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Project Proposal with Rubric out of 100 points: I'm going to write and make a page about horseback riding. I think it will help explain my independent project better. So i will provide pictures, video and info, on this subject.

Due at the End of Class on 4/22: Funny Youtube Vids media type="youtube" key="Tx1XIm6q4r4" height="344" width="425" Potter Puppet Pals This is a funny vid beacuse it the most popular in you tube history. the characters are realtable and because of the harry Potter craze, the video has exploded with popularity. media type="youtube" key="0_T-RGXKGS8" height="344" width="425"

Transformers rapSmosh was oe of the first reality tv kinds of videos on youtube. They started back in 2006 and have since then become major youtube celebrities. This is just and example of someone making money and becaoming rich by doing something unconventional.

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Show Jumping




 * Show jumping**, also known as "stadium jumping" or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters and equitation. Jumping classes are commonly seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics.

People unfamiliar with horse shows may be confused by the difference between working hunter classes and jumper classes. Hunters are judged subjectively on the degree to which they meet an ideal standard of manners, style, and way of going. Conversely, jumper classes are scored objectively based entirely on a numerical score determined only by whether the horse attempts the obstacle, clears it, and finishes the course in the allotted time. Jumper courses are often colorful and at times quite creatively designed. Jumper courses tend to be much more complex and technical than hunter courses, because riders and horses are not being judged on style. Hunters have meticulous turnout and tend toward very quiet, conservative horse tack and rider attire. Hunter bits, bridles, crops, spurs and martingales are tightly regulated. Jumpers, while caring for their horses and grooming them well, are not scored on turnout, are allowed a wider range of equipment, and riders may wear less conservative attire, so long as it stays within the rules. However, formal turnout is always preferred, and a neat rider gives a good impression at shows.



Show Jumping is one of the main things I do. I want my horse to someday compete in places like Devon and get me to a place where people will look at me and see my talent for riding. I really Like showjumping because unlike hunters, which is what i used to do. This is a lot faster and a lot more demanding. I remember when I first saw Grand Prix riders at devon. it was at that point I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and I would do anything to achive this. Due at the End of Class on 4/23: Dressage



Dressage (pronounced dress-ahhzh) (a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a path and destination of competitive horse training, with competitions held at all levels from amateur to the Olympics. Its fundamental purpose is to develop, through standardized progressive training methods, a horse's natural athletic ability and willingness to perform, thereby maximizing its potential as a riding horse. At the peak of a dressage horse's gymnastic development, it can smoothly respond to a skilled rider's minimal aids by performing the requested movement while remaining relaxed and appearing effortless. Dressage is occasionally referred to as "Horse Ballet" (cf. //nl:Dressuur//). Although the discipline has ancient roots, dressage was first recognized as an important equestrian pursuit in the West during the Renaissance. The great European riding masters of that period developed a sequential training system that has changed little since then. Classical dressage is still considered the basis of trained modern dressage. Early European aristocrats displayed their horses' training in equestrian pageants but in modern dressage competition, successful training at the various levels is demonstrated through the performance of "tests" of prescribed series of movements within a standard arena. Judges evaluate each movement on the basis of an objective standard appropriate to the level of the test and assign each movement a score from zero to ten - zero being "not executed" and 10 being "excellent". A score of 9 is considered "very good" and is considered a particularly high mark, while a competitor achieving all 6s (or 60% overall) should be considering moving on to the next level.

Each test is segmented into a number of sequential blocks which may contain one or more movements. Each block is generally scored between one and ten on the following scale:
 * 10 Excellent
 * 9 Very good
 * 8 Good
 * 7 Fairly good
 * 6 Satisfactory
 * 5 Sufficient
 * 4 Insufficient
 * 3 Fairly Bad
 * 2 Bad
 * 1 Very bad
 * 0 Not performed
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Dressage is something I absolutly love. it has really changed how i see things. Most of my friends think it is boring, but I really love it. Just the fact that a horse can do things from the tiniest shift in weight amazes me. i really want to learn this, and therefore I am going to work with some of the top dressage riders in the country this summer. Due at the End of Class on 4/24:

Eventing
The cross-country, requires both horse and rider to be in excellent physical shape and to be brave and trusting of each other. This phase consists of approximately 12-20 fences (lower levels), 30-40 at the higher levels, placed on a long outdoor circuit. These fences consist of very solidly built natural objects (telephone poles, stone walls, etc.) as well as various obstacles such as ponds and streams, ditches, drops and banks, and combinations including several jumping efforts based on objects that would commonly occur in the countryside
 * Eventing** is an equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country and show-jumping. This event has its roots as a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding. It has three main formats, the one day event (ODE), two day event and the three day event (3DE). The sport was once referred to as "Militaire", and there is such a format that riders complete all three events in one day, called a "horse trial". Also, a "combined test" is a spin off of eventing which encompasses dressage and show jumping, but leaves out the cross country phase.

