Higgins Armory Essay Armor serves a very simple purpose. Its job is to protect the wearer from injury and death during battle. The complex part of armor however, is how it has evolved over the years. Going from the good old knights wearing a full suit of plate armor, to wearing just a helmet, the Higgins Armory shows a great representation of both the simple use of armor, as well as the complexity of how it evolved, and what weapons were used against the different types of armor, and of course what weapons were used with armor. Armor in the dark ages started being seen around 600-700 C.E. At this point, mostly mail armor was used due to it being light, but still very defensive. A mail chest piece if thousands of tough rings that are interlocked together, so that 5 rings are all interlocked, meaning it is almost impossible to slash through or stab it. Crushing weapons however, could dent the armor, and thus the knight as well, creating quite a problem. This was a main reason that as the dark ages went in to the middle ages, and then the renaissance, plate started to be more in use. The Higgins museum shows a good timeline and very well describes when and how these changes happened, and of course it has lots of armor to show it visually. Why did mail start fading away? It became too complex to make (thousands of interlocking rings) and it became less suitable for the new technology of weapons being invented every day. Another main reason is that plate armor started to begin to become just as flexible and move-able as mail. This is demonstrated with many examples at Higgins, when a full suit of plate armor is run, jumped in, sat down in, and even sprinted in. Craftsmen, began developing ways to interlock the armor with joints similar to that of a humans without creating crevices in the armor. As mail began fading out due to the more popular plate, two other uses for armor began developing. This first example is dress armor. Higgins shows a great contrast in what makes dress armor and combat armor different. Dress armor is lavishly designed and sometimes painted, as well as many carvings and etchings to show off great wealth in the family. Generally, this kind of armor would not be used in combat due to it being so light and thin, and also many gaps. The other kind of armor, aside from combat armor, is tournament armor. This kind of protection would only be used in jousting and other combat games due to the way it is built. The Higgins has many full suits of both tournament and combat armor, and at first glance they might seem almost identical. The little details though, could prove big when you step into one or the other. First off, tournament armor is the most defensive armor, which also makes it by far the heaviest. Also, the ability to move and flex around is nearly impossible. The helmet is in fact bolted onto the breastplate, and there are no weak gaps, as to hope that no one gets killed in a simple game of jousting. The last main difference between the two, is the helmet. First, what exactly is jousting. It is when two horse-mounted knights charge at each other with a 14 foot long lance and try to de-mount the other one. The lances, being made out of wood, will splinter upon impact, creating large, sharp, fast-moving particles of wood. If these splinters were to hit in say, the chest or the eyes, it was not uncommon that that could easily kill. Knights weren’t stupid though, and they tried to make sure hat wouldn’t happen. The first is the armor, but the second is the helmet. In addition to being locked in place, the visor is actually at around the position of the forehead. As the knights approach, they lean down so they can see, and at the last second move up to protect their face. This ensured a lot less death in jousting. Armor is of course only one side of the story. Something had to be used both against it, and with it. A knights most used weapon is his lance. What is a lance. It is pretty much a 14 foot stick that tapers down to a sharp metal point at the end, perfect for jabbing and stabbing enemies on foot, when the knight is on horse. The problem with the lance is that it splinters after being used, so a knight will always carry a sword. Also, the richer knights in the 1500’s would carry around 5 loaded up pistols. Since back then they were so complicated to use, loading and re-loading was a real, so knights just prepared them in advance. As guns started being developed though, is when armor started fading away. As far as weapons used against knights ,the most common thing was a spear or a pole arm. A pole arm is a long 18-foot wooden staff with a metal point, prong, fork, spoon, bill, or any variation on the end, as long as its sharp. Hundreds of different varieties were made, and the Higgins has tons of them, ranging from a simple stick with a point, to the very complicated pole arms that were developed for maximum use. The main two advantages of the spear and pole arm is that they are longer than a lance, and also much more durable. They could be used over and over again, and as the pole arms became wackier and wackier in prongs, forks, and bills, new mechanics were developed to find the best way to pull a knight off his horse, or puncture that plate armor, or grab his sword right out of his hand! Even spears, just like swords, lances, plate and chain mail started fading away due to one concept, that would change warfare for the next 600 and more years, guns. This essay can definitely has information that can be extracted, but not sight, sound, or feel. That is the job of the Higgins Armory. While not many items can be touched, the very fact of seeing them a couple of feet away allows you to visualize in your mind of what it would be like to use arms and armor, instead of just using a wall of text. As said before, Higgins shows the drastic differences in combat, parade, and tournament armor, as well as the ultimate changes and finally demise in armor as guns started becoming the weapon of most combat. The Higgins is a worthwhile visit, and it is definitely not just a big building with identical gray suits of armor. It is much more, as is armor itself. However, you cannot go to Higgins and expect the armor to teach you the facts, there is a process of interpreting all the information to make sense with each other. The final thing to be said, is that the best thing done by Higgins is showing what it was really, for knights were not just people in perfect armor, with a shining sword and beautiful horse, there is so much more.

