Project 4 Draft I Factoids (Betcha Didn't Know...)

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.

Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)

Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.

Women breathe faster than men.

A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.

It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

During sleep, if you are snoring, then you are not dreaming.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

Project 4 Draft I The Unpopular Wild Ones

Leaf Muntjac (Leaf Deer)
The Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo, says the animal is the world's smallest deer species. It is found in dense forest habitats at an elevation of 1500 - 2000 feet, where it s solitary and eats mostly fruit.




Chacoan Peccary
When frightened, Chacoan peccaries flee, raising the long hairs on their back and spraying secretions from their dorsal gland, presumably to keep the group together in the dense brush via odor. These secretions are rubbed against group members.







Kinkajou
Found in the Americas with its slim dark body and clever paws, you can see that this mammal is related to our raccoon. The kinkajou's long grasping tail helps it travel around its home in the rain forest trees. Although its diet is varied, its love of honey earned it the nickname "honey-bear."



Okapi
It inhabits the almost sunless rain forests of the upper Congo and feeds on leaves. Its shape is reminiscent of a giraffe's, but it is smaller, with a much shorter neck. It is deep reddish brown with black and white zebra-striped legs. Its head is giraffelike and in the male bears blunt skin-covered horns. The okapi was unknown to zoologists until the beginning of the 20th cent.

Project II Draft III

She was a very strong woman in her time. She bore 12 children and was married to a very powerful politician who passed away at a young age. She was proclaimed by many to be the best roti maker ever and I have seen the mystical patterns that she made using crochet hooks and yarn. I have heard stories about her renowned recipes, and expert card playing strategies; but I have never tasted the chef’s hand or seen the great card shark in action. In the last decade of her life, my paternal Grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's disease. She spent one of the most difficult parts of her life living with my two younger siblings, my parents and myself.

My Grandmother was born in Grenada, moved to Trinidad and finally years later, began a new life in Florida. My family at the time lived in South Carolina but visited Gran’s house every summer. I remember finding out that she was coming to live with us so we had some renovations done to the house and designed a master bedroom for her comfort. As a few months went by her memory began to deteriorate. We were slowly losing the one we cherished. The doctors thought it would be best if we took her back to where she was most familiar. So that summer we moved into her house in Florida.
Alzheimer’s changed the person we once knew. Gran became a different person; we had to do everything for her: feed, bathe, and dress her. She developed an aggressive behavior courtesy of the mind erasing disease. One thing about my Grandmother is that she always loved to dress up. Everything had to be perfect, the wardrobe, hair, nails, shoes and pocketbook to match. Despite her forgetting she was hungry and our names she never forgot how much she loved to dress up. I can remember every three days my sister and I would polish her nails a new color.
A few years past and my Grandmother’s eldest daughter decided that she wanted to take care of Gran, so she took her away. This meant that she only got her nails polished on weekends. One weekend we went to get her but she wasn’t there. My Aunt explained that she put my Grandmother in a nursing home: my Dad’s biggest fear. Since my Aunt had power of attorney there was nothing we could have done about it. Now Gran’s nails were done twice a month because my Aunt wanted to take her on weekends too and the home only allowed patients to be dismissed on weekends.
As I grew older we got to see our Grandmother less due to her immobility. Unfortunately, we made too many excuses not to go see Gran and before we knew it my Grandmother developed a urinary tract infection. She was hospitalized for a few days and then transferred to Hospice. I spent my 14th birthday in Hospice with her praying that she wouldn’t die or at least she wouldn’t be in any pain since she lost her ability to speak.
March 20, 2004 the day after my birthday, Gran passed away just as we left Hospice that night. After that all I thought about was my Grandmother’s nails. They were not done in her favorite pink colored polish, nor were not done to match the gowns she had to wear in Hospice; they were not done at all. I reflected and cried about all the times that I could have done Gran’s nails but always found something else to do. And at that second, that’s when I started to believe that you cannot take the moments you have with people for granted. Eventually we all have to go and I never want to be in the same position that I was in with my Grandmother, regretting the fact that I didn’t take that extra five minutes out of the 1,440 minutes of the day to polish ten fingernails. You never can tell when your last moment with that one person may be so, cherish the time you have with those you love and this I believe.

