Essay Bank from my homeschool experience
I love my cat Cooper. He is very cute and cuddly. I love my cat.
Cooper is really cute sometimes, especially when he goes to sleep on mom’s bed in the middle of the day. As soon as I wake up, he climbs into my bed and I pet for about 3 minutes before he walks off.
I love Cooper a lot. He can be very cute and cuddly. I love my cat.
If you go enroll in this course, you shall learn many things! The teacher is awesome, and the learning method is amazing! History of inventions covers many of the inventions from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the world wide web! I made this film from some of the stuff I learned in this course:
You will learn about the history of culture, farming, transportation, computers, electricity, and many more!
If you don’t get this course, you will be missing out on a lot. The method of studying history through inventions is a lot better than other methods. This course will not only teach history, but how successful marketing works, and how religion impacts inventions. I doubt many other history classes teach that. Ask a parent to order today!
The first most important invention I learned about was John Kay‘s flying shuttle from lesson #131 of the 4th grade class. I learned that patents aren’t always a good thing. Kay almost went bankrupt from patent lawsuits. A group of men were trying to infringe on the patent and Kay spent all his money trying to keep them from doing so. I don’t think I will patent any inventions that I come up with.
The second is the ice cream maker. This invention was from lesson #54 of the 5th grade class. Nancy Johnson didn’t appear to be very rich or have much funding, but she was still able to invent the ice cream maker. This lesson proves that ANYONE with a good idea can invent. Man or woman, boy or girl, young or old, all you need is a good idea.
Short film results will appear here by July 1st. If you don’t see the film, I was not able to incorporate any of the above ideas, and it will probably be on a different post.
Memory for computer was large drums, then core memory and solid state memory. A Japanese Inventor created flash memory to improve EEPROM
Flash Memory holds a lot more than the older types of memory. Intel manufactures the chips in most computers today. Also, the raspberry pi, a small modern computer, runs off of a tiny 16gb flash micro SD card. Ours will play video games as new as the Nintendo DS.
Cassettes and the VCR were the most common methods of recording and playing music. Phillips and Sony invented the CD-ROM (compact disc read only memory) to make a standard CD instead of a format war. A CD-ROM is a flat plastic disc 💿 and stores 650MB. Companies like Microsoft and Apple started putting their operating systems on discs. Companies like Netflix started renting DVD’s out to people via mail. CDs led to DVDs, which led to companies like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix as we know it.
The telephone had revolutionized communication, but it was stationary. You couldn’t take it anywhere. It had to be connected to a telephone cable. Bell Labs invented the idea, but Motorola invented it first. Cellphones led to the smartphone. Cellphones are one of the most important inventions of all time. We couldn’t go back now.
The TCP/IP protocol suite (internet) existed before the WWW. A man named Tim Berners-Lee worked at a company named CERN in the UK. He realized the computer at CERN needed a better way to communicate with each other. He asked the internet people, and the hyperlink people (hyperlinks were to be a big part of the WWW), but both parties said no. So he programed the WWW on his own. That brings us to our bonus question:
Q-How different do you think the world would be today if Lee had of just given up when no one thought his idea was worth pursuing?
A-I don’t know what the world would look like without WWW. All I know is that there would be no web browser, or at least a very limited one. WWW is a crucial part of out modern economy. It has transformed out lives.
P.S. The reason ‘www’ is at the beginning of most sites addresses, is that is stands for world wide web.
I learned many things in English 5, like Latin and Greek roots, and I really enjoyed some of the books. I learned a lot this year.
I learned sentence patterns 5-7, and I like the sentence patterns a lot. I also learned about the Latin and Greek roots, and I thought that was interesting. I really learned something from Then vs. Than and Farther vs. Further. I also learned about hyperbole. Other than that, the whole course was review except for the books, and I had read some of them before even. I enjoyed the books best; I’ve listed my favorites here in order from best to worst:
Please note that the reason Heidi is not on this list is because I had read it in 3rd Grade, so I replaced it with Swallows and Amazons, which I really loved.
This year, I learned a lot. I loved some of the books, and I liked the sentence patterns. I hope I learn as much next year as I did this year!
ARPANET was a government funded project to connect all the mainframe computers onto one network; if the Soviet Union tried to launch an attack on the US with a nuclear bomb and wipe out the country’s counterattacking computer, every one of the others connected to ARPANET would be able to launch a counterattack. Two men named Kahn and Cerf invented the TCP/IP protocol to connect ARPANET to other hardware, like satellites. Kahn was a hardware guy, and Cerf was good at software. TCP/IP tells how the data will be transmitted over the internet. Companies that made computers made add-ons for TCP/IP, and they were built-in on new models. TCP/IP made the Internet possible and we can now get lots of knowledge from anywhere on the planet.
Before GUI, in order to use a computer, you needed to operate a LOT of switches and plugs. Thousands. Xerox invented GUI in its PARC project in 1973. The Graphical User Interface is a display that has no raw code. It uses icons and is much more user friendly. Steve Jobs (below), co-founder of Apple, used this in its Macintosh (The modern day Mac gets its name from Macintosh), one of the most successful PCs of all time. The GUI is used in pretty much every computer operated object with a screen.
