My sisters and I volunteer at a place called People’s Resource Center in Wheaton. We are usually assigned to work in the pantry, where we’ll package bread, sort out expired items, determine if fruit is ripe or not, and we’ll also stock shelves outside in the main area. We are required to wear gloves when handling everything. The kitchen is very dirty, obviously no one tries to keep it clean, which disturbs me since it’s where all the food goes through before going out to the people. In my personal opinion, it should be the cleanest place. It is usually just me and my sisters back there, so we always talk a lot and it becomes a nice bonding experience where we can tell each other about our week.

The documentary I watched was about World War 1 called They Shall Not Grow Old. This documentary was directed and produced by Peter Jackson who created the film using original footage of WW1 from the Imperial War Museum’s archives. He took the films and colorized them, transforming them with modern productions techniques to give us an immersive 2 hour documentary. During the film, British Servicemen who fought in the conflict were interviewed and these were used as part of the audio. They spoke about how food was very lacking as most men began to get sick from traveling days without provisions and about how they all began to get used to the sounds of guns and seeing death, something which they were not proud of getting used to. The other parts of the audio are from BBC who gave historians’ viewpoints of the Great War. Every person who spoke agreed that the Great War was a tragedy which should have taught the world a lesson, but apparently it did not as in a few years, the Second World War would take place.

This documentary made me realize just how AWFUL World War 1 was. While I have always known that the soldiers in World War 1 faced extreme hunger and poverty, but the original footage shown really proved to me that the soldiers were practically skin and bones. I am very concerned with personal hygiene, and seeing the men with dirt all over themselves and their teeth rotting away really disturbed me. I felt pity for the men in the footage; none of them looked happy. I hope that another world war will never come again in history.

So I followed the tag #postmalone after seeing a video of him with his eyes rolling back during a concert while he was crawling on the floor. During some of his concerts, Post Malone seems to have showed up high on drugs. All day, most people have been posting short sentiments (like 3-4 sentences long) about how we should be concerned about Post Malone’s health and not let it pass off as “normal”. Some people are taking a very aggressive stance on the matter as they claim that if we (his fans) don’t do something, then it will be our fault when we lose another great artist. There were a couple of accounts that posted videos from the concert observing that the crowd was not hyped up at all while Post Malone was performing because they were scared for him. Multiple people have been posting images about how they feel when thinking about Post Malone (like the image above). Overall, Post Malone’s fans are very worried for him and hope he takes care of his health while reducing his intake of drugs.

Speaker: WatchMojo is a sympathizer for the plight of endangered species.

Occasion: There are many animals that are endangered because of humanity’s greed for the animals or the greed for the land that the animals’ habitat is on.

Audience: The primary audience is people who continue to ruin the endangered species’ habitat or kill them. The secondary audience is the general public who could do something to stop the species from going extinct.

Purpose: The speaker hopes to bring awareness to the plight of these certain species. Beyond that, the speaker hopes to stir up sympathy within the audience that will cause them to try and stop the actions that place these animals on the endangered list.

Moves: The speaker uses pathos to appeal to the audience’s humanity as she attempts to make them feel guilty for their lack of contribution to try and save the animals. The speaker also uses logos as she presents statistics which prove that if every person in the world donated $10 to an organization which helped save endangered species, we could save the top 10 animals on the endangered list easily.

My Stance: I have personally always sympathized with animals; it makes me really sad when they get hurt or something, so to know that some animals are being killed off to the brink of extinction makes me very sad….but also very mad. I’m angry that some people in the world lack humanity and let their lust for materialistic things drive them to kill off animals. I wish that anyone who could contribute to an organization would contribute so the endangered species would have a chance of reviving their population and taken off the endangered list.

This photo depicts a man wearing a protective mask as he walks across a street in front of the Grand Lisboa Hotel in a residential district in Macau, China, on February 5, 2020. Everyone has probably heard about the outbreak of the corona virus in China; it has forced China to close their doors to the outside world as death tolls tops 900 and 40,000 cases are confirmed across the country. Although there are only two confirmed deaths from the new Coronavirus outside of mainland China — one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines — there are more cases being reported around the world; the most recent cases were reported in Britain, Spain and Japan. In Japan they have quarantined a cruise ship with tests of the deadly virus coming back as positive, a grim truth to the people who are forced to remain on the ship. This photo is trying to warn the general public to be wary wherever they go as it has now been confirmed that the Coronavirus has killed more people than the SARS epidemic in 2002 and 2003. (SARS is another deadly virus that gives its victims a severe form of pneumonia.) The photo also wants to bring the virus to others attention and illustrate how dangerous it is as common people are forced to walk around with masks on their face in hopes that it is enough to protect them.

Growing up, my mom and I would march over to my grandpa’s house every Tuesday for me to receive a trumpet lesson. I wasn’t a huge fan of playing the trumpet, and I don’t think my grandpa was a huge fan of teaching me, but none the less I would sit down with my grandpa and play from either 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on the mood he was in. This made me wonder, who invented the first trumpet? Whenever I watched TV, the royals announced their coming by blasting trumpets, so I knew it was made before the medieval ages. I remember watching a movie about ancient Egypt and the pharaoh’s son had been playing with a valveless trumpet, so I figured that it was made earlier than that. So exactly how long ago was the first trumpet made?

After doing some research, I have discovered that the earliest trumpets date back to 1500 BC and earlier. They were found all over the world. Bronze and silver ones were discovered in the grave of King Tut in Egypt, metal trumpets from China date back to this period, and other ancient versions of the trumpet were found in South America, Scandinavia, and Asia. So the trumpet has been around for 3000 years.

While the first trumpets were created this early, it wasn’t until the 19th century that valves were introduced to the trumpet. The earliest valves were invented in 1814 by Henry Stölzel, but he wasn’t successful with his invention until four years later when he collaborated with Friedrich Blühmel to create “The Rotary Valve”, which is the trumpet that we have modeled ours off of today.