Cryonics

        Immortality has always been a fabled dream to those who have not come to terms the mysteries surrounding the great unknown. Many have turned to religion to cover their fear, some have turned to the pseudoscience of Cryonics.
        Cryonics is the process of flash freezing a dead body so that it may be repaired in the future and the body reanimated. The idea behind flash freezing is that even though neurons of a dead person lack the electric pulses that are used to communicate, they still have the ability to produce them if they can be repaired and jump started. The problem with this idea is the brain breaks down relatively quickly, so, in response to this natural fact, cryonic enthusiasts put forth the idea that one could freeze the brain to significantly slow down this process. The only problem with this idea is that we do not posses the technology to flash freeze a brain with out destroying the tissue and we do not know how to reanimate a brain.
       The Cryonic process is relatively simple. First the subjects brain is injected with chemicals that help to prevent cell crystallization, second the subject is flash frozen using liquid nitrogen, third the body is stored while science advances enough to reanimate the dead body. Some theorize that nanobots could be used to repair and jump-start the brain, but we are years of from any form of supercomputer nanobots.
       World wide, only 200 people have been frozen with the hope of being reanimated in the future, and only 3 of them have any chance of having the monetary resources to pay for their own reanimation, so, currently, Cryonics is a very ineffective way of casing immortality. Maybe we should turn our hopes and funds towards bio-computational engineering instead.
       

Country vs City

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Calvin and Hobbes

Illiteracy, a horendous crime

The Human Cost of Society Discusses the drawbacks of illiteracy for both the literate and the illiterate. Kozol uses repetition in the structure of his essay to amplify the point he is trying to make. Most of the paragraphs that make up this essay begin with Illiterates and is followed by something bad that stems from illiteracy. This repetition Strengthens Kozol's point that illiterates try over and over again to acclimate to normal society, but they will never succeed as long as they remain illiterate.

Greasy Lake

        Every young man wants to be bad, it is hard wired into our systems. Some simply aren't good at being bad, while others are amazing at it. The characters in Greasy Lake come from both ends of the spectrum.
        The main character and his two friends, Digby and Jeff,  are three young men who are absolutely terrible at being bad. Digby tried to emulate the bad boy persona by piercing his ear, but the fact that he fills this piercing with a golden star destroys any attempt to fulfill his "dream" of being a bad boy. He is also attending an ivy league school which, no matter who pays tuition, classifies him as a good boy. Jeff also believes hes a bad boy because he going to drop out of school, to become a painter/musician. There are no bad boy painters and even fewer bad boy musicians (rappers are not musicians).
        The irony that stems from the assertion the narrator made that he was "in the company of two dangerous characters" mocks the futile and hilarious efforts many good boys in their attempts to be bad men. This ironic statement is followed by the "bad boys" attempt to play a prank on their friend, an action that true bad boys would not attempt because bad boys simply do not care about anything, much less their "friends." This mistake along with the dark events that occurred because of it also mock the boys attempts at being bad, pointing out every thing they did that showed deep down they are good.
        As the story comes to a close, the boys are provided with an opportunity to be real bad boys, but they turn it down because they are still in shock due to the events that had just transpired. If they were truly bad they wouldn't have cared about anything and gone and done drugs and slept with those to ladies, but they said no a proved their naivety in regards to the art of being bad.

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New Blogging subject, cooking

After my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and began chemotherapy last spring, I started making dinner for my family and discovered how much I loved to cook. As I planned dinners and researched recipes, my new chore morphed into an activity I looked forward to. I wanted to become a better cook, so I began to study the art of cooking in depth through my senior project. I knew that my 11th grade AP English teacher was an excellent cook, so I asked her to be my advisor. Every week we prepare a dinner together. She has taught me to roll ground beef and spices into amazing meat balls and to mix fruits and vegetables into salads. Even now that my mother has recovered from chemotherapy, I still enjoy cooking dinner twice a week for my family.

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