Why their should be GMO labeling!

Why should their be GMO labeling? I think that their should definitely be GMO labeling. GMO stand for genetically modified organisms. What exactly is GMO? A genetically modified organisms is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using generic engineering techniques. GMO's commonly have ; bacteria, yeast, insects, plants, fish, and mammals. Some other things that  have happened to your food! Genetic engineering, genetic modification, horizontal gene transfer, molecular cloning, recombinant DNA, and genetic transformation. So basically what is happening to your food is they are altering it. Not only are GMOs in your food but they are also in medications and biofeul. With all the chemicals and engineering the U.S is using today, I think people should aware of what is in their food. Wether you think people care or not , people want to know if their food has been tampered with. By not putting GMO labeling you would not only be deceiving the consumer but you would be deceiving yourself as well. Why should their be GMO labeling? 1. Because it is DESTROYING billions of peoples health, 2. it is wrong to try to recreate what God has already created, 3. because it is strait up down right DISGUSTING!

 

Check out this video. I agree with what she has to say but I noticed she kept repeating the same point every time! But she won anyway!

A Negative and Positive Charge:Using Chocolate Chip Cookies as an Example

"In 1911 Ernst Rutherferd performed an experiment that showed how charges and masses are are distributed in an atom. J.J. Thomson had hypothesized that the atom was similar to a chocolate chip cookie. Negative electrons (the "chips") nestled in the positive (the "Dough")  of the atom in  a way that balanced repulsion between like charges and attraction between unlike charges. Rutherford tested this model of the atom by using subatomic projectiles to bombard a target atoms. The projectiles, called alpha particles had been discovered  during radioactivity. Alpha particles are high energy positively charged fragments  of helium atoms emitted during radioactive decay of unstable elements such as uranium." (Olmsted and Williams chemistry book)

How interesting!    


Of course I couldn't leave you with out the most amazing recipe foe chocolate chip cookies!

1/2 pound butter (2 sticks)
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
mix till fluffy
in a separate bowl mix
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups chocolate chips
roll into balls and bake at 350 for 9 minutes

Having an issue with passing your math or science classes? If You Find Yourself Saying "YES!" Then Read On!

Yes we all have been there! when you realize you are simply failing in your math class! I know when i was public schooled I always had C's and D's! Until some friends and teachers of mine from a homeschool school I was attending showed me Khan Academy! Yes it walks you thru every thing and does some practice runs and explains step by step! Here is the link to the founder on TED and The link to the totally  free online "academy"!





https://www.khanacademy.org





http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html


Hope this helps!

Galen The Man Who Was One Of The First To Learn Medicine

Galen was born September 22nd in the year of 130 (although it was kind of hard to be completely accurate)
Around the time of Galen Romans had conquered the Mediterranean sea, most of Europe, and most of Africa, the whole middle east and most of Asia. Most common things used for cures then were garlic and honey.
Then there was of course no thermometers then they used stethoscope for listening to hearts and lungs. Unfortunately then you could not accurately check a pulse with a sun dial sand or water clock. Galen not only was a great scientist but he was a great thinker. During the time of Galen you were not allowed to dissect humans, so mostly he knew about different kinds of animal bodies.


Galen's mothers name is unknown Galen's father's name is Nicon. he was an engineer, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and botanist. Galen's father was different from men in there time era,  he decided he wanted to be more involved in his son's life and educated Galen.

Galen Eventually went to school and learned the basics of reading, writing and Greek, (they didn't have the number zero then so they did not do algebra) He used and abacus to do geometry. 
then went on to an amazing doctor at tone of the arenas and doctoring the gladiators that did survive and went on leading and teaching people about his discoveries.Greeks are known for there intelligence!

More references on Galen
Are:
 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/223895/Galen-of-Pergamum
You should also look at theses books.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

Learning About The Neuroscience Of Taste And Why We Eat Our Food!

Recently I have watched and episode of nova science now! (love that tv show!) And I really got to go in depth of what goes on when we are cooking and eating our food! I loved this episode and though you science nerds out there might like to do some research as I did!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/can-i-eat-that.html

Here is the link to watch it for free on the website.

The Man Who Measured The Earth

I found this presentation paper from last semester!!

The man who MEASURED THE earth

 

Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in the city of Cyrene which is now commonly known as Libya.

Eratosthenes was a very intelligent person; he always wanted to know the answers to things. He studied in Athens then later went to Alexandria Egypt.

