The New, The Old, and The In Between
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Resturaunts
Olive Garden has gone way downhill these last few years. I
don’t know what has happened. First they had the lettuce containing the E. coli
causing people to get sick. Then the last time I was there one of the waiters
dropped the cheese grater on the ground. As if that isn’t horrible enough the
cheese also fell out of the cheese grater! When the waiter picked up the cheese
and the cheese grater I assumed he would toss the cheese and maybe send the
cheese grater back to the kitchen to be washed. You would think that they would
throw it away and that would be the end of it, but NO! The waiter put the
cheese back in the cheese grater, so now anyone who gets that cheese gets “dirty”
cheese. I don’t know about you but I like parmesan on my pasta, but that
particular visit I passed.
I
remember when I was a little girl and I would always want to go to the Olive
Garden, by Barnes and Noble, for my birthday meal. It was a family tradition. Seeing
what allowed me to make a decision. I’m not going to go choose to Olive Garden
for fear of food poisoning with some floor cheese on top.
When I
think of a nice family restaurant I think of good food (without E. coli),
dressing nice for the occasion, and everyone having a good time. On my last visit, Olive Garden fell short on
all of those things. I can’t bring myself to order the salad and cheese anymore
because of the E. Coli and the potential for floor cheese on my salad, and I can’t have a
good time when the whole time I am worrying about the food.
Also in
regards to Olive Garden being a nice family restaurant, I have seen families
come in dressed in Sweat-shirts and yoga pants. Can you believe that! At least
I wear restaurant worthy pants. In my opinion Olive Garden doesn’t qualify for
yoga pants yet, but they are close.
In all
fairness to Olive Garden they do have some nice things. The bread sticks are
great. They are always warm and fluffy. They
are also very kid friendly. They have kid coloring pages and a kid menu.
Although they could probably raise the age of when you have to stop getting
things from the kid menu. I think that they have gigantic portions and if you
want a smaller portion you are able to get one.
Their food taste pretty good. I usually sick with the ravioli or the
fettuccini alfredo.
Olive
Garden food prices are a little high, with the least expensive dish over
$10. Can you believe that?!? I would
have to babysit at least 3 to 4 hours to enough money for an entrée and drink.
Sometimes
the tables we eat at are not the cleanest. I have a friend who put her hand
under the table and got gum all over her hand! That is so so gross. I will
never put my hand underneath a table after hearing that. Even at a fancy restaurant.
When I
walk into Olive Garden the first thing I notice the cold temperature. It feels like it is colder than Alaska inside
(even though I have never been to Alaska). You have to have at least five
layers on and a heater right next to you to be warm. They must think that it is
a hundred degrees outside and that you’re going to die of heat stroke if you aren’t
in an air conditioned environment, even when it is the middle of winter. I believe,
that is why people aren’t wearing dresses or skirts anymore because when they
are done and leave Olive Garden they also leave with hypothermia.
I think
that if Olive Garden rectified a few current issues like lowering the cost of
food, increased their food quality so it didn’t include e. coli and floor cheese
that it would be better. They also would need to increase the temperature of
the restaurant and change the kid’s menu age limit. I think that maybe then
people would start viewing it as a nicer restaurant again and wear nicer
clothes. Then maybe, just maybe, I would consider going back, but there would
have to be major changes to the restaurant in order for that to happen.
immortality
October 2012, P. 60,
61, 62, 76
Scientists
are looking for a way to preserve life.
Scientists have been looking at different types of animals, how long
their life span is and their cells immunity, cells in humans that have a long
life span, cloning, and how to create complex tissues and organs. Many people
wish to live longer. Scientists have
found a species of jellyfish, called Turritopsis
Nutricula, which can return from its sexually mature state back to a
younger state. Though they can still die
from predation, Accident, and disease.
There was a woman in Africa who died from a disease, but not before
scientists took some of her cells to look at. The scientists found that the
women’s cells stayed alive for a very long time and the cells replicated, grew,
and proliferated very fast. Descendants
of the women are living for a very long time because of their cells. One possible way of immorality is cloning
germ cells. Germ cells from a mature
animal can be reset to embryonic form.
These cells can be developed into replacement organs and then injected
into an egg, where they are developed in to an embryo and are born. Scientists can also freeze them and when an
aging donor needs to have a damaged genome repaired they can use the stored
cells. Scientists have cloned more than
twenty species so far. There is an
argument against human cloning, though, because the clones could, sometimes, be
born with medical abnormalities. Once
scientists figure out a better way to clone animals without medical
abnormalities, human cloning could become more acceptable. Medical researchers are trying to create
complex tissues and organs from a patient’s own cells also.
This
would affect the world in both a good and bad way. The bad way is that we would start running
out of space for everyone on Earth. If we ran out of space on Earth than we would
start dying from the lack of resources and then there wouldn’t be any reason to
live longer on Earth when you are going to die soon anyway. The good thing would be that everyone would
get a longer life span so that they could pressure more of their life
goals. I think that we should care about
this because if the world got over populated and we ran out of food and room
than it would be very bad. We have a
short life span for a reason and if they are curing diseases and then giving
people a longer life span then we will run out of supplies. We have wars and diseases to wipe out some of
the population, even if we don’t want wars and disease we have to have
something to control the population numbers. I think that the scientists need
to think about the future and figure out a way to have more supplies, including
water, food, and land area, have less poverty, and become an eco-friendly
environment before they start making people’s lives longer.
