Marian Guidry

1. Marian Guidry Ms. McGee A.P. English 12

2. DIRECTIONS The next page is the table of contents with 13 hyperlinks. Click on each hyperlink and it will take you to the slide of the hyperlink. In order to go back to the table of contents click on the in the lower right hand corner of every slide and it will take you back. Enjoy! 

3. 1.Title Page 6. 6 word memoir 10. My Soul 2. Directions 7. A.P. English Lit. 12 Piece 1 11. Artifact 1 3. Table of Contents 12. Artifact 2 8. A.P. English Lit. 12 Piece 2 4. Letter to Reader 13. Artifact 3 5. Bucket List 9. SETI and Project Phoenix Report 14. First Water Color Experience

4. Letter to Reader Dear Reader, When I began writing in elementary school for the first time, I thought I knew everything. I knew how to spell every word and all my sentences were grammatically correct, until I came to find out that I’m not perfect. Through my early years of schooling I would spell out words from exactly what I heard . I would always make sure I clarified who was talking and what I was talking about, because I would always get points off if I didn’t. Through middle school I found that I wrote better when I put emotion in to my writing. I also started writing poetry then; still not making a bit of sense but I thought I was “deep”. Through all the years of writing unimportant journal entries, research papers on some historic event, and a description of every book I’ve read; I’ve gotten one inch closer to the perfect writer that I “think” I am. Reading has helped my vocabulary and practicing to write has evolved my work tremendously. Everyone is different including their writing abilities and techniques. No one is ever wrong or right and that should always be noted. So nothing is ever perfect, but whatever you or I write is perfectly okay. Love, Marian Guidry

5. Bucket List Inspire Someone Visit Greece Kiss Derek Jeter Visit the 7 wonders of the world Take an acting role Be a dance instructor at a gym Build a house Run a business Train a dog Find Mr. Right Fly a plane See my kids get married Dance on top of a bar Design clothing 15.Give someone a second chance 16. Start a foundation 17. Write a book 18. Play the violin 19. Participate in a strike 20. Buy a $1000 pair of heels 21. Do flips in the air 22. Own a boat 23. Tell someone off at work 24. Watch the Olympics live 25. Save a life

6. I face the world at dawn.

7. Marian Guidry Ms. McGee A.P. English Lit 1A 15 February 2010 Uses of a Sharpie Marker People gravitate toward using a Sharpie more than any other marker simply because it can do pretty much anything. It is an everyday tool, just as a knife would be to a chef. Frederick W. Redington and William H. Sanford, Jr., the originators’ of the sharpie markers, started the Sanford Manufacturing Company in 1857 selling ink and glue. After overcoming multiple fires to their business they changed their name to Sanford Ink Company and ended up with the first pen-style permanent marker, easily recognized as the Sharpie Fine Point black marker. Today the Sharpie marker has become a multi-million dollar business and has added twenty-three new colors to its collection. Those who have access to these markers are using them on art canvases displayed in nationally recognized art galleries, or to touch up scratches on their car or motorcycle. The uses are endless for any individual who “uncaps what’s inside” (Sharpie History Page). A twenty-four pack of Sharpies is like a box of chocolates where no one knows what they get until they bite into the pieces or in this case what they’re going to do with a Sharpie in hand. The most common use of the Sharpie is for writing purposes such as a note to leave for the kids, or writing letters; but the up and coming use is for art! It has become a huge phenomenon to take a Sharpie and make kaleidoscope designs on paper or personalize a sneaker but those ideas have become “so yesterday.” People are taking their creations and making “snazzy” lazy susans or vests with “sharpie style” (LAW156). Instead of buying the expensive gift wrap, people buy the cheap kind and personalize it with their own designs using Sharpies. Taking these markers to home furnishings is the “cool” thing to do; this includes lamp shades, refrigerators, and tile floors. Along with revamping a laptop, making one of a kind ornaments, and giving a brother’s Xbox controller a colorful Barbie and Ken makeover, there’s more interesting and to say the least, surprising ways individuals use Sharpies. Note to self: Don’t pass out at a party early or someone will draw/write on you. Psycho the kid on Answerbag.com lived through this humiliating experience and blogged about it to warn others. He didn’t go into detail about what they drew on him, but other bloggers noted that henchmen mustaches on his upper lip and smiley faces around his belly button are what they “tatted” him with. Instead of being Cinderella, a ghost, or a pumpkin for Halloween, Alex Koeppler and her friend were life sized highlighter Sharpies. They took plain white t-shirts and white pajama pants and colored them in with pink and yellow highlighter sharpies. Alex, being the leader of Brand Marketing for Sharpie, definitely became the “highlight” of the party with her eye-catching outfit. Some people, mainly women though not excluding men, use Sharpies for lip liner. As baffling as it may seem one particular woman emphasized that her Sharpie lip liner stayed on for twenty-four hours, which many makeup companies can’t hold that promise to their name (Susan). People abuse sharpies for creative purposes but some also abuse them to get high. Even though it is rare, teenagers have died from inhaling Sharpie fumes. Sharpies along with all permanent markers contain solvents, and when inhaled these solvents can give someone a “high.” Inhaling for an extended period of time can cause lack of coordination and slurred speech. On a more serious note it can make someone ill, kill brain cells, and damage nerves (Bellum). Many kids don’t think of inhalants as “real drugs” because they’re commonly found in grocery stores, but household items containing solvents are used for specific purposes only (Bellum). Kids want to get high off Sharpies if only once for the experience, but even that one time can cause damage to their brain. Sharpie has made their mark on the world. In Europe, Sharpie invented an interactive billboard and put it on the side of a bus station. They took a picture of an arm in a white cast and used that as their blank canvas. Any passer-buyer can touch the color of sharpie they want to write with and by using a Sharpie stylus write a message on the cast. Sharpie though does not condone the use of graffiti to deface property, but they want people to experience the rush of creating their own graffiti (Susan). Another marketing technique by Sharpie was to inspire people to create anything that came to their mind using Sharpie products and then showcasing their creation on Sharpie’s website. This just might have been that promotional technique to get their product on the map. Today, not just the United States, but people all over the world are using sharpies to illustrate their imaginations. Now, it’s not just a piece of paper than can be used with a sharpie, it’s just about every solid item a person can get their hands on. Whether it’s a toilet seat or a yoga mat, anyone can create art with Sharpies. They want the public to talk out loud and think outside the box, and not to be afraid of what inspires them because there’s no limit with Sharpie, just “start drawing” (Susan). A.P. English Lit Sharpie Paper and Poem

