Villain Body Systems

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Summary: This week we have been working the body systems. We have been using our knowledge of the body systems to explain them and make then evil for our villain. We have been working hard to make a powerful villain. An example is for the villains ears in normal mode they are like nay human ears but once she transforms into a villain they become very powerful and can hear extremely well. They also get bigger and transform into more of a bat ear. This is just one thing a villain can change into. Your imagination is the only limits. Body systems are things like your skeletal system, muscular system and more. These all are created to work together. Unlike our villainous systems that are over powered and disproportionate all these systems are balanced. An example of this balance is that the respiratory system has the lungs but the lungs fix in a certain space only because the skeletal system has the rib cage that fits around your lungs from protection. Without this balance there would be major problems within the body.

S&EP: This week we we have been Analyzing Data. We have been drawing alot this week especially the body systems. This required us to be able to understand by our reading what these systems look like and how they function. To get the best and most accurate drawing we had to really think about these systems on a different level. You also had to think when we made the systems evil how we could use the original design and improve it. really it was just a redesign of the system making it different but it usually did serve the same purpose. Drawing this was really fun and I feel that understanding more able your creation is always good.

XCC: This week we worked with Systems and System Models. This week we have been looking closer at 4 body systems. I picked to look at the skeletal system, eye, ear, and nervous system. Looking at all of these systems really helps you see all the moving parts within all of them. An example is for the skeletal system it's not just bones but bone marrow, joints, and sockets. It all works together to make the function of the skeletal system. If one piece was missing then it would all fall apart. This was so interesting also to see how whole body systems work with others. All together with all these systems it makes us as humans it's really something we should all look into. I'm just glad I got a opportunity to look at it in another way.

Genetic Engineering

Summary: Genetic Engineering is the process of changing an organism by adding more genes or taking out genes to hopefully change their genetic makeup. Genetic Engineering is an extremely difficult process. First you must start out with  an organism with the trait you want to add. Then you take you the genes that create that trait in the organism. Once you have the genes from the organism you sort out from the thousand of genes you've collected and get the ones you will be putting into your organism you want to modify.  Now that you have those genes you have the make them suitable for the organism. Then after  that you start a process called gene method where you have gold particles covered in the wanted genes that are shot into the cells. Now your genes are inside the organism.

S&EP: This week we asked questions and defined problems.  This week we have had to ask many questions about genetic engineering and mutations. For me personally I have been studying genetic engineering and this has brought up many questions for me. Like how do you get the genes from one organism into another organism? Or like how do I frame a story around genetic modification ? Its amazing how research has given me the answers to all these questions. For my story I even used the research to make it realistic on how the process would work. I have also faced many problems with this though. Problems like how complex the process is. I didn't realize how complex it was till i really got into it. Over all though this didn't really matter in the end because I will still finish my story and make it great.

XCC: This week we talked about cause and effect. Researching genetic engineering has really shown me how much adding genes can change an organism. Adding genes is like the cause of the changings the organism will face. Then of course the effect is that your organism may develop a trait like large teeth or a huge mouth like my superhero experienced.  Genetic engineering is of course a very serious version of physical transformation. This cause and effect is very serious and changes the organism forever and even the offspring. Its crazy what science can do right?

Super Hero Genetics

Summary: This week we talked about determining offspring. We have in this case a superhero and a super villain having a child. I know what your'e thinking, that sounds like some kind of fanfiction or something but what if I told you this idea didn't have to be all made up in our heads. Using the power of genetics as we have learned we can actually figure out close to what the child may look like. First of all we must learn some basics of genetics. DNA is the blueprints that make up all living things. Since DNA of course isn't all the same there are alleles that determine your specific traits. These traits don't just come out of thin air they are passed down from your parents. You see so we can determine the child using the parents traits. So now our fan dreams can become a reality.

S&EP: This week we have been analyzing data. This week we have been using traits from both of the parents to get an understanding of what there super child will look like. You may be wondering how do you even do this and figure out how to organize all those possible combinations. Welcome the Punnet Square. This will help you determine what your favorite pairs kid may look like. Lets just say you wanted to see the hair color of the child and the mom had red hair and the dad had brown hair. From here we must see if those traits are dominant or recessive. Dominant is a trait that is the strongest or most powerful. Then of course recessive is the opposite the weaker trait. Now we have Mom's recessive red hair or hh and Dad's dominant brown hair or HH. Since the dominant trait is present twice for the father this means that the child will have a 100% chance of having brown hair. Using this technique we can begin to make a child... theoretically.

