tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36454557721930460152024-03-13T01:25:28.013-07:00 Allyson Brown's AP English Lit BlogAllyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-32100428760891433402014-06-03T21:50:00.001-07:002014-06-03T21:50:50.345-07:00NUMBIt's less than 72 hours until I graduate from high school (I now have a countdown app on my phone #app4everything), and I feel as if school will resume next week. I don't feel any differently, but I do believe in the notion that I <i>should</i> feel differently because what I consider to be a big life milestone is about to happen. Maybe it's one of my mind's coping mechanisms, a way to avoid the string of emotions that precede and follow a big life moment like this. Family members are starting to arrive to support me, but it still isn't "sinking in." Maybe it never will...Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-78427624758299894712014-06-02T08:07:00.001-07:002014-06-02T09:11:16.877-07:00LAST ESSAY I step into a classroom with CD cases on one wall and graffiti on another. My first impression is that this room looks more like a performing and visual arts classroom rather than one where English Literature and Composition is taught. I was a skeptic when the year first started. You're giving me the freedom to control my education in this class? Yeah, right. How will other students not take advantage if the situation? <div> I guess I should have had a little more faith in humanity, something that actually changed with this blog called Restoring Faith in Humanity that I discovered during a period of independent learning. My opinion about my classmates and my faith in humanity continued to be change as recent as last week as I noticed a common theme of helping others physically (physical therapy and Bless You bags), psychologically (inspirational comics and graphic novels as well as tools to be well prepared for high school on blog called ClassyU), and socially (the warrior zone and increasing school pride). I was going under the assumption of a childhood book that told children "If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk," when I first began this class. </div><div> I can't speak for others about taking advantage of the classroom situation, but I can speak for myself. I would be lying if I said that I was never tempted, but part of contributing an opinion to what we want for the structure and curriculum of the course is feeling a sense of obligation afterwards to fulfill the demands we made in class and follow through with what we say.</div><div> </div>Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-43047003890675041142014-05-21T22:59:00.002-07:002014-05-21T22:59:42.875-07:00MASTERPIECE: GENETICS!!<a href="http://prezi.com/fgzuuf_6hwns/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share" target="_blank">Here's the link to the prezi</a> that went along with my masterpiece presentation. I wanted to provide some visuals to all of the talking that I am going to be doing.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-21470792617154566022014-05-05T19:59:00.000-07:002014-05-05T19:59:47.525-07:00A Little Inspiration Never Hurt AnyoneTwo things, a video and an article, inspired me this weekend: one source I found on my own, and one source was shared on Facebook.<br />
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Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" has been on a loop in my mind for the last week as the college decision deadline grows closer and closer. I can relate to it more now as "one traveler" who "stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth." Robert Frost chose the Must road, a road "less traveled by." I think I know which road I want to chose, but I am unsure if it is truly the Must road, or a Should road that I have convinced myself is a Must road. <br />
If I could, like I imagine most people would, I would attempt to turn around and would prefer not to look at the crossroads, not to commit to travel one way over the other. However, one way traffic on life's main streets prevents me from avoiding hard decisions like the one I am faced with, and even no decision can be counted as a decision.<br />
Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-78201324254181244832014-04-13T20:27:00.001-07:002014-04-13T20:27:56.884-07:00MACBETH ACT IV ACTIVE READING NOTES<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9nhZvt-77NqmdhEdrG5cC-Go3RVynPqH0VytF2vHRn95_c5BH-ekJoqXro-LN-kIxxkQCaqSfFkLFP7XCmTKEGU5RCocZX6TwSwBxAwhWMLL2sVVFkLesxhlJWBmBZffYkYKuJCKZ7k/s640/blogger-image--440454721.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9nhZvt-77NqmdhEdrG5cC-Go3RVynPqH0VytF2vHRn95_c5BH-ekJoqXro-LN-kIxxkQCaqSfFkLFP7XCmTKEGU5RCocZX6TwSwBxAwhWMLL2sVVFkLesxhlJWBmBZffYkYKuJCKZ7k/s640/blogger-image--440454721.jpg"></a></div>Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-26466488558992116572014-04-13T19:57:00.001-07:002014-04-13T19:57:50.745-07:00MACBETH ACT III ACTIVE READING NOTES<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7JRuUI9WxWOm0NI9tMczF0YGFwMJHeTmpb71tmSVaRdC4UKILEg70_UlwsBC_9pMnNYXtjBTq85tbNn5g4Vxg7cCtel7R70MkPQUpjBWLNk8G03B_JCZxJw9HGLLNUKkAybNnNgpPwSU/s640/blogger-image-125734474.