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3. Q39: I put C. The answer is a because P.D and E.M.F are both measured in voltage. Not voltage and amps.                                                                      Q:35: I put A. I did this thinking that the resistors cause a permanent change in the current. But in a series circuit, the current stays the same.
4. Today was useful, Because I learned to read my questions with the highest prejudice, as to not make any silly mistakes.

English has always been one of my favourite subjects. Considering its vast structure of vocabulary and how even the most minute differences of wording has the ability to change the entire configuration of a sentence. In english we have been working on our descriptive writing capabilities. Firstly we decided to write piece describing any single person and their presence, whether they were fiction or not. These first two paragraph is my attempt at such.

A grim shadowy dark figure is confided in a small chair, equipped with an ominous gargoyle grey jacket with a large zip biting through his torso, only his head appears visible aside his drab clothing. Although his head is almost reflective in it’s manner, his bald oval dome sets a demeanor of aggression and despicableness. His attire is unkempt and shaggy, the furs of his jacket coaxed an a foreign an unfamiliar canine fur. A wool scarf sprawled around his neck, decorated with bold stripes of black and grey, weaved by someone with a lack of experience but clearly embedded with love. His bottom half proceeds with the theme and delicate pair of silk black pants, with fine white porcelain white lines running through. They leads everyone’s eyes to a dagger like pair of classic shoes, their ends being cartoonishly sharp. Although most of his regalia exudes elegance and installs an ambiance of finesse in the room, he resides in the waiting room of a ballet class.

After the class had come to close what appeared to be his three young daughters, beaming with joy at the sight of their fatherly figure. His shy and hidden position, folded outwards as he stretched his daunting thin legs. They surprisingly held up up his bulbous radish-like torso, and as he paced towards his children so meticulously, the rooms eyes followed. When arrived he stood poised with tremendous power, his chest bursting with competence. His bushy and furred eyebrows perked up in judgment, his paper thin lips part ways in path of speech. The audience stare sternly in suspense for his verdict.

After honing our skills, I learnt that my use of words such as “aggressive” and “cartoonish” were extremely vague, and my lack of metaphors didn’t supply the reader with a relative presence. After learning these things; we decided to choose a singular photo and proceed to construct a small excerpt on the photo, the photo I had chosen was one of the outdoor school balcony hallways that have been embedded in vines. After this piece I feel much more confident in my descriptive writing skills.

The path omits tranquility, it’s vast emptiness only graced by the soft precipitation of snow flakes of beige, a moonshine grey webs in between. Life seems to be dormant here, it’s only residents being stubborn and old cedement. But as you step through, the walls faces sparkle in surprise, as their crumbling lives are seldom witness to a visitor. Their tired eyes blinking in shock, they sway with dance, fluttering in unpredictable patterns they reem with joy. Parallel to the palpitations of the walls you notice a harlequin green dancer her partner holding her tightly with firm grey hands, their dance a passionate salsa. As they intertwine and spin in perfect succession you notice the illuminate the path. Walking through and looking down at your pacing members they seem tiny. Like waves leaning against a gargantuan cliff side, tides repetitively marching through the path.

Coming into this session I was extremely optimistic, I was enthusiastic to hear an intense and vulgar story of the boxing world and how this persons firsthand experience with it. But instead I got something much more valuable than a childish story. I got deep insight to the prison system from a valued member of staff. I met Chris Huntington, whose job was a GED. His role was to teach the underprivileged convicts the essentials in education. Even basics like reading and writing were foreign to the inmates, and the inability to do function at that level is what motivates to delve into the life of crime. Although it may seem like there is little no incentive to learn, the system has given them promise of a six month reduction to their sentence for each educational milestone, such as: high school and college graduation or achieving a degree.

