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How does our brain affect our daily activities? Our brain affects our daily activities in many ways. Some ways are that our brain affects our mood, state of mind, self control, and memory. Brain chemicals, or neurotransmitters affect our mood or state of being that we are in. There are many types of neurotransmitters in our brain, and new ones are still being discovered. Some sever illnesses to the brain can affect your impulses and impulsive behavior.

Our brain also affects our self control. Some people can’t control what they want to and not want to do. This shows a lack on self control. Some examples of not being able to control yourselves are eating sweets in a diet. Another example is not being able to resist temptations. Having self control is an important part of our everyday lives.

The third thing that our brain affects is out memory. In my opinion, our memory is the most important thing in our daily lives. Some people have short term memory and some have long term memory. If you have short term memory, you forget more things easier. If you have long term memory, you remember more things. If you suffer from short term memory loss, you can forget things you just did, which affects you a lot because then you won’t be able to remember important events that you are supposed to remember.

The lottery is a short story which takes place in a small town where every once a year they draw a “lottery”. On the day of the lottery children was sent out to collect stones and were told to bring them back to the center.

While the children was collecting stones, men and woman was picking their “lottery” tickets. This annual lottery is not your everyday power-ball, who ever wins the lottery will be stoned to death as a sacrifice, as the whole village would throw rocks at you until your dead. As Mr.Summers call out all the names of each and every villagers. The main character Tessie wins The lottery she declares that is not fair that she won

Sorry I know it’s not long enough but I’m not really good at writing I’ll try harder next time

This is my opinion about the lottery. I really liked the lottery because it was really tense were everyone was hoping that they didn’t get “winner” ticket. What I could understand was that the person that won the lottery was killed and that everyone had to do it like everyone like all the kids and old people and the people who couldn’t come their family members had a bigger chance of getting it. and I think its a religion because in a history class I read about sacrificing someone to please their god so maybe it was a religion.

So on to the book, in the book Mr.Summer which I think is unfair that he doesn’t have to draw it, gets the bag and a person named Tessie gets it and dies. THE END

Scientists have shown that the brain does not fully harden in a person until the age of 25, which is remarkable based on the fact that our brain needs lots of years to fully develop and makes many changes as we are getting old, and then once we actually hit the age of 25, our brains harden and stay like that for the rest of our lives.
So, when mastering a task, we have to change and start up places in our brain. When we first start this goal we want to achieve, such as a sport or talking in front of others, our brain knows what we want to say or how we want to carry out the performance, but when it is time to actually do it, it goes the opposite way of how we wanted it to go, and soon our brain gets more comfortable with the action as we do it more. So, during these twenty-five years before the brain is fully hardened or close to fully hardened, many changes happen through our brain. As the ted talk mentioned, overdoing a performance can worsen the performance itself, but underdoing will get you nowhere, this is why moderation should be a key to making and helping your brain achieve the goal.
Practicing moderation is so good for health to your brain, staying healthy physically, and even achieving your goals. For example, you want to run a distance in a specific amount of time, and you barely eat because you are just so focused on doing it right. This is not only unhealthy, but a bad way to achieve and accomplish something. With moderation, you could practice a little every day or every other day, or even a couple of days week at minimum and have the nutrients you need to practice for running. However you do still need to practice a good amount in order for your brain structure to change and for you to be more comfortable doing it and with moderation, it gives you a steady pace to slowly but successfully achieve your goal rather than doing the all or nothing way, which sometimes ends up working but could also drastically fail.

According to the TED talk video, it showed me a new way to think about my brain. It is a truth that our brain are changing everytime, like when we learn some new skills, when we read some books… We learn new staff and think all the time, our brain change. Every time when we learn new things or skills, that called neuroplasticity, it help us to be a better person, because since we know that thing we can practice skills that we good at. And we can also try new things or give up some parts that we are not good at.

The speaker, Dr. Lara Boyd also said, ” The best driver of neuroplastic change in your brain is your behavior.” We are acting all the time, so change our behavior I think it’s not a big deal, but keep doing that and make it become a habit, is kind of difficult to do. For example, there is a person who do not know how to speak English and one day he need to learn how to speak it, so he try to memorize 50 English words every day. Well, he never memorize English words untill that day, maybe it is easy to do that on the first day, sencond day or third day. But after a week, there might be some “give up” ideas show in his brain, because it doesn’t become into a habit. If he keep doing that for a month, I think when there is one day he do not memorize English words, he will feel weird, because he already be used to do that. That is how our behavior change, it takes time. In real life, that is the truth. If we want to become better or learn a new skill, what can we do? The answer is practice. ” Practice makes perfect.” Every time you see someone is very good at doing something, you can admire them, but also you should think how much time do they spend on practicing it. And we also need know there are many differences from person to person. Maybe we are not good at sport, but we show our talent on painting, then we can carry forward the advantages and learn more about art.

Our brain has infinite creative power, it’s waitting for us to discover it, to arouse potential, and to make it better. The way we can change our brain and become better is keep learing and practicing, face to the difference between you and others, keep doing right things, you will succeed.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson poses a very difficult yet simple question. In the short story, the villagers come together once a year to sacrifice a randomly chosen person, believing that it will ensure a good harvest. Obviously, stoning a fellow villager has nothing to do with the success of their crops, but they still do it anyway because of tradition. Just like this “lottery”, many traditions in the real world are being questioned as if they should be abolished. I believe that there are two main factors to whether if a tradition should continue: practicality and morality.

