Worst job in history

The Job I would least want to have it a stone mason. Stone masons probably had the worst job ever. They worked log hard hours and would most likely die early. First they had to do the long hard tedious job of splitting the stones. This was extremely hard because everything was done by hand you had to hammer in the stakes and this would be very tiring. Then you had to cart your blocks to the building sites. This would take a very long time and would be very difficult considering the weight of the limestone.  Then came the dangerous part. Once the limestone was transported it had to be shaped then added to the building. To hold the stones in place the Stonemason had to make cement with chalk. But if they didn’t do the chalk part right you would die to the carbon monoxide released.  So there is the strain on your muscles from the hard work of cutting out the blocks. The long hard and painful task of transporting the blocks. Finally, there is the dangerous and lethal job of making cement that will kill you if you make a simple mistake or fall asleep and don’t keep an eye on it.

Freshman year

Brenden has had an extremely eventful year. He started out the year not so sure about where he was and hated where he was put. He quickly earned the nickname Chicken Little or Birdman jr. He played soccer and shut a team out for the first win in 2 years. Brenden started doing parkour and got pretty good. He still has a lot to learn but he will continue with it. One of the major events of this year was going to his first concert ever in October and finding his calling to music. Brenden baught a synth and is saving up for an 800 dollar percution pad now. Brenden also played lacross this year for the first time. He scored his first goal within the first half of the season. Brenden also started talking to a sophmore from North Harford and began a commited relationship with her. The young performer has started writing his own music and is looking for members for his newly found band called “Remember The King.” Brenden has found a grp of friends to hang out with as well. This is very different from the beginning of the year when he had no one to hang out with. He has ran for president twice and we don’t know if he won the second time yet. He won a basketball championship with a team he had never met before the season. He proved to be and exceptional and important aspect to the teams defence. Brenden has been working a lot more since februray and hpes to be able to afford his percution ad soon and make music his full time occupation in the future. Brenden was in his cousins band until an incident with the drummer and guitarist which causedBrenden and the Leader of the band to leave. Brendens freshman year has turned out to be much better then what he excpected to be and is actually enjoying himself. The most memorable experience this entire year was the time brenden went to snowflake with his date and then she didn’t want to dance so he went with his cousins and ne of there date’s bestfriend’s date ws being a jerk. So we danced together and now were having a lot of fun together. This has been one of the craziest, funnest, scariest, and best yeas of the young students life. He is off to a great start.

weekly 9 final

      The invention of the codex greatly impacted the middle age’s culture. For one it was the new way of keeping records and writing down information. The codex Was more condensed and durable so records and other important documents were less likely to get lost or destroyed. The codex was the bridge into modern day books. The Codex was the first ever book like design. It is important to learn about the things that impacted the middle ages because they greatly impacted society today and the culture of their day; the codex is a great example of middle aged events that impacted todays life and culture in the middle ages.  It is not important to study the middle ages culture.

                Before the codex the records and writings where written on papyrus.(Figure 1)Papyrus was not as durable and sturdy as the codex so it did not last as long. Also, the codex had a hard cover to protect the writings inside of it. The codex made for a longer lasting and safer way to keep teachings and records of the Middle Ages on a written source.

                The Codex was more convenient to use. The codex holds considerable practical advantages over other book formats, such as compactness, sturdiness, ease of reference (a codex israndom access, as opposed to a scroll, which is sequential access)( David Diringer)The Codex could hold multiple writings inside of it. The people living at this time could just look inside the codex instead of having to fin al the different scrolls. The codex followed a pattern as well it was not all over the place. The codex was orderly.

               “Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.” (pigott) the 6^th century everything was written in a codex. This shows how the culture of writing and language arts was changed. The codex itself was revolutionary to the language arts and art of writing things down.

                The codex made a lot of things easier. It was easier to write down information and records and it was easier to find information and records. Without the invention of the codex everything would still be written on one page papyrus. The thousands of pages text books we use would be thousands of papyrus scrolls. It would be much harder to keep from getting lost and a lot harder to use. It is important to learn about events and inventions of the Middle Ages so we can better understand the Middle Ages culture

figure 1

appendix 

Bibliography 

Pigott, R. (n.d.). Learning English - Words in the News - World's oldest Bible put online.BBC - Homepage. Retrieved May 3, 2011, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/l

David Diringer, The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental, Courier Dover Publications, New York 1982, ISBN 0486242439

Figure 1 Family bible, 6^th century, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Family-bible.jpg photo taken in 2006

Weekly 9 rough

                The invention of the codex greatly impacted the middle age’s culture. For one it was the new way of keeping records and writing down information. The codex Was more condensed and durable so records and other important documents were less likely to get lost or destroyed. The codex was the bridge into modern day books. The Codex was the first ever book like design. It is important to learn about the things that impacted the middle ages because they greatly impacted society today and the culture of their day; the codex is a great example of middle aged events that impacted todays life and culture in the middle ages.  It is not important to study the middle ages culture.

                Before the codex the records and writings where written on papyrus. Papyrus was not as durable and sturdy as the codex so it did not last as long. Also, the codex had a hard cover to protect the writings inside of it. The codex made for a longer lasting and safer way to keep teachings and records of the Middle Ages on a written source.

                The Codex was more convenient to use. The Codex could hold multiple writings inside of it. The people living at this time could just look inside the codex instead of having to fin al the different scrolls. The codex followed a pattern as well it was not all over the place. The codex was orderly.

                Before the codex everything was written on papyrus. In the 4^th century the first codex came out. By the 6^th century everything was written in a codex. This shows how the culture of writing and language arts was changed. The codex itself was revolutionary to the language arts and art of writing things down.

                The codex made a lot of things easier. It was easier to write down information and records and it was easier to find information and records. Without the invention of the codex everything would still be written on one page papyrus. The thousands of pages text books we use would be thousands of papyrus scrolls. It would be much harder to keep from getting lost and a lot harder to use. It is important to learn about events and inventions of the Middle Ages so we can better understand the Middle Ages culture.