Wandering

Bzzzzllll llllzzz SYSTEMS REROUTING. ARMS FUNCTIONAL, LEGS FUNCTIONAL, MEMORY SYSTEM REROUTING. These are the words I hear in my head when I wake up. My memory system does not recall what happened. I might have powered down by accident or I could’ve fallen down and hurt myself, but I don’t think I would hurt myself so badly.

I look around but all I see is sand. My night vision is on so it’s quite possibly dark, but with the sand swirling around it’s impossible to tell. There isn’t any sign of robots or electric pulses. I check my gyro to see where I am, but my gyro is still relocating. I start to walk. The ground feels odd like there is nothing left and it has given up. My foot catches on something and I trip. I fall face first over a sand dune.

Lllllzzzzzz bbllzzz LEGS REROUTING, ARMS REROUTING. I have landed on something very hard, probably metal. I get up. Towering around me are millions of robots from small miners to huge warmachines. The only catch is every single one is dead. All power has left the bodies. It is the most horrifying thing I’ve ever seen.

I don’t know know what to do. I’ve never seen a dead robot. I lived in Utopia, the greatest city in the collected planets. There was no currency or war, but there also weren’t any sapiens. All sapiens have died off or have gotten robotic parts like me. There are no more sapiens left. Robots came around about 3745. A sapien scientist was able to create a robot that thought and worked on it’s own. Everyone thought that was a good idea so they copied the scientist and soon enough, there was an entire race of robots.

This graveyard doesn’t seem like someone put it here by accident. Every robot looks like a number in a kill count. Also everything has its power drained. I look around. I don’t see any other sign of death than a power outage. Power outages are terrible and rare. They’re a form of natural disaster that can happen when an electron hole gets too close to an inhabited planet and sucks all power from the galaxy.

There is still something incredibly fishy about this. All these robots are dumped together in a big pile as if someone made a metalwhale eat a giant clump of goop and then spit it out. I approach the pile incredibly cautiously. Who knows what kind of creature might be luuurrrrk… AAAAAAHHHHHH!

SYSTEM DAMAGED. SEEK MEDICAL ASSISTANCE! A Giant wurm has just ripped a hole in the ground where I was just standing! It hit my hand and now my hand resides thirty to twenty feet away and it is broken in half. Good thing that that part of my body is mechanical!

This creature is probably hungry, meaning that it will probably want to come back for more. Just then I feel a quake and the creature bursts out of the ground and springs toward me. I am so startled that I only have enough time to fire three shots up its throat before its jaws are around me.

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SYSTEMS ONLINE. SYSTEM DAMAGED. SEEK MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. That was close. My shots must have connected just in the nick of time. I currently lay stuck in the middle of two front jaws. My head is inches from the sharper second layer of teeth. I hoist myself out from the two teeth and make my journey to the back of this monstrosity.

I am walking to the back of the wurm. I predict that a I’m in the rib cage. This monster is confusing. It is not wet even though I’m in the throat. I can’t see any bones either and I probably would.

“Exterminate, Exterminate.” I jump back in surprise. My sensors are picking up a life form. Just then a giant mech jumps out of the shadows and opens fire.

SYSTEMS REROUTING. SYSTEMS PARALYZED, UNABLE TO MOVE.

¨Where am I?” ¨I say. “Welcome to Laputa City!” says an old man.

SYSTEMS REROUTING. SYSTEMS PARALYZED, UNABLE TO MOVE. Uggggggggghhhhhhh, everything hurts. That mech must have only set it´s cannons to stun. I´m in a dark cave or room. My sensors say that I’m underground.

“Ah, so you’re awake,” says someone who I can’t see. I´m surprised and I jump back. An old man is standing in the corner. HE’S A HUMAN! “YOU’RE A HUMAN!” I say. “And that I am,” he says. A live human has not been discovered in approximately four thousand years.

When my heart stops pounding, I say, “I thought you all died in the war?”

“Well actually you and your clunky body just landed yourself in the last remaining human colony in the entire galaxy!” he says. “Now what brings you down here today?” he asks. Still in shock, I answer “I woke up on top of a sand dune with my memory system broken.” “Ohhh,” he says “You probably fell down here because of the war!”

“WHAT!?” “There is a war going on!?” I scream. “Yes,” he says “You probably don’t remember because your memory system is broken.” “What war is it?” I ask. “DR22 versus 3OPC fighting over land like always.” He responds. “I have to get off this planet, especially if there is a war going on!” I shout. “Ok, fine,” he says. “Follow me.”

