Sickle

Have you ever wondered why a storm rolls in, or why any natural phenomena related to the sky occurs? Have you ever wondered about how it would be like when everyone believed the Gods were in charge of everything that happened, such as; if there was a storm, it was their fault, or if there was thunder and lightning, it was their fault? Back in the era of mythology, these were a couple of their beliefs. One God that was really important was Zeus, the God of the sky. Whenever there was a…

Clonality is homogeneity in the genotype of cells originating from a specific linage. One cell like the other, expressing the same set of genes to carryout functions that they have to do as a tissue; a causality of cells having a common ancestor or a progenitor cell which can be sourced at one point in time of development of an organism. This expansion of one cell into various clones occurs via a process called clonal expansion. The process is not different in cancer cells, there is one cell…

Slavery in America began when the first African Americans were brought to Virginia, from Africa in 1619, to help increase the economy with the productions of many crops, including tobacco, rice, and cotton. In this book you will see how slavery was developed over time, and how cruel were the slave holders to the bond people. It talks about how intensive their lives were, how they were sold, trade, sexually abuse, and many more other cruel things that made them weak over time. Daina Berry lets us…

To what extent do the Vikings deserve their stereotypical reputation? A wide amount of people worldwide think that Vikings were selfish and violent but do they have the right to judge. Do people to have the right to judge different type of people in everyday lives. Vikings are no different to anyone else why should we treat them differently. On the Viking raids they did fit their stereotypical reputation, however should people judge them. Although Vikings had a reputation for being dangerous…

predispositions to personality “defects”. Even in this reality the idea of using technology for disease elimination is hard to argue as non-beneficial. Except in the rare cases where a genetic condition might make you immune to a communicable disease; sickle cell trait and malaria for example. It is the selections towards “arbitrary standards of perfection” like in Gattaca that instill doubts and worries about ethics. To this affect, in the movie, this kind of eugenics allows for an intense…

Museum project While visiting The National Gallery of Art on Friday, March 30th. I viewed so many stunning works of art, but out of the pieces I had the chance to see that day. The three that caught my eye were Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) oil on canvas, c. 1717/ 1718, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s Diana and Endymion oil on canvas, c. 1753/1756, and finally François Boucher’s The Bath of Venus, 1751. These painting are not only connected by the same medium, They also contain similar themes of…

Through experience it has been learned that White people do not typically identify strongly with race nor are they typically impacted by it. Very few White people acknowledge white privilege or have felt white guilt. I am a White girl however who has experienced both. I was always very racially aware from a young age, I knew that people around the world lived very different lives, had drastically opposite beliefs, and had a particular way of viewing the world, all of this fascinated me and I…

In the 60s the black panthers were one of the historic groups in the 60s. The black panthers were founded in October 1966 the black panthers were founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group was basically form for self- defense and spread the word of what they believed that was right at the time. The black panthers effect our live through what they did by spreading or sending a message that effect the community, what clothing style that the black panthers wore and finally what the black…

Having good and bad heredity traits are a part of life that we cannot ignore but our environments can change anything that has been passed down to us and had to see growing up. Even though some people are raised in good families they still can take a bad turn in life. Sometimes the only thing it takes is a different crowd and their behavior around us could change everything that has been passed down to us. From my experience I feel like a person’s environment is more effective than their…

The Hero’s Journey in Mythology In 1949, American scholar Joseph Campbell introduced the concept of the hero’s journey, also known as monomyth, in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The concept proposes the pattern continuously seen within heroic stories, where Campbell concludes that all tell the same story in various forms. The pattern follows the protagonist through evolutions of the character, allowing readers to experience the hero evolve from living an ordinary life to emerging…