Sunday, September 21, 2008

Revolution/Rotation - Voki


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Friday, September 19, 2008

Seasons - Gizmo Paragraph

Many different situations might be able to cause the seasons to change but there is one real reason that the seasons change with many little factors that help them change. The seasons change because the earth is always revolving around the sun. When the Earth is revolving around the Sun it takes about three hundred-sixty- five days (which makes up one year) and during those days different parts of the Earth are facing the Sun which defines the seasons. When the southern hemisphere is facing the Sun that means that it is summer, which means that the northern hemisphere is going through winter. The seasons are opposite because the Earth is tilted on it's axis (about a 23.5 degree angle) which results in opposite seasons throughout the year in different parts of the world. When the southern hemisphere is angled more at the sun they are getting more direct sunlight making it warmer which means that the northern hemisphere is getting less direct sunlight making it colder then when there's more direct sunlight. There are many diffeerent factors to why the seasons change and are different in different parts of the world but they all are caused because of the Earth's revolution around the sun.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Zoom

The book Zoom makes a person look at pictures from a different angle. In the begining it starts out with a simple picture ans then throughout the book the book gets more developed and detailed as the pages turn. The next page was more detailed then the page before as it was a pattern throughout the entire book. For example, when you are using a camera and you want to focus on a specific part of the picture, a person and not the backround, then you use the zoom to set the person as the main focus and not the backround. In Zoom instead of zooming in on the object the picture zooms out until you see the final picture. And every time that the picture is zoomed out as a natural reaction an infrence would be made to say what might be coming on the page that follows. That infrence makes you think about what might come next but since there are little clues you have to look at the picture in a new perspective

Say when you are holding a piece of paper and there is faded writing on it you can't really tell what was writen on it, but when you hold it to a light you can make out the writing easier and clearer, that's a way of looking at something in a new perspecive.Without the light you can guess what you think you can read but when with the light it's in a new perspective. People see things in a different perspective everyday even when its not realized, each day is different, each person is different. If everything stayed the same everyday and there was never any new perspectives on things then life would get boaring and predictable.

In the field of science perspectives change everyday with everything. Astromomers use perspecitve in all of their job. When stars are just looked at from a distance thats when constilations can be seen, then if studing the actual star a closer perspecive is used to examine the characteristics of the star. When scientists are using a microscope a closer perspective of the oject is used to exmaine the characteristics the same way astromomers study the stars except scientists are closer to what they're studing then astromomers are. People who look at life with a different perspective on things look at issues and life in general in a different way and their view on things might change as opposed to people who have the same look on life might have a different attitude on subjects.

Perspective is used everyday everywhere around the world and is an important thing in life and in the natural world.