Reading Journal
Devara Putra Aryasta
Frazier-Engl101U
RJ#7 Brendan Buhler’s “The Teeming Metropolis of You” & Virginia Hughes’s, “Our Body the Ecosystem”
03 / 10 / 2014
Brendan Buhler’s “The Teeming Metropolis of You” & Virginia Hughes’s, “Our Body the Ecosystem”
Summary: In this article, “The Teeming Metropolis of You” by Brendan Buhler, the author writes about how our small intestine functions, and the author explains this by saying that our small intestine is not a temple, but instead a complex piece of machinery. Buhler also says that the way our bodies work is very interesting from a general point of view, but there is a lot more that we could know. All in all, the author provides a detailed step-by-step process in which bacteria help keep out dangerous pathogens.
Personal Response: I personally think that Buhler’s essay is very descriptive in the way he writes about our biota, he goes into depth when he uses a real life example of an apartment building being a crack den and how our ‘tenants’ keep these vandals out. I didn’t realize beforehand how our bodies worked so efficiently and in such complicated ways, however Brendan Buhler made me sit on the edge of my seat wanting to know more about how one single bacteria can change our moods and behaviors. Articles like this one presented to me a much wider knowledge of our biota. It gave me a plethora of real life examples to explain situations that occur within our bodies.
Critical Response: In this article, “The Teeming Metropolis of You” by Brendan Buhler, the author gives the reader an insight into the microbiology of our body and gives us a clear explanation of how things function as well. The reader can really get involved into the story because the author gives a lot of reliable facts as examples of how things work in our body. As he writes in the ninth paragraph of his article, “To some extent, this makes sense; after all, if harmless bacteria were playing for keeps, they wouldn’t be harmless—they would be
Frazier-Engl101U
RJ#7 Brendan Buhler’s “The Teeming Metropolis of You” & Virginia Hughes’s, “Our Body the Ecosystem”
03 / 10 / 2014
Brendan Buhler’s “The Teeming Metropolis of You” & Virginia Hughes’s, “Our Body the Ecosystem”
Summary: In this article, “The Teeming Metropolis of You” by Brendan Buhler, the author writes about how our small intestine functions, and the author explains this by saying that our small intestine is not a temple, but instead a complex piece of machinery. Buhler also says that the way our bodies work is very interesting from a general point of view, but there is a lot more that we could know. All in all, the author provides a detailed step-by-step process in which bacteria help keep out dangerous pathogens.
Personal Response: I personally think that Buhler’s essay is very descriptive in the way he writes about our biota, he goes into depth when he uses a real life example of an apartment building being a crack den and how our ‘tenants’ keep these vandals out. I didn’t realize beforehand how our bodies worked so efficiently and in such complicated ways, however Brendan Buhler made me sit on the edge of my seat wanting to know more about how one single bacteria can change our moods and behaviors. Articles like this one presented to me a much wider knowledge of our biota. It gave me a plethora of real life examples to explain situations that occur within our bodies.
Critical Response: In this article, “The Teeming Metropolis of You” by Brendan Buhler, the author gives the reader an insight into the microbiology of our body and gives us a clear explanation of how things function as well. The reader can really get involved into the story because the author gives a lot of reliable facts as examples of how things work in our body. As he writes in the ninth paragraph of his article, “To some extent, this makes sense; after all, if harmless bacteria were playing for keeps, they wouldn’t be harmless—they would be