Month: June 2020

Why does motivation help one try harder? When one is competing against another, rewarded, and monitoring their progress, they tend to push harder. Well, why is that so?

First of all in a competition, I tend to want to win, so I tell myself to try as hard as possible do so. I do this because I like being the best, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction of myself. Even when I lose, I will want to try harder next time, so I will improve and be better at a skill, talent, or ability. Secondly, being rewarded makes me want to keep on trying my hardest so I can get another reward. Additionally when I am rewarded with a prize, I like it so much that I would want to earn it again. Wanting to earn something really assists me to keep on going and to be more confident. Lastly, being monitored makes me want to improve and be better than before, so I would push harder and try my best to improve.

In conclusion, I think that being motivated can really help one improve and try harder.

So in that article What I liked was that we finally found a detailed drawing of the mouse brain which is so similar to our so we can find out what our brains are like. So if recent years everyone was thinking what does our brain look like thanks to the mice we are closer to finding out what our brains look like. This discovery is really good and can help us do stuff.

What I don’t get is that we studied mice brains a lot but why have we only started finding stuff. and if this was found a few days back when did we find out we had brains couldn’t we get the brains off a dead person to find everything out.

I can never appreciate enough the fact that Dee has left the house. My whole life, I felt like I was the ugly one, the lowest of the family, the shadow behind Dee; the precious perfect child everyone wanted their child to be like. Even when we were tiny babies, she would always be the one pushing me around and calling me names. From very young, Dee ruled the world.

However as we started hitting puberty and starting become mature, Dee changed in the way I feared, she grew to think that the whole world was balanced on the tip of her finger; everything she wanted would be given to her on a gold platter. After sending her to the school in Augusta, she seemed to believe her outlook even more. Now that I think about it, it’s absurd that I would even raise money for Dee, while hating her so much. However, I can look back on my life and name more than a hundred things that I’ve done that seem zany.

When I heard Dee was coming back to visit, I can promise you it was not the most pleasing sight. I locked myself in my room for one whole day, staring at the ceiling while dreaming, and pretending to sleep when mother came to check on me. Finally, out of hunger I went out, stuffed some snacks into my pocket, grabbed my dinner plate and sprinted upstairs. Surprisingly, I did not spilling anything in the process of running. A day before Dee came home, mother and I mowed the lawn and got our ducks in a row.

The moment Dee came into view, I had the urge to dash into the house; which I tried but failed because mother caught me. When we greeted Dee, she had changed her name, into something like Mango. She had actually changed quite a lot and had finally, finally thought more about our heritage, and other things that weren’t related to appearance. I’m ashamed to say this, but I actually like this new Dee, or should I say Wangro.

                               Your behavior is one of the important things people need to keep in mind. This ted talk is about how people around the world need to change their behavior. Have good and positive behavior and you should be proud of having good behavior.

I would agree with Tali Sharot because people from babies to seniors out there need to change their behavior and attitude. So just like when a student walks into the classroom the teacher expects a positive attitude and good behavior, no good behavior………….. they go straight to the principal office. Teachers’ expectations are always high on the students. Like who doesn’t want good behavior?

When your kids or students have a bad start of their life then they might just be a bad girl or boy and not listen to their parents’ words. If i say so they might be spoiled and not get a good education and just not lead a good life in the future. But on the other hand, if your kid or student has a good leading life for example well manners, good education, appropriate behavior then they might have a very good leading future ahead of them. That was one reason why the kids needed to change their attitude and behavior.

Well now let’s talk about teenagers. Teenagers are mostly glued to their electronic devices like their phone, i-pad, and computer. This thing the kids are doing is not good for them. It stops them from doing things they are meant to do and are supposed to do in their daily life.

For example if a teenager gets glued to their phone then they will most likely get glasses since a phone is not as big as a TV and is very small and bad for their eyes. Two if they are on their phone for too long they will most likely get addicted to it. When they get addicted then they are most likely to get a good education and not pay attention in class. This may lead to bad things, like a car crash if they are on their phone and not looking on the road.

So this all sums up why kids should change their behavior and attitude.But this is not just for kids also for adults and seniors too! From a good education to not looking at your phone for too long. So if you think you can change your behavior or change your actions in life then just follow these 2 simple rules. Listen to who is right and never go off track.