Higgins Museum Essay Evaluation 3 -- Outstanding 2 -- Ok, but could use some improvement 1-- Needed improvement 0 --- Missing Introduction 1 Gave the reader background and general information about the museum --- set the scene. 2 Transitions to the body of the essay. (Three things that can be learned by a visit to the museum) Body 3 Three topics were addressed, each with its own paragraph 2 Topics were clearly explained and used researched supporting details & vocabulary Conclusion 3 Restated topic --- What can be learned at the museum? 3 Brought closure to essay (Summed up essay) Structure 3 Essay format followed the directions for assignment 3 Spelling 2 Capitalization (Used correct capitalization) Comments: Very good supporting details and an excellent conclusion. The introduction doesn't set the scene of the museum (who,what where), in fact you do more of that in the conclusion. Watch your organization of information, the 2nd body paragraph really has more than one subject. The essay also needed more researched vocabulary.

Here is my spreadsheet for week 22 of the stock program. As you can see, I am earning a solid thousand dollars in Apple, and everythign else is earning me a couple hundred bucks. Also, the DJIA passed over 11,000 points a couple of days ago.

My story takes place in northern Maine, Sugarloaf Ski Resort to be exact, and it was Thursday morning of February vacation. The previous night we had heard that there was a chance of snow, and it had already started snowing. When we woke up that Thursday, our cars were buried in two and a half feet of snow, and it ws still dumping. The house we had rented for the week was taken Thursday night, and hotels were booked everywhere. We had no choice but to try and drive right through it. One hour in we were only 15 miles out, and we had a 550 mile drive left, going down a highway at 20 miles per hour. As we were getting out of the mountains on to regular flatlands, we had one more large hill to pass. The snow continued to fall, and it was definately a blizzard. As we neared the top of the will, with our two-wheel drive car, and with some four wheel drive SUV's and trucks all around, the car started to stall! We had just enough energy left to pull over, but it was still a scary moment, stalling at the top of a hill, in a blizzard, with a bunch of 4 axel trucks behind you. We waited for them to pass, and restarted the car to get back on the road. A couple of hours later, as we started to leave the mountains and snow turned to rain, the car caught a bad curve and the road, and we skidded off, narrowly missed a telephone pole, and went to a stop a foot in front of a large stump. The snow that turned to rain basically hydroplaned our car off the road, and for the next couple of minutes we were terrified. However, as we made it farther south around lower Maine, the weather eased off and we made the rest of the trip back home fine.

This is my wordle'd version of my weather story!

This is my stock market spreadsheet, showing the gains and losses that I made in week 20 of the stock program. As shown above, I am making lots of money mostly in Apple, and I am making a little bit of cash in IBM (International Business Machines) and Activision-Blizzard. Google however, is losing money for me, but at one point I was making hundreds of dollars. The stock unit is very interesting, and will give me good insight if I ever want to actually invest in real stocks.