XCC: This week we have used scale, proportion and quantity. Now for all these wonderful ideas we've created for your perfect superhero child some artists out there may want to put these ideas to paper. This is were we use scale, proportion and quantity. These three things were and are very important when drawing your super child. In class we had to draw the superhero and villains baby based on the traits we determined earlier. I first had to use proportions to determine how big to make our characters body. When drawing you want to keep everything proportional for example the head must be a a reasonable size to the rest of the body. You don't want a mutant. Next we have scale. This is truly up to your character's size but if you're making let's say an ant sized character make sure your background reflects its height so don't make it bigger than a skyscraper. Now last of all quantity. Your character should be coming along nicely now so you may be thinking of some cool weapons to equip it with or something else cool. The quantity doesn't truly have a limit but I believe its important to keep your character simple. Try not to add to much of any feature. Like fifty blades gets boring after a while so keep it clean. Now that I have equipped you with all the tools to make the best fan super child possible go ahead and use your creativity to make your fan dreams come true.

  

Genetics

 

Summary: This week we explored the world of Genetics. Genes are whats passed down from the generations from parent to kid. This is a determining factor on how they look and traits the child will have. Genes are also how we get our ethnicity and someone of our traits. This is how families look alike and how families can have a highly likelihood of some disease. Its all in your genes.

S&EP: This week we asked questions defined problems. This week we started making superheros by using a mix of animal genetics. This got me asking many questions. I had to look at the special abilities of angler fish. I thought about how to transform these abilities into something a human body could do. This made me think about reason and also made me ask questions about what the angler fish does. I looked deeper into what this amazing fish does to make a unique superhero in the end. I also defined problems when I asked things like how will the huge moth fit or how will the antenna work with the human shape. These were just a few questions I had to ask to make my character.

XCC: This week I had to challenge scale proportion and quantity. When I was designing my superhero this came in play a lot. First of all since an angler fishes jaw sticks out from its face making a huge crescent shape I had to consider if and how I would add such a strange thing to a human. I also had to ask myself about to make the outfit  match the fishes body. This made me think about the proportions and if I had to enlarge or make anything smaller. The proportions were the hardest part especially since the angler fish has an extremely odd shape.

Human Body Redesign 2.0

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Summary: During this project I learned a lot about the esophagus and the digestive system. First of all the esophagus has one major problem. Acid reflux. Acid reflux is when your stomach acids come up and burn your lower esophagus.This causes pain to many people in the USA and the world. My team and I decided we needed to find how to fix this. Of course to do this we needed to find the source of the problem. That is the mucosa. The mucosa is what the interior of the esophagus is made of. The mucosa can burn. This is when things got simple. What doesn't burn easily? Muscles! This is when we got our design. I learned that adding smooth muscle would be the best way to get rid of the burning. We decided to chose smooth muscle and the project was complete!

Backwards Looking: Before we started this project I didn't not know as much as I knew now but I had a general understanding of it. Any time that I had researched it before it was only general facts. I have never gone this in depth with any other system and I have feeling it was very beneficial. Getting to see how a everything works deeper than just the first layer made me see the digestive system very different.

Inward Looking; For this project I did have a few goals. One of the goals was to have an interactive presentation. When I heard that we should not do a presentation  because it was boring I knew we had to make ours special. I had a feeling people would either just still do a presentation or do a video. So one of my first goals was to find a presentation that would engage our audience. My second goal was to make sure we had all our work done within the time. This may seem like a silly goal because of course you must do that, yet there was a point when I really thought we would not be able to get this project done. So I made a goal that we must get it done in whatever ways we can. Then finally my last goal. My goal was to make sure my presentation was fun. Since we added the skit and other fun things to the presentation I wanted to make sure I was having loads of fun. My thoughts are even if you mess up people will respect you if you just go for it. Thats a lot more impressive than the person that just does nothing and shies away.

Outward Looking: I feel that we did our work very differently than the rest of the groups. First of all we were behind everyone. We took a lot of our time to get our redesign idea. Looking through at our idea now I can tell that paid off. Since we did extensive research our idea was very well planned. Then after that we also were the only group to make a 3d model.  This was very surprising because usually people like to do that but no this time we were alone. Then last of all our presentation. Our presentation was more of a skit and ignite presentation. This was unlike anything anyone else did. It was almost out of the box in my opinion. In the end I felt that ours stood out because of our changes.

Forward Looking: Next time I would like to work on a few things. The main thing I would like to work on is focus. During this project I struggled a lot to focus on the task. This made it hard for me and my team. I just was really struggling to keep my attention on all the facts. I think though that just the reading and reading of articles bored me so I struggled. Another thing is I would like to have practiced the script. Before we presented we had never practiced so I was worried. Over all though it was a wonderful project with a wonderful group  making it an even more wonderful experience.

Redesigning the Digestive System

Summary: There are a lot of flaws with the digestive system. My team and I have found one that is exceptionally bad. We are now on a mission to solve this terrible problem. The problem of acid reflux.  I know it terrifying try not to fall out your seat. This terrible phenomenon is when your stomach acids come up and burn the esophagus. Pretty painful right, well it can even get worse. If this happens a lot to you it means you are more likely to get esophagus cancer.  Esophagus cancer is in the top ten list of worst cancers. We are now researching deeply to find a new innovative way to fix this catastrophe.

