Our Brain

1.                                         1.What does the word "hemisphere" refer to when talking about the brain?

-       The cerebral hemispheres of the brain are the right and left hemispheres in your brain.

2. What are the major differences between the left and right sides of the brain?

-       The right side of the brain controls many things like muscle movement in the left side of your body while the left side of the brain controls the right side of muscles in your body. For example damage on one side of the brain would affect the opposite side of the body.

3. What is the corpus callosum?

-       The corpus callosum is what connects the left and right side of the brain. It is made up of thick bands of fibers.

4. Explain the study performed by Paul Broca in which he discovered "Broca's Area."

-       Paul Broca first discovered the “Brocas Area” when studying the brain of one of his patients with speech impairment after their death. Brocas area is the part of the brain, which is responsible for language processing, speech production, and language comprehension, and also controls facial neurons. He discovered that it was located in the left hemisphere.

5. Explain the study conducted by Roger Sperry in regard to "split brain."

-Split Brain was a study and a surgery made on epileptic people in the old times, since there was no other cure. It included cutting the corpus callosum of the brain and letting the two sides spread.

6. Explain the study conducted by Karl Wernicke which led to the discovery of Wernicke's Area."

-Wernickes area is a study that helped discover the region of the brain for language development. It is a language loop that is found in the left hemisphere. And is used for understanding and producing spoken language.

7. Which lobe is most responsible for vision?

-The occipital lobe is our primary lobe responsible for vision.

8. Which lobe is most responsible for hearing and language?

The temporal lobe is responsible for hearing and language.

9. Which lobe is most responsible for performing math calculations?

The frontal lobe is responsible for math calculations.

 10. Which lobe is most responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control?

The frontal lobe is responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/split.html

http://biology.about.com/library/organs/brain/blcorpus.htm

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-brocas-area.htm

http://psychology.about.com/od/windex/g/def_wernickesar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cortex#Primary_visual_cortex_.28V1.29

http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_10/d_10_cr/d_10_cr_lan/d_10_cr_lan.html

Letter 1 Classical Parallels

This letter was written from Abigail Adams to John Addams. It is their first letter. Abigail is feeling very lonely and depressed without her husband. She is telling him how anxious she is about her country and for their family. She makes this question, which is very true; “Did ever any Kingdom or state regain their liberty, when once it was invaded without bloodshed”(Addams 676)? She is trying to tell her husband that she is concerned because every time a country fought for their freedom there was an immense war and an awful bloodshed. Abigail Addams is comparing their situation with Sparta, and how when they were attacked they were only concerned of their own land and what led them to defeat. She doesn’t want that to happen to her country. She is then wishing her husband luck and is telling him that she will always support him.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/American_Revolutionary
_War_collage.jpg

Rhetorical Devices

1. “The great anxiety I feel for my country, for you and for our family renders the day tedious, and the night unpleasant”(Adams 676).

 - This quote is important to the letter because it is introducing the reader emotions. This quote is transmitting the emotions Abigail Addams is feeling into the reader so the reader knows what she felt. With her strong emotions she is showing us how people felt in those times over the war and their family.


2. “I have taken a very great fondness for reading Rollin’s ancient History since you left me” (Abigail 676).

-This quote is a red herring or a distraction from the main idea for the reader. Abigail Addams main point is her preoccupation for the war and for her family. So John and the reader would not get too overwhelmed she introduced this part about her, reading Rollins ancient History.  

Works Cited

-Adams, John and Mary. Letters. English class packet

Blog #4 Refuting Patrick Henry

Members of the parliament, you were called here today to discuss about a certain man called Patrick Henry. Gentlemen, the colonists are rebelling against us and Mr. Henry is helping them by presenting new ideas and plans.  We have to work together and find better solutions to win. Mr. Patrick Henry called the Virginia Convention to read to them his speech and talk baldy about our mother country Britain. He has been criticizing our government and has been disrespecting our law. His two main ideas that are setting colonists against us is that first, we are treating them as slaves, and second they have to fight against us for their freedom. Gentlemen, something must be done and fast!

Gentlemen, this is something Patrick Henry told the colonists, “Is life so dear, and peace so sweet as to be purchased, at the price of chains and slavery ”(Henry 2)? This is absurd! What have we ever done to the colonists? Since the beginning we have helped them settle into their new homes and lands. We have always been nice and respectful to them.  Gentlemen, the only thing we have ever asked them for is to help us pay back our debt to help their Beloved country. What gives them the right to rebel and say that they are treated like slaves?  We have to show the colonists that they are not being treated as slaves. We have to teach them how to give thanks and respect our king. They are the ones who are boycotting our goods and destroying our vessels. All of this is treason towards our country; we cannot let this go any further.

Mr. Henry is telling all the colonists that they have to fight for their freedom at any cost. Who said that we are sending our soldiers for war? They are only going to the colonies to keep the colonists in order and stop all of this madness. “If we wish to be free… We must fight! I repeat it sir, we must fight”(Henry 2)! This is what is going around the colonist’s heads gentlemen. I think we have to resolve this problem in a better way that does not involve a war. There cannot, and will not be more bloodshed. We can talk to the colonists and come to an agreement. It is crazy for us to go to war just because the colonists believe they are slaves of Britain.  The war has not started gentlemen and we have to prevent it from starting.

Gentlemen ask yourselves one question, is it worth to loose thousands of British soldiers just because colonists believe they are enslaved? No it is not! Colonists have to respect our decisions and our country.  We have given them everything and they are still not happy. What can we do? We have to set them straight and show them who is the boss. We can talk to them and make a deal, but if in the end they are still not happy, we will have to look for more harsh measures.

Links
http://socialdesigner.com/stored_images/0000/9566/FREEDOM__HAS_NO_FREEDOM_thumb_500_500.jpg

Blog #3 Plan to Change the World

http://www.duke.edu/web/soc142/team7/childlabor.jpg

         “Did you know that nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names”(Shah)? Many kids around the world do not receive a proper education or much less have the opportunity to have a higher education and graduate from school. Their parents do not have the money to enroll them into a school, so instead they send their children to work, and this is called child labor. The children that do not go to school work in factories, farms, sweatshops, or in the streets as beggars.  All of these children have a right to a normal childhood but instead they are exploited. I am sending this to all the banks, governments, private schools, businesses and individuals or families around the world so you can learn about the situation and see how many children you can help. If every child makes his family $5o a month my plan is for you to sponsor the child’s education and give $50 a month to every single family who has a child who is working instead of going to school. You can give them this money to hire a grown up to do their children’s work while they send their kids to school. For you to give them the money, they have to present a document and evidence to show that their children are going to school every day. If there is proper education there will be more jobs, more jobs means more money and more money means better housing and life.

http://mylowcostmodification.com/images/companies.gif

These children’s parents need to understand that their sons and daughters need the proper education for them to make money in the future. You can help many lives and help millions of kids learn how to read and write. You can give children the opportunity to overcome their poverty and make a better living for themselves and improve their quality of life. Imagine how it would feel for you to not know how to read and write, if your parents instead of sending you to school would make you work in fields or factories the entire day. If you decide not to help these children, these poor communities throughout the world will never prosper. The poverty in our countries will be stuck and after a period of time there will be more ignorant and uneducated people. The society will never improve. In the other hand if the poor families decide to keep their children working instead of sending them to school their children’s future will be at risk.  If their child does not receive the proper education he will, in the future, keep earning the minimum wage and that would affect their children and even their parents.

I encourage all of you to think twice about the proposal and these children’s future.  You could make a great change in their lives and in the lives of their future family and their entire communities. Like Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”. 

Links

http://www.quotegarden.com/helping.html

http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats