Donald Trump building activity

1 stack= 1 week 

100 building blocks

Problem: Build a tower taking as little time as possible to build it. 

There are three possible ways that you could build the tower. You could do 2 stacks of 50 which equals 2 weeks to complete, 5 stacks of 20 which takes 5 weeks to complete, or 4 stacks of 25 and takes 4 weeks to complete. 

The best way to complete the tower would be to make 2 stacks of 50 so that you are only using 2 weeks. 

Answer: It would take 2 weeks to finish the tower. 

Cornrow Braid History

Cornrow braid History

 The tradition of "Cornrow Braiding" originated around 500 B.C. The style was used to indicate status, religion, kinship, age, ethnicity, and transmit cultural value between generations. When America had started bringing slaves over, the Africans were stripped of their hair for sanitary reasons. This was a way of removing the slaves past and forcing them to take part in the white culture of hairstyles. There are many artifacts from thousands of years ago showing people with the hairstyle of cornrows. Those of the slaves that working inside the plantation house such as women and children, and not often men, were required to have a clean and neat appearance when inside the house. This often allowed the slaves to wear their hair in cornrows, plaits, and tight braids. After the civil war many African Americans began to straighten their hair. Although that was mostly left for the adults to do. The children more often than not had cornrow and tight braids done in their hair. Only on a Sunday would a young child be seen with her hair down and free of all braids. One of the many styles that came about in our history was in the 1950's when African women began to wear their hair in sort of a "Bush" style. Only then did Americans start to realize the beauty for African hairstyles.

Data privacy issues

  Data privacy issues

The 5 biggest online privacy threats: I felt that the fact that data never forgets a face worried me quite a bit. I use social media quite often to be honest an I do tag my friends in funny photos an such but it never occurred to me that it can have long lasting very bad affects on the person who was tagged, let alone the person who tagged the other. 

  It's not only dangerous that this happens but when the data is used to find other people whom you may not know, that is not something that is safe. Especially to those who are teens or younger using Facebook or any other social media.“Someone can take a photo of you and then track you down based on other identified photos of you that may have been posted on the Web. It’s scary and opens very real dangers of being stalked.”, said John Simpson. This is very dangerous isn't safe at all. Things like this should not be able to be done through social media, for example, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and many others. 

A face is exposed for AOL: While reading this it made me feel as if no online media can be trusted to keep things anonymous. A woman named, Thelma Arnold, a 62-year old widow, was exposed while frequently searching her friends medical ailments to help her three beloved dogs.  AOL was supposed to keep her searches private to the world but instead they openly exposed her an a photo of her dog who has special needs. 

  This was very wrong of them to do. This goes to show that just about nothing is safe from people an hackers on the internet. This was a simple woman searching for medical ailments and ended up having to deal with people who were going through her searches. 

 Your Instagram is not as private as you thought: I personally love my Instagram and I do post a lot of photo's of many things. Not in particular my face but there are photo's that aren't really meant for other peoples eyes because some people may not find them appealing. When I realized that Instagram does not keep the photo's private when linked to my Facebook or Twitter, an that people can access it through my other profiles it bothered me.  

 Having that as a constant possibility, can leave someone open or vulnerable to impersonation, bullying, or even stalking. Instagram should probably fix this before they lose a good number of people using their site. 

Twitter can track you: When I saw that Twitter tracks its followers through all their devices I definitely felt uncomfortable. I have a Twitter but I don't use it. It is connected through my Instagram and my Facebook which means its probably stalking me through those two social media's as well. 

  This is definitely not okay on many levels and should be stopped as soon as possible. This gives Twitter the upper hand to poke fun, stalk, and maybe even bully a person that they see as an easy target. Twitter should not be able to have this ability over its users. 

 

Computer intelligence activity

1.Intelligence is having the characteristics of having knowledge and being able to comprehend different types of information. As in you have a reaction when you make something happen. Meaning the object is self aware of its surroundings.

2.I believe that computers are not intelligent.

3.They have a different kind of intelligent. They are not self aware but they have a large extent of knowledge when they are programmed. The extent of a computers knowledge is only how much its programmed to be aware of an that is controlled by what the user allows it to do.

Eliza Chatbot: You can obviously tell that she is only a computer because she constantly repeats herself. Her sentences are choppy and don't make sense most of the conversation. She is obviously a computer unknowing of herself.

Skynet: Is very intelligent an you can tell that it is more than just a computer. It is not self aware yet but it is very close. The ability it holds allows it to be close enough to having a normal conversation with an actual person.

Alice: She is reliability close to talking to an actual person but does still have her "computer" moments when she is confusing or repeats herself an it becomes hard to understand her.

Pixel: Is very much just a computer. She is not self aware and is very confusing. When asked a question she looks up articles that are not relevant to what is being spoken of.

Moni: Draws random information from the internet that is relevant and confusing. None of its sentences make sense and are not related to one another.

4. Can you think of any occasions that a computer might want to know if it is talking to another computer of a real life person?
A. A computer might want to know if its speaking to another computer to simple communicate information. It might want to know if its speaking to a human to show that the computer is more intelligent than a human.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

1. Take out two pieces of white bread from the package. 
2. Take out a container of peanut butter and a container of strawberry jelly
3. Take out a butter knife. 
4. Open the peanut butter container and scoop out some peanut butter with a butter knife. 
5. Then spread the peanut butter evenly across one piece of bread. 
6. Cover the entire one side of the one piece of bread.
7. Using the same butter knife scoop out some of the strawberry jelly and spread it over the other piece of bread.
8.  Once completed take the butter knife and place it in the sink. 
9. Put the lids back on both containers and put them back.
10. Then taking both pieces of the bread, place the jelly sided bread against the opposite piece of bread onto the peanut butter, putting the two of them together to create the sandwich.