Part two animal farm project Humanities

         How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegorical retelling of the end of feudalism and the rise and consolidation of communism in Russia?                                                             Animal Farm is retelling of the end of feudalism and the rise and consolidation of communism by the animals, who are shown as leaders,  All the animals are equals, except for the ones who have been chosen as leaders.  The people who fought and promised to be good, ended up becoming exactly what they were overthrowing in the end.
          How does Orwell parallel Czarist Russia and the life of the Russian peasantry in the characters and events of Animal Farm?                                                                             Orwell parallels Czarist Russia and the life of Russian peasantry by having the animals who act as the leaders, and then the ones who are the peasants.  An example of this is the pigs, they’re the only ones that are educated, and wear a green ribbon tied around their tails to symbolize luxury. The peasants, were of equal social standing, such as the peasantry in Czarist Russia
        What internal feud within the Communist party is paralleled in the struggle for power between Napoleon and Snowball.                                                                                        The power struggle between Napoleon and Snowball is a parallel of the struggle between Leon Trosky and Joseph Stalin.
         During the Stalinist period the Communist State repeatedly set industrial and agricultural production goals that were often difficult or impossible to reach. These goals played a major role in the government’s Five Year Plan and similar plans. How are these plans represented in Orwell’s novella?                                                                                    These plans are represented through things such as food, and the building of the windmill.  The building of the windmill reflects the governments Five Year Plan.  The windmill is something like motivation, once it is built, the animals will not have to work as hard, which gives them motivation to work harder to complete it quicker.          
         How does Napoleon gradually begin to abuse his power? Why do the other animals of Manor Farm allow him to encroach upon their rights and freedoms?                           Napoleon begins to abuse his power by giving more privileges and authority to the pigs.  When the dogs get brought into the story, it is realized that all of the animals except the pigs are basically Napoleons’ personal slaves.  All of the original rights and freedoms the animals had are lost.  The other animals allow him to encroach upon their rights and freedoms because they are unaware of this.
        How does Napoleon respond to criticism or resistance? Is there a parallel to his behavior in the history of Soviet Union?                                                                        Napolean responds badly to criticism or resistance.  He then begins to blame all of his flaws on Snowball, and attacks or murders the people who decide to resist him.  This is a parallel of Trosky and Stalin, who acted the same as Napoleon and Snowball.
         In the last paragraphs of the novella Napoleon, amongst the other human farmers, is heard to give a toast to the prosperity of Manor Farm. Contained within this scene is the irony that makes Napoleon’s behavior so ghastly. Describe the irony inherent in Napoleon’s behavior, and explain how it corresponds to the behavior of the party elite in the Soviet Union.                                                                                                                               Napoleons behavior is ironic because he starts acting like Snowball. Even though he ran Snowball out of Animal Farm.  Napoleon starts to act out the things he promised he would not allow anymore.  He began to act almost identical to Mr.Jones.

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Part one animal farm humanities

