Saturday, January 30, 2010

the carbon cycle

The carbon cycle is involved in the exchange of matter between animals and plants. The cycle of electrons, water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and sugar between plants and animals is important because both support each other. Animals take in sugar by eating and oxygen by breathing; both are produced by plants. While the animal is working it will use energy from high energy electrons that it obtained through sugar to create ATP. It is in the mitochondrion where high energy electrons are removed and the energy from those electrons is used to create ATP. It is important to note that it is the flow of high energy electrons that actually makes ATP. The high energy electrons will turn into low energy electrons after they have been used to create ADP and combine with oxygen to form water which will then leave the animal’s body. After the high energy electrons have been removed from sugar to create ATP, the byproduct is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide will then leave the animal’s body by exhaling. ATP is important because it provides the energy to proteins in order to accomplish their essential functions within the cell. Plants take in water and carbon dioxide; both are produced by animals. Plants work the opposite as animals meaning that they will add high energy electrons to carbon dioxide which converts carbon dioxide into sugar. Water contains low energy electrons, which are energized entirely through sunlight and turn into high energy electrons. After the high energy electrons leave the water they combine with carbon dioxide to create sugar. Water (that has just lost its electron) will turn into oxygen as a byproduct and leave the plant. The process of the plant taking carbon dioxide and water and turning them into sugar and oxygen is called photosynthesis. The plant will then release both the oxygen and the sugar which will be used to support the animal.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Health Care

The elections are in and the republican party has gained two valuable seats that has given more power to the republican party to put a stop to the new health care bill. Many people are saying that the bill will become watered down and will be unable to pass and become law unless it is watered down. I myself believe that the health care bill will not pass because the republican party now has enough seats to disrupt any chance that the health care bill had to being passed. This is great because our country is still recovering from a recession that effected how we spend money. A huge expenditure such as heath care reform is not the answer especially when the country is in the process of recovering. For now at least that is a big win!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Post

Well now i bet you are wondering what it is that i am going to write about. I am going to talk about how to succeed in school. Basically there are two ways to succeed most people do the harder and more tedious way. I personally don't like taking the hard rought. However, some people believe that it is the easier way out of things--which they are wrong about. Lets start with the harder way, the harder way of doing things is to not listen in class or not go to class so they can do all of the reading and think about things later. This is not a good way of doing schoolwork at all when it comes to what is right and what is wrong. Why? Simply because it takes more time.
The correct way is to listen to every word the teacher sayd if you can't do this simple repeat in your mind every word that he says and you will be able to dramatically do better. Thus minimize the amount of time that you spend on schoolwork and increasing your social life. Just do it!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The New World

I thought I would take a step back from the traditional writing that I normally make to go ahead and talk about how Google has changed the world that we live in today. The world was very different several years ago before Google came around. We had to call companies to find out information, use other people to conduct the research that we needed, and brick and mortar companies were king. Then two college aged students changed everything when they started Google. They changed the way that business was done all together. Everything changed in just an instant.

Now businesses are required to have an online presence and not only an online website but an online presence which means that they have a website that is able to be located through search engines. An important part of a business is internet marketing, finally being able to tap into additional customers from around the world or locally. Google has changed the conventional business model. Now many businesses are based solely online. I myself have spoken with several couples who have started their own online business using other companies’ products. The only new thing that they have done is that they are the online marketing part of the businesses because they were to lazy to do it themselves.

The company itself is lacking in potential profits if they had been more up to date with the changing world and had developed a way to integrate it into their business model. What is the bottom line? Having an online business in incredibly important in an ever growing world and we must continue to improve our online presence.