In-Class Writing, 150-Word Summary

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During the first phase of today’s class, write a 150-word summary memo of the magazine article that you read before arriving. In your summary, you should include one quote from the article that is cited with a parenthetical citation. Your memo should follow this format:

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150-Word Summary with one quote parenthetically cited (no more than 150 words and no less than 140 words) (see “Short Quotations” example on this page for parenthetical citation)

Reference to article in APA format

Copy-and-paste your memo into a comment made to this blog post when you are done.

22 thoughts on “In-Class Writing, 150-Word Summary”

  1. sjm

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Steven Mathieu
    DATE: 02/16/2017
    SUBJECT: In- Class Writing Assignment 100-Word Summary Memo

    Justin Worland stated that “The number of jobs in the U.S. solar industry grew by 25% last year as the energy sector continued its march away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, according to a new report” in an article called “The solar Power Industry keeps Adding Jobs”. Now that there are more job available in the solar industry, there will be high rapid change in technological advances that will have the energy source. Where the market industry is boosting there will now be 260,000 people now working in the solar industry. Solar energy is to be considered the most cleanest and most abundant renewable energy source available.

    Reference:
    Worland, Justin. (2017, February 07).”The Solar Power Industry Keeps Adding Jobs”. Make, 2(4), 34-54.

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  2. Jose A. Jimenez

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Jose A. Jimenez
    DATE: 02/23/2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing Assignment, 150-Word Summary

    Matthew Hutson in his article “Our Bots, Ourselves” gives us five scenarios that will most likely happen with artificial intelligence like Apple’s virtual Assistant Siri and Alexa (Amazon Echo.) The 1st scenario is having a voice in your head, meaning that you might get a virtual helper on a date coaching you or reminding you to take your medication. The 2nd scenario will be talking to products and ask questions like (“Hello, box of cereal. Am I allergic to you.?”) The 3rd scenario might be a musical assistant, David Cope from UC University, Santa Cruz, created a program which he chats and shares musical ideas. The 4th scenario is that personal assistant might be able to analyze a person’s voice and user history for a better understanding of feelings and how to act to it. The 5th is rely too much on virtual assistants and the risk of being hacked.

    Matthew, H. (2017, March). Our bots, ourselves. The Atlantic, 319(2), 28-29.

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  3. Steven Rivera

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Steven Rivera
    DATE: 23 February 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing Assignment, 150-Word Summary Memo

    Joe Shepter profiled a medium sized digital agency called Hello Monday. He notes about how different they are as a company, both professionally, and personally. A lot of this company is founded on the quirkiness of the company’s founders and each of their employees. From having “office moms” that act as office managers who also cook lunch, to wearing bear hats when video conferencing with National Geographic, Shepter notes how odd they are. Hello Monday thrives on being different, with financials not being a huge focus for them. Shepter even states, “Financial success is not the company’s top priority” (Shepter, 2017, p. 60). A lot of their work is based on being different, which separates them from their competition. Winning well over one hundred awards in less than fifteen years, Hello Monday not only embraces being different, they thrive in it.

    Shepter, J., (2017, January/February). Hello monday. Communication Arts, 58(6), 60.

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  4. Leane

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Yelena Myshkovskaya Melnikov
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing Assignment, 150 -Word Summary

    Kevin Drum in his article “Here’s How to Save Obamacare” discusses how Republicans can repeal Obamacare and what Democrats have as leverage in order to save it. If Republicans want they can try to repeal Obamacare, but will have to provide an alternative option. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s set of proposals also relies on private insurers and mandates coverage for preexisting-conditions, but provides smaller federal subsidies.Because the Obamacare preexisting-conditions clause doesn’t effect the federal budgeting the Republicans can’t simply repeal it, and if preexisting-conditions stay and all other budget related provisions will be repealed, Republicans simply will create a chaos in the healthcare system, which will jeopardize the political survival of the Republican party. “Republicans need Democratic votes to repeal the provision and pass a workable law, which means that if Democrats hold out they can certainly get a far better deal than Ryan’s plan” (Drum, 2017, p.21).

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    Drum, K. ( January-February, 2017). Here’s How to Save Obamacare. Mother Jones, 42(1), 19-21.