         How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegorical retelling of the end of feudalism and the rise and consolidation of communism in Russia?                                                             Animal Farm is retelling of the end of feudalism and the rise and consolidation of communism by the animals, who are shown as leaders,  All the animals are equals, except for the ones who have been chosen as leaders.  The people who fought and promised to be good, ended up becoming exactly what they were overthrowing in the end.
          How does Orwell parallel Czarist Russia and the life of the Russian peasantry in the characters and events of Animal Farm?                                                                             Orwell parallels Czarist Russia and the life of Russian peasantry by having the animals who act as the leaders, and then the ones who are the peasants.  An example of this is the pigs, they’re the only ones that are educated, and wear a green ribbon tied around their tails to symbolize luxury. The peasants, were of equal social standing, such as the peasantry in Czarist Russia
        What internal feud within the Communist party is paralleled in the struggle for power between Napoleon and Snowball.                                                                                        The power struggle between Napoleon and Snowball is a parallel of the struggle between Leon Trosky and Joseph Stalin.
         During the Stalinist period the Communist State repeatedly set industrial and agricultural production goals that were often difficult or impossible to reach. These goals played a major role in the government’s Five Year Plan and similar plans. How are these plans represented in Orwell’s novella?                                                                                    These plans are represented through things such as food, and the building of the windmill.  The building of the windmill reflects the governments Five Year Plan.  The windmill is something like motivation, once it is built, the animals will not have to work as hard, which gives them motivation to work harder to complete it quicker.          
         How does Napoleon gradually begin to abuse his power? Why do the other animals of Manor Farm allow him to encroach upon their rights and freedoms?                           Napoleon begins to abuse his power by giving more privileges and authority to the pigs.  When the dogs get brought into the story, it is realized that all of the animals except the pigs are basically Napoleons’ personal slaves.  All of the original rights and freedoms the animals had are lost.  The other animals allow him to encroach upon their rights and freedoms because they are unaware of this.
        How does Napoleon respond to criticism or resistance? Is there a parallel to his behavior in the history of Soviet Union?                                                                        Napolean responds badly to criticism or resistance.  He then begins to blame all of his flaws on Snowball, and attacks or murders the people who decide to resist him.  This is a parallel of Trosky and Stalin, who acted the same as Napoleon and Snowball.
         In the last paragraphs of the novella Napoleon, amongst the other human farmers, is heard to give a toast to the prosperity of Manor Farm. Contained within this scene is the irony that makes Napoleon’s behavior so ghastly. Describe the irony inherent in Napoleon’s behavior, and explain how it corresponds to the behavior of the party elite in the Soviet Union.                                                                                                                               Napoleons behavior is ironic because he starts acting like Snowball. Even though he ran Snowball out of Animal Farm.  Napoleon starts to act out the things he promised he would not allow anymore.  He began to act almost identical to Mr.Jones.

Three interesting facts about DNA MPX STEM

On the last homework assignment, we were told to research DNA, to get the general knowledge of what DNA is, and what it is used for. Now, we are asked to narrow down our research to find some pieces of information that we do not currently know. For starters, I did not know that it was Rosalind Franklin’s discovery of the chemical structure of DNA that led to Crick and Watson’s double helix model. Currently, crick and Watson are credited for the discovery of the double helix model, without credit to Rosalind. Even though she played a major role in the discovery of it. If she had been alive longer, maybe she would have. Rosalind died at a young age die to the massive amounts of radiation she was exposed to constantly.

I was surprised to find out that red blood cells do not contain DNA. Every single part of your body contains DNA, except for red blood cells. It's funny, I would've thought that red blood cells would have DNA in them, because in a lot of crime and investigation tv shows the people use the bad persons blood to figure out stuff about them...I think. Either way I was very surprised because I would've thought that would be one of the parts of your body that would most likely have DNA in it.

The final, and most fascinating face that I now know is that a fast typist, working eight hours a day, would take 50 years to type out the human genome. 50 YEARS! That's absolutely crazy! It's truly amazing that our cells are copying any multiplying at a crazy rate, and every time they multiply themselves they have to copy the code perfectly every single time. Our cells do it almost perfectly throughout our whole lives.

DNA research MPX STEM

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.

DNA is found inside every cell in our body (apart from red blood cells).

Humans have roughly 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion cells).

If you unravelled all of your DNA from all of your cells and laid out the DNA end to
end, the strand would stretch from the Earth to the Sun hundreds of times

DNA is tightly coiled up and structured into 46 chromosomes.

DNA is made up of 4 building blocks The four letters in the DNA alphabet A, C, G and T are used to carry the instructions for making all organisms

 it was Rosalind Franklin’s discovery of the chemical structure of DNA that led to Crick and Watson’s double helix model.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) was first isolated by the Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher in 1869.

Any two people share about 99.9 per cent of their DNA. It’s the other 0.1 per cent that makes us different from each other.

A fast typist, working eight hours a day, would take 50 years to type out the human genome.

Biological information is replicated as the two strands are separated. A significant portion of DNA (more than 98% for humans) is non-coding, meaning that these sections do not serve a function of encoding proteins.

