Plasticity Lab: The Conclusion

In the experiment known as the Plasticity Lab, I have come to a conclusion. It was written that we were instructed to fill a large beaker half way with corn starch. Then, we would put a small amount of water into the beaker (warm or cold.Your choice). After the certain amount of water was added, the starch will start to become thick, but slightly chalky and yet a little bit watery. We would then take the metal spoon which was laying on the tray that was provided and mix the starch. We would continue to mix till the starch became thick. Then the experiment really began! When I stuck my hand in the beaker to examine, the starch was watery and dripped around my open hand. But when I clasped my hands and rubbed them together, in a way that I will roll a Play-doh glob longer, the starch became solid and was forming chunks in my hand! Curious, I opened my hand but was shocked to see that the "chunks" were still water! I was baffled and tried the experiment again and again. Still the same result. However, it came to reason that the starch became a solid when I applied pressure onto it and when the pressure was released it would return back to a liquid. Thus, concluding the class experiment and thinking of the other wonders our world could create.

October Sky

In the movie October Sky, I learned that boys did not always have a choice of what they wanted to be in life in the late 1950s. If they lived in a small town with little money, they were probably destined to work in their town mine with the other men in the town, including their friends and fathers. Homer Hickam, however, refused to let his destiny be taken place in the depths of a mine. His dream was to make rockets, and to be a Rocket Scientist. My response to the rocket portion of the movie is the following. I admired how Homer convinced his friends to join his rocket building even though they believed they were "too cool" to hang out with the "nerd", Quin, who was a great deal of help to Homer and his rockets. I was also interested in the way they kept trying to make the perfect rocket, which connects to the Character Ed trait, cooperation because they worked together and kept trying even though everyone in town, besides the boys teacher Miss. Riley, considered them a menace. In my opinion, personally the greatest part of the movie was when Homer's father, who rejected the rocket building idea from the gecko, finally came to see one of his "boy's" rockets fly. It was a tear-spilling moment for me, and I couldn't help but clap at the end.

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Tay Sachs disease

Discovered in 1881 by British ophthalmologist, Warren Tay, Tay Sachs disease is known to kill infants in the north- eastern countries. This disease is caused by a lipid storage disorder that has harmful quantities of a fatty subtance called Ganglioside which builds up in tissues and nerve cells in the brain. Infants known to have this disease, dont live past 4 or 5. However, childeren can only recieve this diesease if both parents are carriers of the gene. Unfortunatly, people of Eastern Europe and Askhenazi Jewish decent are more prone to the disease. French- Canadians and the people of the Cajun heritage also have a chance of getting the disease. "Cherry-red" spots in the eyes catgorize you as a victim of this fateful disease. These symtoms: deterioration of mental and physical ablities, blindness, unable to swallow, paralysis, seizers, and increased startle reflex to noise also indicate that your victimized by this diesease. Sadly, there are no current treatments for this disease, but an anticonvulsant helps control the seizers. Hopefuly, in the near future there will be a cure for this infection and its victims would be spared and allowed to live a full, healthy life.