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  5. Jozef

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Jozef Loderer
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing Assignment, 150-Word Summary Memo

    In his article “Can labor fight back?” Justin Miller explores the options organized labor will have at its disposal to fight off an onslaught of anti-labor and pro-business laws the Trump administration is planning to install in the foreseeable future. Miller concludes that “This, of course, is not the first time that organized labor has faced an existential crisis – in fact, most of the movement’s history is characterized by existential crises” (Miller, 2017, p. 76). The article focuses heavily on the dismantling of unions, in particular in the public sector, and how the Republican strategy will be to defund liberal cities to increase the pressure on unions. Despite the difficult task at hand, Miller remains optimistic that organized labor does have a chance to fight back, as highlighted in the case of the teachers union in Chicago which successfully fought against the Mayor’s plans to privatize the city’s school system.

    Miller, J. (2017, Winter). Can labor fight back?. The American Prospect, Volume 28(1), 74-78.

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  6. Adrian Valarezzo

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Adrian Valarezo
    DATE: Feb. 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing Assignment, 150-Word Summary

    Ricky Jackson said “I spend my 20s, my 30s, my 40s, and nearly all of my 50s in prison” (Jackson, 2017, p. 8) in an article called “The Stolen Years” Ricky Jackson serving life in prison, was released in 2014 when the Ohio Innocence Project requesting a retrial for Ricky Jackson’s’ case. In 1975 Edward Veron a 12 year old boy had stated that he witness Ricky Jackson murder a store clerk, many years later Edward Veron confessed that the only reason why he said this was because the cops had coerced Edward Veron into saying this, often shoving him and hitting him with a phone-book. When Ohio Innocence Project got hold of the story, and Edward Veron new statement came to light they jumped into action and demanded a retrial. The court found Ricky Jackson not guilty letting Mr. Jackson free, before coming close to the death penalty.

    Mifsud C. (2017, January). Innocent The Fight Against Wrongful Convictions. TIME, 8-12.

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  7. kangyiliu

    To: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Kangyi liu
    DATE: 2/23/2017
    SUBJECT: in-class Writing Assignment, 150-Word Summary

    Amy Westervelt wrote an article about how the dark side of virtual reality titled: “Popular Science: I’m Standing Inside.” Amy Westervelt wore up the virtual reality, and experienced a Virtual shooting game. She liked the experience and felt so realistic. VR used in many applications for example: education, healthcare, sports, architecture and porn. Although VR gives people amazing views, it has many disadvantages. For example: some people use it watching porn, some people would be addicted to VR, and some people could not distinguish with the real world and the virtual after using VR. according to Westervelt, “ Jeremy Bailenson, who designed what he calls the “superhero” experiment 
 After the experiment, the first group had transferred their superhero identity into the real world 
 A VR experience tend to cause more empathy and change than other media” (Westervelt, 2016, p. 72). VR has many disadvantages and scientists may improve it.

    Westervelt, A. (2016, August). I’m Standing Inside. Popular Science, 288, 69-73.

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  8. Anelsy R

    TO: professor Ellis
    FROM: Anelsy Rodriguez
    DATE: 02/23/2017
    SUBJECT: In-CLASS Writing, 150-Word

    In the article “HDMI 2.0 The Evolution About of a Winner ” by Joao Martins, tell us about the develop of the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). The first one was developed in 1990s to solve problems that the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) ,which intent to replace the dated analog VGA connection, had in this time. In 2002 the HDMI 1.0 specification tried to solve some problems with the connection of the HDMI with the HDTV to maintain compatibility with the DVI connector to respect the High-Bandwidth Digital content protection (HDCP), and the digital rights imposed by Hollywood Studios . “videos was always focus for the HDMI initial efforts”(14). In 2005 the HDMI was upgraded to 1.2 adding support for one-bit delta signal audio (DSD), the expanding sampling frequency, and the expansion of multi-channel. In 2013 there was another update to HDMI 2.0, which was able to support 32 audio channel, 4K- resolution video at 50/6 frames per second. this one was compatible with the last version. According to Martins “It will inspire manufacturers to implement many features.”

    Martins, J. (2014, April). HDMI 2.0 The evolution about of a winner . Audio Express, 45(4), 14-17

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  9. Leonardo Calegare

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Leonardo Calegare
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-class Writing, 150-word Summary

    The way the system of Checks and Balances was originally envisioned by the Framers of the Constitution from time to time gets revisited, and with the current POTUS, that time has come again. According to the article “Presidential Authority: Washington v Trump” (2017, p. 21), “This is how the boundaries of presidential authority are gradually discovered.” Trump signed an executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. On judicial review, a federal district court temporarily stopped the executive order. Claiming issues of national security, on appeal, Trump’s lawyer argued that this issue is not for the courts to decide. Nonetheless, the three-panel judge found no merit in such argument to the extent to ban entire countries, especially when the possible targeting of Muslims violate the First Amendment rule against against religious establishment, and it harms American legal resident’s interest when their family are banned from visiting them.