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7JRuUI9WxWOm0NI9tMczF0YGFwMJHeTmpb71tmSVaRdC4UKILEg70_UlwsBC_9pMnNYXtjBTq85tbNn5g4Vxg7cCtel7R70MkPQUpjBWLNk8G03B_JCZxJw9HGLLNUKkAybNnNgpPwSU/s640/blogger-image-125734474.jpg"></a></div>Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-61574830398552700682014-04-13T19:04:00.000-07:002014-04-13T19:05:44.689-07:00MACBETH ACT II ACTIVE READING NOTES<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_VvjTYqBmhUKGOY9q2cagNpDhN6fLC6xd4AkjhhO_Sz83gge08AaV9E-cNOBuVJQ53lc5sO0ljCuN4VfSuSVmAJUoMahnVEu2rWSIUl6LxN7vErD1jLOcRHF-toTTq880hFW9a9DSZL8/s640/blogger-image--197786260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_VvjTYqBmhUKGOY9q2cagNpDhN6fLC6xd4AkjhhO_Sz83gge08AaV9E-cNOBuVJQ53lc5sO0ljCuN4VfSuSVmAJUoMahnVEu2rWSIUl6LxN7vErD1jLOcRHF-toTTq880hFW9a9DSZL8/s640/blogger-image--197786260.jpg"></a></div><br>
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Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-20520664926053962132014-04-13T17:55:00.002-07:002014-05-04T20:04:47.621-07:00POST #100!!!! (Pioneer Wagons to Planes)I am a pretty sentimental person, especially as a senior in high school when I start to realize some experiences will be happening for the last time in high school. With this in mind, I wanted my 100th post on this blog to be acknowledged; I am also all about the milestones. This may sound odd, but I didn't want it to go by as another assignment post; I wanted it to be special, so yay! 100th post! It certainly doesn't seem like that many...<br />
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I also will use this post to comment on a thought I had the other day. I was riding on a shuttle bus from LAX to a hotel, when I marveled at today's technology in the form of transportation. Yesterday, I woke up in New Jersey, had lunch in New York City, had dinner in New Jersey, and slept in my bed last night in California. It amazes me that there was a time when it took pioneer families (I'm expressing my childhood memories of reading <i>The Little House on the Prairie</i> by Laura Ingalls Wilder series here) months to travel half the distance that I traveled in six hours because today we have planes, and they had wagons drawn by oxen or horses. In addition, where they needed barrels and a wagon full of supplies, I only needed a water bottle, a package of Nutter Butters, a pair of headphones, and my calculus homework to get me through the flight from Newark to Los Angeles. <br />
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Just an insight into my thoughts, something special for the 100th post on my blog.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-20620146033358936862014-04-03T14:55:00.001-07:002014-04-03T14:55:29.837-07:00LOOK AT MY BRAIN I think things through for a long time. When I was little, it used to take me up to an hour to decide if I wanted to spend any of the allowance I had save up on a bracelet or a new toy, even some candy at the movie rental store. I don't like to make decisions until I have all of the facts and all of my feelings about the choices clearly laid out before me. For this reason, I wanted my masterpiece to be on genetics so that I could explore whether or not I would be interested in a career in this field before I choose to major in it in college and spend the next four to six years of my life studying the topic. This just shows how I think an prepare for things in the future.<div> My blog shows my creativity and collaboration. I wanted something "clean" as the background, something that wasn't too busy and distracted readers from the content of the blog. I also loved the idea of including a poem from my favorite poet Emily Dickinson whose location would be ironic on a blog. (It talks about how weird and annoying it must be to have the public know details about your life, which is exactly what happens when a person has a blog like I do). The collaboration can be seen in my introduction at the top of this blog page. Every person that has followed me from my AP English Literature and Composition course, I have followed them in return, and we comment on each other's posts sometimes to help one another our with grammar mistakes or questions about each other's work.</div>Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-12674038907014016452014-04-03T14:42:00.001-07:002014-05-21T18:37:11.639-07:00WHAT ABOUT MY MASTERPIECE?This past week, I haven't done as much research on my masterpiece topic of genetics as I would have liked to. I just want to state that I have school for five or more hours and then homework for another four hours, and then I have to fit dinner in there somewhere, not that this is an excuse because I always have time to research a passion, including genetics. I am just saying; Shakespeare had most of the day every day to work on his masterpieces. I will divulge that just recently, I read a really intriguing article about some innovations with genetic engineering that I will mention in my masterpiece presentation at the end of the year.