Where I am from I am from torn ligaments and broken bones From sweaters and curly hair I am from the creaking floorboard, wooden, worn in and cold to the touch. I am from the green grass in our backyard I’m from gingerbread houses and jokes From siblings and parents I’m from the busy and the stubborn From “Suck it up sunshine” and “Be humble” I’m from no faith, but trying to understand I’m from Canada and Norway I am lefse and krumkake From the…
“The Gunner’s Dream” is a Pink Floyd song off of the 1983 album “The Final Cut”. This song shows the thoughts of a gunner in World War 2 “floating down, through the clouds” towards the battlefield. During his descent, the gunner dreams of his future after the war. He envisions himself not living through the war. His family members are walking away from a service in November, presumably a Remembrance Day Ceremony. His dream carries onto a peaceful world, one away from the useless death…
In this experiment we worked in groups of 4 to try to make a boat, that would float and hold the most number of pennies using aluminum foil, one piece of masking tape, 2 toothpicks and 2 marshmallows. We hypothesized that if we built out boat in an origami style, with a dip in the middle, it will float because it mocks a boat and it would hold pennies because the weight would be evenly distributed. We found that using our style boat we could only…