The Last One!!!!

So this is the last blog that I will have to do for Mrs. Bowles writing class. It has been, not only an intersting semester, but an intersting first year here at UCA. I have enjoyed my fisrt year in college and i think that i have a lot more comming my way as I start this journey. I look forward to starting up again in the fall as I persue my carreer dreams. i have learned a lot so far, and in respect to writing, i have grown in my confidence and skills. As I look back on this year think that the most interesting thing that I have had the pleasure to do is my labs. Yea I did hate being there for three hours straight, but it was in subjects that i really enjoy, chemistry and biology. We did some real intersting things and I loved being able to go outside to do some of the things in biology and playing with chemicals in chemistry. The thing that I hates the most however, was the fact that I didnt do as much stuff on campus that I would have liked. i live at home so I usually when to class and then went home instead of speding time on campus getting involved with other things besides classes. I am moving out this summer so I hope that that will help relieve me of that dissapointment. I did love this year, nontheless, and I wouldnt trade it for the world! See everyone in the fall!

More of the Random...

i know that this doesnt have anythign to do with anything that i or anyof us has done in the past semester but i thought that these videos were to most inter taining things that i have ever seen...

Evolution of Dance 1

Evolution of Dance 2

i guess i can argue that it went with my topics of evolution that i had been looking at for biology but that would be a strech. it was most intertaining when i showed the videos to my parents and they started talking about how they actually use to do those dances. i dont know about the rest of you but i cant really see MY parents danceing at all... Especially with some of those moves.

Creation and Evolution

I know that it is cliche to write on this but as i was looking at the works of W.H. Calvin I was lead to the area of evolution and creation and how each are viewed by different people. There were three in particular that I viewed. 1) The Creation Explanation by Robert E. Kofahl and Kelly L. Segraves. This is the more religious oriented view (uses the bbible as a reference to explain creation); 2) The Origin of Species by Darwin. This, of course, is the piece that has the more scientific view with the ideas of evolution of species to another (primates to humans), and 3) Evolution by Henry T. Edge who takes the ideas of both and makes a hybrid. Either way that you look at it it is very interesting to see how so many people can get to the same conclusion in so many different ways. According to Calvins work, that is true intelligence. I just wish that i had a real idea about what it is that i believe in. On one hand i do believe in some of the ideas of evolution but some of the theroies are so hard to grasp it just seems impossible to be fully correct. (total of approximatly 35-40 pages between all three works)

Evolvong a Good Guess...

This is yet another chapter in a W.H. Calvin book. This one also has to do with the mind, not in its evolution, but in how we think and what is our intellegence (hence the title How the Brain Works). This chapter analyses what it is that we define as intellegence and what is smart. Calvin says that it is how we deal with things "on the fly" that defines how intelligent we are and not how much we know. Its how we deal with spur of the moment situations and how creative we are with soultions that makes us intelligent. He goes on to discuss that IQ as a numeric scale can not adequetly measure ones intellegence and that IQ tests are more a factor of showing ones test taking ablity (the general factor g). IQ is just a small piece that determins one intelligence. More so intellegence covers more things like cleverness, foresight, speed, creativity, and how many things you can juggle at once. (10 pages)

Exploring Ways to Shorten the assent to a Ph.D.

This is another random article that I found in the New York Times by Joseph Berger. It was written on the issue of student who take till the age of 33 to fully complete schooling to obtain their doctorate. In this case many believe that it is taking way too long for these students to finish their dissertations and graduate. As for me I think that the amount of time it takes for a student to complete their degree is irrelevant. If they are graduating, does it really matter how long it took them? Either way they are getting the same education. Besides that it is a life choice to stay in school that long. I think that if the students weren’t in school for that long the quality of their education could be compromised. So there is nothing wrong with an extra 7-8 years of school if in the end you are able to fully contribute to society in a positive way. (5 pages)

A Football Power in a Small Kansas Town

This was a very interesting i found in the New York Times by Joe Drape. It has to deal with a great football team. I mean absolutely awesome! This team is now 51-0 and has out scored opponents 704-0!!! However the amazing part is that this team is the foundation of a town. This is the kind of thing that you would see in one of today’s big sports movies. Because of the kids playing football, they each had to sign a pledge saying that they will stay drug free and if they don’t uphold that they are kicked off the team and their playing card is taken up from circulation. This is a very big deal and a very smart one at that. It seems to be one of the better “keep kids off drugs” approaches I’ve ever heard of. (3 pages)

Assesment question for making brochure (5)

1-Main Ideas or Questions
2-What I Already Know About this Idea or Question
3-What I Need to Find Out—Notes and Sources


1-What is the best treatment for depression?

2-The best treatment is a combination drug treatment therapy with talk therapy. This helps by letting the drugs work how they are suppose to and allowing the patient to better understand how to deal with their depression as well as figuring out that who they are with and without the drugs is the same person.

3-Nothing; the information is in my notes