The Blobs

A Child’s Haven Looking out the rain stricken window, in hopes to spot the next landmark to tell the distance that remained till reaching the destination, the little girl pondered what wonders this weekend with Grandma would hold. As the boys snored in Dad’s red construction truck, the little girl looked out the window just in time to see the truck merge right off of the busy highway as the rain ceased. After passing acres of grape vines that crept up trellises the rustic barn that housed the…

INTRO: Everywhere in the city we go, we see it. On the walls, behind the public toilet's door, on the alleyway we walk by every morning. It's sometimes small and discreet but at times also large and seemingly eye-catching. What is it? Graffiti, a word commonly mentioned and heard but often misunderstood. According to the online Oxford Dictionary, graffiti is defined as "writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place" (Oxford…

Introduction Subcellular fractionation is when the cellular components separate due to ascending centrifugation speeds. Different cellular components can be separated by densities to form a pellet or supernatant after each centrifugation. This process is used to separate nuclei and mitochondria. Nuclei is a very dense organelle in the center of the cell coordinating the cell’s actions: growth, metabolism, protein synthesis, reproduction. The nuclei also will pellet after the 1st low speed of the…

I deeply inhaled the cool, salty sea air, which blowed in calm gusts. The sun’s rays wrapped around me like a warm blanket, sending happiness and serenity through me. I took deep breaths as I listened to the consistent sound of waves hitting the shore, and rested my tired muscles. It was a perfect day, especially after playing a long, tiring tennis match in Boca Raton, Florida. I lied down on my turquoise beach towel and closed my eyes, simply to relax. “LISA!” my mom shouted, sending…

In the beginning of my song, I talk about how hopelessly in love I am and all the crazy things this love makes me want to do like dance under the moonlight during a hailing rainstorm. I’m telling the man I love that I can handle anything that may seem like an obstacle. Wanting him to breathe my air means I don’t want to be apart from him and that I want to travel the world with him “seeing all the lights” such as the Eiffel Tower at night or the New York, Tokyo, or Dubai Skyline. I only want…

pig’s head, referred to as the Lord of the Flies – to which the novel borrows its namesake from. The Lord of the Flies is described as "dim-eyed, grinning faintly, blood blackening between the teeth," and the "obscene thing" is covered with a "black blob of flies" that "tickled under his nostrils". The detailed description of a dark and sinister creature makes the reader aware of the great evil of the Lord of the Flies. When Simon talks to the seemingly lifeless, devil-like object, the source of…

In the movie “Soul Surfer” there’s a scene where a group of kids are asked to look at a zoomed in picture and try to guess what the object is. Their guesses included: a dodge ball, mars, and a blob in a lava lamp when actually the picture was of a fly’s eye. It can be difficult to process what’s being looked at when looking too close. But, if one steps back it can be seen as a whole. This theory is true for life, work, and education. When observing a failing school too closely, fingers might be…

I became the Hobbes to his Calvin as our world transformed into the one on the page. No longer was Sparky the Dragon just a stuffed animal on a library shelf, but he was a monster that we had to escape from, like Spaceman Spiff evading the alien blob version of Miss Wormwood in his Sunday comic appearances. Every time the sound of my high-pitched rendition of Susie Derkins entered his ears, Sawyer perfectly mimicked Calvin’s disgust (no, it wasn’t just because hearing me speak in a…

decision. Many people argue that it isn’t a baby yet; that it is still only a fetus. http://frc.org/arguments says, “The "classic" arguments from the other side are collapsing under the weight of science. "No one knows when life begins" and "It's a blob of tissue" are frankly on the…

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court had decided to legalize abortions; since then, there have been more than 58 million abortions performed in the United States. According to Snyder in his article, “every single day, more than 3,000 American babies are killed by abortion.” Why is it that the 9/11 tragedy, which killed almost 3000 people, is still a huge issue up until today, but when it comes to the issue of abortion, almost everyone is taking it for granted? People might think that the unborn…