Twelve was a terrifying age for me. It was the year that everything became open to doubt. That year I questioned all subjects from God to gravity. My friends seemed unreliable so I ostracized myself, avoiding all intimacy and any semblance of amiability. I stopped listening in church because my Sunday-School lessons brought up more questions than I was capable of dealing with. Instead I concentrated on the two constants in my life, school and family. Education and love became the two pillars my world was balanced on.
I especially enjoyed Chemistry. I loved that laws governed the universe. I loved that Science knew that nuclei were made up of protons and neutrons, that electrons were negative, and that opposite forces attract. These facts were undoubtedly true. It was such a relief to go to class and be told how and why the world worked.
I was particularly fascinated by hydrogen. Though the smallest atom on the periodic table, hydrogen plays a key role in life on earth. Hydrogen holds just about everything together. It's so easy to take it for granted, but without it none of us would survive. Hydrogen bonds connect everything. When scientists draw out diagrams of molecules they don't even write out the hydrogen, they just make a little dash on the paper. It is so constant and so obviously there; they don't even worry about naming it. Hydrogen, the duck-tape of the universe, would always be there. How could I not love hydrogen? To a twelve-year-old girl it was more reliable than God.
When I was not studying, I was with my family. I talked with them, played with them and if I was feeling very safe, I might ask them one of the questions that constantly haunted me. But mostly I would just be with them, basking in their unquest...
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...t exists?"
"Yeah, how do we know it's not some big joke?"
"I've explained this before Jane. Hydrogen bonds hold us all together. Glucose would not be able to stick together without..."
"But how do we know that? How do we know we're held together by anything? What if we are all just kind of floating around?"
"Well if we had the right equipment I could show you..."
"But we don't do we? No one knows really, do they?"
"Jane," My teacher was becoming annoyed, "We've been over this. I am right in the middle of a lecture, and I don't have time for joking around. For everyone's sake and your own, I wish you'd just pretend to believe in hydrogen so we can get through this, OK?"
"Okay," I whispered. Under the cover of darkness, I buried my face in my arms so that my sweatshirt would hide my red eyes, and I took her advice. I've been pretending ever since.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee. The novel is set in the depths of the Great Depression. A lawyer named Atticus Finch is called to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. The story is told from one of Atticus’s children, the mature Scout’s point of view. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, the Finch Family faces many struggles and difficulties. In To Kill a Mockingbird, theme plays an important role during the course of the novel. Theme is a central idea in a work of literature that contains more than one word. It is usually based off an author’s opinion about a subject. The theme innocence should be protected is found in conflicts, characters, and symbols.
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I've always loved learning, especially math. Math has always come easy to me. Science also has never been challenging enough so I took Chemistry this year and I am planning to take physics next years. Chemistry is very challenging for me and I've had thoughts of dropping out of it, but I pushed myself and forced myself not to give
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From the unit of chemistry in grade ten science, the students have learned many things from different types of elements in the chart all the way to how each element impacts the daily life each student or even adult lives in. Some of the things I as a student have learned include how to draw the different elements in a bohr rutherford diagram, balancing chemical equations, types of chemical reactions, and even information about the different types of acids and bases. Although there were many other things in the unit, these four definately helped me learn about chemistry in a more in-depth way, as well as teaching me something very new since these were some things a few of the students had never done in the previous years. Learning this in the classroom has really opened my eyes to the world in which we live in today, many times I leave the house on a cold day and as I look upon the cold water becoming ice or even the snow falling down, I know how it is happening, why it is happening, and I can even picture the molecules solidifying as we had seen in class with many different diagrams.
Math is a subject has always and will continue to pulled my interests. This was because it was a subject that would lead me to a single unique answer. Once I started to attend high school, physics then opened up another interest, not only with math, but an interest in Math with actual application into the real world. With physics, it allowed me to see how math could be used to predict events. The classes that I have taken that has shaped my interests for my major of science in mathematics are Physics, and Computer Science.