     For my LA speech I talked about a job that I had in the summer; I took care of chickens on a farm. It was a great experience and was very interesting, and I had a steady income from selling eggs at a farmers' market. Every day I would go to the pen and feed them inside the coop, and then fill up their water troughs. I would then head back inside with some buckets and fill them to the lid with the day's eggs. I would make this routine every morning, and at around lunchtime on Wednesdays I would bring them to the market, and come back later for my profits. I had to sell the chickens in late fall due to minimal daylight and snow. However, I will most likely resume in early to mid spring.

We had a unit on the history, and changes that have gone on in Rye. Towards the end of the unit, we had to do a project that showed our learning. I chose to make an interactive diagram on the changes that have undergone on Ocean Boulevard. I made a small trolley that went around a track that was to resemble the actual road. The buildings on the side would the undergo changes, such as burning, being torn down, and renovations being added.

The Story of Arthur the Archer

Once upon a time, there was a young man known by the name of Arthur the Archer. Arthur was hated throughout the land as a mean, bitter man that would often be obnoxious and outright selfish. He always tried to perfect his hobby, archery, although his methods were quite unorthodox. Arthur was a special archer, no matter how much he practiced and perfected his talent, he simply could not, not even once, beat out Fred the Fierce and Unfriendly at a simple test of hitting a bulls-eye. Arthur the Archer made it his life-long goal being able to finally beat Fred, and here is his story. However, the feared punisher of mortal beings has different plans. This creature can transform into a person's greatest weakness, taking them down with what they love...

It was one fine mid-morning in Greece, and Arthur the Archer strolled down to the market to grab this week's groceries. As he was walking down the street, he noticed, up in the sky, was the biggest and fattest goose he had ever seen. “If I were to shoot that goose with an arrow, then it would feed me forever! I could also work on my archery skills, it's two birds with one stone!” And so with that statement, Arthur raced back to his house, got his bow, took aim at the sky, and fired away. The arrow soared upward with amazing inaccuracy, and the arrow missed completely. Arthur coked his bow and fired again, this time it hit the poor goose in the belly. However, instead of the goose falling right to the ground, it instead went into a feint dive and landed in front of Arthur the Archer. It pulled the arrow out of its belly, snapped it in half, and threw it to the ground. This goose was magical! “I am Morpheus, the punisher of mortal creatures such as yourself, and you have been evil! Your needs to be the best have turned you into a selfish little bug . Now I am giving you a warning, so that you may look at yourself as the evil cretin you are. However, if you do not change your ways I shall make an example out of you, and punish you severely! Now with that, go back to your home!” And so, Arthur returned to his house, frightened to death at that very traumatic incident.

The next morning, Arthur rose out of bed, and immediately remembered yesterday's skirmish as if it had been burned into his memory. “I doubt anyone else has ever been visited by an eleven foot goose before! Maybe I should find a new hobby to do instead of archery.” Arthur walked out the door that day a new man, with a new destiny, a new purpose! He reached the town marketplace, and began to search for something to do. For the next couple of hours, Arthur asked around town to look for a job. He ended up doing more chores than actual work, from cleaning out a well, to manning a cash register at a fruit stand, even helping a pit crew at a local chariot race. None of these jobs provided any interest or good pay to Arthur, and as he was thinking about his boring day, off in to the distance, he saw it. Fred the Fierce and Unfriendly was showing off his skills, shooting arrows at targets as easy as breathing air! Arthur the Archer sprinted right over to the crowd gathering around Fred the Fierce and Unfriendly. “ Pfff, Fred your skills are once again inferior to my superior natural talent! Watch this...” Arthur grabbed Fred's bow right out of his hands, pushed the crowd out of the way, and fired in to the sky, aiming right at the sun. As the arrow traveled at its increasing speed, it suddenly pierced through the clouds, and suddenly, there was a thunderous, high pitched, honk that also pierced the clouds, and what followed it was what looked like a huge white blob plummeting to the ground, and it suddenly toppled on to the archery range, destroying everything in its wake! When all of the dust and debris cleared, Arthur realized with terror that the blob he had hit was actually a giant goose. It had returned! Did Arthur call for help, no. Did he scream, no. Arthur the Archer sprang to his feet, and started running as fast as he possibly could toward the market, not daring to check what would be chasing behind him.

