NHD Reflection 2009

This year's NHD topic was Individual in History: Life and Legacy. For my Individual i chose Leonardo da Vinci. I chose him because i wanted to chose someone that was not common so that a bunch of people wasn't going to have him and i also wanted to do someone i was going to be interested in, so that i would stick with it and it would seem less like a chore.

I chose to do an exhibit because it was in my element. I couldn't do a documentary or a website because I'm not that good at using computers and I wouldn't want to do a paper because it seems kinda boring and i don't have the patience for it. i like the exhibit because we get to design how we want it and try to catch the audiences attention and draw them in. For my exhibit i titled it Leonardo: the artist, the inventor, the man. On the left panel i focused on his art with paintings like "the annunciation" or "the baptism of christ." On the right panel i talked about him as an inventor or scientist adding pictures of his studies recorded in the codex leicester. In the middle i wanted to focus on Leonardo himself "as a man" with a timeline and putting pictures of two of his most famous works "the last supper" and "la gioconda" being the most famous, most copied, and most parodied paintings in history.

This year i think i did well, a lot better than last year. I made it to cities. Now i have to continue working on my project. I think that if i could do it over again i would have managed my time better instead of procratinating and waiting until the last minute.

1st annotation

Ryan, Michael, Philip Cottrell, Michael J. Gorman, and Dorothy Cross. Leonardo da Vinci The Codex Leicester. Ed. Elizabeth Bacon. London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2007.

This book contained secondary sources. It provided a timeline on the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Describes Leonardo da Vinci's life in different perspectives, his achievements, inventions, and art in the context of the Codex Leicester.

Many of Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts were intended as preparatory sketches for future published works, and the Codex Leicester is one of the most advanced. Written densely on 18 sheets illustrated with geometrical diagrams and experiments imagined and real, it is a complex and fascinating meditation around a subject that enthralled Leonardo for much of his career: water. Named after the 1st Earl of Leicester who purchased it in 1717, it was later renamed after the wealthy industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Armand Hammer. In 1994, it was bought at auction by Bill Gates, who reverted it back to The Codex Leicester.

Thesis Statemant

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century. As a cultural movement, it encompassed a revival of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform. Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo who inspired the term "Renaissance Men". Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. It is primarily as a painter that Leonardo was and is renowned. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, occupy unique positions as the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.

NHD 2009: Topic Selection

I chose Leonardo da Vinci for my NHD project because I am interested in the architecture and paintings created during the European Renaissance. The Renaissance is best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such plymoths such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo who inspired the term "Renaissance Man".
This man is important to history because without their efforts both artistically and scientifically, there know telling how far back in the past we would be seeing as how alot of the inventions today are based around Leonardo da Vinci's concepts.
For this week's research I found an artical at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci . I will read and summarize it for next week.

Service Learning: extra credit/make-up assignments 01

What are superdelegates?
Superdelegates have been at every convention since they were created through Democratic National Committee (DNC) rules in 1982. As the delegate counts for Clinton and Obama stay close, it's clear that in the 2008 primary season, superdelegates will have a huge impact on which candidate the Democrates nominate for the run for the presidency. In the 1008 primary season, the idea that Democratic superdelegates could use their status to choos a candidate

Service Learning 01

This meeting we went around the city to find possible locations to hand out surveys, brochures, and other informational items.

1. mcdonalds
2. daycare
3. toy stores (kb toys)
4. kids clothing stores
   

Service Learning 00

1. what was successful and useful about the meeting?
ideas of how to advertise child safety (brochure, refrigerator magnet, advertisement cards)
what challenges or problems did you encounter?
finding emergency numbers (Poison Control Center, FDA, etc.), finding jobs for everyone, researching on our own time
what needs to be worked on for the coming weeks?
research, where to advertise, survey
what role will you play in the group?
researcher

2. Post any info, research, ideas, plans that you are working on.
Research:
http://www.nil.nih.gov/medlineplus/childsafety.html
about/what to do?
allergic reactions
animal bites
broken bones
burns
cuts
falls
frostbite
heat exaustion and heatstroke
insect stings
knock-out tooth
nosebleeds
poison ivy/oak/sumale
seizures
spider bites
strains and sprains
sunburn
tick bites
Poison Control Center (800)-222-1222
The Poison Control Center at the The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
34th & Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA
Emergency Phone: 1-800-222-1222
TTY/TTD: (215)-590-8789
Administrative Phone: (215)-590-2003
Fax: (215)-590-4419
Website: http://poisoncontrol.chop.edu/
Plans that you are working on:
design for magnet, where to advertise