen behind on my math, but since I transferred here Ive been able to sort of catch up with my math. School is a very important part of your life and I would have to say that it is a necessity for every kid. Everyone who tries, will be rewarded in life.

Family is the best part of life, they will always be there when you need them the most. Family helps you learn from your biggest and smallest mistakes, they will help you with whatever you need. Family will always get you the necessities in life and also some of the wants. Everyone should be thankful for family, even if they do lead a rough life. I am very thankful for my family because they have always been there for me when I have needed them, even though my mom does not have much faith in me and my career choice, I know she means well and will take care of me. My family has always supplied me with the things that I've wanted and needed, especially when it comes to help in school. My family has always been there and I know they always will be.

Community is the biggest part of life, a child's community will often build who they are and who they will become. The community also ties in with home life. If the child lives in a rough community, then their home life will not be much different. Most children should be thankful for their good communities because of how it builds their character. Every kid wishes they had a good community to be thankful for so the fortunate ones are usually thankful. I, myself, am pretty thankful of my community (ies) because they have taught me how to handle the worst and best situations of life. Ive lived in good places, but I have also lived in some pretty rough places. These experiences have just made me a stronger person, which is why I am thankful.

School, Family and Community are probably the most important things in life because it helps us develop, some in good ways, some in bad. Every kid is thankful for what they have been shaped up to become because those three factors have made them the way they are now.

Thoughts on Technology

Technology is an increasing object in todays society, in quantity and quality. Our technology keeps advancing daily and keeps growing more and more. I once read an article saying that "at the rate that our technology is advancing, by the year 2020, most of society will be ran by computer like technology." It is amazing that our society can keep advancing technology that much and be that dependent on it.

30 years ago, technology had just started to peak. New forms of music, new recording equipment, the first couple computers and video game consoles had been released. The only problem with the technology back then, was the development of space. Back in the 1980's, a couple gigabytes of space went for a ton of money. But now a days, you can go get a 2 Terabyte Hard Drive for $150-$200. So one way to look at the development of technology, is that the more it develops the cheaper it becomes.

Technology has also became a huge part of our schooling. In most countries (especially North America and Asia), schooling has became very dependent on technology. In most classrooms across america, schools will spend thousands of dollars on equipment just to make sure that the class can function properly. Some technical centers for schools also spend thousands of dollars because they will have specialty classes, for example, at my school (Elkins High School) we have a technical center (Randolph Technical Center) and we have a number of computer courses, but the one class that I am in down here uses Mac Computers which are a couple thousand dollars in itself plus the software that we learn to use which is another couple hundred dollars, so in just this one class, we spend more than an average family probably would in a year.

Technology has advanced so much that our society today has became so dependent on in that it is almost used everywhere. I for one love technology, but I do think that it is a bit pathetic that we have became this ignorant to everything else. Technology is one of the best parts of times today.

Business Research

Out of all the research that my team/company has done this week, we all have learned a lot. We have all had to search nearby places that sell the same product as us, and we only found a few. We have also found that we would be making quite a bit of money off of our product by just delivering and selling out of the store. Delivery is key to selling our product because the places we would sell to are near by but are not very convenient for all customers, but the store in town would be convenient to everyone who is in town.  We have also found out how to estimate our sales and how much everything would cost (business wise).

Making a Button in Adobe Flash

Adobe flash has a lot of cool opportunities and ideas, like making a button to make your story advance on through its pages or frames. To make a button, you first start out with making a shape, wether it be a circle or a square, it really doesn't matter. Then you right click on the shape and click "convert to symbol" and once you click that, make it a button. For every button you use, i would advise changing the instance name to button, button1, button2 etc. You also need to code the button to where it stops the frame when it pops up instead of it continuing on the project on its own. To code the button you type this in.

stop();

myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myButtonClick);

function myButtonClick(ev:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

And then change the instance name "in this case" (myButton) every time you use another button.