Eventing is putting all i know thogther into the three phases. I am excited after my horse is trained to try my hand at this sport. till then i'll just watch and learn media type="youtube" key="ujSYfmZu_3o" height="344" width="425" This is a video I made that cronicles the whole year for me as far as riding. it shows aall the shows and training I have been putting in all winter and shows my horses progress through it to. he has really come a long way and thats what i wanted to show in this video. last year he was no where near where he is, and even though he still has a few years to go, he is a very good boy and solid horse. Through the sickeness and lameness he always comes trough and proves he's a champion. i really have seeen and change in him amnd myself and i have to give it to him, because he made me change myself and made me into the person i am today.

Due at the End of Class on 4/27: Ken Kesey And The Merry Pranksters!

The **Merry Pranksters** were a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs Mainly LSD. Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus enigmatically labeled "Furthur."

• Kesey, however, believed that psychedelics were best used as a tool for transforming society as a whole, and that if a sufficient percentage of the population had the psychedelic experience, revolutionary social and political changes would follow. Therefore they made LSD available to anyone interested in partaking — most famously through the "electric kool-aid" made available at the Acid Test events they would sponsor in the years following the bus trip. As the use of LSD spread widely through the Western world, Timothy Leary ultimately joined the bandwagon of "acid populism" as well. • Following the bus trip, the Pranksters held a series of "Acid Tests", where participants were given "acid", the street name for LSD. The tests were held at various venues in California, as well as one in Mexico during an eight month period when Kesey hid in Mexico to avoid incarceration due to marijuana possession, and were sometimes advertised with colorful crayoned signs asking "Can you pass the acid test?". The first Acid Test was held in Soquel, near Santa Cruz California at Ken Babb's chicken ranch known as "The Spread" on November 27, 1965 with the band known as the "Warlocks" in attendance. This was the "Warlocks" last performance before becoming "the Grateful Dead"

media type="custom" key="3718381" width="226" height="108" I really look uop to Ken and his novels. i fell in love with Cukoos nest and i look forward to reading more of his works when i get the time to. i always wish I coud have lived in his time and meet him.

Due at the End of Class on 4/28: Nabari No Ou Set in the modern age, the story is about Rokujo Miharu, who just wanted to live a normal life and inherit a Okonomiyaki restaurant. At the moment, his biggest problem was the constant pestering from Kouichi Aizawa and Durandal Thobari Kumohira, who started a Nindō, lit. "Way of the Ninja") Club. Miharu wanted nothing to do with "ninjas" and turns them down every time. But soon, he is attacked by an actual group of ninjas and is protected by Kouichi and Kumohira. There, Miharu learns of the hidden ninja world Nabari, the roles of his classmate and teacher in that world, and of the secret art Shinra Banshou ( 森羅万象 , //Shinrabanshō // [|?] , lit. "all things in nature") within him. The secret art, containing all the world's knowledge, is sorely coveted after in Nabari. And because of that, Miharu cannot return to his normal life. He must become the "Ruler of Nabari" to survive.

Beck

Yukio, known by his friends as "Koyuki", is a regular 14-year-old Japanese boy who enters junior high school with two childhood acquaintances. One is a useless pervert, and ironically the other is a highly sought after female student. Koyuki's boring life is changed when he saves an odd-looking dog, named Beck, from some kids. Beck's owner turns out to be an emerging rock musician, Ryûsuke Minami, who soon influences Koyuki to start playing the guitar, and even gives one to him. The story focuses on the trials and tribulations of their rock band named //BECK//, and an important plot that deals with Koyuki's relationship with Ryûsuke's sister, Maho. Koyuki, who was plagued by his boring existence, gradually matured through experiences with the band and began to discover who he really was.

