List Of Things I Need To Do To Improve My Summary

Improvements To Be Made

The documentary I have chosen to summarize is the 2014 film, directed and produced by Todd Douglas, Dinosaur 13. While my paper is nearing the end of it's due date I feel very confident I will be able to score high, however there are still a couple more tweaks I feel I can do that will improve my summary even more. I feel like the majority of my grammar and punctuation in the paper is correct, I still need to get a few more peoples outside opinions so that I may receive adequate feedback. A example of where I would need some feedback on punctuation is in my opening paragraph when I write, "At first glance the film looks as though it would be about the fossil discovery of one of the world's largest known land carnivores..." In this sentence, the feedback I would need is whether or not, "At first glance the film looks as though..." would need a comma after "glance". The next thing I really need to look over is making sure that my paper and all direct quotes from the documentary are in their proper MLA format. That being said, even though I trust easybib.com, I also need to go back through my Works Cited page and confirm that has been completed correctly. After doing these minor adjustments, I feel as though my paper will be in its finalized state and will be ready to be handed in.

Microbiology Class

It is well known throughout Lewis University that nursing students have it tough. As a sophomore 1 nursing student, we have all already completed 5 science classes and we are all required to take Microbiology this semester. While it is easier in some aspects as compared to A&P 1+2 and Organic/Biochemistry, it is also harder in other aspects. The nice thing about microbiology is that we know what to expect; every Friday we all have either a quiz or a test in micro, which makes life so much easier on us all because its not like how our anatomy classes where we'll take a quiz on Monday, take notes on Tuesday, have another quiz on Wednesday, and possibly a test on Friday! But then some of the draw backs about microbiology which can make it hard is the introduction of a slew of new vocabulary words that we've all never heard of before, let alone are able to pronounce. Lets have some fun shall we... if your reading this please attempt to say the words, Rhabdovirus and Orthomyxovirus. Some of you may have had no problem saying them, others may have struggled immensely. In simple terms, those long scary words mean Rabies and Influenza(the flu). The current quiz we are all studying for, for this week includes knowing everything about 30+ viruses and the life cycle of a virus... While it is still a difficult class, overall I feel the class is very interesting and will greatly help us as the future nurses of America as it is vital to know about all the germs and microbes that are all around us.

Summary on Scaredycat

Scaredycat Summary

The film, Scaredycat, written by Andy Blubaugh, is a short movie about a traumatic experience Blubaugh underwent and how it has changed him. The film starts off with Andy Blubaugh walking through his apartment talking about how he is a worrier. During this time Blubaugh also shows the curious little things that he does, such as straightening a picture frame, walking a certain way across bricks, fixing papers that are too close to the edges of the tables and most dramatically, getting off the bus when a black man sits across from him. He states that he does all these little acts because they are self soothing actions that help him feel like he is in control of his world and is able to deal with his fears. Deputy District Attorney Kirsten Snowden, the one who prosecuted this traumatic experience of Any Blubaugh, and explains that this experience is relatively senseless, and that the attackers had  no motivation for attacking people. The film then brings up the call between Blubaugh and the 9-1-1 operator after Andy has been beaten and robbed at night in the middle of a metal bridge by several people. While this conversation is rolling in a voice over, the screen shows an animation of Blubaugh riding his bike across a metal bridge and getting beaten a robbed by 5 thugs. Jane Hawkin, a Clinical Psychologists who focuses on memory, gender and interpersonal violence, studied Andy Blubaugh’s response to his traumatic experience and says he does these quirks in order to maintain control. If that means he comes across a black man and if he isn’t feeling safe he can just leave and avoid any potential situation. From this he uses his excuse of “I got beat up” to be racist. From his experience Andy realizes this attitude, and that he has overgeneralized the situation into thinking it was a group of all black people who beat him up, but it was actually two whites, one hispanic and two black people. The film then shows a reenactment of a letter being written on a computer by Andy Blubaugh to one of the thugs in jail. Blubaugh then calls one of the thugs and tells him about the movie and wants to know how the thugs are and the motives behind the beating. The thug says felt nothing while he was doing it and that he is the one who went through through his pockets, and also that Andy was chosen to be jumped all because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Scaredycat then goes on to talk about the sentences each of the criminals received and the impossibility they have a reduced time for good behavior. Blubaugh ends of his documentary by stating that he does all these things to try and eliminate fear but that fear is always going to be around and we that should all be more accepting of fear.

Ten Minutes of Continuous Writing

In the beginning of each class my fellow students and I are tasked with free writing for a full ten minutes. There are a number of things to be learned for doing these every class period, but I believe the most significant thing I have discovered is my handwriting has become atrocious. Now don't get me wrong, our teacher can still read what I'm writing in my free writes, but after a summer of minimal writing there is a definite difference from last Spring. Yet another thing I discovered is that I can use the time that I have to free write to study also! Friday I had a quiz for microbiology and is also the day we had our latest free write. So during the time period we have for free writing I went ahead and jotted down all the things I'd need to know for my microbiology quiz, such as all the famous scientists and their numerous contributions to the microbiology field  as well as the basic biology of viruses and the motility of bacteria. Very dry, boring material to study but hey, gotta get those grades. The process of writing is continuous. The more you write the better you will become as a writer and that is the primary reason for having us do the free writes every class.

Could Bacon Be The Answer To Organ Shortage?

When organ transplantation became possible it was a instant hit. Physicians everywhere were putting their patients on the transplant list. There are three main problems I want to address when it comes to this. The first downside of this is the donor organ must be the proper match for the individual, which more often than not donor and recipient are not a positive match. The second downside to be noted is the transplants lists are so long that people often wait months and even years they may not have in order to get a organ. And finally, the third downside I find is patients on the list basically need to wait for a person to be in a horrific motor vehicle crash, or some other fatal injury in order to receive said organ. So besides standing in a ER like the Grim Reaper, waiting to harvest the organs out of a person, a solution, or at least the beginning stages of a solution have been developed. This solution is called Xenotransplantation. It's a long word but don't be afraid. Xenotransplantation is transplanting the organs from one species to another species and is very effective between animals that are genetically similar. In this case Humans and our bacony friends, the pigs. The process of using pig heart valves to replace human heart valves has already had massive success in the medical field. Just imagine if using Xenotransplantation became standard practice and allowed for all kinds of swine organs such as lungs, kidneys, livers, even entire hearts to be transplanted into people, the long transplant waiting list can drastically be cut! Tens of thousands of lives can be positively affected by Xenotransplantation and inter-species organ transplants can completely revolutionize the healthcare system! Who would have thought the answer to the great organ shortage would be Bacon?