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Legacy: I, Sage Finkle, would first like to thank my family, thank you for encouraging me and supporting me over the years. To my parents, thank you for working so hard, for guiding me, and raising me to be the best I can be. No words can express how much I love you! To Dee, I can't believe we've come this far. It feels like yesterday we were riding scooters and playing Mario Cart. You will always be the one who knows me best. Thank you for growing up with me and laughing with me until I can't…

Arnold ML. 1997. Natural hybridization and evolution. NY: Oxford University Press. Arnold ML, Meyer A. 2006. Natural hybridization in primates: one evolutionary mechanism. Zoology 109:261–276. Baele G, Lemey P, Bedford T, Rambaut A, Suchard MA, Alekseyenko AV. 2012. Improving the accuracy of demo- graphic and molecular clock model comparison while accom- modating phylogenetic uncertainty. Mol Biol Evol 29:2157– 2167. Baele G, Li WLS, Drummond AJ, Suchard MA, Lemey P. 2013. Accurate model…

The Costs of Academic Dishonesty From the time children begin attending school, they are taught to produce their own work by using unique and creative concepts from their own understanding of knowledge. However, as one grows older and becomes more responsible for other tasks besides school, coming up with original ideas may not seem as easy as it once was; therefore, taking the easy way out becomes an enticing routine. Likewise, immediate access to other’s ideas on the internet may…

institutions that helped discover these elements, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Lastly, element 118, currently the heaviest element, was named Oganesson (OH’-gah-NEH’sun) with the symbol Og. This element was named for Yuri Oganessian who has helped make extremely important advances in transactinoid elements research. Additionally, Oganessian is now the second person to have an element named after him while still alive. So…

Imperfect competition happens when either consumer or producer hold market power, an ability to affect the price og goods or service. Opened foreign resource market by TPP gives huge corporations market power in labor market. As TPP allows companies to have ability to freely transfer factories to other nations, the companies can lower wages for American workers by…

Throughout history, humans have been overcome by cursitory to figure out the way our universe works. In the past hundreds of years, there have been numerous discoveries that revolutionize modern civilization and the way humans have thought about Earth. One of the most significant discoveries that humanity has found was the fact that everything is made up of elements. The Noble Gases in particular, set the precedent for what all other elements strive to become. Every element in the periodic table…

A. The CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook is a wonderful reference for teachers to help improve students improve attain success in reading. One thing that resonated with me throughout the chapters is the presentation of the book and how it can be applied to the classroom. The chapters outline important reading concepts such as decoding, multisyllabic and irregular word reading. The lessons are presented in such a way that it takes a key idea and brings it to life in the classroom. These lessons…

Has an adult ever helped you in your life as a teen? This can happen in both fictional stories and in real life. We read 4 stories about adults helping teens. Thank You Ma’am by: Langston Hughes, about a boy with a bad home life when a stranger helps him. The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by: Ray Bradbury, about a scared drummer boy in a battle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by: Maya Angelou, about a girl who isn’t herself anymore. Lastly, The Medicine Bag by: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, about a boy…

plane turned all the way upside down. The terrorists regained controlled but decided to crash the plane so the passengers wouldn’t control the plane once again. At 10;03 a.m. Flight 93 crashed into an empty field in Western Pennsylvania at the speed og 580 miles per hour. Out of all the four attacks, FLight 93 was the only flight that didn’t reach it’s target. The passengers and the crew in that plane didn 't just died, but they all died a…

How would one want someone to watch them constantly without any knowledge of it? Surveillance is defined as the close monitoring of the actions of a specific individual. Because of security cameras, webcams in technology devices, and hackers, humans are stripped of their privacy. George Orwell’s 1984 concerns the topics of basic human and civil rights and government control. These concerns are still present as issues today. In society today, the people are not only brought down by the…