Howls moving castle

Eighteen-year-old Sophie, who runs her late father's hat shop, has a chance encounter with the mysterious wizard Howl who takes a liking to her. The meeting attracts the attention of the Witch of the Waste, who has been seeking Howl's love for her own, and the Witch places a curse on Sophie, turning her into a 90-year-old woman with the inability to tell anyone about the curse. Sophie decides to seek out Howl in the Wastes, encountering and befriending an animated scarecrow she names Turnip Head. They eventually come across Howl's moving castle; inside, Sophie is greeted by the fire demon Calcifer that powers the castle and recognizes that Sophie has been cursed. Calcifer offers to break the curse in exchange if Sophie can break the bond between Howl and Calcifer. When Howl arrives, Sophie claims that she is the castle's new cleaning lady. As Sophie adjusts to life in the castle, she discovers that the front door is a magic portal that leads to several destinations. She also comes to learn that Howl is vain and immature, and that the Witch of the Waste's vengeful behavior was due to how Howl treated her in the past once he discovered her ugly appearance.



The crew of the spaceship //Bebop// are a partnership of bounty hunters, called "cowboys", who travel the solar system trying to apprehend bounties. Jet Black is the owner of the //Bebop//, but has partnered with Spike for his diverse combat skills. Though he is reluctant to admit it, Jet has also come to rely on Spike for companionship in the normally solitary field of bounty hunting. Decades before the events of Cowboy Bebop, the people of Earth were forced to retreat underground because of meteors bombarding the planet. The entire solar system is open to them via the Gates, but they regularly spend much of their time on Mars, the new hub of human civilization. Most episodes revolve around attempts to bring in a specific bounty, but the show often shares its focus with the pasts of each of the main characters and of more general past events, which are revealed and brought together as the series progresses. Some of the Bebop's varied targets include small time thugs, gangsters, hackers (known as "Net Divers" in slang), religious leaders, psychopaths, genetic experiments, mutant creatures and petty thieves.

Crappy Anime The story begins in Feudal Japan, when the half-demon InuYasha steals the Jewel of Four Souls—a magical jewel that enhances the power of and can grant a single wish to the one who wields it—from a village. InuYasha desires the gem in order to turn himself into a full blooded demon. InuYasha does not get far before Kikyo, the young miko of the village, shoots him with a sacred arrow that indefinitely seals him onto Goshinboku, a sacred tree in the nearby forest. After being mortally wounded, Kikyo tells her younger sister, Kaede, to burn the jewel with her body to prevent it from falling into the hands of evil.

Why it's bad: because it had a never ending crappy plot fans were to hypered up about to relize how stupid it was. kagome never got any cool powers, Inuyasha was stupid the whole time, and it was just a cycle. they never got any closer to thier goal. In the year 300X, the entire world is under the tyrannical rule of the Maruhage Empire, and their ruler, Tsuru Tsurulina IV (Baldy Bald the 4th). His Hair Hunt troop captures innocent bystanders' hair, leaving the people bald and their villages in ruins. Standing against this evil regime is the heroic, but bizarre, rebel, Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo, who fights the Hair Hunt Troop with his powerful Hanage Shinken (Fist of the Nose Hair). His team consists of the normal teen girl Beauty, the smelly teen warrior Heppokomaru (Gasser) and the Hajike leader Don Patch (Poppa Rocks). Bo-Bobo is on an exciting, gag-filled quest to deliver his own hairy brand of justice to evildoers everywhere. The show's comedy is driven by its insanity and bizarre nature. Although fighting a rebellion against evil forces, none of the heroic characters take their job too seriously (nor do they seem to care for each other), drawing their power from their spontaneity with a special "Hajike" (dub: Wiggin) style to create attacks that either parody what they are up against or have nothing to do with anything going on. The more serious characters break the fourth wall to comment on this to the readers.

Why its bad: Self explanitory.....



A monkey-tailed boy named Goku is found by an old martial arts expert who raises him as his grandson. One day Goku meets a girl named Bulma and together they go on a quest to retrieve the seven Dragon Balls, mythical objects that can summon a dragon who will grant any wish. Along the way, they meet and befriend a plethora of martial artists. They also undergo rigorous training regimes and educational programs in order to fight in the World Martial Arts Tournament, a tournament in which the most powerful fighters in the world compete. Outside the tournaments, Goku faces diverse villains such as Emperor Pilaf, the Red Ribbon Army, a demon known as Piccolo Daimao and his offspring.

Why it's bad: it took literally 20 episodes for something to happen.....

Due at the End of Class on 4/29:

Due at the End of Class on 4/30:

Presentations/Celebration will occur on Friday, May 1.

Final Comments/Self-Evaluation: