Looking Backward

The Structure of DNA Somewhere in someone’s brain a curiosity is born that starts a wanting to find an answer. Not everybody gets these feelings to act upon their feelings of wanting to find out an answer, but for some people it does. An Austrian monk, Greg Mendel was a for-father of finding “basic patterns of inheritance.” He started doing his scientific experiments around 1854 in his gardens researching “the transmission of hereditary traits in plant hybrids” (Bio, a Biography of Gregor…

32. What do you think Landes means by Portugal’s “leap beyond sense and sensibility”? (Or their “unreasonable initiative”?) Portugal was a small country that exported goods across its many islands. After some time passed, the country decided to turn it’s trading harbors and islands into the Portuguese empire. They did not have the means or manpower to run the empire but were persistent in their choice. 33. What does Landes mean, that the Portuguese “religious commitment entailed a serious…

as E, because he is in first grade. He is receiving extra help in math and is making great progress. He is also very young for his grade being as his birthday falls in August. E is very excited to work on homework with me, however, he is often looking to know if he right or wrong. Because of this, I recorded the assessment. This allowed me to go back and mark his assessment sheet rather than make marks and make him worried about his answers. I filled out the assessment after, allowing him to…

affected, begin to show slower growth than other children their age. Children affected by progeria show normal intelligence, however, they soon show a distinctive appearance of aging, such as baldness, wrinkles, appearance of veins, smaller pinched looking nose, and a face that appears much smaller in contrast to the size of their head. Children with progeria also exhibit symptoms that are usually characteristic of people in their senior years, such as joint stiffness, hip dysplasia and heart…

Who should take the blame? Looking backward at the situation, the problem was created in Morton Thiokol’s factory, reported by the engineer testing the O-ring; the people who should take the blame are the ones who shut Roger. The safety team at NASA should always be blamed; the trials…

2.5 Cultural Taboos in Society Stay away from present connected with general public love (Susan Mwangi, 2013). It’s a standard training for individuals in most countries to exhibit themselves or even individuals that they envy covertly the adore overtly (Susan Mwangi, 2013). This might be through holding hands in general public or walking while holding your partners around the waist (Susan Mwangi, 2013). It reaches to greeting people with hugs and kisses or either (Susan Mwangi, 2013). All…

What other animal does the author compare with a bluejay? The author compares a bluejay to a possum when he is looking down the hole. “‘He cocked his head to one side, shut one eye and put the other one to the hole, like a ’possum looking down a jug’” (Twain 138). 9. What does the bluejay do at the end of the story that shows his sense of humor? The bluejay falls over from laughter upon learning that he was trying to fill…

the proximity of the shoal. The Great Barrier Reef Vessel Traffic Service was not able to tell the captain on bored due to limited coverage of the area by their systems. The damage on the ship was done as the ship spun out of control and moving backwards and forwards across the Australian water top of a shoal which the ship's engines failed after the initial impact leaving the Shen Neng 1 at the whim of the winds and the tides. The Result some of the damaged areas have become uninhabitable for…

Anxiety and Movement Serene Velocity by Ernie Gehr and So Is This by Michael Snow are two films built from constraints that seem to rely on similar understandings of motion and, in these understandings, evoke similar emotive responses. In these two films, we are presented with velocities. These velocities are causes of tension, frustration, and anxiety. Serene Velocity was filmed in one night in 1970 in a hallway of a building at the University of Binghamton. In a way, the film was made before…

Excellence, which is defined by the current time period and culture, is embodied by heroes who are the subject of reverence from entire societies. Certain societies create their version of excellence based upon the needs of the people and what is seen as greatness which is the reason for a large variance of heroes, and the individuality of one hero from another. Two heroes who were known in their own civilizations as respected heroes were Beowulf, from the book Beowulf translated by Seamus…