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-91195825157443934962014-04-03T14:36:00.001-07:002014-04-03T14:36:00.507-07:00LOVE IS BLINDWhen Lady Macbeth hears of the prophecy that Macbeth will become king, she is enthusiastic and wants to kill the king himself. The audience sees Lady Macbeth as a power hungry individual, while Macbeth, blinded by his love for her thinks that she just wants the best for him, which she convinces him is to become king of Scotland. The audience sees her planning the visit from the king, and worrying over Macbeth's possible lack of inner strength that he needs in order to murder the king and take the crown for himself with Lady Macbeth at his side. Macbeth seems meek about confronting the wife whom he loves and standing up to her to say that he doesn't want to kill his cousin who has recently put all of this responsibility, trust, and honor on Macbeth's shoulders by giving him the title of the Thane of Cawdor.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-8114608607052674532014-04-02T14:01:00.001-07:002014-04-13T20:29:44.543-07:00MACBETH ACT I ACTIVE READING NOTESAct 1 Notes:<br>
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Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-91598842076484223672014-03-31T23:18:00.000-07:002014-03-31T23:18:21.639-07:00MEET MACBETHIn the beginning of the play, Macbeth is introduced through indirect characterization as this heroic figure in battle and a great killer for his country. This is revealed in a story of a battle that a visitor is describing to the king of Scotland, Duncan. Three witches foreshadow through their predictions of the fortunes of Macbeth and his cousin Banquo. They say that Macbeth will be a thane of Cawdor, and then, he will be king, while Banquo's children will be children. They basically give away the ending of the play, but they do not give away the means by which all of this occurs, which is the real story. Shakespeare's exposition includes characters like the witches and minor attendants who can make comments about Macbeth or his future, foreshadowing Macbeth's destiny and explaining his personality, but not foreshadowing the details of the play, only enough to keep the audience on their toes. Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-89342128188749355542014-03-31T20:38:00.001-07:002014-03-31T20:38:10.823-07:00LITERATURE ANALYSIS #31. For this literature analysis, I read <i>The Memory Keeper's Daughter</i> by Kimberly Edwards. The story is a bout a doctor who is forced to deliver his twins because of snowy weather. The second child, however, is a girl with Down syndrome. The year is 1964, and the doctor asks the nurse, who has had a crush on him for the longest time, to take the baby to an institution he knows of before his wife wakes up from the gas she is on to help with the pain of labor. It is revealed in a flashback that the doctor had a sister with Down syndrome who he idealized but who died young, and the doctor didn't want his wife or the first twin, his son, to go through that pain, and he didn't want to go through that pain again. The story then switches point of view from Doctor Henry to the nurse, Caroline Gill, who takes the baby to the recommended institution but can't bring herself to give the newborn away when she meets the people that work there and sees how they treat the "patients." Caroline, without really thinking about what she is doing, takes the baby back to her apartment, making friends with a trucker along the way. After a couple of days, she finds out that Dr. Henry told his wife, Norah, that their daughter, Phoebe, had died, and Mrs. Henry is having a memorial service for their dead daughter, who is really in the dresser drawer in Caroline's apartment. Caroline tells Dr. Henry that she kept the child and he gets angry. Caroline quits her job and cuts all ties with her life in that town and moves to Pittsburgh with Phoebe. The rest of the book takes snapshots of the lives of Paul, the first twin, and Phoebe, comparing their growth and development at a couple of months old, one year old, six years old, thirteen years old, eighteen years old, twenty-four years old, and twenty-five years old. The point of view was changed from character to character. In the end, (spoiler alert!) David dies suddenly of a heart attack after splitting up with Norah but before he tells her that Phoebe is still alive. When Paul and Phoebe are twenty-five years old, Caroline Gill comes to Norah and tells her that Phoebe is alive. The book ends with Paul and Phoebe bonding by singing at their father's grave, Paul putting the past behind and moving forward after spending years angry and resentful at his father and his life.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-38386070395090339082014-03-26T16:39:00.003-07:002014-03-26T16:39:35.612-07:00MY MACBETH RESOURCES1. The analysis and summary of <i>Macbeth</i> available on <a href="http://www.shmoop.com/macbeth/" target="_blank">Shmoop</a>.<br />
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2. Sparknotes, of course, has similar content on <i>Macbeth</i> as Shmoop, except <a href="http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/" target="_blank">here </a>Sparknotes provides a modern translation of Shakespeare's old-fashioned language for the play.<br />
