Author Archives: hdougan

So I’d just like to leave this here to describe my thoughts on my takeaway’s from the course as far as research.                   I know, I know I’m hilarious. In all honesty … Continue reading →

Here it is. My masterpiece. My Mona Lisa. A true work of art isn’t it? Well I hope so, but there are a lot of things I would change about this video project/drawing/final translation of my researched argument. But first … Continue reading →

I thought it would be cool to put together a bunch of photos of different places all across California that I’ve visited while here at school. Muir Woods Cypress Groves Marin Headlands Santa Clara Valley Lake Tahoe Ross San Jose … Continue reading →

As I was looking back through my blog I saw my post on tobacco and advertising and it got me thinking about the current tobacco industry. I’ve noticed a recent fascination with E-Cigarettes. Mostly by teens around my age and … Continue reading →

For this post I will paraphrase from different sources, using the BEAM method, to show why Polar Bears are the best animal on the earth. Background All of the following statistics were found here. Polar Bears are a large white … Continue reading →

For class we had to form an annotated bibliography based on the sources that we found and we had to link them together and find what was missing. My research led me down very interesting paths. I started out with … Continue reading →

College is a transition. I remember back when my brother was making his own transition to college across the country my seemed to continually repeat the phrase, “there will be bumps in the road”. See school has always been my … Continue reading →

  For class we read an article by Margaret Kantz on the different ways of reading a text and how texts can mean extremely different things in context. Surprisingly, I have a decent amount of knowledge in this area because … Continue reading →

For my class we had to find an article that relates to our research topic using database search methods. I’ve had a whole tutorial on databases in high school. Like hours and hours of library people telling me what a … Continue reading →