While working on a geometry problem one day he was sent for from the king Ptolemy the 3^rd  

And was asked to tutor his son in literature, history, math and science. He was ecstatic to be able to tutor the king’s son. It was during Eratosthenes time when the first encyclopedia and dictionary was printed. After this time Eratosthenes had been asked to run the library in Alexandria it was then that Aristophanes invented punctuation .during this time as a librarian he read more about geography and the world, Eratosthenes had a lot of questions about the earth like: How far does the earth tilt on its axis? Does the ocean go across the whole earth? The sometimes felt discouraged about how to measure the whole earth, did that stop him? Apparently not! Eratosthenes began doing his intense research looking at scroll after scroll, Even  though he was at the wealthiest library in the world at the time ,all the scrolls had different answers , Eratosthenes said to himself that he is going to make the first COMPLETE book on geography. It took him many years to even get started on measuring the earth’s circumference; He knew the book he was writing wouldn’t be complete without it.

Eratosthenes imagined the earth as a grapefruit. (Show)

If it is sliced in half you can see the sections, in order to measure the distance all the way around the edge of the grape fruit,(The circumference) all you need to know is the distance along the edge of one section, and how much it would take to make up  the whole grapefruit.

The question is how any sections are needed? He knew that every circle whether it is a small as a grapefruit or as big as the earth, it is made up of 360 degrees. so if he could measure the inside angle of one of his imaginary grapefruit in degrees , he could divide 360 by the answer and know how many sections of that size would make a whole .

Eratosthenes pictured a section of the earth form the outer edges of Alexandria to syene (SI-EE-NEE) (A city in S Egypt)   degrees. “I Eratosthenes could figure out the distance between Alexandria to Syene”. And then measure the grapefruit section he created. He would then be able to calculate the earth’s circumference.  But the question is how he would be able to measure that angle, if it lies below the ground, at the center of the earth. Then Eratosthenes realized that the sun could help him with his angle problem. Eratosthenes heard from a caravan passing through Alexandria that on the 21^st day on June at precisely mid-day the sun would shine directly down on a certain well in Syene, lighting up the well, but not showing any shadows over the walls . But yet at the same time in Alexandria it would show shadows. Eratosthenes knew exactly why because if the earth were flat then the sun would strike the whole earth at the same time. Eratosthenes also knew he could measure the angle of the sun from the shadow. So on June 21^st there would be an exact angle that lay at the 12pm center of the earth making the inside of Alexandria – Syene a “Grapefruit” section. So Eratosthenes stood waiting outside of the library at noon of June 21^st and just as the sun falling strait   down

Also in Syene as well. He measured the angle to be about 7.2 degrees then he divided 360 into 7.2 witch equaled 50. Now he knew how to take 60 sections from Alexandria to Syene to get the circumference of the earth.

 

Now Eratosthenes had all the numbers he needed for the formula.   He calculated the circumference of the earth to be 255,000 shares or 24,662 miles.

2000 years later with modern technology they figured out that Eratosthenes was only 16% off,

This is pretty good if you think about it he was the first one to measure the earth. Eratosthenes never stopped asking questions and lived till he was 82. 

Georgics Foundation

This semester I have been lectured and taught the Virgil's Georgics foundation. Here are the seven building blocks for your Georgics foundation principles.
1.Providence
2.Self Validation
3.Mission
4.Real-Estate Ownership
5.Community Stewardship
6.Local Interdependence
7. Entrepreneurialism

Another thing they taught us was "Mini Ag" Miniature Agriculture.
There are six "mini ags" they taught us that is the key to a Goergics foundation.
1.Soil
2.Grains
3.Livestock
4. Intensive Gardening
5.365 Day Harvest
6.Integrated Pest and Disease Management (IPDM)

The following are what I read in order to certified!
Old Yeller By: Fred Gibson
Little Britches By: Ralph Moody
Caddie Woodlawn By: Carol Ryre Brink
The Law By: Frederic Bastiat
City of Ember book 2&4 People of Sparks and The Diamond of Darkhold (Both) By: Jeanne Depreu
Farmer Boy By: Laura Ingles Wilder
Jonathan Livingston Seagull By: Richard Bach
The Giver By: Louis Lawery
Little Men By: Louisa May Alcotte
Were the Red Fern Grows By: Wilson Rawls
Carry on Mr.Bowditch By: Jean Lee Latham
String Straightedge and Shadow By: Julia K. Diggins
Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe By: Micheal S. Schneider
The Phantom Tollbooth By: Norton Juster
Flat land By: Edwin Abbit


Another part of my Georgics foundation is to do six mini essays which are already posted.