Project 2 Revised

“The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree”

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce Maynard

When an apple falls from the tree there is nothing to look up to other than the very same tree it fell from. And in time that one little apple will grow up to be exactly like the tree that it fell from. This aphorism is easy to understand in that sense. However not all apples that fall from the tree falls near to the tree. There are a wide variety of different scenarios that may change that apple’s life.

In so many ways the aphorism is also true. Due to Biology an apple or in a more realistic case a child cannot turn into another species, or rather into someone with different DNA and genetics[l1] . There is nothing anyone can do to alter or change the DNA that a person has. In which the aphorism would be very true. A child and his or her parents are very much alike based on genetics and DNA.

Although genetics in biology also have a way of skipping one or many generations and not revealing itself until many generations later. In this case the genes are the same from the parents to the child; however the phenotype is different causing the child to not necessarily looking like the parents but maybe someone else from the family “tree”.

But then again, what about nature verses nurture? Nature would ultimately adhere to the aphorism and reveal that the apple would turn out to be exactly like the tree. However the nurture side would argue that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree granted that no one else picks up the apple and cares for it until it has ripened. Nurture would disagree with nature in the sense that other things affecting and influencing the apple would shape the apple more than the parents of the apple ever could.

There are many twins out there who adhere to this aphorism and just as many that do not. There have been studies done where twins were split up from birth and the twins turned out to be exactly alike and other studies that the twins turn out unlike each other and more like the parents who raised each child.

In a much different take on this aphorism, there are children out there who have seen who their parents are and vow never to have this aphorism said about them. The child may not be able to get away from their parents genetically but they do have a choice as far as mannerisms, characteristics, and decisions that their parents have made.

Robert Fulghum once said “Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you”. At a very young age the child may not realize what is right from wrong but as they get older this is what determines how far the apple falls from the tree. A young child may not understand the actions and the consequences that accompany the parents’ choices and as the child grows up he or she most likely will idolize their parents and try in every possible way to become more like them. Then as they grow older and don’t have a grasp on how to make wise decisions and learn from their parents’ mistakes then they will continue to follow in their parents’ footsteps and prove the aphorism true the other side to this particular aspect starts off rather similar but ends up quite differently. Of course the child will grow up wanting to be exactly like his or her parents but then somewhere along the way the child realizes that throughout life their parents have made some decision that they themselves do not want to make and in this case the apple will fall a good distance away from the tree.

China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC Confucius once said “Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree but it preserves it.” Most of the time the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree but there are those few times in which an apple falls from the tree and rolls far away.

Gay Adoption: Statistics [l2]

---

[l1]Was: genetic history

[l2]Consider

Project 1 Revised

She was a very strong woman in her time. She bore 12 children and was married to a very powerful politician who passed away at a young age. She was the best roti maker ever and I have seen the mystical patterns that she made using crochet hooks and yarn. I have heard stories about her great strength, her renowned recipes, and her card playing strategies; but I have never tasted the chief’s hand or seen the great card shark in action. My Grandmother suffered the last decade of her life with Alzheimer’s. She spent one of the most difficult parts of her life living with my two younger siblings, my parents and myself.
My Grandmother was born in Grenada, moved to Trinidad and finally years later began a new life in Florida. My family at the time lived in South Carolina but visited Gran’s house every summer. I remember finding out that she was coming to live with us so we had some renovations done to the house and designed a master bedroom for her comfort. As a few months went by her memory began to deteriorate. We were slowly losing the one we cherished. The doctors thought it would be best if we took her back to where she was most familiar. So that summer we moved into her house in Florida.
Alzheimer’s changed the person we once knew. Gran became a different person we had to do everything for her: feed her, bathe her, and dress her. She developed an aggressive behavior courtesy of the mind erasing disease. One thing about my Grandmother is that she always loved to dress up. Everything had to be perfect, the wardrobe, hair, nails, shoes and pocketbook to match. Despite her forgetting she was hungry or our names she never forgot how much she loved to dress up. I can remember every three days my sister and I would polish her nails a new color.

