Some people believe GM foods are safe, healthy, and sustainable, while others claim the opposite. I think it’s safe because they engineer seeds to give GM foods stronger colors, increase their shelf life, or eliminate seeds. That’s why we can buy seedless watermelons and grapes. Some GM foods also have been engineered to have higher levels of specific nutrients, such […]


Not long ago, if you were diabetic, the insulin your doctor prescribed would have come from a pig. If you required human growth hormone, it would have come from human cadavers, a source that is costly, not to mention a little creepy. Now, these and other medicines can be made by specially-modified bacteria, called transgenic bacteria. These single-celled organisms have […]

Nearly 9 in 10 abortions take place early in pregnancy (Abort73, 2017). Women around the world use abortion to control reproduction. Abortion is the action of ending a human’s pregnancy, most often done during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is a procedure that people have used for thousands of years but it started getting more attention in the […]

Draft questions that are related to my own interests and worldly issues are: What do women feel after having an abortion? Why do people have strong opinions when it comes to abortion? Do people know that there are many reasons to why a woman might have an abortion? Abortion matters to me because it’s an issue that people see as […]

The applicant of genetic engineering that I chose is Medicine, I chose this because using the genetic engineering can help cure deadly diseases, like Alzheimer’s Disease, diabetes, and heart disease. Also because using genetic engineering in medicine can help a lot of those who are in need. Three questions that I would hope to answer about this are how do […]

Genetic engineering is when a certain DNA is being inserted into another DNA to get the wanted results. It’s interesting to see how DNA can be inserted into to bacterial DNA, and since bacteria increases faster, the result that you want will be increasing fast, this’s good when it comes to medicine. But what was really surprising to me was […]



“I will chop her into messes. Cuckold me!” (act 4 scene 1, line 210) Othello here is so angry after hearing both Cassio and Iago talking, he’s so mad he now wants to murder Desdemona. The word “messes” means pieces, so basically Othello is saying that he’ll chop Desdemona into pieces. He wants to kill her so bad […]

The play that I choose is Othello, Act 5 Scene 1 lines 12-22. The character that I played is Iago, and what I learned from the impact of the tone is that there is confidence in it. Iago was speaking to himself and was not doubting himself not even once, which is why he uses words such as restitution and […]

Shakespeare is still being studied today in school because, Students get to see the Racial differences because Shakespeare’s play talks a lot about that, not only that but it was also common back then. “Why study Shakespeare”. My reaction was no surprise because I’m a student and have learned and gained a lot of knowledge from reading Shakespeare. The Shakespeare […]

Listening to music is a technique that I will definitely stick with. Listening to music have been always fun and relaxing for me, I’ve been into music since I was a kid so I feel like music is a part of my life. I enjoy it alot because it gives me another perspective of what’s surrounding me, what I mean […]

These are my reflections to the videos that I watched, and those videos are “How stress can make you sick”, and “How stress affects your brain.” What I learned was that The adrenal gland releases the stress hormone Cortisol, Epinephrine, and Norepinephrine, these three hormones travel through my bloodstream, blood vessels and then into my heart. And all those three […]

To the YV community, this is my response to the Warm-Up for English class today. We are studying Shakespeare’s Othello and exploring the theme of appearance versus reality. Dear Selena, I’ve realized that you’ve been missing a very important and required class often now. I am really worried about you and that’s because I know that you are a good […]

Dear next president If you are going to take over America, Just know that you’re responsible for everything that’s around you. I request that you’ll make fair decisions for everyone no matter where they came from. Three problems that need to solved are, one is to stop racism, people need to stop judging people just by how they look or […]