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3. If you are really intrigued by <i>Macbeth</i>, you can spend three hours of your time watching<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570337/" target="_blank"> this <i>Macbeth </i>movie</a> starring Patrick Stewart as Macbeth.<br />
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4. There is also a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-PKotyoxys" target="_blank">Thug Notes video</a> on <i>Macbeth </i>where the narrator attempts to give a summary and short analysis of <i>Macbeth </i>in an entertaining way in hopes of making it easier to remember the complicated plot of the play.<br />
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5. This is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rjO0aI9Uuo" target="_blank">a video</a> that answers 10 questions about some confusing or thought-provoking topics in Macbeth.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-8247347157912481972014-03-25T08:39:00.001-07:002014-03-25T09:28:32.004-07:00Masterpiece Test (Benchmark)I guess I will go over the basics of genetics in this post. Genetic material comes in the form of DNA or RNA. DNA and RNA differ by the type of sugar uses in the structure of their backbone. DNA uses deoxyribose and RNA uses ribose. DNA is in the form of a double helix with two sugar and phosphate strands connected by a pair of nucleotide bases. The possible nucleotides of DNA are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. These are usually just represented by the first letter of each of the nucleotides: A, T, C, G. Because of their individual structures, adenine will always pair with thymine, and cytosine will always pair with guanine. Genes are certain nucleotide sequences of DNA or RNA that could consist or hundreds or thousands if base pairs. This leads me to genetics, the study of genes, which is the topic of my masterpiece and which I will elaborate on in future posts.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-40042326758587802502014-03-24T16:48:00.001-07:002014-03-24T17:34:42.631-07:00HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLDAfter watching the interview between Mike Wallace and Aldous Huxley, I have a lot more respect for Huxley and what he must have faced in regard to public opinion about his idea of what society could be like in the future in <i>Brave New World</i>. During the interview, Mike Wallace's tone when he asked some of his questions was skeptical when Aldous Huxley warned against our uses of technology. It changed my perspective on the novel because I fully realized how radical Aldous Huxley's concept of a future society was in <i>Brave New World</i>.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-39724445854947532012014-03-13T17:34:00.000-07:002014-03-13T17:34:16.048-07:00Resource(s) of the Day (AP Physics)We are covering a challenging unit in physics class right now, so each student in the class came up with two resources that help to explain and clarify some of the confusing and closely interrelated terms. Here are mine:<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9AsY79f1k" target="_blank">A video</a> by Derek Owens on electric potential and potential difference, he has some great videos that explain physics concepts and give examples. The link is to one of a couple of videos he has that teach electric potential and voltage.<br />
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<a href="http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/physics-special-focus-electrostatics.pdf" target="_blank">An AP Central CollegeBoard document</a> that discusses electrostatics. Electric potential energy and electric potential are explained starting on page 13.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-29602366537683126722014-03-10T20:14:00.001-07:002014-03-10T20:18:44.787-07:00One (Wo)Man's Trash Is Another (Wo)Man's Treasure #2This is the second post where I have focused on the re-purposing of unwanted materials or trash into useful items. Here is <a href="http://allysonbrown.blogspot.com/2014/02/one-mans-trash-is-another-mans-treasures.html" target="_blank">the first post</a>.<br />
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I can't remember how I stumbled upon this, but<a href="http://trendspiration.blogspot.com/2010/11/margaux-lange-dead-barbie-jewelry.html" target="_blank"> this blog</a> mentioned a jeweler named Margaux Lange who uses salvaged Barbie doll parts to create her jewelry! I have to say it's not my style, but I think that it's really interesting and creative. Check out <a href="http://www.margauxlange.com/" target="_blank">Margaux Lange's website here</a> to see her Barbie jewelry in the form of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, and brooches! Meanwhile, here are some sample pictures of her jewelry:<br />
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1) This<a href="http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/shedding-light-pain" target="_blank"> Stanford research</a> about possible new treatments for pain using light. This will contribute to the list I am compiling of some of the important past accomplishments and present research in genetics.<br />
