The secne I will be doing today is in chapter 6 of Animal Farm by George Orwell when the pigs begin sleeping in beds and Squealer “explains” the new rule. I have changed the scene a bit to make it so that Squealer instead of writing the new rule beforehand, he writes the new rule during the scene.

The characters are as followed:

Napoleon: The main man/pigleader/authoritarian overlord (Joseph Stalin)

Squealer: The Soviet Propganda, manipulating the masses also pig

Boxer: a horse that is loyal but very niave, the poltariat

Clover: also a horse, smarter than the other animals but bad at reading and memory (like the other animals)

Book/scene overview

Animal Farm written by George Orwell is a political allegory agianst stalisim and totalitarianism, symbolised through farm animals overthrowing their human owner on the farm. My scene ouccurs in Chapter 6, when the pigs begin sleeping in the farmhouse beds, a betrayle of the origional commandments that state that “no animal shall sheep in a bed”. Squealer quickly changes the rules and manipulates the animals into believing nothing is wrong by saying that they don’t really want to sleep in the beds. This hightlights the pigs rise to couruption.

Scene Summary

As stated before this scene is from Chapter 6 of Animal Farm, when the pigs begin to sleep in the farmhouse beds, violating the original commandments. When the other animals begin to question it (Clover, Boxer), Squealer is quick to act, adding the rule to include the words “with sheets”. Boxer convinces him self that Napoleon is always right and to trust him. This moment reveals how propaganda and fear are used to maintain control.

Reflection

I used multiple skills that we learned over these few weeks ones that include setting the opacity making the words “With Sheets” to appear as if Squealer wrote it, as well as making the chicken run in panic falling into a pit. I also used the colour to change Napleon as he is both a different breed of pig and bigger in size. I learned the importance of turning in which direction as if you think you got it right it might be the opposit, in my case Boxers leg went stright through his body creating a grusme scene. I also used dialect and thoughts to help the viewers to understand what is happening. The move to and turn to face controls were also quite important as talking to the open air is a bit weird it also helps people understand who someone moght be talking to. Overall this project helped me understand how details like direction, colour, and movement can completely change how a scene is understood, and how using tools like opacity and dialogue can turn even my animation albeit a bit confusing but good retelling of a story.

I learned that since all humans and such are part of the bipedal superclass they can inherit all functions and attributes from what we put into the program. We also learned that creating a method makes it so that we can make all the objects form the superclass act in a certain way, like making the objects dance in coordination. This can be used to make all characters from the same class perform the same actions without repeating code for each one. It’s especially helpful for synchronising group dances, where every character follows the same choreography at the same time. For example, if you want to synchronise a ballet number having all the performers dance at the same time it requires less time for you to do so.

From watching this video we learned how to change the characters rotation from its axis in the panel to the right without needing to code it, we also learned how to change the shape, size, and location. Next we learned how to use code to move the individual joints to tell a story like making an alien doing the Macarena, we also learned how to use code to change the, size, opacity, location of both the character and the joints, and the colour. I also learned that you can change to colour and opacity of all things (character, atmosphere, ground, etc.) making some very weird things like a ghostly blue Queen of Hearts, and moving joints in inhuman ways like the leg goes through the body making it seem like a double jointed fella. This allows you to quickly adjust a character’s appearance and rotation without needing to code every detail, saving time during setup. You can then use code to animate joints and properties like the colour or opacity. For example, you could rotate an alien’s arms in the panel to start a dance pose, then use code to move each joint in rhythm for the Macarena. (Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena)

I learned many things in this lesson, one of which is how to summon characters from classes like the biped class which passes on traits to their sub-classes, meaning that the sub-classes inherited traits from the super class. Another thing is that i learned how to code for the camera, moving it to the best object vantage point, making things turn, and making them say and think things. The last thing I learned is that timing is important in which if one piece of dialect goes to fast then you wont be able to catch it, as well as the timing of moving pieces, it might be inhumane to move things at an impossible speed. You can use inheritance to quickly add characters that already have built-in actions, and use camera controls to focus on important parts of the scene, the timing helps make the story feel more natural, with dialogue and movements that match how people actually act.