Arthur made it back to town, and looked for the nearest place to hide, which was the local tavern. He flew open the door, raced upstairs, and hid in a storage closet, praying to the gods that he could live another day. All of a sudden, he heard a faint flapping sound that was rapidly growing in sound until it was as if it was right outside the closet. Suddenly, Arthur heard a huge crash, and the door in front of him blasted off in a spray of wooden shrapnel, flour, and vegetables. Arthur opened his eyes, and at first it looked like he was back outside, however he quickly realized that the tavern's roof had been ripped completely off! “ It found me! I gotta get away from this thing!” Arthur was now fueled only by adrenaline and pure fear to get out of this huge mess. He sprang to his feet, and jumped from the bare floor of the tavern to a rooftop below, taking a quick glance above, and noticed that the giant goose was right on his tail. Arthur the Archer began sprinting and hurtled from rooftop to rooftop, noticing the screams of the townspeople below. Arthur felt that he was finally creating distance between himself and the monster, but as he was thinking that, his foot got caught on an eave and Arthur tumbled right into an oddly placed fruit stand, completely dazed by the long and hard fall.

“Arthur the Archer, you were once warned about your selfish habits, and now you are being punished for your ways. To fit the situation, you shall become a nameless wretch that only serves the purpose of showing others the penalty of selfishness. You shall always try but never succeed. You shall want, but never get. You shall give, but never receive.

And so, Arthur has learned his painful lesson, and he has been forever punished for his selfish ways. The moral to this story is that selflessness is much better than selfishness.

Fog is like

Fog is like a diving plane

Twisting, turning, changing shape

Then Crash into our eyes, like a train,

Wearing a wispy, full-body cape.

With its big, gaping mane

It swallows light and dark alike,

Sometimes it seems totally insane

For it knocks the air out of your lungs as it strikes.

Fog is like a deep power nap

It awakes, then rests back into its place

Just like a deadly booby trap.

And you shall always lose the race

No matter how hastily you run

For fog is faster yet, it has already won.

My Martin Luther King Jr Essay

The 1960's and 50's saw one the greatest form of racism toward black people in the United States since slavery in the 1700-1800's. This period between the late 1940's and early 1960's was when segregation, or the act of separating between blacks and whites, was prevalent everywhere, especially in the south. Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted to change this: “I have a dream that this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed”. On the day of August 28^th, 1963 MLK gave his “I Have A Dream” speech that would change the lives of every American, Black and White, Jew and Gentile, Protestants and Catholics, and his speech still changes our lives today. Most everyone felt is was good to give Blacks their rights slowly, if any at all. MLK wasn't happy with that. He wanted change, quick change, and that's what this speech did.

Before that day, African American life in America wasn't anything to brag about. Black people had nothing to do with Whites, they had separate schools, water fountains, buses, everything that any single person ever used was reserved for either Blacks or Whites. There were people in the south that hated Blacks to so extremes, that they would drive them out of town. After MLK's speech, not only did segregation diminish completely, but people realized that you should “be judged by the content of your character, and not the color of your skin”.

My collage combines the three themes of color, line, and shape. The color is represented by the green background along with the yellow and white dots over it. The line is represented by the curvy, wavy frame and the wavy lines throughout the image. The shape is represented by all of the differently shaped magazine cutouts behind the stencil. For the pictures I mostly focused on the main shapes of the triangle, square, and circle to produce a more simple creation instead of complex shapes; however some parts of the shapes I made the bad choice of covering up part of them, making it so some of the shapes take the appearance of regular pictures.

LHDR

A couple of weeks ago we had a program called Project Safeguard. I was out sick for the event, but there is an article about it here.