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2) I found a type of <a href="http://www.marianmedicalcenter.org/find_a_doctor/doctor_and_specialist/index.htm?plMode=details&physicianId=2018147&doctorName=Laurence%20E%20Shields,%20M.D.&pageTitle=Laurence%20E%20Shields,%20M.D.%20Maternal/Fetal%20Medicine%20Santa%20Maria,%20CA&description=View%20information%20for%20Laurence%20E%20Shields,%20M.D.,%20who%20specializes%20in%20Maternal/Fetal%20Medicine,%20and%20whose%20practice%20is%20in%20Santa%20Maria,%20CA" target="_blank">genetic counselor</a> here in this town! Maybe I can ask him about his occupation and see if this could be a career I am interested in pursuing with my interest in genetics.<br />
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3) This is<a href="http://www.hg.med.umich.edu/faculty/david-t-burke-phd" target="_blank"> a guest speaker</a> that I met at the summer program I attended last summer. He was researching the gene responsible for height in mice to see if he could relate its location to the location of the gene responsible for height in humans. <br />
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4) This is <a href="http://www.genetics.org/" target="_blank">a genetics journal website</a> that has a lot of information about the ongoing or completed research of many geneticists. It's an excellent site for the list I am compiling of some of the important past accomplishments and present research in genetics.<br />
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5) This <a href="http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook" target="_blank">website</a> contains a lot of information about genetics, including the location of certain genes, a listing of genetic disorders, and types of genetic testing. This will definitely help with my research for my masterpiece by providing a lot of general information I can use and learn from.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-84786562202117423942014-03-10T19:48:00.000-07:002014-03-10T19:48:01.451-07:0010 QUESTIONSThis is the part of my masterpiece that I am unsure about, but here goes:<br />
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1) What interests you the most about genetics?<br />
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2) What do you think is the most important accomplishment the study of genetics has made so far?<br />
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3) What possible careers are there for someone interested in genetics?<br />
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4) What is the best piece of advice you have for someone for pursuing a career in genetics?<br />
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5) What does a typical day in your profession entail?<br />
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6) Where do you think the role of genetics in society and the world will be in ten years? Twenty?<br />
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7) Are you doing any particular research right now? If yes, on what?<br />
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8) Did you consider any other courses of study besides genetics in undergraduate and graduate college?<br />
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9) What is one downside to your work with genetics, or the career you chose in general?<br />
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10) Do you believe that gene therapy will cure all types of cancer one day?Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-11574115513479229032014-03-10T10:25:00.001-07:002014-03-10T19:48:17.072-07:00BENCHMARKLast summer I attended a math and science summer program at the University of Michigan to discover more about regenerative medicine. Instead, I became intrigued by genetics.<br />
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If I am considering pursuing a career in genetics, I need to know what types of careers are out there in the field of genetics. That is the main topic of my masterpiece: what a future with a passion for genetics may hold as well as a look at what genetics has already achieved. I actually just recently wrote an essay for a <br />
<a name='more'></a>scholarship from the DNA Diagnostics Center where I had to predict where the study of DNA would be in five, ten, and twenty years. I hit two birds with one stone by writing the essay for the scholarship and doing research for the essay that also helped me with my masterpiece research to find a couple of resources.</div>
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I still need to contact an expert in genetics or career in genetics, like genetic counseling. One of the problems is finding an expert like this in our smallish town. I do have the email of a research scientist in genetics who came during that summer program to give a speech on determining the gene responsible for height in mice because its location could be similar to the location of the gene responsible for height in humans. The main problem I have is actually contacting the experts; I love the concept of contacting them and forming those connections, but I don't know what to talk to them about, what to ask them.</div>
