Realistic

What do you feel when you wake up

The shock of life run through your body

Yet you are not sure why you are here

You get ready and walk out the door

The grass so green

The sun so bright

A painted portrait among the horizon

Nothing but the whisper of the wind

As you trail down the street

Everything's so peaceful you try not to speak

Soak up the beauty

But who's to say this isn't a dream

It feels so realistic as the sun comes into view

You try to stay calm as you realize it's time to open your eyes

The alarm screeches says it's 6:35

Time to say your finale goodbyes

Step into the real world

Try not to cry as you primp your hair

and color your eyes

Head to work what a surprise

Just 8 more hours till you are able to arrive

to that place called your dreams

Maybe one days you'll open your eyes

See that portrait and wonder

Is this real life?

Wash Me

"Wash me" yeah that sounds like a good idea. Can't you honestly just scrape up some change in your cup holder and go through the car wash. It is just humiliating. How would you feel if some one putting a not on your back saying "I need a shower." Why would you let me get this dirty? Don't you no how to take car of things that get dirty. I don't suspect you let your children run around in public with mud a snot streaking down there face. You would give them a bath. That’s what I need, a bath. Plus how can you see through me, through all this gross mud an dirt. Do you really walk around with your glasses full of dust do you? Well lets just say I am not pleased with your inconsiderate actions. Please take me to the car wash!

Hidden Trace

Sitting alone towards the back of the town diner, you mind your own business and drink your coffee. You get up to leave, putting both your hands on the table to support your weight. Then dig in your pocket for a couple singles then let them lay in the middle of the table. Then you glide across the floor and slowly slip out of the door. But what really happened was you took a drink and left behind a bit of saliva, then when you placed your hands on the table, you left behind fingerprints and skin cells, also when you dig through your pocket and grab out your change you leave behind some cloth fibers and again fingerprints. Then you push that door open you leave behind more skin cells and fingerprints. These are all traces of DNA leading back to you. “DNA fingerprinting” is everywhere you go (Cline). It has helped solve crimes for many years.Now a days the devolment of new technology has in the crime scene  investgation department has come a long way.

First, let me introduce you to the idea of DNA fingerprinting. All living things must have DNA. In humans and many animals, DNA is inherited from their parents. Your DNA is unique to you only if you don’t have an identical twin that is. (David F. Betsch).  Fingerprint is not referring to the funny swirls located on the pads of your fingers. It is reffering to the fact that your DNA is kind of similar to a fingerprint,you leave it behind where ever you go (Cline). Where do they find these cells with DNA you ask? Well, to that question the answer is; the different cells used to find a DNA fingerprint can be a skin cell, a hair root, or a cheek cell which is in your mouth and is spread with your spit. This is because your unique DNA is the same in all your cells (Cline). But did you know this type human indentification was not introduced until 1987 (Cline). Since then it has grown to be very helpful in solving crimes.

Second, let’s see what the process of analyzing DNA fingerprints. Unlike a fingerprint from your hand, police can’t just find it by “dusting the prints.” Scientists actually have to take the DNA out of the nucleus of a cell (Cline). But what do they do with the DNA after they have dissected it from the nucleus?  They take it and analyze it to show the differences of DNA with different people (Cline). They are able to take in this information then use it to find lost children or the criminal of a murder. Every individual has different DNA fingerprints the police are starting a program so they can collect DNA from everyone in the U.S. (David F. Betsch).This will help the development of investigation an stop criminals faster so they don’t havetime to strike again.

Lastly to fully understand how DNAfingerprinting works we have to meet the master minds who spend their days in the lab trying to solve the crimes. The forensic scientists. For scientest to be able to look into an investigation they have to have som eveidence, such as a weapon or maybe a hair folical. Also if there is a dieceased body on the premisies they can clean under nieth there finger nails to see if the attackers skin cells have been left behind. Those are ways that Police and scientiest use DNA fingerprinting, but they can actually use other ways like collecting actual fingerprints. There are two methods that police use to collect finger prints. One is to dust the surface with a powder that has aluminum in it because aluminum is met also it reflects off the light. Then the take pictures of the object with the finger print. Then they lift the print using transparent tape. The other way that police can find finger prints is a laser. A laser is a good way to find finger prints where police wouldn’t think of looking (Parker). These two ways definatly beat “man measurement” which was used by police in the early days before all this fancy technology exsisted. They believed that new two men had the same body measurments (Parker). Then they came acrossed fingerprints and all that changed.

In conclusion, DNA fingerprinting has proven to be very helpful to those in the criminal investigation field.  If it wasn’t for new technology people would have their forearms measured to prove guilt or innocence. DNA fingerprinting is defiantly the best way to solve crimes. Honestly you have left behind at least two different types of DNA reading this paper.

Bibliography

Cline, Erin. "DNA is Everywhere!" Understanding Genetics. 23 April 2012 <http://www.thetech.org/genetics/news.php?id=16>.

David F. Betsch, Ph.D. "DNA Fingerprinting in Human Health and Society." AccessExcellence. 20 April 2012 <http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BA/DNA_Fingerprinting_Basics.php>.

Grayson, Lee. "How Are Fingerprints Used in Forensic Science?" eHow. 17 April 2012 <http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5273470_fingerprints-used-forensic-science.html>.

Parker, Janice. Forgeries Fingerprints and Foransics. Austin: Steck-Vaugh Company, 2000.

"Twilight" vs. "The Hunger Games"

Authors Note~ This is an essay demonstrating text to text analysis.