Hi, I am an avid football fan from New Hampshire, and I think the one thing that we need to substantially boost New Hampshire tourism isn't something like a new ski mountain, a skate area, or some new beach or a state park. We need an NFL franchise. Why do we need a new team in the NFL? Well, a better question would be why don't we want an NFL team, specifically in New Hampshire? The answer I cannot think of, because there isn't an answer to that question. A team in New Hampshire would bring thousands of jobs to the area, from people building the stadium to new team executives, it would be huge to the community job market. Now if I were pitching an idea for any other sport, it would be impossible to find enough investors to pay for a stadium, but there is this magic about football that attracts people, as if they know that they are making the right decision, from going to a game to rooting for their team. The first thing you are probably thinking is who would support such a monumental move like this? For starters, most of the New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and maybe the Canadian fan base of football would love to have their own team, players would love to have a whole new team to get a chance to play for. Why should we put a team in the small suburbs of New Hampshire, as opposed to a big city like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe, or Providence? Well, why is there a team in Green Bay, or Foxboro? This is because back in the golden age of football, teams were based in small towns to bring tourism to them, and it worked! Football isn't the same as basketball or baseball football is a small town sport for a big city audience, and that is exactly what every town in New Hampshire is. The final, literally big matter, would be a stadium. However, I think a stadium would be more of a good side to this idea than a bad side. There are so many empty lots floating around Portsmouth, that room for the stadium, parking, transportation, etc would not be a problem. A perfect example of this would be the Peas International Air Force Base. It is a decommissioned facility anyway, and a stadium with parking and a big 5 lane highway like in Foxboro could definitely fit. Also, the merchandise that could be sold, besides regular football stuff would be tremendously helpful to gain money. Bathing suits, local store coupons, boating gear, all kinds of products that you can't find in any other team complexes would only help. In the off season the stadium could be used by the community if a membership was bought, allowing free use of field throughout the spring and summer, not to mention large events such as concerts, circuses, and high school sports. This could drastically boost attendance in the regular season, and memberships would pay for the caring of the field as well as other renovations. Sales of tickets to big events would be able to be split between the actual event, as well as a stadium. Now, the next question would be what do the players think? As mentioned before, free agents and potential draftees would certainly love a new chance to play. But what about the current players? Rivalries would certainly increase, and besides that I don't really think it would impact them. OK, so back to the original question: Why shouldn't we have an NFL team in New Hampshire? Some of the cons to this, such as a smaller fan base, no large cities, and need for investors have easily been proven to be irrelevant, I cannot think of a single reason that we should not carry out this bold move. Even the mere announcement of an NFL team would fuel a huge fire that would spread across the press and make a ton of money! The press would be flabbergasted, but they would love it at the same time!

Dear Dad, For this module all we really did was review the same exact stuff that we learned last year, mostly just patterns and the order of operations, and a little algebra. However, we did learn the more advanced vocabulary that we did not use last year.Overall, we learned pretty much nothing. If a had to pick one favorite part of the module than it would probably be the order of operations, just because I got a little bit of a challenge in it. Besides that, nothing new was actually learned, we learned about PEMDAS, which means that we go in the order of Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, and finally Addition and Subtraction. My least favorite part of the unit was definitely learning about patterns, because it was way too long of a chapter for something that we learned last year. All we really did anyway was learn what everything was called, which was the first thing we ever learned last year. We also learned about probability, which was a little bit interesting, but not a whole lot. There are basically two types of probability: theoretical probability is what will probably happen, and experimental probability is what did happen.On the subject of probability, we did a small project on finding the probability of a random event, like picking a gumball out of a bag, or flipping a coin 100 times. What my partner and I did was very simple, and stupid. We built a pair of industrial tweezers out of two 12 inch rulers, and taped them together. We then filled a bag with skittles and gumballs, and proceded to pick a candy 40 times. In the end, we figured that the more you do an experiment, the closer the experimental probability gets to the theoretical probability. Other people did experiments like ours, such as picking guitar picks and spinning a colored wheel. The one thing that the experiments taught us was that the more you conduct an experimentm the closer the experimental probability gets to the theoretical.Throughout the module we also did portfolio points, or practice activites that had to accumulate 100 points or more throughout the module. That was pretty much it for module 1, and next module will be much more interesting, because it is based completely on problem solving. Sincerely, LHDR