The next is do an Oral presentation on earth science in which I chose doing the elements of the periodic table which is already posted.

Another is to have a minimum 60 entries in your commonplace note book. what is a commonplace notebook you may ask?
I do LEMI(leadership education mentoring institute) and TJED(Thomas Jefferson education ).If you are interested in looking into what I do check out this site http://www.tjed.org/.
We do classics not textbooks and we learn and are taught the way the founding fathers and great philosophers were taught. Well what does this have to do with what is a commonplace notebook? Well I will Tell you,a common place notebook is a notebook were you can wright down your impressions,or goals and what you have learned that day.(this is the key to more effective education)

The next is a minim of 60 core book studies. Core book what is a core book? A core book is a book you would defy and always go to, for example my core book is my scriptures, I am a Christian Mormon so I use King James version Bible, Pearl of great price,Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. Then we have to do a minim of 60 math lessons of approved math study course ( I am doing Pre- Algebra and Geometry)

Weekly plan are in order to with a minim of planing your weeks out for 12 weeks. (which is really helpful and organized my days). Earth science for my exams to certified. We have to memorize the following and be able to define it for the exam.

atmosphere,biodiversity, biomes,biotic,ecosystem,extinction,system,aesthetic,ethical,social, economic,stellar,photosynthesis,biomass,energy,species,big bang theory,blue shift,heavy element mass,nuclear fusion,red shift,theory,universe, astronomy,intelligent design,theory of plate tectonics, convergent, divergent,transform,tectonic plate,convection current,hypothesis,seafloor spreading,biomes,climate,weather,geosphere,biosphere,hydrosphere,volcanic eruption,hot spot,fault,ground water,resivoir,salinity,glacier,biological dynamics,ocean.lake,river,fresh water,tide,geologic time,water cycle,carbon cycle,climate,decomposer,matter,nitrogen cycle,ozone layer,depletion,fossil fuel lithosphere and absorbed.

YES THAT WAS 72 WORDS TO DEFINE!!! But yes I PASSED!!!

Another is have a garden plan. Here are the plan to give you an idea of what charts we filled out.
1.What would I like to grow?
2.Why do I want to grow them?
3.What can I grow in my area?
4.Do I need to grow inside or outside?
5.How much room do I need?
6.Were will I grow my garden?
7.What supplies do i need?
8.What is my budget? How will I pay for it?
9.Who will help me get the supplies?
10. Do I have my parents help and support?
11.Draw your garden plan.

So that is what we did and I chose to just do some sprouting so it could be cheap, fast and organic!!! Plus no weeds!!!
The last and Final thing is pass Math, Science and Georgics exams. (Math you use your test book from your pkg) and (Since you define all 72 earth science words)

For the Georgics exam I will share on what I am currently working on, which thank the Lord is open book!!! YAY!!!
 Here is an example of what I am doing for my final last and final!!!

Give specific examples from the books we read this semester that had each of the following:
1. Providence
2.Self validation
3.Mission
4.Land ownership
5. Community stewardship
6.local interdependence
7. Entrepreneurialism
8.work/joy
9.self reliance

From the classics we read this semester show what was the following.
1.seeing the whole picture
2.participant vs. victim
3.perseverance and forgiveness
4.community interdependence
5.grattitude and hope
6.faith
7.law


Name the six Mini Ag ideals

Pick 2 book we read this semester and write down what you learned from them.

In Doctrine and Covenants 130:18-19 it says " 18 Whatever principle of aintelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the bresurrection.

 19 And if a person gains more aknowledge and intelligence in this life through his bdiligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the cadvantage in the world to come.

If you are interested in my beliefs i am really excited to answer any questions and here is a website for those of you who are interested.
http://mormon.org/
This is my last and final and by the time I'm done I know its all worth it in the end!!! Thanks for reading!!

Prepping For My Simulation

Me along with all of my friends vote carefully on a class president. After he was elected he directly started putting everyone to work for our simulation. Although I don't know what our simulation is I was elected to be Attorney General. So I thought I have no idea what there role is so here is what I found.( These are not my words but my resources)

Colorado Attorney General

What is the Attorney General Colorado?

