Snow cone

The head of the organization had sent an email to my head coach asking for help. I was free that day and volunteered to spend a couple hours there. While the adults grilled the food, we worked the shaved ice station making ice, adding the flavors, and collecting money. I really liked being able to put a smile on a a little girl’s face by making her a rainbow snow cone. Overall I had a lot of fun and got to know some of the girls from the volleyball program better that I didn’t really know before. Community service isn’t something that can be forced upon a person, for it to matter and have an affect on them it must be done freely. Although the job can still be completed if you don’t care or don’t want to try, the overall effect on the community is not even close to the same amount that is done by someone who is passionate about what they are doing. You put i what you want to get out of it, whether that’s just time on a sheet of paper or memories and lessons that you will take with you for the rest of your…

1. The documentary Earth on Fire that focuses on how mega-fires and fires effect forest and ecosystems in today’s world. The documentary primarily focuses on New Mexico and the southwest region of the United States along with areas in Australia. For starters I knew forest fires can be deadly to forest areas as far as harming the ecosystem and ruining soil but this documentary opened my eyes to the long term effects forest fires can have and introduced to me the term “mega-fire” which I was…

It was a crisp morning in Colorado and the orange fireball was shining bright, as we were getting ready to leave and go see the beautiful tall Rocky Mountains. After the 3 hour drive we finally made it to the Rocky Mountains. As I stepped out of the car I took a deep breath I could smell the cool snowy air of the Rocky Mountains and right then and there I knew it was going to be beautiful. I've been eager all day to see the mountain range and finally after a 3 hour drive I was only a few steps…

1. a) Define Deuteronopia. b) What causes it? c) Why is it more frequent in males than females? d) Contrast the two types of receptor cells in the retina, and describe the retina’s reaction to light. Deuteranopia is when someone is colorblind, which results from the exposure to green light, causing the person to be confused, mixing up the colors as green, red, and yellow. Color blindness is caused by the green sensitive cones. In addition, deuteranopia is caused by a genetic condition where…

nose, and tongue. Our vision comes from our sense organ, our eyes and travels to the part of the brain that processes vision, the occipital lobe. From there what we see is a perception of what we are getting from our sense organ. Our perception of color in particular is shaped by the culture that we live in and biologically through the rods and cones in our eyes (How vision works, 2015). The way that the brain sees color is biologically based, and perception…

big regional city of Wheeling is a city to the south on the move and growing. Once the capital of the state, it’s a city flushing and thriving due to the steel industry which is growing with the steel cites in both state. Loyalties to the Unions and trouble with slavery have caused division within the state, but as always is when division comes prosperity follows It was a cold morning as an elderly lady with long white hair, and a wrinkled face from years of a full life,…

With these two disorders you can either have partial color blindness or total color blindness in one or both eyes. Color blindness is easy to detect and can be self-diagnosed for most people. If your color blindness is not inherited then it can be caused by a number of different diseases and you should see a doctor immediately after realizing your vision is not the same to prevent any serious condition. The reason that color blindness occurs starts in the retina of the eyeball. It is the…

about how amazing it is to be able to perceive the world around me. I understood that from the retina to the brain, perception goes from complex to extremely complex. In other words, being able to experience the real world is one of the marvelous opportunities that we have. This phenomenon starts with light getting in contact with the cornea continuing to the back of the eyes, to the retina, before light goes to the optic nerve and end up in the brain. This process appears to be simple;…

One of the cultural myths that I have fallen into would have to be the ‘colorblindness is progress’. I’ve always seen past people and their color, or where they came from. I enclosed myself in the mindset of ‘I’m not racist because I don’t look at people’s skin color or background’. After learning about color blindness, and realizing that I was apart of it, I now know that this is the wrong way to view humans. Color blindness may seem like a good idea, and the intention might be of good intent;…

Haida Gwaii is an archipelago comprised of over two-hundred islands divided into three main physiographic regions: the Queen Charlotte Ranges, the Skidegate Plateau, and the Queen Charlotte Lowlands (Banner et al., 2014). These diverse landscapes and climates give rise to a wide range of plant species, which have sustained the Haida and their ancestors for over ten-thousand years (Banner et al., 2014). However, these plants are more than just a source of sustenance for the Haida, as they are a…