    Presidential Authority: Washington v Trump. (2017, February 11). The Economist, 422(9027), 21-22.

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  10. Isaiah

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Isaiah Emanuel
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word Summary

    Answers From a Train Operator
    By The New York Times June 2, 2010 4:59 pm

    I believe that strategy of the article entitled “Answers From a Train Operator” was to present answers to questions people would want to ask a Train Operator in a format of question first, followed by the answers to those questions. The person responding to these questions is named Dennis H. Boyd. He drives the Lexington Avenue line number 4 train. I found it interesting that Train Operator Dennis H. Boyd mentions that he would have to stop the train earlier in the rain or snow because of friction between the metal tracks and metal wheels of the train. Train operators are exposed to various health problems which include flu viruses, the common cold and noise. Train operators are also exposed to the threat of being spit upon. A safety feature which prevents last-minute bordering according to Dennis “If the doors aren’t locked, the train can’t move”. (D. H. Boyd, 2010)

    By The New York Times. (June 2, 2010 4:59 pm). Answers From a Train Operator

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  11. Doneek Drumgo

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Doneek Drumgo
    DATE: Feb. 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word

    Summary:

    The article,’The Little Boat That Could’ by Damon McMillan discussed the challenges of creating a stable autonomous boat. A autonomous boat is one that can be controlled without a person handling it. This boat named ‘SeaCharger’ is powered by solar energy. McMillan created an autonomous boat with the goal of making the boat travel around the world like from California to Hawaii. One of the issues were making sure the motor lasts long enough to get the boat from California to Hawaii. Another issue was the survival of the solar panels placed on the boat. This is where the solar energy from the satellites make contact with. McMillan said’ the greatest surprise of the entire project has been the intense interest and unfailing support from hundreds of people over the world.’(McMillan, 2017, p. 17). Despite McMillan’s struggles with the autonomous boat, he overcame it with support from others.

    Bibliography

    McMillan, D. (2017 February/2017 March). The little boat that could. Make:, 55, 14-17.

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  12. Win

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Win Naing
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: IN-Class Writing Assignment, 150-Word Summary Memo

    For most people, end of the year is the time for fun with family, friends and food. It is also the time for decorations. Many people got injured while doing it. Druley wrote “Injuries involving holiday decoration sent an estimated 14,500 people to emergency rooms in November and December 2014, and 12 more people died, according to CPSC.” (Druley, 2016 Winter, Family Safety & Health, 75(4), p.9). Consumer Product Safety Commission give tips for the families to avoid injuries, such as falling from the ladder, handling electrical equipments, candles, fire. The commission also advise to use proper hand tools to avoid injury and to take care of balance. Kids are vulnerable to electric and choking hazards. Thousands of kids swallowing button batteries, and thousands of kitchens caught on fire during Thanksgiving. Plants used in decoration, and food can cause illness and even death. If something goes wrong, react fast and call the emergency numbers.

    Druley, K. (2016, Winter). Safe and happy holidays – keep injury prevention in mind. Family Safety & Health, 75(4), 9-11

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  13. Daniel

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Daniel. O. L
    DATE: Feb 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word
    Summary

    As Reported by McMillan in, “This Autonomous Boat Went from California to Hawaii and Beyond” McMillan attempted to conduct an experiment to see if a solar powered autonomous toy sized boat could sail 2,471 miles. This idea of McMillan turned into a 30 month long project and after the successful trip from California to Hawaii McMillan attempted to cross the Pacific towards New Zealand. McMillan reported “they are made only from laminated layers of plastic, without the typical aluminum and glass components found in other panels. If placed on a house, these thin, semi-flexible panels might not withstand tree branches falling on them, but there are no trees on the ocean.” (McMillan. D, 2017). With such a weak material McMillan thought what other problems could arise. Things such as what if the current would turn over the boat or if hordes of clouds would stop the boats charge cycle.