8. The Awakening Prompt

9. Marian Guidry • Mr. Warhola • Astronomy 1B • 27 May 2010 • SETI and Project Phoenix Report • S.E.T.I. is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and is responsible for Project Phoenix; which is the largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere. The Center for SETI Research, believes that overtime life will revolutionize on other planets, based on Earth’s own environmental properties. For that reason SETI has developed "signal processing technology" to track potential signals in our galaxy (SETI Institute). Project Phoenix is a keen radio telescope that was developed by SETI to search for alternative radio signals in space. SETI was able to observe about 800 stars" in close proximity to the sun to search for potential signs of life beyond Earth” with Project Phoenix (SETI Institute). In 1960, Frank Drake carried out the first “modern SETI experiment” named “Project Ozma” (SETI). Disappointingly, he found nothing from his efforts. • The SETI Institute uses the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s telescope in Parkes, Australia to look at radio signals beyond Earth. This telescope has also been used for critical pulsar experiments, but primarily it was for SETI’s use. The tower holds a Project Phoenix banner and the Flag of Earth, “symbolizing that the search is conducted on behalf of all people” (SETI Institute). The Mobile Research Facility at the base of the tower contains all the equipment for any signals that need to be processed. The Control Room at the top of the tower administers all functions of the Facility. Pioneer 10 Spacecraft was launched in 1972 and is still traveling throughout the Solar System. It is more than 6 billion miles away and is still able to be picked up from earth, which gives hope for any other detectable radio signals using Project Phoenix around that range. The downside to Project Phoenix is that as the earth is rotating, our radio signal strength will increase or decrease depending on where Pioneer 10 Spacecraft is located. To add to that, higher frequency radiation doesn’t travel well for long distances because the signals are easily scattered by small particles such as interstellar dust. The Arecibo Radio Telescope located in Puerto Rico is the “world’s most sensitive radio telescope by Project Phoenix” (Arecibo Diaries). What might be whisper signals to other telescopes are loud screams in theory to Arecibo from Pioneer 10. • SETI right now has two generous donors Paul Allen who has given an $11.5 million grant and Nathan Myrhvold who gave $1 million to continue the testing. When NASA stopped funding SETI in the 1990’s, Allen helped to keep it alive. The Allen foundation is now creating the Allen Telescope Array, which is made up of many small dishes therefore it can take in a wider range of radio frequencies. There is no current government funding for SETI projects. All source of income relies on private funding or funders such as Allen and Myrhvold. In 2007, SETI pleaded for donations of more than $400,000 to continue research through 2008. With the economy how it is today money is tighter than ever and dollars are being spent towards needs not necessarily wants. Many scientists “want” to continue this invigorating research but the funds aren’t available (SETI). • Presumably, even though one alien transmission has ever been recorded in 1977 at Ohio State University they still are looking for more along with evidence to back it up. That’s why the SETI team is preparing ahead of time and calculating all possibilities. The SETI team assumes that a signal will be received at around 1420 MHz. The most common element of the universe is hydrogen and 1420 MHz is its frequency, and that is what they believe to be the “reference point” for other extraterrestrial species (SETI). The SETI team is also looking for a narrow band frequency because it’s easily recognized as artificial because there are no known natural radio signals that are narrow banded. Project Ozma first studied nearby stars and stars that resembled the sun, but found no success. Project Phoenix now only monitors microwave frequencies because “there are few natural sources of emissions in that range and researchers hope that extraterrestrials would recognize that range as a quiet region of the electromagnetic spectrum suited to sending a message” (SETI:). The SETI team focuses primarily on the “water