1 I choose this piece of work because it highlights my English skills with writing a poem. I wrote this poem as part of a unit in 10th grade where at the end of the class we turned in a portfolio of all our work. Baseball Sonnet Boy goes to ballpark, to catch a baseball. The batter goes to home plate to go hit. The boy stretches, stretches becomes so tall The ball lands directly into his mit. Alas, he’s bumped by a tall ugly dude Popcorn is spilled, basically everywhere . The dude acted with such an attitude The boy spilled his drink down dude’s underwear The ball is right there in front of his nose. He picked up the ball with such distinct joy Grabbing his mit, fastly running he goes. He had a great time, he got a new toy! A day that was so fantastically swell, He will come back to Friday’s game, as well.
2 I choose this work because it demonstrates my skills in biology, one of my favorite subjects. This is my presentation on genetically modified tomatoes. In this project we made a poster after researching a GMO of choice, then presented it to the 6th graders. This project shows my skills of working in partnership with others and presenting information to a larger group. This is the first genetically modified crop to be commercialized by a company named Calgene. It had a great sales success before its commercial demise. It was developed in the early 90’s. With this being the first genetically modified crop it launched of gmos for normal use now. Even though this particular crop wasn't around for super long. It was field tested in 1988 to 1992 before released to the public 2 years later. On May 21 1994 its was introduced to the public. There was a lot of demand for this product but the high production and distribution cost made it not profitable. It is genetically modified so they stopped the gene that produces a protein which makes tomatoes soft after a while. So then the tomato stays rip longer and has a longer yield. It being genetically modified has also lead it to having an increased resistance to certain fungal pathogens. Tomatoes are self fertile and almost completely self pollinating. The flavr savr is the process of delayed softening of the pg enzyme. The organism lost commercial production, and consumer began to avoid. Has Not been commercially produced since 1997 Was field tested in 1988 to 1992 The analysis of the nutrients in the gmo compared to the non gmo relieved no difference in the levels of nutrients or micronutrients etc. They do not exhibit weedy characteristics And they test also showed no observant of hurting the environment around it Regulatory Approved in canada in 1995 Approved in japan in 1997 Mexico 1995 Us in 1994 Description of organism and how it is modified --Our organism is a flavr savr tomato which is a genetically modified tomato. It’s a modified gene that creates the protein in which makes the tomato squishy. Who benefited? The consumerist are who benefited from this product. Positive effects--There were positive effects during the time it lasted such as success in sales Negative effects-- There sales started to drop with prices being too high and softened allergic reactions What are the socio, economic impacts? -- More people are able to have tomatoes and the economic impact are price of the gmo tomato being higher priced. Who are affected? Consumers How are they affected? They are trusting commercial fruits When was organism developed? Early 90’s released publically in 94’ Why was it developed? So they would be able to have tomatoes that don't spoil as quickly Who developed the organism ? Calgene In what ways was it genetically modified? They stopped the gene that makes a protein that then turns a tomato squishy The analysis of the nutrient s in the gmo compared to the non gmo relieved no difference in the levels of nutrients or micronutrients etc. They do not exhibit weedy characteristics And they test also showed no observant of hurting the environment around it Regulatory Approved in canada in 1995 Approved in japan in 1997 Mexico 1995 Us in 1994
3 I choose this work because it highlights my ability to analyze data from my pre-calculus class and then write a fictional letter to a fictional mayor on how to solve the issue. My topic was whaling. We were provided a document of information that included data to analyze. I took this information and wrote a letter to a mayor showing how damaging this problem is to the town. Dear Mayor, If you look at the graph below you can see over the years we have been collecting whale oil more and more each year. Even though this chart at first glance may look like your town is growing and you're getting better at getting oil, but the whales species is going down at an exponential rate as well. I beg you to stop your methods and use a different source of energy. Your methods so far have been killing thousands of whales a year. Between 1818 and 1819 you boosted your whaling to collect more oil to grow your town. But this is endangering whales of extinction and soon you will loose a resource as a whole. You are depleting a resource and making a species endangered all at the sametime. There are better ways to get resources. Please put a restriction on how many whales or buckets of oil whalers are allowed to get. So we don't completely run out of this resource and unbalance our environment. The effect of extinction of whales will set off a domino effect for ocean sea creatures. Your town will soon become a bondade if you don't find another resource to give to the townspeople and sell.