Ricky Steamboat

Left Behind “Hurry up Abby” my mother said, “ you're going to be late for school” I rolled out of bed and started to get dressed.Now I enjoyed going to school not because I get to learn but don’t get me wrong I do but because I get to hang out with my friends.Now I was in the bathroom brushing my hair while my mom and brother were in the kitchen.Thats when I heard a door slam shut. “Mom,Oscar,” I said, “ are you guys still here?” No one replied and that’s when I realized I’ve been left.So…

We finally started our shadowing shifts this week. I had switched with a friend in the internship, so I had to wake up early on a Tuesday to start my first shadowing shift. We were not told who we will be shadowing, and so I had a pleasant surprise when I found out my first hour was with Mariko. I had not worked much with her in my first semester working for CELT. She taught me the basics of what a student technologist does at the Teaching Learning Lab. She showed me various things such as email…

It was said that desk duty could be the worst task an officer could endure and for officer Ethan Anderson, there was no exception. He disliked being stuck indoors when he could be out on the street helping or doing something useful, anything other than doing paperwork would have been great. However, as a rookie he had to pay his dues and right now, that meant shutting up and doing these uneventful jobs. From his desk, he looked up and glanced at the clock, to his dismay he had only been…

I expected co-op to be a good experience and a good way to figure out what I would like to do in the future while getting more experience in the working world. I was right, for the little time I have been here it has really opened my eyes to the office environment, how comfy and close everybody in the community of an office can be and how everyone relies on each other so everybody is productive and trust each other. I also learned how to multitask and prioritize one task over the other. During…

Assignment 3 Gemma is a young software developer, she just graduated college and has just landed her dream job at a hospital. In her spare time Gemma is also a blogger, the blog that she posts on is mostly geared towards other IT people. Gemma created this blog as a senior project with a couple other students and it just took off from there. What started off as project for points quickly turned into an everyday routine. Gemma has met many new friends and acquaintances which ended up leading…

Bill Scollon’s biography, Walt Disney: Drawn From Imagination, is the story of Walt’s journey to success. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, he grew up with four other siblings Herbert, Raymond, Roy, and Ruth. Ever since Walt was a child he was interested in art. He decided to follow his dream. He started by making movie shorts for a local movie theater. He was hired then fired from many of his jobs. His biggest supporter was his brother, Roy. He was such a big supporter that he went into…

Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona in 1920. Soon thereafter, he moved to California where he was raised and graduated from California State College at Sacramento. Thiebaud started his career in art as a commercial animation painter at Walt Disney Studios, drawing “in-betweener” on characters such as Goofy, Pinocchio, and Jimmy Cricket (Hurwitz). It wasn’t until the 1960’s, during the Pop era of Warhol, where Thiebaud started gaining prominence in the fine art field. Thiebaud has had…

Born of Dutch immigrants, Ronald Boender grew up in Illinois and had always had a fascination with butterflies, beginning with the cabbage whites, black swallowtails and silk moths he found while growing up on his father’s farm. He moved to Florida in 1968, and after retiring from a successful career as an electrical engineer, he decided to actively pursue his interest in butterflies, beginning by raising local butterflies and butterfly food plants in small numbers at his home. When he learned…

The first Peanuts comic strip was introduced on October 2nd, 1950 illustrated by a man named Charles M. Schulz. The last strip was printed on February 13th, 2000, a day after Mr. Schultz died. There are hints on why certain things were named in the strip. His address is “1770 James Street” in Minneapolis.” It was invented because Charles was an average student and when someone found him and that he could draw they signed a 5 year contact with him to work for the Peanuts comic strip.…

Trampolines are fascinating contraptions. Trampoline-A sheet, usually, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts, and is used as a spring board in tumbling. Trampolines are kind of dangerous but very fun. The way trampolines have developed over the years really shows the greatness of the human mind. Many forms of trampolines were created over time. The history of the trampoline is very interesting. The first known…