*!_October Skyy Blog_!*

Recently, the movie October Sky has been viewed. It has come to my attention that it contains an inspirational message within it for all. This message is that all should strive for their dreams no matter what conflicts come in contact with them. October Sky can be summarized as a boy name Homer Hickam, who was first inspired by the successful launch of the satellite called Sputnik. As a result, he gained a passion for science, more specifically however rocket ships. Growing up in a small town, Homer was assigned an occupation as a worker in a gold mine. All children who grew up in Coalwood, West Virginia were originally suppose to be gold mine workers, but Homer had a different plan for his future. While in high school he studied several designs for rocket ships. Besides just studying, he as well conducted experiments in launching his original designed rocket to find the height, speed, and more information about this hand-built rocket ship. During his experimental time, he and his friends were accused of causing a forest fire by one of their test rockets. They had to then put a pause to their creating of their rocket. Later on, with advanced math skills Homer proved his and his friends innocence, and that they did not create the forest fire. With that, Homer and his friends continued on trying to accomplish their dreams of building a model rocket from scratch. However, Homer did not accomplish this independently, he had some of his friends who supported him, take part in this soon to be achievement. In spite of this, other than Homer's friends, no one supported him in his dream to build a rocket ship. Even his two parents did not support him at all times. His mother later came around to supporting whatever her son had hopes in having success in. Almost all students though, called Homer and his friends name, but that did not effect the outcome and determination of Homer. In addition, later on in the movie, after Homer's skills become more and more enhanced, he enters a science fair and eventually wins and receives the prize of a scholarship. Within this movie there are many words that can be represented with actions. For example, cooperation, assertion, respect, empathy, and self-control. These words together form an acronym for CARES. Such as, Homer and his friends cooperate together to make the award winning rocket, prize worthy. They as well were assertive and kept continuing on working through the hard times they went through, such as having almost the whole school make fun of them. Homer, during his process of creating such a unique rocket, gained respect from his mom and got her over to his side, having her support him. Empathy was shown when most felt sorrowful during the time when Homer was accused of a forest fire and could not continue on building his rocket. During this time too, Homer controlled himself to not take revenge knowing he was innocent. Overall, this movie gave me a new way to view life and gave me a great inspiration.

*!_ Blog about blog : down syndrome _!*

Recently, I have read a blog about the genetic disorder of down syndrome. It has come to me that down syndrome is a rare and only found in one out of every seven hundred and forty people. Though this disease is rare, it is still found in some people making life hard for them, their family, and the people close to them. Because of the slow growth, mental retardation, heart defects, and more, life because a difficult challenge for those who experience the dreadful disorder. My sympathy for those who unfortunately have down syndrome is overflowing with emotions. I can not imagine having something like that to deal with in my life. With school, sports, and having a social life, everything already seems so overwhelming, but to have to deal with a severe disorder, such as, down syndrome as well, seems unrealistic. Since this disorder was founded in 1959, people have been dealing with this drastic conflict within their lives for about fifty years. This disease however, will continue to conflict peoples lives until a cure is found. Although now, a cure is not to be. Overall, the people who experience down syndrome and the people that are close or who's lives are altered because of this, have my sympathy.




http://mooselover1892.blogspot.com/2009/05/down-syndrome.html

Genetic Disorder : Celiac Disease

There are several varieties of people in the world. Some unfortunately have genetic disorders. An example of a genetic disorder is celiac disease. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine that occurs in genetically predisposed people of all ages. It was first founded in 1887 in Europe, specifically in London. This disorder can cause many unwanted symptoms. For instance, abdominal bloating and pain, chronic diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, weight loss, and pale, foul-smelling, or fatty stool. The exact cause of this disease is not very well-known. However, it seems the genes within the cell that causes celiac disease include first-degree relative genes with the condition. Because the cause of this disease is not clear, the treatment only found so far is a gluton-free diet. If someone is diagnosed with this disorder they must avoid gluton foods. This includes all forms of wheat: rye, barley, and triticale must be eliminated. If any of the types of foods stated above are consumed they become toxic to those who with the disease. It only is toxic to one out of one hundred and thirty-three people. The reason for this is because that is just how common this disorder is. Western Europe and the United states, however, experience this disease mostly because it is most found in those areas. Even though the symptoms can not cause death, the mortality is three times higher than those of general population. Childhood though, suffers long-term mortality. This disease is not fun and unfortunate for all who have it.

