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  • Khalistan Movement Website

    For my online exhibit I’ve been thinking about breaking it into around eight parts. The introduction will include a brief overview of the khalistan movement and show the importance of understanding it in its historical and cultural context. I will also lay out the objective of my online exhibit in the intro which is obviously…

  • Museum review

    Over the weekend I took a look at the “Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt” exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History curated by Melinda Zeder. The exhibit is meant to show us how more than 3,000 years ago ancient Egyptians were embalming, preserving, and entombing their dead. It also states what materials the…

  • Blog Post 3

    These coding assignments are the first ones that I have ever completed and it was an interesting experience. It was a mixture between fun and frustration trying to create the HTML page from scratch especially the CSS section. I was having incredible difficulty with adding fonts and background colors on my page. The tutorial in…

  • Project Proposal

    Jacob Levesque                               Project Proposal I am studying the Khalistan movement, a separatist movement with intent to create a motherland for Sikhs. The movement aims to create an ethno-religious sovereign state called Khalistan. I want to find out why these people…

  • Blog post 2

    Out of all the different projects that we looked at in class the one that I enjoyed most was the World Trade Center elevator video. It was a 58 second clip starting from below the earth and slowly rising as it shows a simulation of the New York City area developing. It goes up this…

  • Blog Post #1

    We were given two different Ray Bradbury poems to read and analyze, the first being “The Veldt” and the other “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Ray Bradbury is an American author and screenwriter who many believe to have defined the science fiction genre. Both of these poems were written in the 1950s and take place…

  • Jacobs First Blog

    We were given two different Ray Bradbury poems to read and analyze, the first being “The Veldt” and the other “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Ray Bradbury is an American author and screenwriter who many believe to have defined the science fiction genre. Both of these poems were written in the 1950s and take place…