Rachel Carson : Silent Spring

DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, is an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans that was made illegal in the United States in 1972. This insecticide became more proclaimed in the world after the novel Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published in 1962.  In the first chapter, Carson took it on her own time to survey the research on pesticides that lead her to question in her novel “What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America?” (Carson 3). She gave the world a fictional image on what will happen if things keep going the way they were. I believe Carson’s novel was a great way to explain to the government her examples of environmental damage and how banning DDT will help our air, land, and water.

Silent Spring identified how poisons of recent designs were going up at the rate of five hundred a year and how they were appointed short and long term effects on humans and species. They gave an introduction on what the causes are of the problem of pesticides and other chemical poisons in the states. Carson states in her novel, “We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts.”(Carson 13). With this statement she is aiming for a persuasive way to show the information to the reader and prove the dangers of the present course of action and to urge the reader to actually take action and do something about it.                    

D.A.T.A on teen abortions

I was able to find a website giving me all of the information of abortions up to 2006 and it was very shocking to understand the increases/decreases. The percentages of the states are very interesting to see which ones have fewer and which have highest rates. The table that is located in the website was very detailed data that said what age, what race, and what state the teen girls lived in. To me abortion is a very controversial and depends on a person’s morals and religion.

• The 2006 teenage abortion rate was 19.3 abortions per 1,000 women. This figure was 56%

lower than its peak in 1988, but 1% higher than the 2005 rate.

• From 1986 to 2006, the proportion of teenage pregnancies ending in abortion declined almost

one-third, from 46% to 32% of pregnancies among 15–19-year-olds.

Teenage abortion rates were highest in New York (41 per 1,000), New Jersey, Nevada,

Delaware and Connecticut.

• By contrast, teenagers in South Dakota (6 per 1,000), Utah, Kentucky, Nebraska and North

Dakota all had abortion rates of eight or fewer per 1,000 women aged 15–19

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/USTPtrends.pdf

What is LIFE?

As humans we sometimes only see life as

the point where someone gives birth to a human being or a animal gives birth to a child. But life can also look like a chemical experiment that takes over a lab. All living things at one point have to die, but in the way of saying dying it can also mean that they begin again, from a tiny cell, and they find the elments they need to reproduce. While humans and animals are living and doing exactly what we can see, it takes more for us to understand if viruses and prions are living or not. Viruses are non living organisms but efficent to parasties that like living cells and turn them into an area to make

more viruses. Unlike cells, viruses and prions are acellular

agents of infections they are nonliving parasites that require a living host to reproduce.

DIET,DIET,DIET--BLOOD TYPES

Blood types are connected to our key genetic story line and we are all sharing a common bond with our ancestors. The three different blood types O,A,and B  have many different foods and exercise's that would help their individual lifestyle.

Type O

-lean, chemical-free meats

-poultry

-fish
-kelp
-seafood
-iodized salt

-berries

-plums

-eliminate dairy foods and eggs

-avoid food like cabbage,brussels sprouts,califlowe, mustard green (contain thyroid hormone)


Type A
-nuts/seeds

-beans

-legumes

-Tofu
-small amounts of yogurt,kefir nonfat sourcream
-vegetables
-potatoes,yams,cabbage,tomatoes,peppers
-mangos,papya,oranges


Type B
-meat, NO chicken
-dairy
-grains
-beans
-legumes
-vegetables
-fruit
-greens
-eggs
-licorice

-tea

-avoid corn, lentil,peanuts,sesame,seeds,buckwheat,wheat

http://www.drlam.com/blood_type_diet/ ---CHART with weight loss and diet for O,A,B,AB blood types

MITOCHONDRIAL EVE

Who is Mitochondrial Eve?

The theory of Mitochondrial Eve refers to the woman from who all the living humans today descend from. We all come from our mother's side and follow the chain of mothers until the line is back to one person. Mitochondrial Eve is to be said that she lived in the Sub-Saharan Africa.There is controversy throughout the scientist saying that one person can't be the starter of everyone and then some who say she is the one and Africa is the most diverse thats why she was from there. 

1.Russian-fair/lighter hair, green/blue eyes

2.India- Dark Complextion, Dark Hair, Skinny

3.Swedish -Pale complexion, blonde hair, blue or green eyes.

4.Chinese- Brown eyes, Brown Hair, Rounded face and chin

5.German-light/blonde hair, blue or green eyes, average height

floooowwer { LOLA }

She started as just a seed but after feeding her with water and setting her in the window seal she began to grow just like a child! This was only like a week or two, now she is growing faster and faster soon i am going to have to get her a new pot! More pictures soon!

MARCH 22,2011

She is growing rapidly and out of control! I can't believe how big she is! hopefully she will continue to grow!

to extreme EXTREMOPHILES

An extremphile is an organism that can strive under very extreme conditions. Extremophiles come in all shapes and sizes.

Alkaiphile-- an organism that grows best at high pH values, values above 9, often between 10-12 but cannot grow or grow only slowly at the neutral





Endoliths-- are organisms that live inside rocks or in pores between mineral grains, many are autrotophs (meaning they are able to make their own organic compounds by utilizing gas or dissolved nutrients from water moving through rock)

Xerophile-- an organism capable of growth at very low water activity, the environments range in temperature from very hot to very cold.

Deductive AND Inductive Reasoning

Deductive reasoning: given a general conclusion or principle, one determines specific consequences or applications

-starts with generals truths and moves to specific conclusions

-it is explained with statements known or believed to be ture and continues with predicitons for specific observations supporting the facts

-concerned with testing or comfirming a hypothesis

-logic is more athoritize in the method

Inductive reasoning: given a specific hypothesis or observation, one combines observation and prior knowledge to reach a general conclusion.

-not so specific details but to more general underlying principles or process that explains them.

-more of the "scientific method"

-begin with the specific observations and measures, begin to detect patterns ,formulate some tentative hypothesis to explore and end up developing some general conclusions or theory

Communication? What's That?

When I first walked into class it caught me a little off gaurd that Dr.Rood was speaking Spanish and made us copy and try to translate what he was saying. Then after making a fool out of myself trying to act out "the quick red fox jumps over the brown lazy dog" I started to understand the main reason of the exercises and how communication in the real world is so important. I myself am a very visual learner therefore being able to see Dr.Rood making the paper footballs during class was easier to understand rather than hearing him explain it. Without communication we would be not be able to get our meaning across as easy as we can by just saying it. By communicating our thoughts and ideas we become a better learning world and more occupied to what goes on around us.

Jan 21:The quick red fox jumps over the brown lazy dog.

Communication is a vital part of our life .I believe that if we communicate in life well with people we are able to better understand what people around us want, need, and see from us. It is very important since it is the communication that helps humans to connect with each other as individuals and as groups. It also plays a role in process of knowledge also, it helps the educator and the students to interact with each other. But most importantly I think that communication helps in the process of decision making. Without communication the world be be totally different. Think if all people were walking around sucking their thumbs at a older age?

The quick red fox jumps over

the brown lazy dog.