CC#1, "Python takes a ride on qantas airplane's wing"

In an article by MSN titled, "Python Takes a Ride on Quntas Airplane's Wing," it describes the life and death struggle of a 10 foot long scrub python tucked away in a cravass of the wing. After battling the flight in 200-mile-per-hour winds and negative twelve degree weather the plane eventually landed, miraculously the python was still alive surviving a long flight from Qantas to Papua New Guinea showing 1. the survivability of wildlife through tough conditions and 2. That wildlife can get into even the most crowded places without being noticed.

The python was spotted by a passenger saying, "There's a snake on the wing," she reportedly told the cabin crew. "There's its head and if you look closely you can see a fraction of its body." While nobody believed her at first a cabin crew member looked out the window and confirmed that what she was saying was true. showing that even unbelievable as it may sound wildlife can get into small places of planes without ever being noticed.

The article also states the python surviving extreme weather of "negative twelve degree weather and 200-mile-per-hour winds." This is showing just how adaptive wildlife is, taking a python from the east surviving strictly on warm environments to surviving battering winds and cold weather. It may also show just how naturally inclined they are to survive in different environments naturally than we can, for example in hot conditions we desire air conditioning and plenty of water however this snake survives on small amounts of water and can stay in the hot environment for hours. In the cold environment we need a coat while however the snake uses its body in a way to protect itself  from becoming to cold showing just how fast they can adapt to conditions while we can not.

If I was a passenger of the flight I would be extremely worried if a snake was found because I would wonder if one snake can be hiding on the wing how many can actually be onboard the plane something scary to think about but also a true thought to think about. However it is good that nobody thought about that openly while on the plane because that could start a massive panic making people onboard the plane to lose rational thought and go crazy.

This article reminded me of a movie I saw called snakes on a plane. It reminded me of the movie just because the movie and article start off basically the same someone spotting a snake somewhere on the plane. However it is good that it did not actually end up like the movie where a lot of snakes were actually lurking onboard with the passengers.

In the article the main ideas to me were the survivability of wildlife in unbelievable conditions and also the way wildlife can sneak upon public places without being noticed. This makes me think however, what if we we're able to adapt like some animals do and eventually we wouldn't need a coat in cold weather and we could retain and survive on small amounts of water in the heat how would that work and could that harm us or the environment in some way in a way like gene altering or technological implants?

American Dream Essay

Isaiah Crow

American Dream Essay

     The American dream, many people speak about it and many come in search of it but what is the American dream? It's not an object or item you can see or hold it is a goal an outlook even of what you wish for. However with dreams comes nightmares, the nightmares being of current days.

     The dream for myself is to become a robotics engineer creating life-like robots that can make decisions on their own. I dream of becoming wealthy and sharing that wealth with others to the point that I will not be considered wealthy but poor.

     I have a dream that one day we will have world peace. That the children starving and hurting will stop dying, their parents stop crying. I have a dream that people who run are running for fun not because they are scared of being hurt from others. I have a dream that school shootings don't happen and that the losses of such young souls wont be seen on the news flash. we can over come these social problems if we try just fight with words instead of picking up a gun. We can change the world if we try we just gotta stay focused and not lose our minds.

     Professionally I want to travel the world and sell my inventions as a robotics engineer and meet important people like the president or Bill Gates. See I just want to become known throughout the world known as the man that gave his wealth away improve the living for others and say "I had a good life if I could do it again I would." I never want to see people hurt that don't have to I have seen enough to last me a lifetime.

     I see a bright future that can be exciting but it takes time for dreams to be met. It took Dr. Martin Luther King's lifetime and more for his dream of whites and blacks being equal. All of our dreams can be reached it just takes time and effort to accomplish them.

The appropriate balance between listening and tolerating anothers ideas

What is the appropriate balance between allowing one to defend his or her ideals and tolerating one's ideals, their hysteria even? In the events leading up to World WarII, Hitler being a war veteran was a popular figure being able to persuade a crowd of people to do as he wished and having his ideals tolerated by people who hated him. In the end he gained to much power making himself a hysteric man. his people tolerated and hid from his hysterical ideals of slaughtering an entire race of people. Anne frank a smiling kind hearted girl was one such person who hid from Hitler, she was found in the end though and was forced to a labor camp, forced to work untill death for being a jew.