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I'm also going to have so much information about or relating to genetics that I don't know how I am going to condense it or even begin to organize it into a comprehensible presentation. This brings me to my other obstacle. Genetics is a bit of a complicated topic for those students that haven't taken biology or AP biology recently, and I want everyone in class to be able to understand the accomplishments or my interest in genetics, something that will be hard to understand if they don't understand what DNA and genes are.</div>
Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-12236665969916020462014-03-10T01:57:00.002-07:002014-03-10T19:48:46.599-07:00BRAVE NEW WORLD ENDING (REMIX)My interpretation of the ending of <i>Brave New World</i> by Aldous Huxley/my reaction through images.<br />
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<br />Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3645455772193046015.post-21685202322524368942014-02-27T22:59:00.001-08:002014-02-27T23:02:11.830-08:00LITERATURE ANALYSIS #2<b>1.</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">I read <i>The Jungle</i> by Upton Sinclair. In <i>The Jungle</i> by
Upton Sinclair, Jurgis and his family are a group of Lithuanian immigrants who
travel to America in the early 1900's to fulfill the American Dream, only to
find...</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ju</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">st the opposite of that dream in the industrial and bustling city of
Chicago. This filthy and miserable city
changes their views as they uncover the dirty secrets of the meatpacking
industry as well as the competitive dog-eat-dog world of getting a job as a
wage laborer and keeping it. Jurgis
himself experiences the variety of ways to earn money in that time period as he
goes from working at various wage labor jobs in factories to working for
wealthy and corrupt politicians to making a living through crime. In the end, he finally lands himself a job as
a porter in a hotel and becomes a strong supporter of the socialist party. This
book also illustrates the risks and deadly consequences intertwined with life
in this time period. Jurgis's wife dies
from childbirth since she is weak from the damp working conditions at her
factory. His son dies from drowning in
mud on streets with unsafe sidewalks, and his father works himself to death
with the fast-paced work demanded at the factories. Eventually, the children find work selling
newspapers, and near the end, Jurgis's cousin, Marija, becomes a prostitute to
help pay the bills. Throughout all this,
the family is tricked into buying a house which they soon find they can't
afford because of interest and hidden costs, they are “blacklisted” so no
superintendent wants them as employees, and Jurgis twice resorts to alcohol to
drown his sorrows and misery, as many men of that time did. The book also details how poor the majority
of the city's community is as thousands of unemployed wait outside the gates of
factories day after day, hoping for a job opening.</span><br />
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<b>2.</b> The theme is that at that time, the American dream was just that: a dream, and American society is judgmental and corrupt. Immigrants during that time were expecting to make a new life in America, and ended up stuck between a rock and a hard place until death brought them release from their miserable lives.</span><br />
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<b>3.</b> Upton Sinclair's tone in the novel is critical and hopeless. This is apparent from excerpts like, "It seemed strange, even terrible, when you came to find out the universality of the sentiment; but it was certainly the fact - they hated their work...Women and little children would fall to cursing about it; it was rotten, rotten as hell - everything was rotten," (Page 48) and "now, however, since they had come to the new country, all this was changing; it seemed as if there must be some subtle poison in the air that one breathed here." (Page 12)</span><br />
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<b>4.</b> <u>Foreshadowing </u>- The biggest hint is given to Jurgis's family of their fate in America from other immigrants that have already lived in America for a number of years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"When Jurgis would ask them what they meant, they would begin to get suspicious, and content themselves with saying, ' Never mind, you stay here and see for yourself.' " (Page 48)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Simile</u> - Describing Jurgis's fast and frantic attitude through his running</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"He ran like one possessed, blindly, furiously, looking neither to the right nor left." (Page 126)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Rhetorical Questions</u> - Used persuasively by Sinclair to evoke empathy in