The article, “Trapped in tar and time,” shows that while we do not know a lot about our past there is some factual evidence thats supports several theories. For example, while studying the La Brea Tar pits (The the tar tar pits) scientist were able to find a skull of a women, “This is a 9000 year old skull...studies of her skeleton show that she was 4’ 10” and was 20-25 years of age.” So make sure if you ever visit La Brea, you watch your step. There are a lot of findings with animals as well, such as “The saber tooth cat could open its jaws to allow its fangs to penetrate…” There have been over 2000 saber tooth cats found in the pits. Scientists have dug into solidified tar to recover extremely…
Jared Diamond uses a variety of resources to answer Yali’s question. He uses radio carbon evidence to show when and where certain plants or animals were…
Rosie was the proud owner of an Eastern Box Turtle! Excitement radiated from her as she read through the Wikipedia pages and turtle forums I had found. She could not believe how much there was to learn about the baby turtle she had found in her backyard. After an hour of passionate debate on the diet of the Eastern Box Turtle, she left the lab to brag about what she had learned. I had come to the senior center expecting to teach some lethargic retirees how to create email accounts, but I left reminded of the unbridled joy that comes from learning and teaching. As I have progressed through high school I have used Rosie’s infectious energy as inspiration in my life. Her enthusiasm has pushed me to go past the curriculum and share my passions…
One night my family and I went downtown to enjoy Thunder Alley. Thunder Alley was tons of fans standing outside of the Chesapeake Arena to watch the big screens. After awhile my brother and sister got to walk off and go find their friends. I continued to walk around with my mother because I was the youngest and couldn’t leave her side. That night there were several disagreements with different people going on so my mom and I left. Once we got home and turned on the TV unexpectedly my brother was on the news as the shooter of Thunder Alley. I knew my brother began to hang with the wrong crowd but I also know what type of person he was. They began showing him in handcuffs walking into the building while smiling talking to the police. I saw post on Facebook and comments on the news website and thought about how false the things they were saying are. I was no longer a big fan of the news nor did I believe anything they said anymore.…
Marine reptiles of land and air created on day five can include dinosaurs such as the plesiosaur pterodactyl. The stegosaurus and other plant eating dinosaurs fall into the land mammals created on day six. Science has assigned dinosaur eras like the Triassic period as being over 245 million years ago, which supports the idea that creation days were longer than six 24-hour periods. In the article, Morris defends the argument that the existence of dinosaurs goes against the belief that no death or sin occurred before Adam and Eve, by pointing to geological studies that those in existence before Adam and Eve were herbivores. Paleozoic eras…
My occupation has evolved into what you know today as chiropractic or osteopathy. When I first started practicing, we called it bonesetting. Bonesetting is the treatment of disease and manipulation to joints and bones in the body. Bonesetting does treat disease; however, we do not classify ourselves among the physicians of the time. We maintain our own guild or group that share information amongst itself and learn from each other. We are also rather religious in that generations ago, our bonesetting fathers and mothers began the skill by casting out demons with every crackle and pop of the joints.…
Most of my young adult life I have walked into a room where everyone was listening to a person describing a story, in Spanish, and I could not understand the details? Being a non-fluent Latinas, this meant I would not hear and understand the juicy gossip. However, with not speaking Spanish I have gone thought many challenges in my life. I have realized being a non-fluent Latina I have missed out in learning about my heritage, been judged by my appearance, and have taken steps to carry my culture to the next generation. My parents did not teach us to speak Spanish which is one of my biggest regrets in life. This language is a part of my history that I will not be able to teach the next generation. However, as an adult I have made it a choice…
A representativeness heuristic is when an individual judges a situation based on a stereotype rather than on actual probability. An example of a representative heuristic that I have experienced from my own life experiences happened when I was playing basketball ball with some friends. While we were playing one of my female friends came and asked if she could play basketball with us. Because she was a female me and my friends wouldn’t let her play because we thought girls weren’t as good at sports as boys, and she wouldn’t be able to keep up, and paly as well as us.…
Dinosaurs strolled the earth over 245 million years ago. So it would only be fair to go all the way back to the beginning and quickly summarize how it all happened. Earth’s history is categorized into two eras, and then categorized by periods. The two eras are Paleozoic era, and Mesozoic era.…
As a child, I was outgoing and talkative, but in 4th grade, I became more self-conscious and shy. That summer, I signed up for The Oak Ridge Otters Summer Swim Team. I was nervous to join because I knew no one. It felt like everyone was judging me for being the new member. A group of teens, maybe in middle school at the time, noticed that I looked lonely and called me over. They talked to me and introduced kids my age. They made me feel less nervous and excited to continue to swim. This was the first team that showed sports wasn’t about the sport itself, but also growing friendship and memories. The middle schoolers also taught me to include others and not to ignore someone for being aloof.…
The history of the earth itself stretches back around five billion years. However, the human chapter of this long story is a relatively short one; the first humanlike apes appeared roughly four million years ago. Relatively recently, the first modern human beings made their appearance about forty thousand years ago. This chapter examines that early period up through the increasing sophistication of the Paleolithic and…
It was grand Final day at the Wimborne sports ground my stomach was churning inside of me. I Stumbled to my hands and began to throw up in one of the shrubs in the car park. I was interrupted by dads laughing “You sissy stop begin a girl and get with your team we’ve got a grand final to win!” I replied back “Well actually dad if you remember, the only reason our team made it to the grand final was because of me” my dad just laughed and said “Sure, sure whatever you believe Aden”. The only reason dad named me Aden was because my dad believed that one day I would hopefully grow up as some tough rugby league super star like Greg Inglis or Sam Thaiday. But no I am nothing more than a sticker figure, with shorter hair and gleaming blue eyes. Every…
I was almost labeled a hamster killer. The first pets i got were dwarf hamsters. I went to petsmart with my mom and picked out two hamsters that were supposedly both girls, but one ended up being a boy. One's name was Caesar and the other Felipe. They weren’t always the nicest, but that didn’t make me love them any less. There was this one time that both of my dwarf hamster's got out while i was at school. My mom told me when i got home that she closed the door to my bedroom because they had escaped. I searched everywhere in my room for them. One hamster was under my bed and the other under my sister's bed since we shared a room at the time. Hamsters always find a way to get into the hardest places to find them in. I caught the one under my sisters bed and he was fine. When i went to get the other one out something funny, but sad happened. I have bins with wheels on them that i would roll under my bed and store stuff in. I had to roll the one under my bed out to see where the hamster was because i couldn't find her. So, as im doing this my mom came in the room to see if i had caught them. I was rolling the bin out as i saw something flat squashed on the floor…
When you look at me you might think I’m tough. You might think I’m not smart.…
I expect that when most people think of a dragon, they think of a monster.…