    McMillan, D (2017, January, 25). This Autonomous Boat Went from California to Hawaii and Beyond. Makezine Retrieved from (http://makezine.com/2017/01/25/seacharger/)

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  14. demi

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Demi Huang
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing Assignment: 150-Word Summary

    In “Michigan City Settles Lawsuit, Giving Group the Right to Build a Mosque,” Daniel Victor reports on the circumstances surrounding a lawsuit brought by the American Islamic Community Center against Sterling Heights, Michigan for the city’s refusal to build a mosque due to religious discrimination. The city settled the lawsuit on Tuesday, allowing the mosque to be built. The lawsuit was filed in December after an application for building plans entered in August 2015 was continually rejected. The rejection was due to concerns about the height of the building, parking, and noise. However, residents of Sterling Heights had expressed strong opposition against the mosque; motivated not by zoning concerns, but rather anti-Muslim sentiments. Barbara L. McQuade, a U.S. attorney, stated that the lawsuit involved the city placing a “substantial burden on the community’s ability to exercise its religion by denying approval to build a mosque” (Victor, 2017, p. A19).

    Victor, D. (2017, February 23). Michigan city settles lawsuit, giving group the right to build a mosque, The New York Times, A19.

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  15. Ronald Hinds

    TO: Professor Ellis

    FROM: Ronald C. Hinds

    DATE: March 23, 2017

    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word

    Summary

    According to Copeland & Haeff “The traveling-wave tube was a key component in early telecommunications, radar, and television-broadcast systems” (Copeland & Haeff, 2015, p. 38).

    The discovery of the traveling-wave tube represented a major change in how we communicate. It worked with high frequency radio signals and was developed by, the engineer, Andre “Andy” Haeff, at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory around 1933. The primitive corkscrew contraption later morphed into a technology known as a helix traveling-wave tube.A helix was used to slow a high frequency wave to the same speed as an electron beam. The prolific Haeff’s work was further developed and new patents rights were sought by other researchers in New Jersey and England. This device was not really associated with Haeff as others, including an Austrian architect, Rudolf Kompfner, received more recognition for its further development. RCA used the technology in its movies.

    Bibliography

    Copeland, J., & Haeff, A. A.(2015, September). The true history of the traveling wave tube. IEEE Spectrum, 52, 38-43.

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  16. Zeeshan Ahmad

    TO: Professor Jason W. Ellis
    FROM: Zeeshan Ahmad
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word Summary

    Andre Smalling is giving some brief details about a high-speed wireless communication standard called Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in his article titled, “LTE Fundamentals.” He describes that the main architecture of LTE consists of E-UTRAN Node Bs, mobility management entities (MME), and serving gateways (S-GW). Node Bs provides connection between mobile phones, and are connected with MME and S-GW.

    LTE architecture is evolved from 3GPP with addition of Gateway which helps in reduction of delays between inter-node. LTE is also using Orthogonal Frequency Division multiplexing (OFDM) which transmit data in multi career and helps in resolving signals fading, and according to Smalling, “LTE uses OFDM for the downlink – that is, from the base station to the handset to transmit data over many narrow-band carriers of 180 KHZ each instead of spreading one signal over the complete career bandwidth” (Smalling, 2017, p. 22). LTE uses single-carrier frequency division multiplexing in the uplink.

    Smalling, T. (2016, July/August). LTE fundamental. High Tech News, 41(4), 22-23.

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  17. luisvasconez23

    To: Professor Ellis
    From: L. L. Vasconez
    Date: Feb. 23, 2017
    Subject: In Class Writing, 150-Word Summary

    In the article, SolarCity’s Gigafactory by Richard Martin. The author goes into detail about the Solar facility being build in Buffalo worth $750 million capable of producing 10,000 solar panels a day. SolarCity is already the top solar panels installer in the Us..However, they are trying to produce cheap solar panels, easy to install, and has a high efficiency. Despite the fact their manufacturing will be low-cost, the efficiency at producing solar energy to electrical energy could be at stake. According to Martin, “ Efficiency matters because the panels themselves represent only 15 to 20 percent of the cost of full installation.” (Martin, 2016, p. 32). Even if they are able to produce cheap solar panels. If the efficiency isn’t good enough their business will not go far since, solar technology is advancing and there are solar panels being tested in labs that their efficiency goes up to 40%.

    Martin, Richard. (2016). Solarcity’s gigafactory. MIT Technology Review, Best In Tech, 28-33.

