Lost in Chemicals

During the Past few weeks in our English class we have been focused on doing a Model Capstone, this started to teach us how to do our own Capstone. In this whole project a lot of the stuff we went through in the funnel was very important by each point in the funnel, but I feel that the starting idea of the funnel that was just environment/surrounding is the most important in a whole.

This is a small pocket of information that is directly from the show "Lost" script, “He's bathed in SUNLIGHT now -- squinting at what he sees --, and we're just on his eyes. HOLD ON HIM, in shock, until he, moves forward -- and IN THE SAME SHOT, we PAN AS HE MOVES --, 180 DEGREES UNTIL WE'RE BEHIND HIM, LOOKING OUT ON SOMETHING, ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. Only twenty yards away..., A PLANE, CRASHED ON THE BEACH, 777 -- PASSENGER AIRLINER -- 250-Seater -- the MIDDLE SECTION, of the fuselage PLOWED INTO THE SAND -- one WING STICKING, STRAIGHT UP, TOWERING SEVEN STORIES INTO THE SKY, sporadic, SPARKS BURSTING FROM THE INVERTED ENGINE, showering down on, the absolute MAYHEM on the sand –“.  We first started the unit with the pilot of the TV show “Lost”. This show was perfect for showing the environmental change. In the show everyone was out of their place once the plane had gone down on the island. In the show if it had been a different terrain the story would be different. The rest of our capstone rolled off the idea of the surroundings of the people. Later in the model capstone we went down to the chemicals in the human body, this is directly off the idea of environment.  When people are aware of their surroundings yes it is hard to be aware of your surroundings when it comes to chemicals. There are the general studying people can do about certain common day objects like our cars, our shampoos and clothe detergents.

Within our surroundings there are many things we know to be dangerous much like on the show "Lost", where the forest holds many secrets and dangers. It’s much like modern day life, we live in a chemical jungle, and there will always be dangers hiding away in each corner.


The script of lost: http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/100_pilot_final.pdf
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You Make Bath Time So Much Fun

The book “Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things.”  This book is about two guys who take these chemicals that are found in some of the most common everyday stuff and see how their bodies will be after introducing the large amounts of chemicals into their body. These chemicals they would introduce were most likely dangerous for the human body.

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I find this idea to be extremely dumb. There has always been a fine line between logic and stupidity, and sadly there are always the few that want to cross that line and see how dangerous the other side is. This book was absolutely painful for me to read I felt like they were just pushing information without giving much of real life evidence other than what they were doing to themselves.  This book didn’t keep my attention because I didn’t feel like this completely applied to me, I mean sure it’s part of my everyday life but I feel like it’s not as big of deal as the book makes it seem.
 

No smoking?

 

There are chemicals in everyday life that we don’t know are there, it’s much of the idea of out of sight out of mind. This article that we had read for English class was based around these hidden chemicals, this intrigued writer got a test to see how many of these chemicals are in his body and how many particles per million there are in him. This test was quiet expensive so every day Americans probably won’t get their hands on this type of a test. He found that his body was being flooded with Flame Retardants and a few other hidden dangers. He had found out that the reason for all this in his body was from traveling around the world in airplanes covered in layers of flame retardants to keep the inflight passengers safer. But are the passengers any safer now that they have all those chemicals in there body?

 

Many people may think it is completely appalling that these corporations are doing this on purpose, that they know these chemicals are deadly yet they keep using them. I see these chemicals to be more effective than not, they have more pros than cons. The idea of too much is a completely logic concept, so when someone says what happened if you get too much of these chemicals,  that is exactly what happens you have too much and it can and will be fatal. Sure some are impossible to avoid but those are the ones that we don’t need to be around like flame retardants in planes. It’s not expected for people to be non-stop fly and being these chemicals all the time the chemicals are there for the safety of everyone, and I feel it still allows said safety to stay in place.

 

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One more fossil in the ground

From this article which is paralleling the first article that I had read, speaks of the exact same fate of the poor prehistoric crustaceans. They went through a time period that lacked the sustaining oxygen levels need. This caused a fluctuation in the species fossils. When this was discover scientist found it extremely odd that there was such a drastic change in the fossils. Photo:http://static.guim.co.uk/sysimages/Books/Pix/pictures/2012/3/6/1331038452346/Trilobite-fossil-007.jpg

This article made the idea of global warming a very real thing. This information gives the whole topic of global warming some strong evidence. It is often said that history is bound to repeat itself. So is the earth head towards dangerous oxygen levels and warming seas? Is there extinction of species in our future? Even with this evidence it is still unknown the cause of this catastrophe, because humanoid life forms weren’t around yet to use the CO₂emitters. It seems as if this was completely natural for the earth to go through such a state. So are humans the pushing factor now or just taking an unfair blame?

Article in this blog found at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130219140508

The Global warming and our helpless oceans

This past article I had read talks about how in the past the oceans have gone through drastic temperature changes and will lead to the death to sea life. They talk about how scientist had taken a deep analysis of fossils from the early Jurassic. These fossils were found to help prove the theory that the oxygen levels were extremely low and high temperatures. This finding also showed a huge gap in fossil life with many before this dead zone period and then during there were few to no fossils and after a few inches of earth there was a new layer filled with fossil, even some of new species. Photo-http://www.pikespeakrock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/pikespeak.fossil-fish.jpg

This article had a strong resemblance to the idea of Global warming, where they had said thing like this would happen if we hadn’t turned back our ways on fossil fuels use. Although they are around the same premise the idea that just from use of fossil fuels we will kill of all of our sea life I feel is completely illogical and that there is enough marine life that pushes oxygen back in to ocean as to where it won’t need to rely on the open above sea air. But the water warming and causing fish to either boil to death or leave the shores and go deeper and colder is more likely. These much like the global warming are still pending futures but we don’t know the true outcome until we get hit with the repercussions. 

Article talked about in this blog can be found at: http://summitcountyvoice.com/2013/02/25/global-warming-are-oceans-headed-for-a-dead-zone/