Project 1: Notes

ISTB4

personal photor - rover

personal photo- dinosaur fossil

• outside of building is framed at all different angles, with red brick, steel bars crossing wide open windows.
• windows contain different artifacts
• dinosaur skull
• replica of rover
• precious stones/metals
• various astronaut tools/miniature replicas of spaceships
• Glass boxes hanging outside the building up against the brick wall contain fossils and rocks
• Inside are TV's varying in all different sizes. The larger ones show different outer space live-streaming clips from satellites, rovers, and old spaceship footage of launches
• smaller TV's are playing speeches from presidents, world famous scientist, and professionals on the topic at hand (earth/space exploration)
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• The medium sized TV's show a large global pictures with the various time differences around the world. There are also screens with times from places such as the moon, Mars, and Venus. 
• The walls inside the building as you walk in are made of rough edged rocks (sandstone) and at the bottom of the wall are ledges that stick out where you can sit and use the wifi. These benches are made of the same red brick from the outside part of the building.
• A receptionist/information desk sits on the right as you walk in, with two computers behind the counter and yet more TV's hanging around the desk.
• Past the receptionist desk there is your first large room. You can see straight in to the room through the clear glass walls. Inside of rolly chairs, a large meeting desk, TV's, projector, and various pictures with autographs. 
• On the other side of the rough sandstone wall (to the left as you walk in) there is the lecture hall. The only one in the building, it can seat 365 students and resembles a movie theater. 
• As you walk farther into the building there is a lobby - or a lobby soon to be museum. 
• There are two large exhibits in the center of the lobby. One is for Geology. It shows various parts of the planet on a touch screen pad that you can press and the picked destination will blow up in front of you on a large screen. There are interviews, comments, explanations, and even short movies that have to do with the minerals, fossils, and continental plate boundaries. 
• The second of the exhibits is the large of the two. This exhibit is for Mars and other various planet in our solar system. In the center of a small (but high with black walls) spiral it has a  dark orange circle thats suppose to resemble Mars. With this ball and a touch screen pad you can move your way across all of the galaxy that we have mapped out thus far. Visiting planet, the sun, and even the orphaned pluto.
• There are a set of stairs on the far right side of the floor. Although this building is 8 stories high, the stairs only go up to the second level before they are cut off by a ceiling that cuts the upper six floors off from the bottom two. These stairs have high stainless steal walls, so you cant see anyone if they were walking up or down the flight.
• The walls of the main floor aren't actually walls but mimic a sort of enclosure of "space" limit.
• On all side of the main floor are large class windows where you can see directly into lab rooms. 
• Two of these lab rooms are particle rooms. One contains 100,000 particles. This way the scientist can work in a clean, open spaced, environment and not have to worry about contamination. 
• The second of the two rooms is a 10,000 particle room. This room has even less stuff in it, a mere table, four chairs, a shelf and a phone are the only things occupying the room.
• All other rooms are lab rooms. With many different chemicals and machines that I can't even begin to name or even describe. There are white lab coats that you can see immediately through the windows (safety first!) and goggles hanging on coat racks. 
• On the second floor, there is a high stainless steel three layered bar barrier so you can't fall off the side.
• There are more labs up there only they are side-to-side, completely see through and all access where as the ones on the bottom floor are for the special people. 
• The floor is made of an orange/white marble that twists and turns in every direction so that it looks like your walking on polished lava. 
• Four vending machines filled with delicious candies and sodas that will make you fat, tired, and leave you wanting more. 
• Many many exhibit signs line the walls and are scattered around the floor trying to get your attention about different events or when certain locations/activities/events will start or be open. 
• The temperature essentially makes it a freezer, I'm 98% that you've be able to see your breath in there if you managed to get your lungs to create enough hot air.
• But the amount of extremely bright, natural sun light streaming in through all the windows makes up for it. They also have many many many lightbulbs that I have never seen go off. Which leads me to the recycling!
• Recycling cans everywhere. 
• I really hope this is two pages. Or at least enough to satisfy you. Keep in mind that I did originally hand write these and it was two pages.

Analysis of an Image: ESPN Cover

On the cover of my brother's old ESPN magazine are three, what I am assuming, popular basketball players but with gear from very notable superheroes. One of them is half Iron man, the other has the ax of Thor and the third carries the shield of Captain America giving the athletes a heroic image. 

                By giving the male athletes the accessories of very popular super heroes, it gives the readers a sense of trust and pride in the athletes. The three men are from all different teams, wearing their different jerseys and are intensely looking at the camera. Possibly the point of this cover was to give each fan an idea that their favorite team has a superhero or a “super star” on it. By doing this fans and readers can feel special with their team because they are unique and they have their own hero fighting their games.

                There are pros and cons to this depiction. On one hand you have the powerful super hero athletes who are getting kids to play and be more active. Yet on the other, you have a more twisted side. By placing these men on a pillar with certain symbolic weaponry, you give them a “close to godliness” vibe. When younger kids look at this all they will want to be is an athlete that plays basketball and gets money. By taking such well known and worldly accepted superheroes like Thor, IronMan, and Captain America the magazine is essentially targeting the younger generation.  Young kids are impressionable and easily manipulated which is why they are such a prime target for many different corporations. So, when little Johnny sees his favorite player is now depicted as a super hero  he’s going to believe it and he’s going to want more of that players merchandise. Little Johnny is going to want to see his superhero basketball player in an actual game, he’ll want to meet him, get his autograph and even chase after the dream of being like him.  

                It’s a warped world when it comes to buying and selling of products.  But for an old ESPN cover that was buried under a pile of newspapers, it still had a lot of value in it. Athletes are indeed superheroes to people of all ages but some could say they are undeserving of their titles.

Analysis of a Writing Situation: Gray Wolf Extinction

Earlier this summer, Wyoming state officials and environmental groups decided that it was time to take the Gray Wolves off the federal protection list. What was once a thriving population of two million gray wolves in Northern America became a tiny pack of thirty wolves after hunters and trappers in the 1930's nearly wiped out the species. In the 1990's the Wyoming government placed the species on the Federal Protection list and put fourteen of the wolves in Yellow Stone National Park to start breeding. Although the population is only up to 270 wolves, the government has decided to take the species off the protection list. Because of this action farmers, hunters, and trappers will be allowed to shoot the gray wolves once again.
Although the articles was written in a different country the obvious concern of the writer is what will be the outcome of this decision. Writing was a way of drawing attention to the US taking animals off the federal protection list even though the population of the animal is not strong.The writer was speaking out for two groups of readers. The ones that were against taking the gray wolves off of the protection list, and the ones that were for it like the farmer or hunter. Both groups would have learned that, although a deadly predator, its numbers are few and weak. The farmers might take pity on the species and let them go if seen on their property, and it might cause the animal activist to go out and do more for the species.

http://www.cosmosmith.com/gray_wolves.html

Both the Wyoming government and Wildlife Protection Agency were used in this article to show that both programs were working together on trying to figure out what was best for the species along with the human population. These two sources were used to support the facts given about the gray wolf and put light on a hopefully positive outcome for the species.