Welcome to the Interdisciplinarity, Everyone!!!!

The classes that I need to graduate high school if school were different, they would be the following:
CLASS: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN RENEWABLE ENERGY
REQUIREMENTS: 

• Biology
• Chemistry
• AP Environmental Science
• 3D Visual Computer Design
• Welding 
• Intro to Electrical Work
• Math (Alg. 2, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, AP Calculus)
• Home Economics
• United States Economics
• Health
• Physics

Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering Vocabulary

This post will be updated constantly.
Substitutability
Stakeholder participation
Urban sustainability
Beset
Jatropha plant
Acid hydrolosis
Gasoline importing OECD countries
Spacial proliferation
Sociology
Nodes
Programmes
Sedentarist theories
Global Interconnected Networks (GIN's)
Deterritorialised
Moorings
Sociotechnical infrastructures
Sociomaterial networks
Photovoltaics
Solar thermal electric systems
Solar hot water systems
Passive solar building design
Bioenergy
Geothermal energy

Resources #1

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Ready for Launch... 3, 2, 1,... Blast Off !!!

My passion is to learn about renewable energy and environmental engineering,  and maybe getting into the work force of installing solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power systems. To accomplish this, I have started up a blog about renewable energy, environmentally sustainable, and being green in general. I want to " feel the awesomeness " by June, so to accomplish this feeling, my work will have to be very well written and in very good condition that would deserve an A+. Impressing others would be a good feeling also by declaring that I have two blogs and that I have my progress shown for.everyone to see. The second blog.I have going on is a reality because I am making it is really good work. The network would be peers from class, the public, and experts from college professors and other highly regarded leaders.

Spring Literature Analysis #1

ROBINSON CRUSOE BY DANIEL DEFOE

This timeless tale is written in the 1700s, where a shipmate is stranded on a deserted island. luckily, he makes it out alive and refugees himself in a cave he fortifies for about a year and a half. he self sustains himself by planting his own crops and creating his own supplies out of what the land provided to him. In his other two adventures out in the ocean, Robinson Crusoe first gets shipwrecked and decides to go home to London.  The second time he gets enslaved by a Moor, escapes and becomes a plant owner himself. This third time, Robinson was transporting slaves when he really hits all time low. He gets shipwrecked somewhere in the Caribbean Sea,  but the rest of his crew is "perished". This last time this fateful event occured is where my edition of the classic adventure begins. He arrives on the deserted island and the first thing that he wonders about is where is he going to get fresh drinking water, and then through the story he tells us avout his adventure domesticating animals and growing crops. Towards the end of the book, he returns home and takes a companion he had found on the island with him. Once returning home, he recieves notice that he is rich and that his parents have passed on. He marries and has 3 children.

In my opinion, the theme of the novel is to not let a tragic event bring you down. You should use that lesson as a reflection and an advantage to yourself because, for example, he is on the island's shore the first day he arrives. Robinson Crusoe doesn't start weeping about how he is going to survive. An intuition came over him and he started to rewrite his life on the island, by fending for himself. Another theme present in the novel is how he has control of the island now for himself. He grows crops such as corn, he domesticates the wild goats for meat and dairy products, and he even builds the outer part of a house. This could also tie in with the theme of having necessities, such as having food, water to drink and bathe, and a well built shelter. Self awareness is very present in this novel because Crusoe writes about his adventures in a journal and is also keeping track of how many days he has been on the island, not necessarily keeping a calendar with all 12 months in it. 

