Poetry Project

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The Miner

Broad and dirty
Covered in thick black goo
He swings his pick axe
Chipping away at the stone beneath his feet
His life’s days passing by to the sounds of machines
Through a caliginous cold cave
The sparkles light it up that reflect off my face
I do not crumble under the pressure
I feel the pick axe hit me like a train
He breaks the rock that confines me
He picks me up and protects me with his life
As for I am a precious jewel

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The poem July 18th 1985 by Richard Davies is about death and reveals that it is a very common occurrence in our time of life. These days death is very common. It happens to thousands of people every single day. The death of a family member, close friend, or someone you know is always very hard to cope with but its life. Everyone will experience a few deaths in their lifetime. It’s very tough but it’s something everybody goes through. This poem was written as an open poem. It has no form it followed. The stanzas follow no type of order and there’s no rhythm or rhymes going on. This poem is about death and how a motorcyclist gets hit by semi truck. The unknown cyclist is in critical condition with authorities on the scene. This poem is told by the poet. Richard Davies point of view was from his car as he was just passing by driving home from somewhere. He was most likely driving home from work because the last few lines say “ and I wonder if I’m late for supper”. In the second stanza the poet uses lots of personification to describe the scene and what he’s seeing. In Stanza 2 Line 2 the poet gives the motorcycle a human quality. “ the mangled motorcycle sputters in defeat”. Being defeated is a human quality that no intimate objects can get unless you personify them. Also in that sentence the poet uses alliteration. “Mangled Motorbike”. They both start with M so it’s an excellent example of alliteration. In the third and fourth stanza Davies uses the figurative device Connotation to describe an effect differently. “Writhes in the dirt” is a good example of connotation because writhe means to wiggle and it would just sound funny if the poet said some young male wiggles in the dirt. The mood of the poem would be ruined. He also uses the word Gape in Stanza four line two instead of using its alternative word look. Connotations keep the poem at the mood the poet wants it too. Richard Davies did a great job with revealing the truth about death and showing that it’s a pretty often occurrence.

ADL 15 Mutation Story

I am a genetic mutation. I am a mutation that affects the AKT1 gene. This is the gene that regulates cell growth. My name is Proteus Syndrome. I am created during the early development of a body before birth . The parents of the human I am in do not have any affect on their child. I can also not be inherited. I am here by chance. I am a pretty uncommon mutation so people I affect can have a long or a short life. I affect the AKT1 by disrupting the cells ability to regulate its own growth. The cell then will divide at abnormally fast rates and will cause bones and tissue to grow bigger than they should be. Proteus Syndrome can have great affects on the human body. The affects will all be physical. People will see themselves have really big hands, heads, chests, legs. Pretty much any thing on your body can grow abnormally. I am not a genetic mutation that will cause you to die, I just affect your ways of life. There have only been a few hundred reported cases of me and I infect less than 1 in 1 million.

When I was born I thought I was just gonna be a normal gene that regulates cell growth. Of course I needed to be the messed up one from the bunch. I was the gene that was supposed to be responsible for regulating cell growth. I had one simple job to do and that was to sustain cell growth at a normal level. Now because of me I am not able to properly control cell growth, the person I am in will have oversized hands, feet, legs and many other body parts. They will still have a regular height growth level though. I feel really bad now because I don’t want any of this to happen and now I have messed up this persons life. At least this person will have the same life expectancy as normal people, that’s about the only thing they have in common. Other people all over the place will give them weird looks, make grossed out faces, and may even laugh at them. I wish I was normal because now when the person looks at themselves in the mirror they’ll just wish to be regular looking like all of the other kids. When people ask this person what happened to them they’ll just say “ I was unlucky”. They’ll have no one to blame for the inheritance of the gene. It’s just luck. I hope that it can live a somewhat normal life through everything I have done to them.

During this project I didn’t need to search up a lot of information, I found it all on one site. I searched up “How does Proteus Syndrome affect the cells” and just “Proteus Syndrome”. Another way i found some information was, that i watched some Youtube videos about Proteus Syndrome. I learned a lot about Proteus Syndrome during this project. One interesting thing I learned about proteus is that it comes by chance. I found the process of this challenge was quite simple, all you needed was a good question to search, and it should have been easy to find your information.

Science App Project

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Can this app help me study
Can this app teach me about the elements
Can this app help me with my chemistry unit
Can this app teach me more than I already know
Can this app be easily used
Can this app be used by a teacher

My app is called Periodic Table. It is used to show me the periodic table and describe every element in depth. When you first open the app it greets you with a tutorial and it is your choice to do it or not. Then after the tutorial it has hints and tips on the side to help you through the app. At first glance the app is very colourful and inviting. It wants you to be there. I instantly knew that it was a good app to be able to learn and understand the periodic table more. It has everything from the basic information like the atomic number and mass to things I didn’t even know about like the ionization and the radius. Periodic Table would definitely be able to help me study and learn the elements. In science we are on our chemistry unit so this app would be great to be used. Using this app for even just a little amount of time you are able to learn new things you never even knew existed. This app for sure is easy to use. There is a black box surrounding the element it starts on when you open the app and after that all you have to do is touch and hold it and you move it to different elements to tell you about them. It tells you the info of the scrolled over element in the top left. If I had a choice to recommend or not recommend this app to a teacher I would probably recommend it just because of how learning friendly it is.