You got the whole ocean to maneuver your  ships but you had to crash them and take out a city with the crash great job…… ( claps slowly).

On December 6 1917 the SS Mont-Blac a French cargo ship loaded with explosives collided with a Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. After the crash a fire on board the Mont-Blac ignited the explosives on the ship for the war. This explosion was so big to took the Richmond district of Halifax and took around 2,000 lives from debris and the shock. It also estimated that it injured 9,000 people also. This explosion was so big it was the biggest explosion ever before the first A-bomb was tested. Well if PLP fashion we were assigned to make a news report for the Halifax explosion so here it is enjoy.

For the past week in the PLP program we have been working on an investigation on a solider in World War 1. The solider that I researched is called Frederick William Hall. Hall was born on the date February 21, 1885. He was in the unit Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment). Hall was in the 8th division and was 30 years old.

Hall was in the battle of Ypres on the date 24th April, 1915. As Hall was fighting he saw a wounded solider some 15 yards away from him. On the first attempt to get to the wounded solider fail he made it the second time. The other two solider that where helping the wounded man got injured from enemy fire. Hall in his bravery went to the wounded solider and tried to carry him to his friendly trench. Right when Hall made it to his trench he got shot in the back from enemy fire and died. Hall was  rewarded the Victoria cross for his actions.

As you may know about two months ago our PLP class did a trip down to Oregon and Washington state to do a study on the Manhattan project. For the trip students where split up into groups that all had different topics but where all related to the Manhattan project. Our schedule for the trip was pretty straight forward.

Wednesday, September 21: drive to Portland

Thursday, September 22: Reed collage; Columbia River Gorge: Mary hill museum of art.

Friday, September 23: Hanford- pre war historic sites tour and the reach museum.

Saturday, September 24 Hanford reactor tour and drive back home.

The group I was in we did the secrecy of the Manhattan Project and I thought the topic was very interesting and fascinating on what we learned and gathered on the trip. At the time of war the Hanford site was the most top secret place in the world. Imagine the government keeping a 600 square mile chunk of land that had 9 nuclear reactors producing plutonium for the nuclear bombs used on Japan from the public and not even one secret was let out, pretty impressive right?. As you are still reading this I guess you are quite interested to see the project so here it is enjoy.

 
My role in the project was mostly recording interviews and asking the questions in the interviews. The creation process for the project was really everyone in the group coming together and sharing their ideas till everyone agreed to an idea then we would execute it. The only thing I would have done differently next time is get better audio such as using a mic on all the interviews instead on only some of them.

The killing of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was the spark that led to the start of World War 1. After the killing things went down hill very fast as country’s started to declare war everywhere as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and all their alliances started to join in. In my Explain Everything that I made it explains why the killing of Franz Ferdinand was the spark of World War 1 and what country’s where involved in the war.