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  18. Sandra Huerta

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Sandra Huerta
    DATE: February 23, 20
    SUBJECT: In class writing assignment, 150-word summary

    Earlier this week president Trump released two memos regarding his new plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants around the nation. Although New York City is considered a sanctuary city which means that the city government officials do not comply with the federal government’s measures to deport undocumented immigrants all over the city there have been deportations within the last two weeks. According to Vivian Yee, in “Migrants Hide, Fearing Capture on any corner,” people are living under the shadows with fear to go outside their houses to do their daily activities, something as simple as dropping their kids off to school can cause them a deportation. In California some students have adopted extreme measures as to dropping off from school for fear of the public school system releasing any of their information and becoming an easy target for ICE. Defending the matter “school officials have asked teachers to reassure students that the district does not collect data on immigration status.”

    Yee Vivian. (2017, Feb. 23). Migrants hide, fearing capture on “any corner.” New York Times, A1-A14.

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  19. sonja

    TO: Professor Ellis
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word Summary

    This article gives an in-depth look into the beginnings and the evolution of the Innocence Project, whose work over the years has resulted in the release of those wrongly convicted in prison. The article highlighted the vulnerabilities in the justice system that necessitated the need for the creation of such a program and the invaluable use of a new scientific method at the time known as DNA testing. The use of DNA testing proved to be an invaluable tool in the field of forensic science which opened up the reexamination of evidence that had been used in previous cases. According to Scheck, one of the main founders of the project, “the test were able to to give people a brand new look at old evidence” (Dwyer, 2017, p.6). The Innocence Project has grown from a modest concept into a well known and respected organization which serves as an adjunct to help those who have been victims of an overburdened justice system.

    Dwyer, J. (2017). Shaking up the criminal-justice system. Time, 4-7.

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  20. sjm

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Steven Mathieu
    DATE: Feb.23,2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word

    In an article “And the Best Goes On For The Internet Of Things”, Mr. Kirkpatrick stated that “Today we have self-driving features in some cars that are enabled by many sensors and algorithms built into the automobile’s navigational system” (Kirkpatrick, 2017, p.24). Technology is advancing everyday in our economy due to the application being designed with algorithms programming code. We are able to develop such failure parameter that allow application designers to test parameter. And with the information collected from the data, we can now answer series of questions that can advances works of making better and faster technology for our economy. An example in the article, kirkpatrick explain how sensors used to send information to on-board processor, but technology has risen to a sustainable state, and we currently now have smart sensors and sensors hubs that can process data before information is sent to an on board processor.

    Bibliographic Reference.

    Ed Kirkpatrick. (2017, January/February 2017). And The Best Goes On For The Internet Of Things. HighTech, 42(1), 3.

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  21. Shirley

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Shirley Adelson
    DATE: February 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing Assignment, 100-Word Summary Memo

    Michael Jones in his article, “Improve Your Management Skill” speaks on the proper and effective way a healthcare administrator should be professional in the workplace. He provides the necessary steps we as healthcare administrators should take, such as no gossipping,where you do not complain to others about people performance. Followed by providing the necessary constructive criticism, where you corrected actions and not be disrespectful. The next step would be to react and speak calmly, professional should not yell at employees. Mr. Jones states to give individuals credit for doing a great job and keeping up with a great job performance. According to Michael Jones, “ to be a good leader professional should be able to integrate all those steps into his or her daily routine to achieve employee satisfaction” (Jones, 2017, p.12).

    Jones,M. (2017). Improve your management skills. Modern Healthcare. 11-12

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  22. Daniel

    TO: Professor Ellis
    FROM: Daniel. O. L
    DATE: Feb 23, 2017
    SUBJECT: In-Class Writing, 150-Word Summary

    As Reported by McMillan in, “This Autonomous Boat Went from California to Hawaii and Beyond” McMillan attempted to conduct an experiment to see if a solar powered autonomous toy sized boat could sail 2,471 miles. This idea of McMillan turned into a 30 month long project and after the successful trip from California to Hawaii McMillan attempted to cross the Pacific towards New Zealand. McMillan reported “they are made only from laminated layers of plastic, without the typical aluminum and glass components found in other panels. If placed on a house, these thin, semi-flexible panels might not withstand tree branches falling on them, but there are no trees on the ocean.” (McMillan. D, 2017). With such a weak material McMillan thought what other problems could arise. Things such as what if the current would turn over the boat or if hordes of clouds would stop the boats charge cycle.

    McMillan, D (2017, January, 25). This Autonomous Boat Went from California to Hawaii and Beyond. Makezine Retrieved from (http://makezine.com/2017/01/25/seacharger/)

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