The two strands of DNA run in opposite directions to each other and are therefore anti-parallel, one backbone being 3′ (three prime) and the other 5′ (five prime). This refers to the direction the 3rd and 5th carbon on the sugar molecule is facing.

Within cells, DNA is organized into long structures called chromosomes.

Scientists use DNA as a molecular tool to explore physical laws and theories

CNV reflection humanities

I feel that the dramatic element that worked well for us was the character development. Because our adaption to the book was to the point, we took out a lot of the background story and plot build up. We figured that the most important part of a adaptation is keeping its characters traits and character virtually the same, so we kept as much character as possible in the adaptation.
In our adaptation of the play, we did not really move around any parts of the plot in any way. We wanted it to be in the most chronological order that we could possibly make it in, so we tried to keep everything that happened in the book exactly like our adaptation. However, we did take out some events that happened in the book. It would be impossible to make an under ten minute video about a whole books plot, in depth.
We felt that the characterization of our adaptation reflected more of the characters traits and character, more than the actual book it's self. What I mean is that the actual characters were more identical to the characters in the actual book, than the plot and events were to its book counterpart.
Our play filled out all of the requirements, because the events that took place in the book were specifically chosen to be in our adaptation because of their importance in both the plot, and the elements of a good play/book. From beginning to end, each scene has a purpose for both the plot and the requirements of a play.
For the adaptation, there were defiantly things that both my partner and I were proud of, and not so proud of.  We were proud of the scene we depicted of the plane crashing, and Julie parachuting our of the plane. However. We were not so proud of the voices we had to do for Maddie and Julie. It was pretty weird.

Boot camp reflection

In today's bootcamp how did you do? What did you do good and what did you do bad

At today's bootcamp, there were defiantly some things that were good and bad. For the very first 10-20 minutes I thought we started off rather slow and did not have much communication, but I felt that we kept our space relatively clean. However, this did not last long. We warmed up slowly to the speed and bustle of the kitchen, but when we finally got into the groove of things, our communication and speed of working. We improved on those two, but unfortunately did not keep our organization up to par. I think we were all so caught up in the moment, we forgot to clean up after ourselves.

One of the things that I thought I did well was following the directions and cutting everything well. I was the head prep person, so I cut most of the vegetables and herbs. This meant I had to know the right was, and how much to cut each ingredient. Being able to do so may not see. Like much, but it it is actually one of the most important jobs in the kitchen. The prep must cut and measure everything out for the dish. If the prep does anything wrong down the line, like cutting up vegetables too big or too small, the dish will be ruined. Also, if they cut too much of a ingredient up, or use the wrong ingredient, it will ruin the whole dish.

During the cooking lesson, I understood that I also made some costly mistakes during our boot camp. One of the things I did wrong was I did not go above and beyond the duties of my job. As the prep, all your really told to do is cut things. And that will definitely not take up 2 and a half hours. Many times I was sitting around, not really doing much. What I should have been doing was looking for things that I could do that would help my group out in the long run.        

MPX humanities cook off rubric reflection

Looking through the rubric, there are defiantly things we need to work on, and also things that we are relatively doing well. Some things we are doing well are keeping our space sanitized, and being able to finish all of our dishes on time. For sanitation, we have the perfect person for the job. Leo always makes sure that any dishes that we use are washed, and that everything is neatly organized. Moreover, we all as a group take special care to make sure there is no food left on any of the tables, and that we keep everything in an orderly fashion. Personally, I made sure that there was no cross contamination from any of the knifes, and made sure that I washed my hands after touching non food surfaces or food in general.

Some things that I think I need to work on are reading the directions and food measurements to help with serving Methods. By doing this I can help cut Dow the time it takes us to make the food, which  in turn will help us with our overall presentation grade. Another thing that I could defiantly improve on is my pan frying. This would help with the the presentation, and make the whole experience a little more smoothly sailing. Overall, getting better at my pan frying would help the whole group work better, incase I am the only one for some reason that has to do pan frying, I can.

In preparation for the April cook off, I will be helping my parents cook, and sometimes be cooking dinner by my self. Looking for ways to improve our dish is a must, and also tasting all of the spices and the herbs that I can.