First, I must explain what these two factors mean. Practicality refers to how successful the tradition is in actually doing something useful. For example, the goal of setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year is to scare away evil spirits. The morality factor is basically what it sounds like. It takes into account how moral the tradition is. Many old cultures and some religions involve the sacrifice of animals or even humans to please their god(s). In return, they would ensure a plentiful harvest, good sailing, no natural disasters, etc. Now that the factors are clarified, next is how they come into play.

The way to evaluate whether a tradition should continue is by looking at these two factors. If it has both practicality and morality, then it can remain. That means that it can be applied in everyday life without the worry of offending anyone or futility. When a tradition only has morality but is obsolete/a waste of time, it is still acceptable. I will use the Chinese New Year example again. Everyone who celebrates the holiday knows that setting off fireworks doesn’t do crap, but people still do it anyway because it isn’t harming anyone for a nonexistent reason. Besides, it’s fun. However, when a tradition has utility but is somewhat immoral, it has to be considered. The ends must justify the means, and the two factors must be weighed. But when a tradition has neither one of these factors, it should end. The ancient Aztecs used to cut out people’s hearts to please their gods. Unlike setting off fireworks, it harms others while also having a nonexistent reason. It lacks practicality and morality, which is why people don’t do it anymore. I conclude by saying that before calling for an end or the maintaining of an age-old tradition, consider these factors.

In The Lottery, the inhabitants of a small village attend a lottery every year. Having done the same thing for years on end, they unquestioningly accept what is happening, even as they are murdering their friends and neighbors.

This lottery is only an extreme example of what can happen if people just follow what their predecessors have done without question. Despite the lottery having existed for so long that many of the rules, and even the purpose of the event, have been forgotten, the inhabitants of the village still cling to it. With every new generation, more of the lottery is being forgotten, until one has to wonder if the current lottery holds the same purpose as the original, or if it is just an empty skeleton of what it had previously been. After all, parts of the lottery had been “allowed to lapse,” and other parts had been “changed with time.”

When Mr. Adams mentions that some other towns were abandoning the lottery, Old Man Warner contemptuously says, “Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves…” His belief that society would fall apart without the lottery indicates why the tradition is kept, among other reasons. Old Man Warner is also the one who urges the other inhabitants to stone Mrs. Hutchinson. He not only encourages these acts of violence, but he also vastly overestimates the effect of the lottery. However, he can’t exactly be blamed for that, as nobody investigated the event. His character is a warning to be wary of blindly following tradition. Old Man Warner also boasts that he has attended the lottery for seventy-seven years. He does so freely, as if it’s some sort of strength, not realizing that there are very real people being affected very seriously by such an event.

In this story, Mrs. Hutchinson seems to be the only one to truly understand the implications of the lottery, as she is the only one really affected (familial ties don’t seem to be too important in this village). But by the time she fully realizes it, it’s too late. At first, she, like everybody else, unquestioningly attends the lottery. However, the way she treats the lottery was different from her neighbors — while everyone else treats it as a solemn occasion, her tardiness, among other events, shows that Mrs. Hutchinson thinks of the lottery more lightheartedly, at least initially. But when she draws the slip of paper spelling out her death sentence, the full weight of what is going to happen hits her hard. The only thing she can do is cry out that “it’s not fair.” Despite her obvious hypocrisy, it is difficult not to feel sorry for Mrs. Hutchinson.

The people in this story are, as stated previously, committing murder, but it doesn’t weigh on their conscience at all. They, simply because they are not affected, do not realize what is happening, nor do they bother to wonder about it. This story is a warning that traditions should be appraised and questioned critically. When the purpose is lost, even if a tradition provides comfort in its regularity, there is little reason to continue following it.

The lottery is a story about a town that has a weird religion. Each year your name gets raffled up in a box and the name chosen’s family gets put into the box and one of them will end up getting stoned to death. The main character of the story is Tessie. Her husband got chose and it was up to luck to keep her alive. But unfortunately her name was chosen, but before they killed her she complained about how it wasn’t fair. I believe the theme of this story is to stand up to others before it is too late. In the story everyone doesn’t feel so bad doing it but once you are chosen, it will already be too late.

I think everything about this story is normal when the kids were playing and the people talking about the event. But, when the event goes on I realize that something might go wrong when the Hutchinson’s family realizes that they won’t get money and they get something else and when the children start to pile up rocks for no reason. So, I start to wonder what they get instead of money. Then, each family member got a piece of paper and one piece of paper had a black dot on it. When they all opened their paper every family member had a blank paper excepted Tess. Tess had a black dot on her paper. Then the people attacked her by throwing rocks at Tess. I think that was a violent ending. I think Shirley Jackson (the author) used a lot of irony in this story. I didn’t notice a moral in this story.

In the past months at school, I’ve been hearing black hole conversations a lot. I was wondering about them until today when I read this article. I learned that black holes are holes with strong gravitation, meaning that they basically suck things into them like an outer space tornado. Black holes are formed when a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion, also called supernovas.

Astronomers found a black hole close to the earth by spotting two stars orbiting around a giant mass four times bigger than the sun. A team of astronomers from the ESO also spotted a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from the earth.

By studying black holes, we can find out more about the evolution of rare stars: from how they begin their lives with a mass about than eight times the sun to how the end their existence with a supernova explosion which sometimes form black holes.