The Southern States worked hard after the Civil War to reject the Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress and added to the Constitution. It took over 40 years but they succeed by the early 1900's to enact laws and use other tools to put Black Men "back in their place".
Read the two articles below that describe in more detail, how that was done. The third article describes how it is being done again today, to "take our country back".
Slavery Exam #4 - Jim Crow
Start Tuesday November 19, 2013 ends Sunday November 24, 2013 midnight
This Exam will be based on the three articles below
I am handing out Homework #7, which is Excel Charts. See the previous Blog Post for instructions and videos.
I do not need to provide a prerecorded video, just read the previous blog. If you have any questions, text me, but do not wait until the last minute. Too many students wait until Sunday evening and try and contact me to answer questions.
That is too late!
It's mostly the same students each week. Come on and get it done early. This last minute stuff will not work in the corporate world.
Also, I know some of you are not paying attention in class, you are on the web. Then you tell on yourself by asking me a basic question, I went over during the lecture.
Your Homework #7 is to create charts. You learned how to present data in tables, pivot tables and maps. Another way to present data, is with charts.
Take the data from you HW#6 and create two types of charts (line, bar, pie and/or other)
Once you create the two charts in the excel file, save it in your google drive and then share it with me, like your HW#7.
This homework is due Sunday Nov 18, 2013 by midnight.
I will not answer any questions after Saturday Nov 17, 2013 by 9 pm, because too many of your classmates what until the last minute to ask for help. I do not have enough time to help you, if you contact me Sunday or late Saturday night.
In each chart, I want to see X and Y labels, chart heading, format X and Y numbers (when numbers used) and show me other things you can add to a chart that shows me you learned something special. But do not clutter the chart with too much stuff. Make the charts are professional as possible but easy to read.
Move over “Meet the
Robinson’s” there’s a new family in town, and they’ve got
billions of dollars behind them. The future is almost here thanks to
Richard Branson the chairman of the Virgin Group. Richard Branson and
his children are venturing into space, and they will be on the first
passenger flight into suborbital space. The Virgin Company will start
commercial flights in 2014.
This
is a huge leap in technology and transportation. This type of travel
could open up colonization of different planets and even cut the
travel time down between various countries on the globe. The
Branson’s will be traveling through suborbital space which is right
outside the atmosphere. The flight, which will be taken on
SpaceShipTwo, will not only include Branson and his children but also
3 other passengers and of course two pilots. The company has already
started selling seats at prices of $200,000 to $250,000. Celebrities
from Lady Gaga to Leonardo DiCaprio have already made their
reservations. This type of travel brings humanity one step closer to
“The Jetson’s”.
This is an amazing
development for the Virgin Group. The Virgin Group has grown business
in fields from mobile telephony, travel, finance, leisure, music and
health & wellness. SpaceShipTwo was developed by The Spaceship
Company (TSC) which, surprisingly, isn’t even in the top ten of
Aerospace companies. The top ten list includes Boeing, Lockheed
Martin, and even Honeywell. This development in aerospace travel is
still in testing but is projected to be active in the middle of 2014.
The Virgin Company plans to have this type of travel more accessible
at a later date but this is one of the random times where it actually
is rocket science.
It seems as if it were yesterday, when many households were filled with traditional televisions sets with the very large backings. Now, the vast majority owns at least one or more LCD/LED televisions in their household. Traditional sets are now obsolete. Those old and heavy televisions sets were only capable of handling 480p video resolution (480 vertical scanning lines, to display a picture). Technology has improved and now many homes are being filled with the new LCD/LED television sets capable of providing 1080p video resolution, more than doubling the visual quality of older sets.
The increase in video resolution provides a sharper and clearer image quality. This is where the term “HD” (high definition) stems from. The enhanced visual quality becomes more apparent when viewing sports and playing video games. Players’ physical attributes are more easily discernable; video games render as if the characters shared your living space.
Would you believe that the 1080p is already obsolete? The future is 4K technology. The 4K sets will have four thousand scanning lines to produce an image on screen. This is roughly four thousand times better than the current LCD/LED that we are just beginning to fill our household with.
The 4K sets will provide an even greater viewing experience. Images will be even clearer and sharper. 4K televisions are already making their way to the market. Consumers can now purchase a 4K television for as little as $5,000.
You may believe this pricing to be outrageous, but consider when LCD/LED televisions were first introduced to the market. Their prices were vastly more expensive than what they are today, and this same trend can be expected for these new “ultra-HD” offerings. Within the next five years, 4K televisions are expected to be similar priced to current LCD/LED offerings.
From a religious idea "there is nothing new under the sun", however, when you look at the current capabilities of internet technology there might be an argument that nothing like the internet has ever existed in human existence. Yet, when you simplify the internet it is only an invesible object that lets you communicate with people, share and find any piece of information all from virtually anywhere. In retrospect that does not sound simple at all. The purpose of that idea and this article comes to the point that the internet might be one of the single most important inventions in modern history, and its impact is definitely shifting and growing by the day. For the 21st century the internet and its technology associated with it: mobile phones, social media/networking, education, movies, television, and gaming is going to explode and open new possibilities for all people. These changes will be seen in each and every industry associated with the internet.
Changes in industries have already occurred and can be seen in many example. Print media and movie buying/renting has already taken a shift and right next to that change will be television media being distributed in some alternative mode.
The shifts in print media can be seen with these charts. Advertising revenue which is a major source of income for print media companies is declining and online advertising is rising. Plus circulation for new papers is dropping rapidly. The internets turn of the century influence is the source of this change.
For out of box office movies Netflix has made it much simpler to rent and see movies. When cost and simplicity are on one side then customers will be on that side too.
Another major shift the internet has recently created is the social media and social networking industries. Social Networking is people connecting with each other and sharing personal content. We are in the age of connecting not information now. Now on the internet connecting with new people and old friends is the new trend. Plus people are connecting in many different ways. You can now talk over the internet, text over the internet, and video chat over the internet. Facebook shows that with over 1 Billion people you can virtually connect to anyone over the internet.
Social Media, which is users creating content to share to as many people as possible is also a relatively new trend.
Youtube is the epitome of social media and shows that normal people can generate self made content that other people want to see. With a medium like this a person can create a video and post it to an outlet that can "distribute" the video to over 800 million people. This is a direct threat to the old structure of how content and information was distributed. Because of the internet the old will change.
Furthermore, It is understood the internet is important and will lead to more advances but what is equally important is how the internet is accessed and what is going on in that industry.
Mobile phones are important to stay connected now. Not only do mobile phones let people talk to each other but they allow people to connect to the internet also. Now since people are connecting to the internet with their phones they are also making purchases on their phones too. It is also very likely that by 2014 people will be making more purchases on their phones then on the traditional desktop.