The Colorado Attorney General is a legal and administrative position undertaken by the appointed individual serving as the primary attorney – or Colorado lawyers – on behalf of the State of Colorado; the appointment of the Attorney General Colorado takes place through a statewide election. Although the Attorney General Colorado undertakes a vast array of duties and responsibilities, amongst the foremost of their responsibilities is to serve the collective citizenship of the State of Colorado through legislative advocacy and the guardianship of legal statutes:

The Attorney General Colorado

The Colorado Attorney General is Republican John Suthers, who was elected in 2005:

John Suthers’ term ends in 2015

John Suthers received his legal degree from the Law School at the University od Colorado

The Office of the Attorney General Colorado

The Office of the Attorney General of the State of Colorado is located in the State Building in Denver, Colorado

Criminal Justice Duties of the Colorado Attorney General

The various divisions of the Attorney General Colorado include the following:

Office of the Attorney General

Administration

Business and Licensing

Civil Litigation and Employment Law

Consumer Protection

Criminal Justice

Natural Resources and Environment

Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (POST)

State Services

The History of the Colorado Attorney General

The first Colorado Attorney General was James E. Dalliba, who served from 1861 to 1862

The Legal Process and Procedure of the Attorney General Colorado

Administrative Law and the Colorado Attorney General

Administrative Law is the legal field associated with events and circumstances in which Federal and State Governments of the United States interact with their respective citizens, including the administration of government programs, the creation of agencies, the establishment of a legal, regulatory standard; as a result, the Colorado Attorney General is an example of a State officer responsible for the protection and preservation of the rights and liberties afforded to the citizens of the State of Colorado.

In addition to serving as the primary prosecuting attorney on behalf of the State of Colorado, the Attorney General Colorado also serves as the chief advocate of legislature and statutory regulation existing within the State of Colorado

Common Law and the Colorado Attorney General

The Colorado Attorney General is identified as an officer within the legal realm of Common Law, which is the legal field and ideology considered to rely on past legal statutes, sentencing, and judicial review to serve as guidelines for sentencing; both the reference and respect of past judicial decisions as a means of determination for current legal hearings is amongst the primary ideologies inherent within Common Law:

In many cases, the Attorney General Colorado will employ the legal ideology of ‘Stare Decisis’ with regard to appellate hearings requested within the State of Colorado; Stare Decisis facilitates a hierarchy with regard to legal venue, within which the process of appeals is determined for potential hearings

Upon the ruling set forth by a court classified as a ‘lower’, an appeal may be subject to judicial review by a court ‘classified as ‘higher’ only in the event that the ‘higher court’ has cited fault within the initial sentencing; however, case decisions, rulings, and Colorado Attorney General Colorado judicial review will be cited as primary sources with regard to sentencing

(The reference for this is: http://attorney-general.laws.com/colorado-attorney-general)

Another site to check out!! http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/

How Solar Energy converts to Energy: Photosynthesis and Biomass

How Solar Energy converts to Energy: Photosynthesis and Biomass

Written for: Youth

“Plants do photosynthesis, a complicated process, and without plants, we'd all be dead.”

~ Pamela Ronald~

Photosynthesis; is the process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it into

sugar and other carbohydrates.

SUNLIGHT + CLOROPLAST+C02+H2O=PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Sunlight energy is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun, particularly an

ultraviolet light. Sunlight is filtered through the earth’s atmosphere due to UV rays and radiation.

Chloroplast is organetles found in plant cells and algae that contributes to photosynthesis.

Chloroplast absorbs sunlight and uses it with water and carbon dioxide to produce

food for the plant.

Chloroplast is what captures the energy from the light stored in ATP and

NADPH to create a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis generally is the synthesis of

sugar from light, carbon dioxide and water with oxygen as a waste product.

Chlorophyll is a green photosynthetic pigment found in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria.

Photosynthesis goes hand in hand with Biomass which converts solar energy.

Biomass: “The amount of living matter in a given habitat expressed either as the weight of

organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of inhabitants.”

Biomass is often consisted of plant derived materials or converted onto a type of energy or

biofuel. Biomass is now commonly used to produce heat (via direct combustion).

Biomass can also contribute to reducing carbon dioxide which is a large distributer to global

warming (Greenhouse gas)

“Although burning biomass releases as much carbon dioxide as burning fossil fuel does, this is

because carbon dioxide released fossil fuel which was carbon fixated that had been locked in the

hydrocarbon of fossil fuel.”(Wikipedia)

So how does all this combined convert solar energy to energy?

SOLAR ENERGY= PHOTOSYNTHESIS+BIOMASS=ENERGY CONVERTED FROM SOLAR ENERGY

I also found this while prepping for this essay!! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE82qtKSSH4

It is a song called photosynthesis rap!!!