Starting to use Tinker Cad it nice it's easy to do basic things and even some advanced things are made simple. It is a good starting program and making our prototype has been mostly easy and not to complex. However, when using the program you begin to notice some basic functions that are not present in the program for instance resizing proportionally when you try to resize something length, width, and hight cannot be changed proportionally at the same time you have to do them all individually. Even Microsoft word allows you to do this, when you resize a picture. Another thing that is absent in the program is some sort of reference distance system. Whenever you try to make something even on both sides or get it in the middle you just have to guess or use the very basic and not user friendly ruler. This makes it very hard to make things evenly spaced and placed at the right spot.
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Technology is a large part of our society today. It's effects, as with all things are good and bad. One of the biggest effects of technology is its ability to spread ideas and knowledge. You can ask a question and get an answer within minutes, you have a library larger than any on earth in the palm of your hand. This has allowed people to learn much faster about things that intrest them. Technology has also connected us more. You can meet somone on the other side of the world in seconds you don't even need to speek the same language, becuase of online translators. Throughout our society technology is present, and it is almost always benefiting us.
This satire highlights the coming generation's addiction to technology. It shows how technology has really lowered their ability and willingness to interact with other people. All the great grandpa wants to do is tell his great grandson a story, it seems like a simple task; however, even when the city has lost power and the grandpa ask if he wants to hear a story, the kid is confused it's as if he doesn't know what the grandfather is doing. The only types of stories the kid can understand are those conveyed through technology. So, when the grandpa can't intertwine his story with technology, the kid looses intrest and just looks for another form of entertainment that does.
War is a fight for power that is unnecessary, and comes with terrible consequences.
War can be helpful on rare occasions or as it usually is it can be saddening. Like with the women who found out her son had died in the war. What we don't realize is that wars are for power and influence, and wars are almost always started for reasons other then helping the people they say they are. Regardless of what we think about war will continue somone will always want more power and use war to obtain it. War changes us by what it's outcome is. Maybe a family member is lost in the fighting or someone you know suffers from PTSD. The effects of war are long lasting and can change you forever. Like the sniper who after being in war relized that the people he was killing were people too. So he wanted to leave. The guest speaker who talked to us about the students who have these disabilities showed me a lot. She showed me that these kids haven't chosen these ways of life we should not be scared of them. All of these students are like me except something just went a little different. Just becuase they may look or act a little different doesn't mean there not human. I think that talk will really encourage me to be more open about meeting people who may have one of these disabilities and help me be less uncomfortable. Finally the talk showed me how by accepting these people I can help the world to be a better place.
Is baseball dying? Has baseball lost its cool? Many news sources and people believe that baseball is in decline. They think that baseball is past its time and on the way to its grave; however, this notion is false, and the evidence supports that baseball is in fact just fine. The facts show baseball games are gaining attendance, that Major League Baseball’s (MLB’s) revenue is growing, and rules are being added to speed up the game. Starting off, the main argument used for baseball losing its cool is the length and speed of the games. Some people say that it is too slow to appeal to younger demographics. The MLB has and is continuing to improve the speed of the game by implementing rules that reduce the amount of wasted time. "The average baseball game length [was cut] by 12 minutes" (Schwartz par. 2) from 2014 to 2015. That decrease may seem small, but a four minute a game difference in time " adds up to additional 6.83 days worth of baseball"(Schwartz par. 3) over the course of a season. That means the twelve minute a game reduction has reduced the total length of games played in the MLB a year by around eighteen days. That number is also expected to get larger as the MLB looks into more ways to help baseball games become faster. This speeding up and refining of rules contributes to the fact that baseball attendance still outperforms most sports.The number of people who attend baseball games during the seasons is still in the 70 millions. Sometimes, growing as shown in 2015 " Paid attendance in Major League Baseball for 2015 regular season was up slightly from 2014 making it the seventh-highest all-time" (Brown "MLB Sees Nearly" 1). Baseball also has the strongest attendance of the Major League sports. "In fact, Major League Baseball's total attendance (74.9 million) is greater than the [NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLS] sports leagues combined (65.9 million)" (Gaines par. 3). A sport hasn't lost its cool when it still has more people attend its game than many of its competitors combined. Large ticket sales also contribute to the MLB having a growing revenue. When a sport is losing its cool its revenue should be shrinking, but that is simply not the case for baseball. As stated by Maury Brown "[MLB] can report gross revenues for 2016 are approaching an incredible $10 billion. That figure marks the 14th consecutive year that baseball has posted record revenue. Growth for the league was approx. a half-a-billion dollars for the year" (Brown "MLB sees record" par. 2). A sport that has lost its cool should not have a revenue gain around a half-a-billion dollars. This, in turn, supports the idea that baseball may be growing. In conclusion, baseball is not dying, and baseball has certainly not lost its cool. The evidence supports baseball is fine or possibly growing shown by: increasing revenue, higher game attendance, and rules being added to speed up the game to appeal to a younger audience. Works CitedBrown, Maury. “MLB Sees Nearly 73.8 Million In Attendance For 2015, Seventh-Highest All-Time.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015. Brown, Maury. “MLB Sees Record Revenues Approaching $10 Billion For 2016.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 5 Dec. 2016. Gaines, Cork. “SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Baseball Attendance Is Greater Than NFL, NHL, And NBA Combined.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 31 Oct. 2012. Schwartz, Nick. “MLB's Average Game Time Increase Adds up to Days of Extra Baseball.” Fox Sports, 17 May 2016. If the citations look wrong download the file below.
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