A few years past and my Grandmother’s eldest daughter decided that she wanted to take care of Gran, so she took her away. This meant that she only got her nails polished on weekends. One weekend we went to get her but she wasn’t there. My Aunt explained that she put my Grandmother in a nursing home: my Dad’s biggest fear. Since my Aunt had power of attorney there was nothing we could have done about it. Now Gran’s nails were twice a month because my Aunt wanted to take her on weekends too and the home only allowed patients to be dismissed on weekends.

As I got older we got to see our Grandmother less due to her immobility and my Aunt insisting my Grandmother being moved to different homes further away from us. Unfortunately we made too many excuses not to go see the new Gran and before we knew it my Grandmother developed a urinary tract infection. She was hospitalized for a few days and then transferred to Hospice. I spent my 14th birthday in Hospice with her praying she wouldn’t die or at least she wouldn’t be in any pain since should lost her ability to speak.
March 20th 2004 the day after my birthday Gran passed away just as we left Hospice that night. After that all I thought about was my Grandmother’s nails. They were not done in her favorite pink colored polish, they were not done to match the gowns she had to wear in Hospice, they were not done at all. I reflected and cried about all the times that I could have done Gran’s nails but always found something else to do. And at that second, that’s when I started to believe that you cannot take the moments you have with people for granted, eventually we all have to go and I never want to be in the same position that I was in with my Grandmother, regretting the fact that I didn’t take that extra five minutes out of the 1,440 minutes of the day to polish ten finger nails. You never can tell when your last moment with that one person may be so, cherish the time you have with those you love and this I believe.

Project # 2

“The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree”
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our
children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't
tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce
Maynard

When an apple falls from the tree there is nothing to look up to other than the very

same tree it fell from. And in time that one little apple will grow up to be exactly like

the tree that it fell from granted that no one else picks up the apple and cares for it

until it has ripened. This aphorism is easy to understand in that sense. However not all

apple that fall from the tree falls near to the tree. There are a wide variety of

different scenarios that may change that apple’s life.

In so many ways the aphorism is also true. Due to Biology an apple or in a more

realistic case a child cannot turn into another species, or rather into someone with

different DNA and genetic history. There is nothing anyone can do to alter or change the

DNA that a person has. In which the aphorism would be very true. A child and his or her

parents are very much alike.

Although genetics in biology also have a way of skipping one or many generations and not

revealing itself until many generations later. In this case the genes are the same from

the parents to the child, however the phenotype is different causing the child to not

necessarily looking like the parents but maybe someone else from the family.

But then again, what about nature verses nurture? Nature would ultimately adhere to the

aphorism and reveal that the apple would turn out to be exactly like the tree. However

nurture would disagree and state that other things affecting and influencing the apple

would shape the apple more than the parents of the apple ever could. There are many twins

out there who adhere to this aphorism and just as many that do not. There have been

studies done where twins were split up from birth and the twins turned out to be exactly

alike and other studies that the twins turn out unlike each other and more like the

parents who raised each child.

In a much different take on this aphorism, there are children out there who have seen who

their parents are and vow never to have this aphorism said about them. The child may not

be able to get away from their parents genetically but they do have a choice as far as

mannerisms, characteristics, and decisions that their parents have made.

Robert Fulghum once said “Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they

are always watching you”.

At a very young age the child may not realize what is right from wrong but as they get

older this is what determines how far the apple falls from the tree. A young child may

not understand the actions and the consequences that accompany the parents’ choices and

as the child grows up he or she most likely will idolize their parents and try in every

possible way to become more like them. Then as they grow older and don’t have a grasp on

how to make wise decisions and learn from their parents’ mistakes then they will continue

to follow in their parents’ footsteps and prove the aphorism true.

The other side to this particular aspect starts off rather similar but ends up quite

differently. Of course the child will grow up wanting to be exactly like his or her

parents but then somewhere along the way the child realizes that throughout life their

parents have made some decision that they themselves do not want to make and in this case

the apple will fall a good distance away from the tree.

China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC Confucius

once said “Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree but it preserves it.” Most of the

time the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree but there are those few times in which an

apple falls from the tree and rolls far away.