What is Tara thinking…

  Genes are like your moms and dads cooking book, the recipes were passed down to you.  In these recipes, your parents are telling the little chefs, your cells, to put all the ingredients in a bowl to build the dish, which is like building proteins. The cells making these proteins is what makes a person unique, similar to the different ingredients in recipes. The recipes themselves are referred to as a gene which includes a superrrr long molecule deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA. DNA is the basis of recipes themselves and tells cells and little chefs what to do.  Genomes are your cookbook, it has all your recipes. You have two copies of your genome. Lucky you! One for everyday and one for if you lose the everyday one. Scientists are still confused on what our genes do and how they can change depending on their environment. Considering the basic ingredients for a recipe, like genes in a cell, the final cake can change depending on the environment you put it in, s...

As a father, my dad and I would watch pickle ball games on TV. He would explain the skill it takes to be like one of the greats. He was the original great. Long ago, when my father, during his humble beginnings, lived in a poor neighborhood, he had the urge to do something active outside. He always hoped to play tennis, like he saw in the newspaper, but could not afford any general equipment, like a racket or tennis ball. All he had access to was a pickle and a ball. Since my father was a creative man with a creative mind, he found a solution. This solution was later known as “pickle ball.” After hearing this story before bed every night, I wanted to be one of the greats. I spent night after night, day after day, practicing with my dad, keeping in mind there was a legacy to fulfill. On really intense training days, I would prolong my training in the depths of the night on the treacherous grounds at Boulan Park. I ate a strict diet of pickles and drank pickle juice not as a discipline b...

You and your bro just went to an incredible football game. After the game, you and your bro talk about how fun football game was. Later into conversation, you and your bro talk about how life is going and you share philosophical feelings to each other, with a light heart, and you talk about your goals and all you and your bro are doing is supporting each other.This is the kind of platonic relation or in more casual terms a bromance. A bromance is a relationship with no romantic aspects but still share a deep bond. The idea of having someone always by your side. Regardless of what you do, think, or have done. Finding your true bro is hard, but life changing when reached. The effect of having a bro can improve your mood, increase possibilities, and stops you from ever being alone.                   During an abolitionist meeting in 1841, Fredrick Douglas is attending, and he knew attendance would be low...

  Picture yourself in front of a captivating monument and its lifelike spirit that brings you to the history of the monument, without being there. The representation of monuments gives you a “blast to the past,” with a deep emotional impact. Connections like these bring feelings and understandings that are unattainable from abstract nature of monuments.   When focusing on the representational aspect of a monument, you gain a stronger connection the monument’s purpose. You learn about the history of why that monument is made. Understanding the history of a monument allows someone to commemorate and become inspired. On the other hand, the abstract nature of a monument allows only an interpretation, not the real meaning. There have been situations where people considered to take down monuments because of their misrepresentation of history. According to Procon, they considered taking down a monument because it “glorify people perpetuated slavery, attempted succession from United S...