S&EP: This week we asked question and defined problems. We had to ask lots of questions based on our previous understanding of the digestive system. We asked things like, What causes acid reflux?, How common is it? ,What does it do to the body? Of course it became our mission to answer all these questions. Every time we discovered  the answer to one question we had many more. The real question that trips everyone up though is how do you fix it? Even my "highly qualified" group and I are having trouble answering this question. The real mission over all is making your questions problem. Then making your problems fixable.  Its a difficult task yet the future is now thanks to science!

XCC: This week we worked with Systems and System Models. I hope you know by now that the digestive SYSTEM, is just one of many systems in your body. The real challenge of such a huge systematic order is one change completely off sets it all. When you have systems you need  a good balance. You have to fix the problem or problems to the needs of the system yet you cant change it where it will hurt another system. For example if I wanted to prevent choking hazards I cant just say lets close the wind pipe completely, That would make it so we cant breathe. Not such a good idea. When balancing systems and studying them you learn so much about the machine that is the human. A real beautiful thing now isn't it?

Science Omnivores verses Vegetarians WAC Essay

The Vegetarian Diet is over all healthier than the Omnivores Diet. Millions of people die each year from starvation, and diseases. With a Vegetarian Diet we can prevent this. The Vegetarian diet has a way of making the bodies overall health tremendously better. Since you are not putting in all the impact that meat can hold on your life you have a much less likelihood of getting a handful of deadly diseases. Diseases are a main killer on our globe. If we want to have the health of ourselves be better, the health of our country be better. Than we must go for the best solution the Vegetarian Diet.

Reason 1:
 In the Article Should People become Vegetarian? By ProCon. Org it states, " Vegetarians have a 24% lower chance of getting heart disease and it lowers blood pressure." This is referring to the high blood pressure that meat brings to your body. High blood pressure is bad for many reasons. The main reasons though are that it causes many heart related diseases and it is horrible for people with diabetes. Let me give a better understanding why this is so crucial. Your heart is an organ that you can not live without and a heart related disease would prevent it from being able to do its good. So in the end you would die without it all because you were eating meat. Then people with diabetes take up 9.3% of the population. With vegetarian diet there life will not be in danger as often. This high blood pressure levels are very bad for these people and with them it will decrease there health. This is why a Vegetarian diet will make you over all healthier  with or without disease.

Reason 2:
 In the Article Should People become Vegetarians? By ProCon. Org it states, "It takes over 10 pounds of crop life to make 1 pound of meat. If we just go straight to giving this crop to people we will make it so 800 million people around the world could not suffer from starvation." As you can tell Omnivores are using this crop life and making less food. If people turn over to the vegetarian side then we can save people from starvation. Using this much resource on a pleasure is unnecessary and unreasonable. With more people with a vegetarian diet means more over all health in countries. Why waste when we can save?


Reason 3:
In the Article Is it healthier to be a Vegetarian or an Omnivore? by SENCER it states, " Animals cause high cholesterol and helps aid to cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and obesity."  Pretty crazy right! Just choosing a life style can make your health terrible if you were to get anyone of these things it would make your life much more difficult. The overall health of the human would be majorly effected. You would always have to be careful and you would never know when something could happen to you. Animals can be good yes but they can also be like a knife cutting into someones perfect health. Don't choose a life style that can lead to disaster. Be a Vegetarian.


Strong Finish: As you can tell choosing a lifestyle like this is almost suicidal. It can give you so many life threatening diseases when our goal here is to preserve our bodies. Giving yourself a higher likelihood of disease or even death is almost a joke to this problem.  We want to make yourself live longer. Stay stronger and be able to live a healthy life. Choose Vegetarian if not for yourself do it for other. DO it for the world's overall health.

Counter Argument:

Omnivores may say.....
Meat is the easiest way from your body to get the required iron for blood.With this source of iron  humans would die! We need a consistent intake of it for the new blood cells. Why choose a lifestyle that cant provide? When meat goes through your digestive system since it is high in iron because once your meat did have iron in its blood it makes it so your blood can use that. We need to give our body a source. The goal is to live here right?

Vegetarians would say.....
Even though meat may be the easiest way doesn't mean its the best. Actually vegetables are the best source of iron you can get. Even though meat may be able to have its impact in a time restraint this is not a race. Also then way that you get iron from meat is actually bad for you. It has a bad effect on the circulatory system. The goal here is to provide. Base line that's it, it doesn't have to be the fastest to be the best. This is yet another reason why the vegetarian diet is better.

Conclusion:
In conclusion we can make the clear statement that Vegetarians diet is overall healthier. We have seen this in the strongest way our disease. Disease take people way more painfully then a bullet does. We want to be healthy as a nation as a world. We need to prevent this from happening. Supporting meat eating could be somes demise.  If we want to stay healthy and live in peace. We should give peace of mind. Be a Vegetarian.