Warren truss bridges are unique because the use a series of interconnected triangles that compress and expand against each other or in other words to distribute forces evenly. Instead of making the bridge stronger from above or below it instead stiffens the road helping it hold together against lots of stress. According to geometry, triangles are very ridge unwavering preventing it from deforming and making it good for holding stress from heavy loads. By using triangles, truss bridges are also material efficient, it can hold high strength to weight ratio meaning that it can hold a lot of weight for less/weaker material. Fun fact truss bridges are the most common bridge type for military use being material efficient stable for transportation.

So what I did first was research the cheapest bridge that people make, the result was a truss bridge, and as I mentioned before truss bridges are very material efficient. So I started construction, first it was the joints, but the first joints I put were too high, not properly connecting the cords. So I moved the joints down by one section connecting the base to the apex of the bridge.

Next I connected all the joints with carbon steel solid bars, all of which 140×140 (it was scary the price) I then of course changed most of them to 100×100 apart from the sides which stayed the same (140×140).

And as you can see it failed but not by much. So I made adjustments to it, I brought the joints down by one more section making it more stable and i changed the middle compressed parts 110×110 the ones back from that to 120×120 and all other to 140×140. I then also changed the parts under tension(apart from the floor and sides) to a hollow tube 160x160x8, and it worked.

I then tried to make it cheaper by decreasing each part by one (e.g. 160x160x8 hollow tube to 150x150x7 hollow tube) but ultimately failed. Next I looked at the tension and compression on the app.

So I adjusted each cord, tube, etc to 1 or as close to it as possible (tipped of by a friend) I then also realised that if I decreased the apex and bottom of the structure but made it a different material in this case HSS also know as HSLA (High-strength low-alloy steel). This made my bridge more cost effective, most of this process is mostly trial and error, seeing the best fit.

I realise that this is a simulation for real life, putting physics, economics, and computer sciences all together. I made many trials and had failed attempts, and some frustrating and incompetent truck drivers that refuse to drive across a very stable bridge (there’s only a dent), this bridge seeing all the very dark blues and reds makes me feel a sense of accomplishment. In the end after many errors and hardships and some busted ear drums we have made it to a better truck driver hired by the company. We have a final bridge that costs $285,918.83. This has certainly been an adventure for both me and the many truck drivers families.

I name it THE EXTREMELY STURDY (DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT THE OTHER TELL YOU) WARREN BRIDGE THAT I DEFINITELY MADE FIRST UNIQUELY MINE ONLY.

The “site:” modifier helps you with the URL. You can change the last word from .com to .gov, google then only shows you site that has the prompt.

You’re a researcher studying the impact of climate change on coastal cities. You’re specifically interested in finding academic papers published by a particular university on this topic. You could use site: stanford.edu climate change coastal cities.

Another modifier is “filetype”. This modifier helps you find the type of file you want like PowerPoint.

You’re a student that needs to fit in a last minute slide for your WW2 presentation and you don’t have any ideas. You could use filetype: ppt WW2

This modifier “define” is used to get a dictionary definition of a word or phrase.

You’re a student researching a complex topic like “quantum entanglement.” You want to understand the core concept. You could do this by searching define:quantum entanglement

The “related:” Google search modifier finds websites similar to the specified website.

You’re doing a research project on Apple and you want to find most of Apple’s links. You could use the related modifier related:apple.com

“intitle” is another modifier. It searches for web pages with a specific word or phrase in the title.

You’re looking for a specific article or blog post about “the benefits of meditation.” You could use intitle:”benefits of meditation”

“inurl” is the last modifier i am talking about it searches for web pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL.

You’re a researcher studying the history of a particular company. You know that the blog posts you’re looking for used a specific URL structure. You could use the inurl for this by using inurl:googleblog.com to find a google blog.