He leads me farther down into the cave. I have night vision but I have no idea how he can see. I see light up ahead and I get excited, but then I see that this light is just a ceiling lamp. We walk for a little bit longer. Then we turn a corner and there it is, the most beautiful thing in the world: spirling cathedrals, gigantic skyscrapers, and a landing dock. On the landing dock there are ships spanning from the biggest cruisers to the tiniest speeder. All the people are human. There are little human kids playing in the streets and grown up humans with shops full of delicate pastries and cakes.

“Wow,” I say, “this is really paradise.” The old man leads me to the the landing platform and points at a ship. “That one’s going to be yours,” he says. “Ok,” I say but why are there two seats?” I ask. “Because it’s dangerous to go alone, take this. I want you to have a friend on this journey,” he responds. Just then a dog jumps through his legs and and starts licking my face. “Thank you,” I say. “Well, I best gotta get going,” he says. “Thank you,” I respond. Then I hop in the space ship with my new found friend (the dog) and we takeoff.

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The Circuit Essay

Whenever Francisco has a joy or friend in his life he is moved away from it.

Some people don’t have a place to settle. They never have a place to call home and they can never have real friends. This can have an effect on people. If someone doesn’t have a place to call home they usually can’t feel welcomed or safe. In the book The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez, Francisco has to move around against his will. Whenever Francisco has a joy or friend in his life he is moved away from it.

Francisco is moved around and people don’t acknowledge his accomplishments. This is revealed when Francisco comes home to tell his parents that he got the medal for his art but they tell him they are moving. ¨That day I could hardly wait to tell Mama and Papa the great news… I saw that everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes¨ pg.83. Francisco was proud of his accomplishment but then when he wanted to share it with his parents they literally and figuratively move away from it.  

Francisco usually finds something that interests him but then it is taken away from him. Francisco starts a penny collection but then it is burnt in a fire. Before that, Francisco is looking for two pennies that he’s missing and it turned out that his sister used them on gumballs. “YOU USED THEM ON GUMBALLS!” I think the fury in Francisco’s voice means that he just lost something he cared about for a bad reason.

Francisco wanted to help his family but something was in the way. He could help his family by earning a cotton sack so that he could help them pick cotton. Francisco wanted to earn his cotton sack but he couldn’t because he wasn’t physically strong enough. When he realizes that he can’t earn it he gets sad. ¨I knew I had not yet learned my cotton sack.¨ I imagine him being sad that he can’t help his family have a better life.

In The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez, Francisco is constantly moved around and whenever he has a joy of friend in his life he is moved away from it. The medals from his artwork, the pennies that were used on gumballs, and the cotton sack are all examples of this. Francisco has a bad life and no friends. But he does bond with unusual objects.

Ancient Egyptian Website

http://web.editey.com/0B_U2PLlcAwiXdUVMUzhzZm9aUzA/index.html

I liked learning how to code because i’ve always wondered how people code a website. I don’t think that this coding was very difficult for me because they sort of laid it out for so I could just fill in in the the gaps. One thing that was challenging for me was finding the right size for my pictures. My pictures were either to big or to small until I figured out that they should be width 200 length 150. I would definitely want to do this again, maybe I could learn more tricks.

Shark Tank Simulation

On our spaceship the sharks are the humans.

On our spaceship the minnows are the animals

On our spaceship the seaweed is the plants

The humans can´t eat all the animals or the humans will die, and the animals can eat all the plants or the animals will die. Most things on the ship or either herbivores or omnivores so we don´t need a lot of meat on our ship. The animals are the hardest thing to balance because they and they are eaten.

Infographic post

I learned that there is a secret spiral staircase in Grand Central Station. I learned how to use photoshop during this project. I think I could use this skill to make another info graphic outside of school. I enjoyed this project. It was fun to learn a software. I liked how diverse you could make your images.  I would like to use Photoshop or Illustrator again. I would like to make info graphics again. I don’t think that this project was very difficult. The coloring in just came to me. I enjoyed Photoshopping the images. You had the ability to make any kind of photo.

Hydrogen Story

Hi I’m a Hydrogen Atom. I was made in this big explosion called the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. My first memory is of soaring through space and feeling awesome.The Big Bang was this weird Anomaly that was a ball of infinite mass, gravity, and energy going boom. All these atoms scattered around the universe unevenly and then they started clumping up. I clumped up with all my friends and we became this big glowy star. On a really hot day, some of my friends started smashing into each other. We thought they died but then two of the atoms who smashed into each other became one big helium atom. My birthing was very interesting and significant to the universe. It was interesting because we came out of nowhere and it was significant because without all of the atoms nothing would be here.

