Skill #1
Hi, my name is Sam and I’m a sophomore at Roanoke. I’m a history major with a concentration in public history. My favorite genre of music is rock and I like French Fries.
Skill #2
Skill #3 – Victoria Woodhull thoughts on voting!
This snippet from a newsletter in Charleston spoke about how strong minded women assaulted the polls and had gotten themselves registered. Victoria Woodhull and her sister made sure that a board of registration took their names. Her vote was rejected and took her anger to the courts. The newsletter continues to comment that Woodhull proposed to have an opinion on the New York judge on whether he thought women’s suffrage was constitutionally or not. Woodhull was seen by the audience as radical, since the author of this article said she would ‘test the courtesy of the ballot-box inspectors…and find her sorrow again after all man is really a brute’.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.), 07 Nov. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
Ronald Reagan’s Inaugural Address, 1981
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, 1961
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/inaugural-addresses.
Reagan’s address includes a lot of the majority of words such as government, greater and us while a lot of JFK’s address includes similar encouraging words such as power, pledge and us. This word clouds show the similarity of ideas they had during two different time periods, the 60s and 80s. These Word Clouds use distant reading that looks for broad-based words found in these speeches. Using computers to analyze small data is faster and more efficient than a human analyzing the frequency of text which would take multiple hours on end. Also, computers allow us to analyze smaller data allows us to ask different questions like how often a word is used..
Google Books database, 2023.
The Ngram shows us the spike of prohibition mentioned while the mentioning of beer declined until beer rose after prohibition ended while prohibition was declining as soon as the law was renounced. This also shows that small incline of how often Al Capone was mentioned in literature. Google Ngram Analysis of beer, prohibition, and Al Capone as they appear in English-language books published between 1900 to 1990. This is an example of big data because it searches all books found on Google Books with the words beer, prohibition and Al Capone. This data can be analyzed by using computers that reveal trends and patterns.
Skill #4
By clicking the link, it’ll show where I grew up, a small town in MA. I made line where my street is (my street is curvy so I did the best I could). I also pinpointed larger cities around my town like Springfield, Hartford, and Worcester. I also made a shape around an old WWLP news station that is abandoned. I hiked up their once (a very large steep hill behind my house so it was hard lol).
Skill #5
Skill #6
Here, I had dinner at Commons in Colket. I find that time during dinner is crucial for socializing with my friends, since I am super busy this semester. I recorded many conversations at once happening in Colket and I feel as if other students use Commons as a way of socializing just like I do.
Skill #7
Check out my Twine, a text-based video game. To play, click on this link. The link will pull up an HTML file. Click “Download.” Now, open the website for Twine, click “Use in your Browser.” Click “Library,” then “Import,” and choose the HTML file you just downloaded. Click on the imported story. Now click “Build,” then “Play.” Voila: it’s my game!