the reader against the cruel slaughter of hogs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"And now was one to believe the there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these hog squeals and agonies had a meaning? Who would take this hog into his arms and comfort him, reward him for his work well done, and show him the meaning for his sacrifice?" (Page 30)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Symbolism</u> - The description of the cattle being led to the slaughter is a symbol for the family slowing being lead to a figurative slaughter, where they are trapped in the city with a miserable life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"There were groups of cattle being driven to the chutes, which were roadways about fifteen feet wide, raised high above the pens. In these chutes the stream of animals was continuous; it was quite uncanny to watch them, pressing on to their fate, all unsuspicious - a very river of death. Our friends were not poetical , and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all." (Page 27)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Idiom</u> - The words feel to Jurgis like he is being stabbed with a knife, but he is not actually being stabbed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"And every word of it...stabbed him like a knife." (Page 184)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Parallelism</u> - Used in this sentence to produce a flowing description of the hogs, a symbol for the immigrant families.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights!" (Page 29)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Imagery</u> - This is a vivid description of what visitors to a meat-packing factory would see and hear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"At the same instant the car was assailed by a most terrifying shriek...The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing...until there was a double line of them, each dangling by a foot and kicking in frenzy - and squealing. The uproar was appalling, perilous to the eardrums...There were high squeals and low squeals, grunts, and wails of agony; there would come a momentary lull, and then a fresh outburst, louder than ever, surging up to a deafening climax." (Page 29)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>CHARACTERIZATION</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>1.</b> <u> Direct characterization</u> - "Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse." (Describing Marija's determination) (Page 11)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"She wore a muslin dress, conspicuously white, and a stiff little veil coming to her shoulders...Ona was blue-eyed and fair." (Describing Ona's appearance on her wedding day)</span><br />
<u>Indirect characterization</u> - "She works in a canning factory, and allday long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds." (Describing Marija's both inner and outer strength) (Page 6)<br />
Upton Sinclair mainly uses direct characterization because his main focus is the conditions and lives of the people, so he is very blunt about what they look like and what their general personality is every time a new character is introduced.<br />
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<b>2.</b> No, my author stays fairly steady with his syntax and diction patterns, much like a reporter telling the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the individuals as facts needed to be made clear to the general public. For example, in the excerpt, "When in the end Tamoszius Kuszleika has reached her side, and is waving his magic wand above her, Ona's cheeks are scarlet, and she looks as if she would have to get up and run away. In this crisis, however, she is saved by Marija Berczynskas, whom the muses suddenly visit," (Page 6) Upton Sinclair keeps constant with his style.<br />
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<b>3.</b> Jurgis, the protagonist, is a dynamic character because the throughout the book, he has more and more experiences that disillusion him from the American dream and life that he thought he would be living, changing his perspective of life and his opinion of America. Jurgis is a round character. The reader is able to experience his emotions and his motives for his actions. The reader also knows his background and his general personality enough to not be surprised with how he handles some of the heartbreaking or discouraging events in the book.<br />
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<b>4.</b> Even though Jurgis is a round and dynamic character, after reading the book, I still felt like I had only read a character. I think part of this is because Sinclair only intended for the reader to connect to the character enough to sympathize with them when they faced the harsh conditions of the American society of the time period. Sinclair's main purpose was to inform the reader of those harsh conditions in a hope to activate a call for change in the large cities of the Industrial Revolution.Allyson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09897893460727662136noreply@blogger.com0