Although it seems like the system empowers the inmates and doesn’t exploit it’s potential power over society. The prison system’s heavy incarceration of coloured people have forbid a large quantity of coloured people’s votes, this has lead to a huge misrepresentation of these ethnic groups. Along with that, from Chris’ perspective; the prison provides little protection to convicts from possible inside attacks. He has witnessed a few of his students die in such quarrels and feels great sorrow in losing extremely promising citizens. In conclusion, this session taught me much about the incarceration system and that “knowledge never brings regret” -Chris Huntington.

This task was a huge challenge because I seldom reflect deeply on the way I communicate to others as it feels extremely natural for me. This is due to most of the people I speak share the mutual experience of english. Understanding this I took into account of fluidity. I started from the centre, with my name and other language related features about myself that are important. Yet derail from the main topics at hand. I tried to fit all of the objectives on the rubric on the map, so I found myself writing extremely small, legibility was my main concern due to the fact that my hand writing is hard on the eyes.

I then continued the rubric from the top left as that is how most texts are written. I simply followed the listing of the rubric as an order because it was already ordered thematically. I also found starting with “how I speak” a good choice as I found that point to be the most important. Then I did “accents and how they affect people ” because accents are large part of language identity. Then because I set up some questions about how accents may create bias in a persons opinion of someone; I felt that was related to stereo types and Judgement. That was my main thinking process, the rest of the map was based simply on the aforementioned order of the rubric. I hope you’ll like my poster.

When will a human swim 50m in a minute?

Throughout history it has been impossible to swim 50 meters in under a minute. The current world record is 1 minute 42 seconds; which is a big jump from the first world record being 2 minutes 28 seconds. Today through graphs and data I shall procure an accurate year as to when a human shall swim 50 meters in under a minute.

Obtaining data:

I looked through the recorded world records and listed them chronologically in a spreadsheet. With the axis titles being: date and time. Date being the year the record was set, and time being the record speed. I decided to do every year from 1902 to 2009 because it would be the most accurate. But when a year had several world records set, I would record only fastest time of that year, because the time changes are extremely miniscule and negligible. When inserting the seconds I first divided by 60 so to get a percentage, because the graph does factor in time.

Graphing data

I then pressed insert then data and statistics turning the spreadsheets info into a graph. After the the data was plotted accordingly to the axis, I pressed menu, analyze and regressions. Then apply the equation (mx+b). This would give me a line of best fit, showing a linear regression that  best fits all of the plots.

Analysis

The equation in the top right hand corner is the equation y=mx+b. The m is the slope of the graph, the slope for this graph is -0.0069, this tells us that the time on world records are exponentially declining; we know this because the slope is negative. The slope also tells us that the changes in the world record are very small, this is visible because the slope is a very small fraction. We can also logically understand this. Take for example: in 1989 the record was 1 minute 46 seconds and 69 milliseconds, the next world record was set a full decade later, yet the change in time was only 35 milliseconds! The 15.555 is the b, or y-intercept. It tells us most where the point would be at the y axis. Which for us is zero years. So at the year zero, the world record for the 50 meter swim would be 15 and a half minutes.

To find the year at which humans will swim 50 meters in a minute; I first two finger clicked on the line, then pressed graph trace. This created a slidable point along the line of best fit, which I was able to use to tell me the year at which a human swim 50 meters in a minute. The plot states that in 2101: the world record for swimming 50 meters in a minute would be a minute.

Conclusion

After all this work we can conclude that: the rate at which the swimming world record is changed and affected is extremely small with. Averaging a 0.0069 second difference per year. Also we can predict that at the year zero the the world record for the 50 meter swim would be an astonishingly slow 15 and a half minutes. But most importantly we can accurately predict that in the year 2101 will be the year the world record for swimming 50 meters in a minute would be a minute.

Edit:
Although I have worked very hard on this document and spent hours in writing on how the graph relates with the real worlds; I was graded poorly on this assignment, somewhat restricting from posting this. Yet I feel confidence in the fact that my teacher is a harsh grader, so I would like to put forth this post.