In this video, Matt talks about what happens every time you search. Every time you search you are searching Google’s index of the web. They do this by using computer bots they call spiders because they go from one web page to another to another, this helps collect information for Google’s index. They also explain how they earn money they earn by using ads that are specifically targeted to you, if you like games ads will be game related, they know this because every time you use one of their apps (YouTube, Google Maps, Google Chrome) they collect data from those apps on your preference on what you watch, where you go, what you search. Most people click on the first URL they see because that is normally the most relevant, Google does this by using page rank. Page rank checks the website’s importance by looking at how many other websites, documents, and/or journals point to it and how important those links are and gives it back to you. Every search then gives you a URL a title and a snippet of text most relevant to your search.

Matt’s video explains how Google uses web-crawling “spiders” to build an index and rank search results using PageRank to show the most relevant links. It also shows how Google collects data from its apps to send targeted ads. This video made me more aware of how search results are chosen and how much data is collected. Going forward, be more careful with searches and consider ways to protect our privacy.

Matt’s video gives a basic overview of how Google’s web-crawling “spiders” build an index of the web and how PageRank ranks search results. Google decides which results are most relevant by counting how many other websites link to a page. It also explains how Google collects data from apps like YouTube, Google Maps, and Chrome to personalize ads. This lets Google show ads based on what users like and do.

The video explains the technical side of search and ads well but doesn’t touch on privacy concerns that come with all the data collection. This is important for people who care about their privacy online. Still, it’s a helpful video for anyone interested in how search engines work or learning more about how their data is used.

In the video, we see that we are using the internet more than ever. This video shows what is happening online daily, like 8.5 billion searches on Google or having more than 360 hours of Spotify played daily. This shows how much we rely on the internet and what it provides us this is how much our current generation and future generations will be affected by this current technology, in the video it says that the next generation will be born into an AI and Algorithm economy.

As our population grows so does our demand for futuristic jobs like driverless car engineers that did not exist 10 years ago, this demand also increases the high qualifications for students to get those jobs. By 2050 there will be 9.7 billion people alive, and this will have an effect on our current economy significantly because of automation. Because our jobs will be automated new jobs will come and with that teachers preparing students for new things that don’t exist yet.

I felt that the video wanted us to be aware of how much we depend on the internet. it was to warn us about what is happening right now every day all the time. I think that people spend a bit too much time on devices that can hinder our lives. This video conveys that we spend too much time on advanced technology and the future could be affected greatly by us while also trying to advance our technology.it’s trying to tell us that we are moving too fast-paced.

This video highlights the growing dependence on the internet and the rapid pace of technological advancements, talking about the massive impact on our daily lives and future economy. It shows how technologies like AI, automation, and the internet are shaping new job markets, such as driverless car engineers, and how education must adapt to prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist.

This video is important for students, educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in technology’s influence on society. this video shows us what is happening now and how adapting to it will be crucial.

• CTRL + S is the shortcut for saving files
• CTRL + P is the shortcut for printing
• CTRL + Z is the shortcut for undoing the last typing action
• CTRL + C is the shortcut for copying images, URLs, etc.
• CTRL + V is the shortcut for pasting things copied using CTRL + C
• CTRL + X This shortcut is commonly used in most applications to cut or remove words, pictures, etc.
• CTRL + B This is the shortcut for bolding words on Google Documents, Microsoft Word, and web browsers. In Windows shortcut for viewing bookmarks.
• CTRL + U is a software application like drawing or editing that uses this command to undo their last move. This command is used to underline text in other applications like Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
• CTRL + I in some applications like Microsoft Word and Google Docs this shortcut is used to Italicize and unitalicized text.
• CTRL + This shortcut is used to zoom in on a website.
• CTRL – this shortcut is used to zoom out on a website.
• win key – tab while holding this shortcut it shows all the tabs
• alt-tab this shortcut switches between tabs
• alt-F4 This shortcut gets rid of the current application you are on
• shift-Alt-D This shortcut in Windows could be used custom shortcuts or to access specific developer tools in certain applications. In Microsoft Word, this shortcut enters the current date into the text.
• win key – ctrl – D This shortcut is used to make a bookmark on a tab

(March et al.)

29, Bla March, et al. “10 Computer Shortcuts You Can Use for Office Pranks.” Humor That Works, 8 Nov. 2022, www.humorthatworks.com/database/10-computer-shortcuts-you-can-use-for-evil/.

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