Spring Vocabulary #3

1. Apostate - person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle

2. Effusive - expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure in unrestrained or heartfelt manner

3. Impasse - situation in which no progress is possible

4. Euphoria - feeling or state of intense excitementand happiness

5. Lugubrious - looking or sounding sad or dismal

6. Bravado - bold manner or a show of boldness intended  to impress or intimidate

7. Consensus - majority of opinion; general agreement or concord; harmony

8. Dichotomy - division into two parts; into contradictory groups

9. Constrict - compress; to draw or press in; contradictory groups

10. Gothic - pertaining to the Middle Ages; medieval; barbarous or crude

11. Punctilio - fine point, particular, or detail as of conduct, ceremony or procedure

12. Metamorphosis - a form resulting from any such change

13. Raconteur - a skilled person who relates stories and anecdotes interestingly

14. Sine Qua Non - something essential

15. Quixotic - impulsive, often rashly unpredictable; resembling Don Quixote de la Mancha

16. Vendetta - any bitter feud, rivalry, contention or the like

17. Non Sequitor - statement containing an illogical conclusion

18. Mystique - mystery or mystical power surrounding an occupation or pursuit

19. Quagmire - a bog; anything soft or flabby

20. Parlous - perilous, dangerous; to a large extent; greatly

I, Culminating Senior Project

The proposal I have in mind is to create another blog where I show my interests to Dr. Preston and to the whole cyberweb. It will probably include some of the written work from my Environmental Science class and some other writing I may come up with.

Gold in the Mine

For those of you that are late at night trying to finish research papers, I have some tips. Try to take breaks, eat some food so your are not yawning, and make sure you are studying somewhere you know you will concentrate. 

UPDATE : FEBRUARY 20, 2014
I have just found a website that has the vocabulary words that I need. Maybe two websites actually

Life After... some distant future

The vision I have for the future is to start working getting out of high school and attend Allan Hancock College. I see myself more as an independent person, but also helping out my family with parts of the paycheck that I will be earning. I also see myself driving. In about 20 to 30 years, I would be really old, still working, but in my career now, not some grocery store chain. 

Spring Vocabulary #2

1. Accoutrements - to outfit and equip, especially for a purpose
2. Apogee - the farthest or highest point
3. Apropos - appropriately; pertinently
4. Bicker - to engage in petty quarreling ( to disagree angrily)
5. Coalesce - to grow or come together so as to form one whole
6. Contretemps - inopportune or embarrassing occurence
7. Convolution - tortuous winding, folding, or twisting together
8. Cull - to pick out, select; to gather, collect
9. Disparate - completely distinct or different; dissimilar
10. Dogmatic - marked by an authoritarian, often arrogant assertion of principles
11. Licentious - morally unrestrained
12. Mete - to deal out; allot
13. Noxious - injurous to health or morals
14. Polemic - controversy, argument, or refutation
15. Populous - thickly settled or populous
16. Probity - integrity, and honesty
17. Repartee - a swift, witty reply; conversation characterized
18. Supervene - to come or occur as something extraneous, additional, or unexpected
19. Truncate - to shorten by or as if by cutting off the end
20. Unimpeachable - beyond doubt or question

SENTENCES:
1. I bought some accoutrements to replace the old wind turbines because they were really beaten up by the weather.
2. My apogee in life is to be in an environmental studies career, whether it be an engineer or a lawyer for the environment.
3. The student` s comment was not apropos because he said somtehing very disrespectful and racist.
4. The elder lady on the bus, going home from school, always bickers with someone that doesn` t seem to know her very well.
5. Mega search engine Google and thermostat maker Nest have coalesced to provide the typical American home a more personalized and "smart home" experience with reminders and advertisements for your specific type of lifestyle.
6. A TV show where they air lots of funny contretemps is America`s Funniest Videos on ABC, and it shows how people can really just be nonresponsive to the world around them.
7. Convolutions were a typical and common thing in medieval times because if you could torture the prisoner, you could get their confessions out and be pardoned, or just sentenced to death.
8. I like to cull out the nice pieces of paper when I am doing a project because I like it when my paper is clean and neat.
9.  You are totally disparate from your cousin; you have no athletic skills and don`t have very good academic grades.
10. The college and career counselor is very dogmatic when it comes to deadlines because she wants us to be responsible for our own things now and in the future.
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