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The spirit of tragedy

Misery, and terror 

Leaves a mark or scrape

A dent in your mind, an error

Is it a fight with a friend? 

Or school’s stress?

Or the loss of a close one?

Or loneliness?

At times like this

You must further endure

Think of happy memories

For your thoughts to become pure

No negativity tolerated

That is not a good style

Be joyous and jovial

Try out a smile

You shall overcome the pain

Instead there shall be cheering and ovation

The wrath of strain and struggle is no longer there

This is true motivation

The story begins with Mama, waiting for the arrival of Dee, her eldest daughter. She stands next to Maggie, her younger daughter, who is shy and has burn marks on her body. She got them when their house was burned down. Mama carried Maggie out of the fire while Dee did nothing and watched the house burn. Dee was driven and wanted to get more out of life than Mama, and her ancestry had to offer. All of it came at the expense of Maggie and Mama.

Dee arrives with Hakim, a barber, who is her boyfriend. Dee also goes by a new name, Wangero, and wants her family to use it. Dee is more interested in taking artifacts from her family than synthesizing with them. Therefore, they go through the possessions of Mama in their search for some special items of her African American descent, which she has intents at using them to spice up her house. Dee is somewhat rude when talking to Mama and Maggie and insults all in the name of some chit chat.

She tries to take quilts that were meant for her younger sister, and Dee wants them for herself. This results in Dee debating with Mama, claiming that she deserves the quilts more. Mama give Dee two different quilts and asks her to leave. After she is done, she gets into the car with Hakim, and they drive off, leaving a cloud of dust.

The article talks about how people managed to map out a mouse brain layer by layer to create the most detailed diagram of a mouse brain ever. I personally think that it is astounding that people managed to have science sophisticated enough to be able to trace every neuron in a mouse.

People didn’t even used to be able to take pictures in color. They could only take them in black and white. Now, we can do all this. It’s amazing to see science evolve and new machines being invented and breakthroughs in medicine. It makes you wonder what people will create in 200 years.

If someone showed this picture to anyone in the 1800’s and said that was the image of a mouse brain, unless they were very gullible, they would think that they were lying. If then the person could prove they were telling the truth, they would probably think that it was magic or something. If we saw someone from the 23rd century, we would probably think that that was magic.

If this is what people can do now, I’m interested to see what they event next.

In the article, “Gigantic new 3D map traces every neuron in a tiny mouse brain,” it talks about seeing every brain cell in mice. Over the years, researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have been recording every brain cell and connections between the neurons in mice. There has been a lot of progress since the map they released back in 2016. The complete map that was published on May 7, 2020 includes about 100 million brain cells. The project is mostly aiming to create a mouse brain that all researchers working on mice can use as a reference.

In the older days, people used to define different parts of the brain by using their eyes. Now, because we have way more data than in the past, we don’t do that anymore. Nowadays, researchers typically trace connections between brain cells using this slices of tissues that can be seen layer by layer. To build a 3D map, the team broke broke the mouse brain into voxels, or 3D pixels, and then mapped the cells and connections with every voxel. They then made a 3D map and published it.

Mice are common model organisms in neuroscience. Their brains have similar structures to humans’, they can be trained, they breed easily, and researchers have already gotten good understanding of how their brains work. In doing so, neuroscientists will have a tool to develop new research programs and accelerate research that is already underway.

I think that Dee is a character who is selfish because she thinks highly of herself and kinda looks down on her mother and sister.

I think that even though she’s educated and her family members are not, doesn’t mean she can think that she’s better than them.

I think she should be sorry that she thought lowly of her family because who brought her up? Who took care of her? And now she was standing there and thinking that her mother and sister were two random people who didn’t get an education.

In my opinion, Dee’s traits are, selfishness and unsatisfied, because here it says: “And Dee, I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she
watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red, hot brick chimney. Why don’t you do a
dance around the ashes? I’d wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.”

I think that Dee still wasn’t satisfied even after they moved to a new house.

Overall I think Dee, on a scale from one to ten, she would be a five because she is kind of a in-between person, because even though she looks down on her mom and sister, at least she is still kind to them, like what a daughter and sister should do.

Even though she’s not perfect.