Shortly after I emerged from the Big Bang, I looked like a big positively charged ball called a proton, with a little tiny negatively charged ball going around my proton in a little cloud called the electron cloud. My proton is in the center of the atom which is called the nucleus. I am different from some of my friends who became helium atoms because they have a thing called a neutron and I do not. A neutron has a neutral charge. I am interesting and important because all other stable atoms that will ever exist derive from me! I am very fit. I have a an atomic mass of 1.008 and a atomic number of 1. If another hydrogen atom smashes into me, I become a helium atom, like some of my friends. Usually when atoms evolve into the next form of atom, they gain a proton, neutron, and electron, but this is not always the case.

Me and my friends became a star early, but other atoms hadn’t even started to form one. A star is formed when a gravity pulls together the ingredients needed. A gas clump breaks off of a molecular cloud and forms a rotating disk. The rotating disk attracts more gas which then turns the rotating disk into a protostar. Infalling matter increase the protostars by a factor of ten. Infall stops when the star begins thermonuclear fusion and produces a stellar wind. A galaxy is formed when many stars are near each other. A galaxy is a cosmic collection of planets and stars. When the star runs out of nuclear fuel some of its mass starts to run into its core when the core gets so heavy that it can’t withstand its own gravitational force the core collapses into a giant explosion called a supernova. A supernova can form heavier elements than hydrogen and helium.

Planets are usually big asteroids orbiting the sun. Gravity pulls them into a orbit. An orbit means that the planet is pulled into a circle around the sun that is hard to leave. Some planets have little moons circling around them. A solar system is a collection of planets and stars. Stars can create heavier elements when they explode into a supernova such as iron. Me and my friends star exploded one day and I became iron.

THE END

My Atomic Model

screen-shot-2016-10-27-at-9-13-19-amThis is my model of a atom. It closely resembles Bohr’s orbit model. It shows the orbit of the atoms that Bohr thought was fact. After studying atoms in science I understand that they are a collection of electrons, protons, and neutrons. An electron is a tiny tiny tiny particle that speeds around the nucleus. It does not  orbit the nucleus but stays in a “cloud” that surrounds the nucleus. Protons and neutrons make up the center of the atom or the nucleus. Protons give off a positive charge while neutrons give off a neutral charge. If I said you have more neutrons then me I would be saying you have more mass then me.

 

Summer Book Review

imgresThe book that I read is called The Knife Of Never Letting Go by  Patrick Ness. The book is set in the future on a new planet. Planet Earth has been overpopulated and polluted. The men who live on the new planet have a disease that makes people hear each other’s thoughts. So that means there is no privacy.

The main character and narrator is Todd Hewitt, a twelve year old boy who lives on the new planet in a town called Prentisstown. Prentisstown is run by an evil mayor whose goal is to take over the new planet. Todd is about to become thirteen when he will be recruited into the army, but he runs away into the swamp so they can’t recruit him. Before he runs away, his godparents give him a knife he can use to protect himself.

While he’s escaping he meets Viola Eade a girl who crashed from a spaceship onto Todd’s planet and she helps Todd escape from the army.  Todd and Viola’s goal is to get to a city called Haven where the population is large enough to stop the army. On their journey to Haven, Viola gets captured by the army and Todd and Manchee, Todd’s dog, go after her even though Todd had become very sick. He got sick from an alien whose blood had mixed with his. They manage to rescue but right outside of Haven, Viola is shot by a member of the army and she needs immediate help. Todd runs into Haven asking for help but no one’s there except the evil mayor who says “Welcome to New Prentisstown.”  The evil mayor had taken over Haven before Todd and Viola could get there.  There are two more books in the series so what seems like a bad ending may change.

In the beginning of the book, Todd says, “I am Todd Hewitt. I will be a man in twenty nine days time.” Todd is so concerned with being a man, but by the end of the book he realizes that he was always a man and that the evil mayor never was one.

I enjoyed this book a lot. It was very good. I love sci-fi and this book was just that. It also was very detailed in a good way. I also liked that it told you all the characters’ emotions like they were real. I think someone who likes sci-fi would love this book because it has aliens and spaceships and things. I would rate this book four out of five stars.