Week 4 EOC: Evaluate the Experience

Overall it was a pretty good experience. At first I thought it was going to be this big challenging project but then as I started to do it I realized it wasn't as bad as I had initially thought. I started by going through my book to get an idea of what sort of questions I could make in the weird jeopardy format. Then I starting writing them up in a word doc since I don't have power point on this computer yet. Which actually proved to be better so I could go back for quick referencing. Then as I got further I had to come up with increasingly difficult question to go along with the jeopardy format which wasn't too bad. I finished all that, then polished it off with some creative titles and bam I was done. I wasn't really looking forward to playing the game in class and still wasn't the day of, but that eventually changed. We got split up into teams, and then I guess you could say the fun started. Here we were searching out answers from our memory, notes and books. We were even laughing during this. What laughter you say? Yup there were some funny moments, which actually helped to make the game a lot more fun. Then when I actually found a few of the answers it added even more to the positive experience. Then on top of that something I didn't think would happen, happened. No I'm not pessimistic, was just thinking realistically. But back to the point, we won. My team won. I didn't have a hand in personally finding the answer for that one but with my stickers (actually small yellow post-its) we were able to put up three each and since we had four in our group (the only team with that many) we could wager 12 in and. That 12 got us 36 points plus since we each had one extra sticker that means we got 37 extra points each for our midterm. Score!

Week 3 EOC: Jeopardy Questions

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Question: This act, enacted in 1980, permits universities to claim patent rights in inventions created at the university with federal funding.

Answer: What is the Bayh-Dole Act?

2.

Question: Situations where an invention is attributable to the creative effort of more than one person.

Answer: What is a coinventors?

3.

Question: Under this, a later device or process may be held to not infringe the patent on an earlier invention, even though the patent's claims fully cover the later device or process, if the structure, function or results of the two inventions is substantially different.

Answer: What is the negative doctrine of equivalents? 

Week 2 EOC: Erin Brockovich

The movie Erin Brockovich brings up some great legal issues all while making it entertaining. That's not the point of this blog post. Don't expect a movie review here, however you will read how Brockovich turned around a case that was left for no one into something.
Here she was a person with no legal background teaching herself the ways of this court case against Pacific Gas and Electric (pg&e). This was a big company that was poisoning the nearby ground water with Chromium-6. They tried to pass it off as something that was okay. Clearly it was not. Brockovich uncovered all that was going wrong with pg&e and got the court to award $333 million dollars which was split with 40 percent going to the lawyers, which came out to more than $133 million. Then Erin Brockovich was given a $2 million dollar bonus by attorney Ed Masry. That means there was $196 million dollars left over. This was then divided between the 600 victims, which means that each victim or family got about $300,000. In comparions this seems like chump change to what the attorney's got. Kind of sad, but they did do the work after all.


Info gathered from:
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/brockovich.php

Week 1 EOC: My Voice

As a professional in the industry, more specifically the photography world. I work to create beautiful photos by arranging what I see in my viewfinder to make the most appealing pictures as possible. I am a professional as well. What that means is I know what to do, how to do it. I take great pride in my work and I am proud of what I produce. Since taking photography up years ago I have grown as a person and of course as a photographer. What I hope to achieve is to get myself known in this field by working my way up. Of course that means starting at the bottom. Starting by working with another company and learning the ropes through them until you’re are able to step out of the area and work for yourself.  As I climb up the figurative ladder, I develop more and more. I notice my photos becoming of a professional standard. That gives me the inspiration to continue and improve even more. One is never done improving themselves or their work. We can always strive for more, to become the best we can be. I am a professional, a professional photographer.