EOC Week 3: Jeopardy

Jeopardy is a great game. It is the game for the smart and intelligent. I always watch the game on television and I feel that the questions that the players answer are always hard. I never realized that building the question and making sure the question is properly structured is a big issue. Making the question requires a thought process that equals to a “what is” answer. I found that using definitions that had more than one word in them such as “date of application” was sort of tricky and always read wrong after written. The game is always hard to build because you need to create an easy to hard environment such as one hundred dollar to a five hundred dollar question. Making sure the question is harder is a critical point of building a successful Jeopardy game. In the real game, it seems like the questions are super hard but for this educational purpose, I think this is a great way or learning definitions for our copyright, trademark, and patents class. I think making the game is hard, but it will pay off later when we actually take the test and are able to use the game as a reference for learning.

EOC Week 2: What do you think of lawyers?

I personally think lawyers are great people especially when it comes to money. It’s definitely a money gamble and money hungry type of game. There are tons of cases and situations out there that many of us know of and there are tons of cases out there that could have a potential case with lots of money on the table. I think it’s great how lawyers make their money and how they can jump the price of a settlement amount from point a to point b and be able to pay off their home. It’s also crazy how lawyers sometimes don’t make any money for years and spend years on a case and have to live at bare minimum and be able to support themselves plus pay large fees to get info and invest into a case. Personally, I would never be a lawyer because it’s kind of a gamble. It’s one of those professions that I think isn’t stable if you end up not being a good lawyer. I know for a fact that there are good lawyers and there are bad lawyers. I had a lawyer once represent me in a car accident case that was valued at six thousand dollars. Another lawyer that estimated my settlement at fourteen thousand dollars. With the difference in amounts, I was thinking “is this a good lawyer or a bad lawyer.” I went ahead and paid out the retainer fees for the 14k lawyer and he took 45% of my settlement which I did not read in the fine print. I then went to a contract lawyer to see if I could somehow reverse that contract, but it was my responsibility to know what I was signing. So in my sense, there are definitely shady lawyers who don’t release all the info verbally or who don’t let you understand it. They sometimes take advantage of their clients.

EOC Week 1: About Me

ABOUT ME

Hi my name is Ryan Fernandez, I am web designer who loves to make user friendly and out of the box websites. I was inspired into this business by making designs for entertainment companies who needed marketing material for print. I soon realized that marketing has more than graphical elements print so I decided to pursue web design as a business and a degree. The web design industry is a very competitive market and I feel my ideas and logic decisions play a big role in the industry. There are many people out there who do web design and make it a business or work for a company. Many of them have a degree or have lots of past experience to do this type of work. I feel that going to school and pursuing a degree, puts me in a better position and makes me an asset to a company. There are a lot of $500 web designers out there who build a web site from a template and edit and launch to the world wide web. I love building a website from scratch. I love branding a company and making sure there identity creates an image that fits there look and company. A custom website for any company is ideal instead of using those templates that everyone around the world uses is what everyone these days should be doing. I feel that there is no possible way to learn all the languages web design offers, but I feel that you should only learn them if you need to know them.