Hello my name is Andrew Shirk I'm currently back in school to study computer science and web devolpment. I have previously attended classes at Collin College for game design and game art. Since leaving school I have been working as a shift manager and catering manager for Potbelly's.
These are assignments I did for part 1 throughout this semester:
These are assignments I did in class throughout this semester:
At the moment I call Texas home and while living here I have enjoyed visiting a lot of parts of the state. The three areas of the state that I am going to talk about here are the city of San Antonio, DFW metro and the Austin metro.
Pictured above is the Alamo which is in San Antonio and is the most well known of the missions there. It is one of the notable sites from the texas revolution where it is estimated that over 200 Texans died trying defend it from the Mexican army. The Texans where lead by James Bowie, William Travis and Davy Crockett. The Mexican army was lead by Santa Anna. The conflict went on for 13 days before Santa Anna and the Mexican army took the Alamo and claimed victory.
Above is a picture of the JFK memorial in downtown Dallas near Dealey Plaza. On November 22nd, 1963 on a visit to Dallas President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while ridding in his presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. It is believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was the one who shot the President from the Texas School Book Depository by this is still unknown because he was killed before making it to trial and they believed that he was the shooter so they closed the case. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn is as the President after John F. Kennedy died.
The above picture the Texas Capitol building which is located on the Texas Confederate Memorial Lawn. It was started in 1882 and completed on December 8th, 1888. It was designed by architect E. E. Myers from Detroit. If you would like more information about visiting and taking tours of the Capitol click here
I have visited Mississippi a few times while I was younger but I was too young to remember any details from those visits. I have since gone back to the state to visit once just over a year ago now. While I was there I mainly spent my time in Vicksburg.
This is the archway that is at the entry of the Vicksubrg National Military Park. The city of Vicksburg was labeled by Union General Ulysses S. Grant as the key to the south because of it's strategic location on the Mississippi River and became a critical point for both sides to want to control in order to control the river. General Ulysses S. Grant began his Vicksburg campaign in 1862. After several victories over the Confederate troops lead by John C. Pemberton he reached the outskirts of Vicksburg. After failing to take Vicksburg quickly and cleanly he decided to lay seige to the city after a 47 day seige and several scraps John C. Pemberton surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. Click here for more details about visiting the military park.
I have been to Pennsylvania a number of times as it is where my family is from and many of them still live there. Most of the times I visit there I go to Pittsburgh.
This is a picture overlooking point state park in Pittsburgh which is where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers come together to become the Ohio River. The park was orginally the location of Fort Duquesne which only the granite outline still remains. A newer stucture which was named Fort Pitt was built on the site in 1764 and still stands there to this day. The new Fort Pitt is now a museum that you can visit to see the history of the site and see how people lived back in the days when the fort was in use.
I have visited the state of Oklahoma a number of times as it is very close to where I live in north Texas but during all of my visits one place has really stuck out to me and it is the bombing memorial site in downtown Oklahoma City. I had not been there until just this past spring and it was one of those places you can't forget given what all happened there. The memorial is on the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building which was bombed on April 19th, 1995 and was the deadliest act of homegrown terrosim in U.S. history. The death toll was 168 people. On the left side of the picture on the grass sites 168 empty chairs one for each victim of the attack. The outside memorial is free to visit but there is also a museum in the part of the building that is still standing that pays tribute to the victims, surivors and first responders who helped with the aftermath that day.