     50% of the audience polled said, that they liked "The Hunger Games." 29% said they liked "Twilight." The other percentages said they liked both or neither. Both of these series of books are very popular but, one has to come out on top. Teens everywhere are so blinded by the compassion and love contributed through these two books. Do they realize that these books have nearly the same plot?

    First, let's take a look into Bella's life. Bella is a 17 year old girl who lives in gloomy Forks, Washington. Shortly after her arrival, she falls in love with Edward Cullen.  Bella depends on Edward to protect her 100%. She later finds out that Edward is a vampire.  This doesn't scare Bella away. Secretly her old hometown friend Jacob wishes it did. After a while she has to make a choice, Edward or Jacob? She chooses Edward. Later on they get married. Only then, Bella is no longer the lame duck and she has found the power to "'shield" herself and her loved ones.

     On the other hand Katniss, is a 16 year old girl who lives in gloomy District 12. She has volunteered to be a tribute in the 75th annual Hunger Games. Katniss  volunteered in place of her 12 year old sister Prim.  Katniss is very independent and she proves that throughout the games. Until she falls in love with the bakers son, her fellow tribute Peeta. Then all she allows herself  to do is make sure the two of them survive. Though surviving was her main focus, it caused trouble with her being ableto see the bigger picture and where she fits in. For example, how Gale really feels about her and how Peeta really loves her, even though it was supposed to be an act. But in the end,  she chose Peeta over Gale.

     While these two characters lives and personalities seem different, the plot makes them seem alike. First off these two books are about a love triangle. Both triangle scenarios are the same. The girls must choose between a new love and an old friend. They would rather choose their new love, over their old friend. Also in common they are getting hunted by some one or something. Bella is being  hunted by vampires while Katniss is being hunted by tributes. They also both get  special treatment ,so to speak. Bella gets to become a family with vampires and be with the one she loves forever. While Katniss gets to survive the Hunger Games along with Peeta.  This helps keep their  inspiring love story alive.

   All in all, these authors basically used the same plot and plugged in different characters.  I really like the twist that Stephenie Meyer and Suzanne Collins both added, it made the plot more unique. You would have never noticed before how close these books are in comparison until now. Good luck trying to picture Peeta with out seeing a blood sucking vampire. 

Nature's Cry

Authors Note~  This a response to the two poems "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below"

"Big Yellow Taxi" is about losing something that you are never able to get back. In this case it is nature being destroyed. That is also the same for the poem "Field Below"." Big Yellow Taxi" When I listened to this song it does not seem sad. It seems happy and catchy. Does not seem like the author is sad about losing her paradise. When I listened to the song "Field Below"  I could definitely here the sad nice in her voice her you could really tell that she was yearning for something bright and happy. Something that she doesn't have now. I really think that the mood and tone of the poem and the mood and tone of the song match up really well and you can feel her sadness.

Parody

Author's Note: This is a parody to the poem, Just to Say. This poem is based off of Where The Heart Is, by Billie Letts. Enjoy! :)

I left you.

At Wal-Mart

While you were in the bathroom.

I waited for you,

You were taking to long,

So I drove on

Sorry to say

but I have a record now

I'm way better off

 So glad, I left.



 

This parody is about the book, Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts. Willy Jack leaves this note outside of Wal-Mart when Novalee comes back and finds it. It explains why he left her all alone with the baby! The speaker is Willy Jack and the audience is Novalee. The tone of the poem Is sorry and sad In the beginning but then rude at the end! The mood is dreadful the whole way through!

What is Free?

Authors Note: This is a research paper for Social Studies. I would like for it to be graded on the writing rubric.

“Why should I strive and acquire all the constituents of a man if the privileging of the land admit me not as such, or but in an inferior degree! Pardon me if I feel insignificant and weak….”  These words are spoken from an African American student who lived in New York City in 1819. His bitter words help us understand that blacks in the North were not as free as they should have been. Blacks in the north were legally free but not treated as equals.

First, they had more freedom then the blacks in South.  One example is they didn’t have to serve the whites. They were not sold in to slavery like the blacks who lived in the South. Although the blacks in the North were not treated like farm animals, they had all the rights of a stray dog. They were not allowed to eat at the same table with the whites; also the whites would not associate with them. Though they were not showered with hatred, they were not bathed with respect.

However, blacks in the North were not able to be a part of a community unless they belonged to a church. There they were able to print a newspaper and have Sunday school. They had clubs and got to be a part of something more important than their race. The question is; if the blacks were free then why were the churches segregated? Shouldn’t the blacks and whites be able to praise God in the same building? Also what happens to the black people who do not go to church or do not have the same religion? Well they are turned away; they have no rights in the community. They just have to sit back and let everyone do everything for them which doesn’t help them want to succeed or strive to be in power of who they are or who they could be.

Even as “free” blacks they did not have the same rights of any other man. They were not allowed to vote or be part of a jury. There was only one state out of the “free states” that allowed black men to vote. That state was Massachusetts. This is more proof that the blacks were not equal. They were not allowed to take the equivalent amount of actions as the white men. They were declined the ability to have any power or say in our country.

Lastly the education of young children was unfair. The schools in the North were segregated. It’s like sorting laundry keeping the whites with the whites and the blacks with the blacks. That does not sound free. When you separate kids at a young age you are not really teaching them any good morals. You are teaching the white kids that they have all the power and they can be as rude as they want to the blacks. This makes the blacks feel worthless.

“Why should I strive…” This question should have never been asked. If the blacks were free, they would never feel this way. They should have been treated the same; equal. Then they would be free.