DNA Lab Conclusion

My hypothesis was that if the DNA's color, and amount is changed, then it will be because of the ingredients added. My hypothesis was correct because when adding the alcohol, the color of the plant color DNA lightened in behalf of that the alcohol color is clear. In addition, the amount as well changed because of the alcohol. This is because when adding the alcohol, more DNA was created and the level of liquids raised. I expected for my hypothesis to be true. I thought this because of all liquids I know of, when mixed together or having another ingredient added to the solution the amount of liquid increases because you are adding, resulting in more solution.

Some variables that may have affected the outcome or results are the color of the ingredients, the temperature in the room or container the DNA was kept within. Also, all the ingredients added to the DNA effected the solution because without those ingredients the solutions would not be correct. Each ingredient that had an effect was the detergent, salt, meat tenderizer, and alcohol. Plus, the time each ingredient was added could have effected the solution because it if there was a lot of time between when each part was added then the result could possibly been different. However, other variables could have been the type of each element. For example, different brands of detergent could have been used.

While performing this experiment I learned that plant DNA is more complicated and complex then animal DNA. This is because plants have more copies of genes then animals. Plants have four different genes, while animals only have two. I as well learned that fat, sugar, and protein, are located in plant DNA, and the factors added to this DNA help obliterate these three items. For instance, the detergent breaks up fats and liquids. It is also taking out the cell membrane. The meat tenderizer on the other hand, broke the protein tissue. Plus, chromosome is formed when DNA wraps around the protein and to make it so that does not occur, the detergent is added. The salt, saturates the solution and the molecules. The bigger molecules become very uncomfortable because of this. DNA happens to be the biggest molecule, located in the nucleus. To make it so the DNA is not completely uncomfortable the alcohol is added. Alcohol separates molecules so they become more comfortable. In the end, this experiment was fun and interesting and I learned an abundance about plant DNA, and DNA overall.

My Roller Coaster Website

One Life To Live

Science Blog on Website

Lately in class, we have been focusing on Newtons Laws of Motion. Along with that, we have been using these laws to construct roller coasters. In addition, once these roller coasters have been completed you are to make a website containing information of your roller coaster as if it were a real life situation. This website was made at www.webs.com. Once creating this site, you are to put information up on hours your roller coaster runs, admission, contact information, and more. However, on this website you can do much more than just putt pictures up. You can put music of almost any song you can think of, upload videos, such as your roller coaster in action, and you can have a calendar and put important dates you may need to remember. Plus, you can customize this website and make it your style. Choose a template, and what information is posted, and you can also put widgets. Widgets are informative and fun. For example, you can get maps, new feeds, pulls, counters, games, and more. You can even access the whole world from where you are. In the end, this project is fun and has a lot of fascinating and entertaining features you can put onto your website.



http://webs.com/pages/features/

Social Studies Blog #3

We all know McDonald's as a popular fast food place. However, it is not only just located in the United States, or in general North America, it is also located in other countries and continents. For example, three hundred McDonald's restaurants are said to be put in China within the next year. Besides these three hundred McDonald's, there are already some in China. In 2008, there was one hundred and forty-six McDonald's placed in China. In 2012, there is a prediction that there will be thirty thousand McDonald's worldwide. Its popularity does not just come from the commercials, but by the good tasting food as well. Although in China, there are different choices and options of food, then here, in North America, more specifically is New Jersey. All in all, McDonald's we all know now is very popular, but soon to come, like in 2012, McDonald's will be even more known worldwide, but mostly the biggest increase in China.



http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6902287