Hi my name is Erica, I was inspired to do a my Flash presentation on solving a system of equations because that is something that i perfected while here at SMASH. I enjoy math a lot because it is almost always one answer with out question. during this project i faced many challenges, such as my buttons not working to me background changing to not even knowing if i wanted to continue this project. With the help of my informative instructors and a few of my class mates i was able to create a presentation that i was proud of and actually enjoyed doing after i got the hang of things. if i had more time my project would not as linear as it is because i would have added a different way to solve the equations but we were pressed for time. In closing i am glad that i learned how to use the basics of flash because it is a very helpful tool

advice

our group choose to give advice from the third years to the second years on the future academic year. The third years that were interviewed felt that the information that they gave was important for the second years to know. our group felt that this was important because we do not want the second years to get ready for the college process and not even know where to start.I personally feel that it is only right that the information we know is passed down because some one passed it down to us. i think that it is only fair that we all communicate things that would better our peers because we want every one to succede.

i chose this picture because it represents us giving a helping hand to the second year and how we will always be there for them while we are here at SMASH

The song lean on me came into play becauase the fact that we are helping one another and we are on the same page shows that we are here for one another and that is a beautiful thing.

1) Introduction:

-Introduce ourselves

-Introduce our topic: advice from ‘08 3rd years to uprising ‘09 3rd yrs concerning all academic aspects regarding educational success in the future.

2) 3rd years advice (3 interviews)

3) What second years expect for the upcoming academic year. (3 interviews)

4) Maybe ask an adult (RA) for educational advice.

5) Conclusion

- general overview

This montage represents the things that make up Erica Wilson. I am an African American, I am a Christian, I sing in the choir, and even the fact that I am a very innocent person is all clearly represented. My mother is from St. Louis Missouri and my dad is from San Francisco, California and I have the “welcome to East Palo Alto” sign to show where I was raised. I also have where my name originated from as well as a few characteristics that make up me.

This montage was a simplistic design. I choose items in nature that represented ma and all of my different mentalities that make me as a person. The lioness’ photo represents the powerfulness that I have but yet I am endearing and caring. I choose the two flowers because I can be delicate and pretty but both of those flowers are deadly and if you catch me on the wrong moment I can be deadly. I choose the baby bare because though it is a large animal and can be intimidating it still is a baby and ha some growing up to do. The butterfly represents my openness such as the term social butterfly.

Erica Wilson

6/24/08

Tech

Assignment #1

Hi, my name is Erica. Daily I am exposed to media through my iPod, or the internet, or even on TV. In some way or another media has always been apart of my life style. When I was about six years old my aunt Dorian Brown had her on local T.V show and was able to perform in front of the camera and even back then I was amazed with the fact that other people would be seeing me without physically being by me. I was also exposed to musical media my grandmother because every day she would play Luther Vandross , or the Temptations. Music has always had a special part in my family because when all the family would be at my house play R.Kelly “step in the name of love” song every one would be up doing the electric slide.

Musical media is very effective to me personally. When I am in a sad mood I might want to listen to a really sad dramatic song such as Mary J. Blige “I’m Going Down”, or if I am in a really happy goofy mood I could listen to OutKast “Hey Ya”. Music can shape a person to who they are or what they will become. If you grow up as a child listening to classical music then you may require a taste for other things that can fit in that category such as fine art.

Another form of media that has a very powerful effect is video. Video can reach people on a different level because you can see first hand rather than writing or just audio. The moment the moving picture was invented in 1867 it changed the way we viewed things. We as the United States were able to view and be aware of things in different countries that we would have not known about otherwise.

Media has come so far in just a few short years. Now you are able to communicate with someone who is all the way in Africa with just a push of the on button on our web cams. A lot of soulful music artist communicate their emotions or feelings about something through their music and it is communicated to all their listeners who then have that same connection with them.

Media has the ability to change any one. One form of media that has changed many people is of course music, it has a important way of fitting in to ones lifestyle a person can relate anything such as emotions, or even what they are learning in school to a song that they have heard even our own Ashley Jones said TLC and Salt n’ Peppa had an effect on her and who she is today. From personally experience musical media has changed who I am over the years because I was exposed to more things as I got older. Now I am more open minded and even more outgoing just because of media and the way all different type of people can relate to one subject.

MEDIA CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

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