Time To Kick It Into High-Gear!!

This past week, I have been quite busy catching up with all my other work and I fell a bit behind on my projects. Today I'm going to kick it into high-gear and get some stuff done! I would like to finish up my book review, and get some extreme research going on! Yeah! Push it to the limit! By the end of the week I hopefully will have all research done for this blog! Then I plan to look up more to really know about my topic. See you guys next time!

It's Book Time!

Today I plan to finish off my book that I am reading for my project. I will be honest, reading is not really my forte, but you need to do it in life. Today is one of those days that I will read! Also the book is rather interesting and sort of hooked me.

New Stuff!

Hey guys, today I have decided to get organized! There will be a site, new blogs, new pages for this one, and much much more!

I will post links once they are done! :D

This is my site that will have everything for my project:

https://sites.google.com/site/projecttimewithjacky/

New Blogs are on the blog list on the side >>>>

New Pages will be above ^^^^^

Pages are not yet complete, if you see something on them, its just notes for me.

Thanks!

Project Time With Jacky! Week 2- Fun Facts!

Furthering my research for my project, I have come across some important fun facts that I would like to share with you. Lets take it from the top, well first lets think about the distance around the world. If you travel on the equator its about 24,901.5 miles to travel around the world. People before could not possibly travel on the equator the whole time, so the distance would be longer. In the novel I'm reading the main character travels around the world in 80 days, that means based on the equator distance; which is the longest, he would have to travel about 311.2 miles a day! Whoa, now thats a long distance, its a little more than the width of France! Although the book is fiction, are there actual people that traveled the around the world? The answer is yes! The first KNOWN person to circumnavigate the world was one named Ferdinand Magellan, in 1519. People before could have done this as well, but it was not documented. I would suspect the Vikings did. To travel far, you can't just pack up some clothes a go, you will probably need A LOT of equipment and food to keep you nourished. If you are going to travel great distances, like around the world, your are going to need some exploration basics. A compass for example to help you with with direction to go, otherwise you might just be going in circles. Did you know that before Europeans set out for exploration, they gained a lot of technologies from the Muslims during the crusades to help them travel. A great example would be the compass and new designs of ships. Food wise, your going to need a lot of proteins and vitamins and nutrients found in fruits. You wouldn't want to get scurvy, a disease caused by malnutrition and lack of vitamin C. Many sailors in the past actually suffered from this as they did not have much nutrition on the seas. British sailors where actually called "limeys" from all the limes they ate to prevent scurvy. I shall conclude here as if not, I will ramble on and on. I hope you are enjoying these posts, and there will be more as I progress in my project.

Project Time With Jacky! Day 2

"Today folks, I am just going to read the book "Around the World in 80 Days" by- Jules Verne to further my understanding of the topic. If you like you could read along with me as I read about the adventures of Phileas Fogg! Heres a link to the online text! :) http://www.literature.org/authors/verne-jules/eighty/"

Project Time With Jacky! Day 1

For this post and future posts, I will be sharing my research about the topic of Traveling. I am currently doing a major project that explores in depth this subject and how it relates for many aspects in our lives!

When you think of traveling what is the the first thing that comes to mind? A vacation trip to the tropics? An adventure through the amazonian jungle? A cruise to the Bahamas? A flight to France? These are all great examples of traveling, but it can be much more simple than that. In the dictionary travel is defined as "To go from one place to another, as on a trip; journey". This place could be from your house to your friends house. When you are traveling now a days, there are multiple ways to do it. You could be fancy and fly a jet plane to your friends house, or drive a car, or ride a bike. If that doesn't float your boat, you can do it old-school and just walk there. Walking would be in the very beginnings of travel, it is the simplest way for us humans to do so. However as time went on we advanced to find easier ways to travel. It is kinda a hassle to walk 50 miles don't you think? Instead of walking on feet that distance, we could perhaps ride a animal to speed and process and make it less of a hassle. Humans started to use animals like horses for traveling purposes, then it advances more into machines and boats. We would use boats and ships to travel over great distances over seas, but you couldn't travel much on land with a boat. With an automobile you could travel all over your continent, but you can't drive on the ocean. Now we can travel through the skies with our airplanes, this certainly would have helped during the age of exploration. During Age of Exploration many countries had the desire to travel this very reason. God, Glory and Gold. People wanted to spread the word of god, conquer news lands to find glory, and also search for the riches of the world, becoming wealthy. Traveling also has to do with some cultures, such as Native Americans. Their tribes were always moving around the country, and these people are known as nomads. It also varies with cultures, like in Egypt and desert areas, they use camels to travel, while in America they would use horses.

This is some of the research I conducted today to gather information for my project.

Project Time With Jacky!

Welcome to my new blog! Pretty cool isn't it?