Friday, February 27, 2009

Daily Progress Post.......Feb. 27

Today I made a total of 18 index cards, by finding pictures of my topic...........next class I will make more index cards and find more websites for my project, and tag them in delicious to further my project.......

Index Card #18

Subject: Guillotine Picture

Summary: This website shows a picture of a guillotine.

Website: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULKEPAFxH-22a1awE_x5JdlCUCFpnhVvO-55dJBHU5DvLZy4khYNXuK3ysvMBwPR62T4jFs0hwlbuT12eguoD_zQV3sffY2RR2Ztq0XyJK08Vw-UkzLjK32wXM3bA-YJZvzJCa9Gu2k0n/s1600-r/guillotine19.jpg

Index Card #17

Subject: Torture Chair

Summary: This website shows a picture of the torture chair.

Website: http://www.jabulela.com/files/images/Armchair-questioning.jpg

Index Card #16

Subject: Thumscrew Picture

Summary: This website links to a picture of a thumbscrew...

Website: http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/torture/thumb.jpg

Index Card #15

Subject: Thumbscrew

Summary: This website links to a picture of a thumbscrew.

Website: http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/797/20094133.JPG

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Daily Progress Post!!!...for Feb 26

I made an index card........

Index Card #14

Subject: Tumbscrew

Summary: This website explains why people would use the tumbscrew. Their method of inflicting the thumbscrew and what it was designed to do.

Website: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/thumbscrews.htm

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Daily Progress Post.......Feb. 25

Well I got lots of index cards done and found more websites on my topic. Next class I will get more index cards done and find more websites. I will probably also try to find out ways to make the models for the project.

Index Card #13

Subject: Thumbscrew

Summary: This website gives a description on how the thumbscrew was used and what purposes it was used for. They also were called pilliwinks.

Website: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Thumbscrew

Index Card #12

Subject: Guillotine

Summary: This website gives a description on who used the guillotine, how it was used, how many people were executed cause of it. It also says how much the guillotine weighed and how big it was.

Website: http://www.napoleonguide.com/guillotine.htm

Index Card #11

Subject: Guillotine

Summary: It tells how the during the French Revolution it was adopted by the French. It gives a description on how the guillotine was used and that in September of 1977, the last person was guillotined. The gullotine hasn't been used since, cause the killing devise was outlawed.

Website: http://www.essortment.com/all/guillotinehisto_rgxj.htm

Index Card #10

Subject: Guillotine

Summary: This website gives a long description on basically the history and how it was used during the French Revolution. It also gives a description on how it killed the victim and what it did to the victim. This was a quick but sometimes painful way of dying.

Website: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/guillotine.html

Index Card #9

Subject: The Guillotine

Summary: This Website give facts about the guillotine like what it weighed and how big it is. It also give a description on how the French used the guillotine and who and how it was invented and adopted.

Website: http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/Guillotine.htm

Index Card #8

Subject: Guillotine

Summary: This website gives a description on how the guillotine was adopted and how it was used to execute people. Is says that Hitler used the guillotine for execution of the Jews. Even after the French Revolution, Hitler brought it back for his purposes.

Website: http://www.historywiz.com/guillotine.htm

Index Card #7

Subject: The Gullotine History

Summary: This website is about the history of the Guillotine and how it came about. It also gives a description on what people use to do before the Guillotine. It also gives what countrys used the Guillotine.

Website: http://europeanhistory.about.com/cs/frenchrevolution/a/Guillotine.htm

Monday, February 23, 2009

Daily Progress Post...Feb, 23

Today I made notecards and read more about the my topic. I made about 3 more notecards to further my project. By the end of next class I hope to have 15 notecards done.

Index Card #6

Subject: Guillotine

Summary: Thiswebsite talks about the Guillotine. It talks about the development, the guillotine in France, the guillotine outside of France, and the living heads.

Index Card #5

Subject: Thunbscrew torture

Summary: The thumbscrew (or can also be called pilliwinks) slowly crushes the fingers when placed on the vise. This can also be used on the toes and larger devices for the knees and elbows. This torture was extremely slow and painful.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbscrew

Friday, February 20, 2009

Daily Progress post!!...from Feb. 20

Today I did another note card and read about the tumbscrew torture....Next time I'll continue with doing notecards and website searching.

Index Card #4

Subject: Thumbscrew torture

Summary: This form of torture was mainly ment to extract confessions out of someone. It was painful and long lasting. The thumbscrew was also used on toes. Their was many other devises to cruch body parts such as the head crusher, and the arm. If this didn't work to get the confessio from the victim, the torturer would choose another torture devise.

Website: http://www.medievality.com/thumbscrew.html

Daily Progress Post!!!...from Feb. 19th

Today I fixed my index cards by adding tags to each of the websites... I tried to find more websites on my topic.....and read more about my topic I'm doing...

What I'll do next class is try to get more note cards done and more websites.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Index Card #3

Subject: The torture chair

Summary: Their are many types of torture chairs and they all have their differences and similarities. The threat of the torture will start out easy but will get increasingly worse. It was used in the 1700s and the 1800s in certain countries.

Website:http://www.torturamuseum.com/instruments.html

Daily Progress Post!!!....for Feb. 17

Well I did Index cards and found more websites that reflects the topic I am doing. I worked on getting information together and getting things organized.

Index Card #2

Subject: The torture chair

Summary: This website gives a a description on the torture chair. There are many kinds of torture chairs but they all have one thing in common. That is that they are all covered in spikes everywhere. Their death varied from a hour to a day or more. This is all based on their psychological fear. the more fear the person had, the more quickly they died. Some other versions of the torture chair was that their was a hole on the seat, so that coals would go in.

Website: http://www.medievality.com/chair.html

Index Card #1

Subject: Medieval torture

Summary: This website is where we got the selected torture devises. It gives a brief description about certain types of torture devises. From this we selected the thumb screw, chair of torture, and the Guillotine.

Website: http://medieval-castles.org/index.php?cat=31

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Daily Progress Post!!....for Feb. 11

Well.....
1. I looked up links for the torture chair and the thumbscrew.
2. Read information.......

What to do next class......
write down information

Links!! more like Link!!

http://medieval-castles.org/index.php?cat=31

Monday, February 9, 2009

The Product Prospectus

1. The research question: How is the guillotine, the chair of torture, and the thumbscrew compare to each other?

2. Description: Models depicting what the devices looked like and how they worked.

3. Justification: It shows how torture devices are diffreent from then and now, and how they are used.

4. Definition of a finished product: A finsh product consists of detailed information and models depicting the selected torture devices.

5. How finished product justification demostrating mastery: It shows the differences of the torture devices and how they were similas and different.

6. Breakdown/task:
a. Research
b. Put material together
c. Get items to make the models and make models.
d. Make sure everything is done, and maybe add something to make the project even more awesome.

7. Next action to be taken on project: Get the more information on the research.