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Visualization Improvements in the Feltron Reports

Feltron gathered a wide range of data to create his Feltron Reports. The reports were furnished with data he collected from his everyday life and each set of data was presented by visualizations, such...

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Historical Chart Based on the Efforts of Civilians in Bath Co., VA, WWII

I created my historical chart based on the information I found in a book on my family’s bookself. The book was called, Historical Records- World War II: Service Record Book of Men and Women of Bath...

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Bored Audience + Lack of Content= PowerPoint

From a young age, we were taught how to use certain computer programs, like word processors (Word, WordPerfect, etc), to get acquainted with how they work and to learn to use them better in the future....

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The Importance of the Location of the Trinity Test

The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki greatly contributed to the United States’ victory in World War II. What also contributed to America’s victory was a test that occurred that month before...

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Historical Events and Word Usage

Using Google’s Ngram Viewer, one can see how words were used in literature overtime. Since I am currently learning about the atmospheric nuclear testing conducted by the United States, I decided to use...

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Other Uses for Ngram Viewer

Now that I know that word usage can correlate with the events of the past, I went back to Google’s Ngram Viewer to determine if its results can help me focus the topic of my final project. My final...

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Digital Preservation: Futile?

After reading the article “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era”, by Roy Rosenzweig, I felt that the preservation of our digital past (in the form of  web pages, photos, email...

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Scratch: The Easy Animation Tool

After using Scratch for the first time, I found it to be an easy program to use to create computer animations.  Scratch gives the animator many preset commands for directing the animation in comparison...

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Blockly Maze Solution

Here is my solution to the Blockly Maze:   Along with using logic commands, I used mostly left turn commands because the openings to new hallways would be to the left of the little-yellow-man. And if...

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More Harm Than Good: The U.S. Nuclear Test Program in the Marshall Islands

July 16, 1945 marked the day the United States detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in the Trinity Test. In August 1945, the United States dropped two more nuclear weapons on Japan, ending World...

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