A once in a life time performance, a unique display of information, an awfully
GOOD presentation. By me.
"Prepare a 3-5 minute pdf presentation that summarises your findings and proves that you are right (or wrong). You need to make believers of us all."
Five things that I believe are good are: the beach; animals;
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes; keys, and proverbs. Having spent a reasonable portion of my summer researching these topics, I have begun to favour some over others.
Starting at the beginning, I chose the topics I did because I wanted them to be either something that would definitely keep me interested for a long period of time, or something that I would be able to carry out primary research for within my summer.
The beach firstly was a simple choice for me, I right by the coast and when I'm home the beach features a lot in my day to day activities, so I knew this would be a good option. Originally I chose the zoo as a topic, but then broadened this to animals when I realised the scope of what I would be able to cover by doing so. The topic of proverbs came about when I was complaining about the volume of emails I receive from spam blog comments. On closer inspection I came to realise that a lot of these comments could be translated from their original Chinese into recognisable proverbs, or life lessons. That was when I realised I had found a third topic.
Thinking back to the lists we did for the 100 project of things we found interesting, I noticed that something which featured prominently were collections of things- coins, tickets, stamps and other ephemera including keys. I felt that keys would be able to provide me with plenty of research material.
I chose to include the Roald Dahl book with my 'good' things as I wanted a bit of light-hearted material to look at, and felt it would provide a bit of nostalgia.
So. I'm going to provide you with a reason why I think each of my topics is good.
Keys provide security, something that everyone needs at some point in life now, whether emotional or physical. Having looked at them in two main forms, lock and key, and keys for coding, I've decided that, although locks and keys provide the more visual element, codes are much more intriguing, and this mystery they provide makes them GOOD in my opinion.
The
beach is good. Everyone has an early memory of the beach, and they still provide hours of entertainment and interest for us now we're older. Everything is on a much different scale at the beach, and it's mesmerising to people. The predictability of the tide, and the tactical nature of pebbles and shells are comforting to take in, and this is GOOD.
Chinese spam comments are also good, when they provide
proverbs in them, the messages they teach are good, they are things we grew up with in mind, and morals and lessons that will continue to influence us throughout our lives.
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes are timeless classics with a sinister spin, making them even more memorable and entertaining than ever. What book that reads 'The small girl smiles, one eyelid flickers, she whips the pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creatures head and bang bang bang she shoots him dead'- What book that reads that can NOT be good!?
Animals basically speak for themselves. At least, if they could speak they would. I mean, there's a seagull in Aberdeen who pinches cheese doritos on a regular basis. Kleptoparasism, a way of sustaining yourself through theft. And if you don't get banged up for that, you're GOOD.