WWII left California with a great economy. Steve Jobs was born and adopted by the Jobs family. At the age of 26, Jobs and his friend founded Apple computer in Job’ garage. Jobs had many accomplishments in his life. He invented the Mac, he founded apple, which would go on to invent the Apple watch, the iPod, and iPhone. He knew what the costumers wanted. He helped start Pixar. He also put the mouse and GUI into widespread use.
The Altair was the most friendly user interface when Bill Gates was a teenager. He dropped out of Harvard University to write BASIC for Altair. He co-founded Microsoft the same year Jobs founded Apple: 1976. Microsoft developed Windows, and Microsoft Office, two of the most popular items on the computer market. I’m using Windows 10 right now. Gates’ old friend, Steve Ballmer, eventually became CEO of Microsoft when Bill sort-of retired. Bill Gates made computing even more popular than Jobs did.
Q-Do you think the Steve Ballmer Ad for windows 1.0 was effective? Why or why not?
A-Ballmer is a very enthusiastic man. All the new benefits he mentions in the ad are very convincing. The pricetag is a lot cheaper than it is today. I think it was very effective.
Early computers like the ENIAC were difficult to use and expensive and hard to make. Bell Labs and two other companies worked together on a MULTIX operating system, but Bell Labs pulled out. Two men working at Bell Labs for the MULTIX project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, were some of the last to leave. Thompson had created a game for MULTIX before he was pulled out. A few different low-power tiny microcomputers already existed. Thompson wanted to be able to play his game, so, with his partner Ritchie, he began to write a new operating system for a microcomputer. He rewrote his game, and the operating system became UNIX. UNIX is a lot more user-friendly than MULTIX. UNIX can go on many types of computers, and MULTIX is just for one kind. Bell Labs put it on its own machines and licensed it to other groups. UNIX gave way to other operating systems, like Windows.
Before the microprocessor, each processor for a computer was custom made. Busicom, a company that had been making mechanical calculators in Japan, wanted to start making electrical calculators. Busicom asked the newly formed company Intel to make a processor with their plans. Intel thought the plan was to complicated, so they made a different plan, the 4004 microprocessor. They gave it to Busicom. Microprocessors contain a CPU (central processing unit). That makes microprocessors universal to all computers. It can be used for many jobs on the computer. Many programs. The chip that Intel made is in many computers today.
Chess has been around for a long time but as inventions progressed with items like the dishwasher and washing machine, people started developing board games. Board games developed into electronic arcade games. Ralph Baer was interested in a home video game console. He invented the Magnavox Odyssey; it was the first home video game console. Later, Atari was the main video game company with the first gen consoles. Atari released a bunch of bad games, and that caused a gaming crash.
1985 – Nintendo is the first company to reignite the video game industry after the Atari crash with the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES.
1990 – Nintendo introduces a new console, the Super NES, or SNES. This console contains 16-bit games instead of older 8-bit games
1996 – Nintendo 64 works better with 3D polygons. It also features the first 3D Mario game, Super Mario 64.
2001 – Nintendo GameCube has rumble controllers and more 3D games.
2004 – Nintendo DS (Dual Screen) is a portable system. On the bottom screen, you have controls and a touchpad. The top on is a display.
2006 – The Wii introduces discs as gaming media and a few new controllers. The graphics are better than the DS.
2011 – The 3DS is a newer version of the DS, allowing for better 3D games than the DS.
2012 – The Wii U adds a smaller, mobile console in addition to the normal Wii body. It can also play newer games. Some really popular games today on the Wii U include Super Mario 3D World and Super Mario Maker, the first Mario game where players make their own levels.
2019 – Nintendo Switch is the newest console for many new games. It is portable, and looks a little like the mobile part of Wii U . It can connect to a TV without a larger console, unlike all others before it.
2021 – While doing research for this post, I kept seeing a lot of articles about a new Nintendo Switch that is supposed to come out sometime this year. I am unsure if this is true, but I thought I would mention it anyway.
Today, video games are very common and popular.Â
Before VCR’s, you could only watch a TV program once. You couldn’t ever listen to it again unless they did a rerun. JVC and Sony partnered to invent a VCR, but it broke up over the format of the film. JVC wanted to use VHS format, but Sony wanted its Betamax. The format war had begun. VCR’s are tools used to record programs to a cassette (VHS or Betamax) and lets the program be played back later. VHS won the format war because of longer record time than Betamax. VHS’s and VCR’s were in use over 25 years until DVD’s and DVR’s were invented.
Q- Do you think learning how to program as time goes on will become more or less important for someone who wants to do well and earn a lot of money? Why or why not?
A-I think it will be. People rely on computers a lot, and the need for computers is only growing. For better computers, you need more programmers. I think it is pretty hard to become a professional programmer, so it would probably be a pretty high paying job.
If I could make the world a better place, I would get rid of the government being involved in things that aren’t their business. The government is always poking its head into people’s personal choices. I think less government would make the country/world a better place.
The government makes way too many unnecessary regulations. We live in a pandemic in this year of 2021. The government makes us wear masks everywhere. The owner of the building and land should get to choose. If the owner don’t care, each would-be victim should be able choose. If someone wants to take a risk, they should be allowed to.
I think the government takes away people’s choices; if I could make the world a better place, I would stop that. I think we ought to have a little more freedom.