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The question that I chose to answer was “If the forward reaction is favorable in a cell, what is the rate?”. The answer choices for this question were either fast, slow, or not enough information. The answer choice that works for this question would be that there is not enough information. This makes sense because the question does not tell you anything about rate. There could be different ways that the reaction is favorable but this has nothing to do with the rate. The rate is more based on the enzyme or substrate concentration. The temperature can also have something to do with this. Since these things are not specified there is not enough information to tell you whether it is fast or slow.

     The experience that lead me to the idea that medical school is for me came from the volunteering experience at Sturdy Memorial Hospital. I volunteered as a junior nurse and would help the patients and nurses with anything they needed.  The experience of helping each patient and how much they appreciated it made me realize that helping people recover is what I want to do. Having the opportunity to watch and help the nurses with their daily tasks really helped me realize that helping people heal is what I’m passionate about.  Being able to improve someone’s situation is what I would take pride in, and the University of Massachusetts Medical school would allow me to pursue and reach that goal.

The arms race between diseases and the human race will never end. It is something that  mankind will always have to find a way to cope with. There are certain measures we can take to slowdiseases down that we try and perfect every year. Viruses like the Flu though, are quickly evolving which makes it very hard to have and make vaccines to suppress them. (“The Escape of Pathogens: an evolutionary arms race”) It is important to keep trying to take these measures though as we must try and prevent as many people as possible from getting disease. The only way to do this is to study the evolutionary processes of these diseases so we are better equipped to fight them. It is at least known for bacteria that we can use anti-biotics to treat the diseases even though we constantly have to manipulate them; for viruses this is not the case. (“Antibiotic resistance: delaying the inevitable”) Antibiotics will not kill the viruses and this will just harm you in the long run by allowing it to flurish.

The arms race between diseases and the human race will never end. It is something that human kind will always have to deal with. There are certain measures we can take to slow them down that we try and perfect every year. Viruses like the Flu though are quickly evolving which makes it very hard to have and make vaccines and other measures to suppress them. (“The Escape of Pathogens: an evolutionary arms race”) It is important to keep trying to take these measures though as we must try and have as many people as possible not be infected by the disease. The only way to do this is to study the evolutionary processes of these diseases so we are better equipped to fight them. It is at least known for bacteria that we can use anti biotics to treat the diseases even though we constantly have to manipulate them, for viruses this is not the case. (“Antibiotic resistance: delaying the inevitable”) Antibiotics will not kill the viruses and this will just harm you in the long run.

This ad is more of what should be looked upon with kind eyes. This ad for Dove shows how every body type is great and attractive in its own ways. This is something that people need to be accustom to. Whereas the other ad makes people feel bad about their bodies and strive for a goal that they will never reach, this ad shows that any body type is great. These models don’t look as though their look is as unattainable as the others. People should strive to look however they want so as they feel good about themselves, and I feel this ad is expressing tat well.

        I completed my community service at the annual apple harvest in Amherst center. The whole idea of the harvest is to get the town of Amherst to come together and support local farms and the local community. There were games where children could play, and many stands run by businesses and people from all around Amherst. The festival serves the whole town of Amherst and especially the small businesses because of all the exposure they get with the local inhabitants. The demographic of the people there was really all over the place. There were mostly family’s, but there were also elderly couples and a lot of teens and pre-teens walking around with their friends. The race and gender represented was typical of western Massachusetts. Mostly Caucasian but with a great verity of other races as well. There were amounts of each gender present. The socioeconomic backgrounds seemed to all be similar. People seemed to be middle class people of all kinds. Some richer than others, but for the most part all middle class. A lot of the people who were running the stands were farmers trying to promote their product. The rest of the volunteers were college kids or people from the town of Amherst.

The American Dream has been dwindled for those that are impoverished. The opportunity to follow your passions are few and far between. Most people do not have the money to follow their heart. Working hard no longer leads to success for many Americans. Having a similar life to your parents is a reality for almost half the population. People who are in poverty struggle to get out. Also, optimism about the future and being able to handle anything thrown at them are not a reality for most. The impoverished often do not have the resources to be optimistic about the future. So, with all these things being true for most Americans, and roughly half of people that are fifty have experienced at least a year of poverty, can the American Dream still be achieved? Most people who are not born into an affluent life would tell you no.

Global warming is not something to take lightly. The oceans are warming, the polar ice caps are melting, and greenhouse gas levels are at an all-time high. These are just some of the things that the claims-makers for the global warming cause have said. The science has proven them right. So, the ultimate claim is that humans are a large factor in the increased rate of global warming. There are claims-makers of all kinds fighting about whether that is true or not. The solutions proposed deal with a cleaner world, while the deniers will opt to do nothing.  This issue has turned political, and it seems like nothing gets done until someone who believes in global warming is in charge. Right now, that is not the case. This issue will continue to get worse until there is no turning back. Hopefully society can come to a consensus to try and inhibit global warming. This is the only way to keep the place we live healthy.

            Add 0.5g of benzoin and 4mL of ethanol to a 25mL Erlenmeyer flask and was swirled until it was fully dissolved. 0.1g of Sodium borohydride was then added over a span of 5 minutes. The minutes was then swirled for another 20 minutes. After collected in the ice water bath, 5mL of water was added with 0.3mL 6M HCl. Then the solution was clenched. The product was then collected. The product was allowed to dry for 15 minutes. The crude yield was then determined and the MP was found. Also, 1-2mg of the crude product was put aside for TLC analysis. The crude solid was then recrystallized from the acetone. The crystals are left to dry overnight. The TLC analysis was completed. One of the plates consisted of starting material, the reaction product, and a co-spot of the starting material, and the reaction product. The second plate consisted of starting material, crude product, and co-spot of the starting material, and the crude product. After the TLC analysis was completed, the plates were inspected under UV light and then put into an iodine chamber for further analysis.

The people who deny global warming often times do not propose solutions. They deny the fact that humans have an impact on global warming, so they do not propose ways for people to correct it. Often, they try to delay or even throw out the bills and laws people pass to try and lessen global warming. This is happening with the current president, President Trump, who is a global warming denier. He thinks that the solutions Obama had passed is waste of money. This will have a profound impact upon the earth. “President Donald Trump's planned climate change policies could lead to an extra half a billion tons of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 2025, according to a new analysis.” So, this bill for climate change would just take away from all the solutions of the other side. The solutions for the people who believe in climate change are to have a cleaner planet. Being a more sustainable society and having renewable energy is the best solution. For the people who oppose the idea that humans have a large impact on climate change, all the solutions seem like a waste of money. So, the formation of a solution depends on who is in power.