Leonardo da Vinci, a true renaissance man!

I think Leonardo da Vinci was really a true renaissance. He was a painter, an inventor, a weapon maker and a scientist. He liked to paint and invent and was also interested in science and world around him so that's why he was a true renaissance man.

Brunelleschi's courage

When Brunelleschi built the dome of Florence Cathedral he was very courageous. A dome that size had never been even planned to be built so when Brunelleschi was doing it people just thought he was crazy. Keeping in mind that this would be the first giant dome, Brunelleschi was courageous enough to take risks and face the concequences of failure if his dome was unsuccessful. Think about it. If you were commisioned to build something like that during the time when the engineering abilities were pretty low and you would have a big chance of failure due to those conditions, would you do it? Well that's a question Brunelleschi came upon when he was about to build the dome and sure enough he had the courage to take on the risks carry on the challenge. Fortunately it turned out successful and he was able to finish the dome which results in more advanced engineering. So thanks to his admirable courage the development of building strategies and engineering skills could be carried on.

Where do new ideas come from?

That's an easy question, ideas come from brains. Well no. Or they do actually but mostly ideas come from other thoughts and other thoughts come from experiences and experiences come from things that you do and... Anyway the point is that ideas come from thoughts. For example when people thought of flying and birds that fly etc., they came up with an idea to build a plane. And so they did and thanks to them we have planes now so that we can travel all around the world.

My favorite short story from our unit.

Our unit on short stories has just ended and we read few intresting stories. But which one is my favorite? I find that actually hard to answer to because I like both "The Sniper" and "Lamb to the Slaughter". I have to say though, that Lamb to the Slaughter was bit better than The Sniper. The story in Lamb to the Slaughter was really smart but also kind of weird. It was really cool how Mrs. Maloney was smart and tricky. The Sniper isn't a bad story either. I like its theme and the mood it creates. Also I'm interested in all that kind of war stuff so this story was for me if you know what I'm saying. So both stories were great and that gives me a great start for our next unit, whatever it is...