hole.” This is around 1-3 GHz; where if they were to overshoot this distance the background noise from our galaxy would be an interference or by undershooting the signals wouldn’t make it past our atmosphere. The SETI team has paid close attention to Mars because there is evidence based on Mars’s ground that life forms that may have existed on the planet as well as a body of water. Europa one of Jupiter’s moons and Titan one of Saturn’s moons also show some promise for extraterrestrial probability. Edna DeVore was first mesmerized by the stars in the sky and the Milky Way overhead in her hometown of California near the Sierra Mountains which started her love for the outer space. Edna finally discovered astronomy in college after taking physics which lead her to working in planetariums and now working within the SETI Institute. DeVore is not only the Deputy CEO and the Director of Education and Public Outreach at the SETI Institute she also co-directs two NASA missons: SOFIA and Kepler. DeVore received her M.S. in Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1992 and in 2005 won the Aerospace Awareness Award for Women in Aerospace. • What hasn’t David Morrison done? Morrison first received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1969 and now is presently the Director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, the Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute, and a senior scientist in Astrobiology at NASA Ames Research Center. Morrison not only serves these positions but is an author himself. He has written over one-hundred and sixty technical papers and over twelve books including college textbooks about astronomy and planetary science. Not to say enough but Morrison is also one of the founders of the multidisciplinary field of astrobiology directly used to help find extraterrestrial intelligence with the SETI projects. With Morrison’s many accomplishments comes his many accolades: NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, Dryden medal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Klumpke-Roberts award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and Asteroid 2410 Morrison is named after him. • Emma Bakes was inspired by the TV series “Cosmos” to pursue an education in science at an early age (SETI). She grew up in a small town in North East England and eventually attended Newcastle University where she majored in Theoretical Physics. She earned her Ph. D. in astrophysics at London University then moved to the United States to become a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. As SETI Institutes Principal Investigator she studies the “chemistry and thermodynamics of star-forming regions and the organic chemistry of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite and the early Earth” (SETI Institute –Staff). She is on her third book writing about the “connection” of clothes and the law of physics titled, "Black Holes, High Heels and a Bullet Proof Vest" (SETI Institute –Staff). Bakes is also learning about Space Medicine to help with the deterioration of “mitigating musculoskeletal in microgravity environments” (SETI Institute – Staff). When Bakes has free time she likes to work out and do jeetkune do created by Bruce Lee who also happens to be one of her role models. One of the mottos Emma lives by, which seems very fitting for her profession is, “don’t harm anyone or take revenge on those who harm you – the universe will settle things without you having to lift a finger” (SETI Institute- Staff). • In the future SETI Institute wants to use the Parkes Observatory in Australia to scan the southern hemisphere, but that idea is still up in the air. A Multi-Beam Data Recorder, a Near Time Persistency Checker, and Astropulse are also ideas for the SETI team as years pass. Astropulse will work with Seti@Home to look for rapidly rotating pulsars or unknown astrophysical phenomena. Probably the most important subject for SETI right now is the funding. Sending out radio signals, using telescopes, and countless other scientific procedures needed to take place in helping to find extraterrestrial intelligence means money needs to be spent. With the government focused on national security and the economy right now, scientific research sits low on their to-do list. S.E.T.I. And Project Phoenix Paper

10. My Soul

11. Artifact1

12. Artifact 2

13. Artifact 3

14. My First Water Color Experience