Current connection 2

The purpose behind this article was to show a new bacteria that can live off caffeine and why we are unable to do so. The article shows that unlike our body, the bacteria breaks the rings of the genetic makeup of caffeine therefore turning it into energy to live off of. We as humans cannot do this just as we cannot digest cellulose that cows can, simply put we do not have the right bacteria to break it down for us. once we learn more of the human microbiome, we might find solutions to digesting such things as cellulose, or caffeine to turn them into energy we can live off of but for now we can not. We can relate this article to the world, their are still many bacteria we have yet to find and many things we still must learn about our body.

Current connection 1

Fox's purpose for this article was to inform us of the documents found, it also gets into detail about the found documents that were about building a flying saucer. Fox says "the Nationsal Declassification center... opened one of more than 100 cardboard boxes from the airforce recently and came across a 114-page document. A document describing a secret program to build a flying saucer." The article gets into great detail about the type of engine, thrust, and size of the saucer but then gets into detail of the prject being scrapped due to failed tests. This shows to the world that many different vehicles and experiments are being made globally as a secret.

Essay of what is an individuals duty

“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation; indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”  –Winston Churchill A duty or more of a tradition? Most people would call it both but an individual doesn’t seem to know what his duty may be. Reflect and realize how many people do not do the basic traditions of a nation that may make it stronger.

An individual’s duty would be to vote for his leader not to blindly follow what was elected for him.  As a quote from JFK’s Anogaral address he states, “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” What an individual can do for their country is to vote it is not only a proud tradition in America it should be a duty, instead of complaining about who was voted take action. However if you vote don’t be blind research into the candidates and what they stand for don’t be ignorant and vote for people based on anything that’s not about their ideas such as color, looks, religion and even party. None of it should worry to a voter, only main ideas and points from the candidate. An example can be found by our past election when Obama was elected President, individuals were screaming for Obama to be president. When asked what he stood for however most people couldn’t answer that they simply voted for him based on his skin color.

An individual should not only vote for people but for bills as well. The constitution states “All men are created equal, with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” This being said it is your responsibility to be able to vote for bills to be passed. However some bills and such can’t be voted for so it should be an individual’s responsibility to let his representative know that he wouldn’t like such bills to be passed. Not because an individual doesn’t like what they say but because these bills are to promote life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness to the people. Knowing this, should an individual simply go about blindly without voting? Without having his opinion heard? Well that is a question that neither I nor anyone else can answer; only you as the reader can answer this question.

An individual should have pride for his or her country. How an individual can have pride for their country is as simple as just saying the pledge every morning. In the long run the smallest things matter, having everybody unite and say the pledge is a way of unity among the people. An individual should do things to help their country and have pride doing it. Small things like picking up the trash on the side of the road can help your country. To help Promote ones nation to be clean and united helping with small things such as saying the pledge and picking up trash may seem very small but it can help people stay united and clean. Think about it if everybody said the pledge and picked up trash how much more united and clean our country can be?

The traditions of our nation can only strengthen us as a whole if we as a nation stick to our traditions than our country can be much more united. To not fight with each other but instead fight together against things like disease, greed, and hunger. To not hate things we don’t know but to understand things better and cope with such things. These can be accomplished in the end but it has to start with you, the individual

Current event #2

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/10/10/14340658-obama-wins-by-landslide-in-7-eleven-coffee-cup-survey?lite&ocid=msnhp

Authors main idea: Obama may win election based on 7-11 coffee cup sales, Purpose:Descriptive

Evidence: Obama leads by a 60-40 margin even though its not official it has accutrately predicted who would win since 2000. In 2008 Sen. John McCain got 46 percent in the 7-11 Election and 45.7 percent in the real election, while Obama got 52 percent of the coffee cups and 52.9 percent of the actual votes.This connects to the world deciding who might turn out to be the next president.
In conclusion this could show the swing of the election showing that obama just might win a second term as president.