I
would recommend this article to others who have thought about this before
because it would answer questions they have, including what scientists are
doing for this topic. I would also
recommend it to people who have a career or job in disease control because this
would show them that they can treat diseases with these cells that the
scientists are creating, that replace damaged organs. I would also recommend this to people who want
to become a scientist. It might interest
them and they could go into this field and try and come up with new ideas about
what might help the world’s population live longer, but in a resourceful
way. They could very well be the one of
the people credited for the accomplishment when it is finally finished. I would also tell people to just read this
article to keep up with what’s going on because they might not know that
scientists are even trying to help people have a longer life span.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
TRACK SEASON
Track season is starting and so get pumped up and go support your homeschools I personally am not in truck because I am not very good at running but I like watching my friends do it so go support your school thanks Emily season is starting and I don't get pumped up and go support your homeschools I personally am not in track because I am not very good at running but I like watching my friends do it so go support your school thanks Emily!!!!!!
AP Testing and Studying
High school students are currently preparing for their AP classes that they have taken this year. Currently, one of my teachers finished their lesson plan and has desired that since we are juniors we can make our own plan on how we will study. So today he gave us a calendar for the next two months so that we can show him what we are studying and when we are studying. This way he know that we are studying at our own pace and that we know what we have to get done by this time. Thai way we are relying on ourselves and not a teacher (like what we will have to do in college).
In another class, my teacher finished her lesson plans early and started making sheets about each chapter of what we needed to know the most. From these we study on our own and each day she looks over what we have done the night before. This way she knows that we are at least doing something. Knowing this, it makes people at least do something.
For a few study tips, I would first review the vocab from all of the chapters and see what you do and do not know (even if you think that you know it I would still review it because if you don’t you might forget it by the time the test comes). I would also look over review tests for each chapter and what you don’t know you can review to make sure you know it. Would also recommend studying in a group so that you can quiz each other.
Bullying
When
adults ask me if there is bullying in my school or if I have seen bullying
around me, I don’t know what to tell them. I might be too oblivious to notice
it around me, but honestly I don’t know what I’m looking for. When teachers or
administrators talk to use about bullying, many students think of physical
hurt. Even in movies we see more physical abuse and mean girls calling other
girls that they don’t like mean names. When students are put into a school
situation of bullying, it is friends making mean jokes about others. Even
though everyone does it, even though it seems normal, it is a form of bullying.
Recently, our school had an assembly based on bullying
because there was a freshman who had committed suicide. The teachers and
administrators thought that the school should have a school wide talk about
being kind to others around you, even though you might not like that
person. We had Nina Yu speak about what
she did as Ms. Teen Iowa. She goes to other schools to share that schools need
to have as much ethnicity in schools as possible. And also how ethnicity means
unique students and different types of people in our school. Nina also said
that what some students might say as a joke other students could get offended
by the words or actions. We also had a newspaper person who spoke about her
tough times in the news room. I thought that she was very courageous to stand
up to all of the people who fought against her. In one situation she talked
about how someone called the news room to tell the manager of the news station
to have that certain news caster off of the TV screen. Since the TV room had
caller ID, the news caster called the woman back and asked her what she wanted.
The woman on the phone didn’t realize that her call would get back to the news
caster and apologized for her behavior and words.
The definition of bullying is use
superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, typically to force him or
her to do what one wants. Bullies usually make people feel bad
because they are not doing well in their own homes. Many bullies either take
out their anger on getting high on drugs or alcohol or hurting someone else. They
can’t handle their lives and take it out on other people. These people turn
into bullies. They need to have guidance in their life, but not many get it.
In many movies you see a girl get attacked with mean words
or physical abuse. The girl usually takes drugs to kill herself and her mom
usually finds her right before she dies. The medial crew gets there before the
girl dies and saves her. When the girl finally recovers, she goes back to
school and stand up against the mean girl. It was a good movie over all, but it
doesn’t capture the true meaning of bullying. We get shown clips and movies of
the stereotypical type of bullying. People think that bullying is about certain
people and certain types of words used on people and the abuse is harmless, but
it drives people over the edge. I think that there should be a new movie out to
show the ‘real’ type of bullying that is going on and it should include
viewpoints of actual victims of bullying.
School staff members do an okay job at trying to keep
bullying at bay, but not everyone is nice to one another. In our school
students should take a stand by themselves to stop the bullying. Students
should take it up on their own and not have teachers plan a school wide meeting
about bullying. We should have organized sections for students who feel
worthless. The school should have groups to help students, but they shouldn’t
be pushed. I think the school should also make their own movie about what
bullying really is. Including all students in the movie, whether they are
writing the scrip or helping as actors, just to let the students know that they
are missed and are cared for.
I think that bullying should be a bigger deal in the school
day and that everyone should be kinder to each other, whether in the halls or
in the school parking lot. Students and teachers should make an effort to be
kinder to each other.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Soccer Season
Go support your soccer team. Their season is here. Hope they all do good. Thanks Emily.
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