Jeffrey Acosta and Brandon Brown
1/12/15
Mr. Ricci
World History
Process Paper
For my project, I studied the man Simon Bolivar. I did my project with Brandon Brown. I did this project because I wanted to learn about my Spanish history. I am not originally from South America but I know a lot of people who have parents and grandparents from countries Simon Bolivar had freed. So I wanted to be familiar with this history and learn about the process of getting the Gran Columbia into freedom.
What we did was a website and we talked about his background, his importance in Spanish history and all his accomplishments throughout his life. Me and my partner researched most of the facts we had through the internet. We found a lot of interesting things. Me and my partner went online and found many resources. One of my favorite resources was the online encyclopedia. Instead of having to look through the big books, it was already all there for me. There were many sites on his military life and his personal life. I thought it was unfortunate for him when his wife died a year after their marriage due to the yellow fever.
There were many things that helped us with the project. One thing that helped was that I knew people who had knowledge of Simon Bolivar. My parents have many friends who have knowledge of Simon Bolivar so they had helped me with my research. I also had help from the internet. It narrowed my search and gave me accurate information. I used a lot of sites from organizations that had precise Simon Bolivar facts.
There were many things that had caused problems in our project. It was quite difficult to find pictures of Simon Bolivar as a child. We came to a halt because there were not many pictures of Simon Bolivar as a young boy. Fortunately, we were able to find one picture but I thought there would be way more considering how important he was. Another problem that occurred when we were doing our project was the formation of the website. It was hard to find a theme that would fit all the pictures we had perfectly and to also make our website look presentable.
There are some things we could have done better. I would say that there could have been a little bit more insight on who Simon Bolivar was as a young boy. I feel like since there are so many books and websites out there that we could have found a little bit more information about who he was as a child. I think another thing we could have done better was the headlines. It does not seem like much but a headline is what attracts the people to your project. If you have something boring as your headline a very few amount of people would want to look into it. So I feel like those were some of the things that could have been done better.
1/12/15
Mr. Ricci
World History
Process Paper
For my project, I studied the man Simon Bolivar. I did my project with Brandon Brown. I did this project because I wanted to learn about my Spanish history. I am not originally from South America but I know a lot of people who have parents and grandparents from countries Simon Bolivar had freed. So I wanted to be familiar with this history and learn about the process of getting the Gran Columbia into freedom.
What we did was a website and we talked about his background, his importance in Spanish history and all his accomplishments throughout his life. Me and my partner researched most of the facts we had through the internet. We found a lot of interesting things. Me and my partner went online and found many resources. One of my favorite resources was the online encyclopedia. Instead of having to look through the big books, it was already all there for me. There were many sites on his military life and his personal life. I thought it was unfortunate for him when his wife died a year after their marriage due to the yellow fever.
There were many things that helped us with the project. One thing that helped was that I knew people who had knowledge of Simon Bolivar. My parents have many friends who have knowledge of Simon Bolivar so they had helped me with my research. I also had help from the internet. It narrowed my search and gave me accurate information. I used a lot of sites from organizations that had precise Simon Bolivar facts.
There were many things that had caused problems in our project. It was quite difficult to find pictures of Simon Bolivar as a child. We came to a halt because there were not many pictures of Simon Bolivar as a young boy. Fortunately, we were able to find one picture but I thought there would be way more considering how important he was. Another problem that occurred when we were doing our project was the formation of the website. It was hard to find a theme that would fit all the pictures we had perfectly and to also make our website look presentable.
There are some things we could have done better. I would say that there could have been a little bit more insight on who Simon Bolivar was as a young boy. I feel like since there are so many books and websites out there that we could have found a little bit more information about who he was as a child. I think another thing we could have done better was the headlines. It does not seem like much but a headline is what attracts the people to your project. If you have something boring as your headline a very few amount of people would want to look into it. So I feel like those were some of the things that could have been done better.