Revenge is an endless cycle/ Forgiveness/ second chances

Revenge is an endless cycle. Is it fair to give people second chances or forgive them? In Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, A memorable idea is revenge is an endless cycle. This helps the reader to understand revenge, forgiveness and second chances.

A memorable idea in Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi is revenge is an endless cycle. In the book Chapter 63 - Zelie. When Inan tells Zelie they had no choice they had to massacre the Maji. To quote Zelieere's always a choice".  I think back to the cycles of revenge and violence. Do people have a choice? I think there's always a choice. Saying that we had no choice is acting in bad faith. This reminds me of Rick and Morty season 3 ep 3 when Rick become a pickle because he doesn't want to go to therapy cause he doesn't want to show his emotion. Rick thinks that showing your emotion is your weakness so he becomes a pickle because pickle don't have arms or legs is not his fault that he can't make it to therapy. What Rick is doing is acting in bad faith. My thoughts are that the king is acting in bad faith instead of becoming a  better person he decides to kill all of the Maji.

A memorable idea in Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi is forgiveness. In the book Chapter 80 - Zelie. When The blackest part of my rage finally has the power it's always craved, the chance to avenge Mama. Now Baba. I'll take these shadows of death and end them. Each and every one. No. Baba's voice rings in my head, steady and strong. To quote Zelie Revenge is meaningless. I think Zelie forgive Inan but not the king. This reminds me of Avatar: The Last Airbender Katara “I wanted to take out all my anger at him, but I couldn’t. I don’t know if it’s because I’m too weak to do it or... if it’s because I’m strong enough not to.” “But I didn’t forgive him. I’ll never forgive him. But I am ready to forgive you (Zuko).” My thoughts are that Zelie and Katara are angry and they want Revenge but they are also sad that there love ones has left the world.

A memorable idea in Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi is second chances. In the book Chapter 58 - Inan. When Zelie give Inan second chances and forgive him but Tzain disagrees. “I lost control today.” Her voice cracks. “I hurt him. I hurt Tzain.”  I feel it all, Tzain’s venomous words, the shadows that raged. The guilt, the hatred, the shame left in her magic’s wake. I squeeze Zélie tighter, a warm rush running through me when she squeezes back. “I lost control once, too.” “Did someone get hurt?” “Someone died,” I say quietly. “Someone I loved.” This reminds me of Avatar: The Last Airbender - Aang speaks to Zuko “But now I know you understand how easy it is to hurt the people you love. I would like you to teach me.” Zuko accidentally burns Toph, and Aang accidentally burns Katara. Inan scars Amari. Zélie hurts Tzain with her magic. Do people deserve second chances? My thoughts are that second chances are good but it risky.

Conclusion
Revenge is an endless cycle because there will be that person that will try and take your loved ones away from you. Forgiveness is a great thing it let you move on from your horrible past but make sure to forgive the good people because sometimes people betray you. Do people deserve second chances? The book tells us that it a good thing to give people second chances because the person that hurt us are trying to change. This to me taught me a lot how revenge will be with me forever and I can not run away from it, it is an endless curse. Forgiveness allows me to move on but second chances I think I had doubt about giving people second chances this book has not convinced me to give people second chances.

ESOL - The Adelie Penguins

Adelie penguin and adaptations



The Adelie Penguin is common along the entire coast of the Antarctic. These penguins are mid-sized, being 46 to 71 cm in height and 3.6 to 6.0 kg in weight. They have a white ring surrounding their eyes and feathers at the base of the bill. The Adelie penguin's appearance looks somewhat like a tuxedo. I think the black and white colour is used for camouflage because a predator looking up from below has difficulty distinguishing between a white penguin belly and the reflective water surface. The Adelie penguins usually swim at around 8 km/h. They are able to leap some 3 metres out of the water on land. I think this adaptation is used when their camouflage doesn't work and the predator can see them so they leap out of the water on land where the predator can't get them. 

The Adelie penguin behaviour


The male performs this display by stretching his head and neck up while pointing his bill vertically. He then flaps his outstretched wing while making a call that resembles the loud mutual display. The loud mutual display consists of the mutual display where the Adelie raises and waves its head from side to side plus the several syllables mutual call. During non-breeding times the Adelie penguin can be found as far as 1000 km away from its breeding grounds. They leave their breeding grounds sometime during late December through early February and don’t return to their breeding grounds until 7 months later in September or October. The Adelie penguins are known to identify others as mates, neighbours, or strangers by the other’s Loud Mutual Call. When a male hears its mate’s call they will often respond by calling back to the mate, looking at or for their mate, and by rearranging nest stones or eggs. Females also respond similarly to a mate’s call. When hearing a neighbour, males show comfort behaviour which includes actions such as preening, stretching, shaking, yawning, or defecating. 



Adelie Penguins Sexual Behaviour

We like to think of Adelie as innocent little butlers but they're hornier than a pair of teens in a Meatloaf song. In 1912 explorer George Murray Levick observed a group of thirsty ass male penguins so horned up and looking for sex, that he labelled them hooligan cocks. The Adelie Penguins humps everything that moves and a lot of stuff that don't. Including injured females, baby penguins that had fallen out of nests, corpses, even the ground itself. They literally fucked a hole in the earth. To quote Levick's journal, "There seems to be no crime too low for these penguins." His findings were so shocking that the academic community refused to publish his work. Turns out not to just be a few Adelie. Research now suggested this non-stop pleasure is pretty common among Adelies. Males interpret almost any behaviour as an invitation for mating. In fact, it takes surprisingly little to get a male Adelie in the mood. Researchers found that even a female's severed head with stickers for eyes, on top of a rock, was enough to attract a male penguin. 

Testing for Hydrogen Gas

Aim: To show that hydrogen gas is produced when a metal reacts with acid.

Equipment: A test tube, a boiling tube, bunsen burner, wooden splint, a bottle of hydrochloric acid, a piece of metal, safety glasses.

Method:

1. Light your Bunsen burner.
2. Add your sample of metal to your test tube. add 2ml of Hydrochloric acid.
3. Carefully invert the boiling tube above the test tube containing the metal and acid.
4. Hold the test tubes together for a few minutes, allowing time for the inverted boiling tube to fill with gas.
5. When you think the tube is full, your lab partner should light a wooden splint.
6. Carefully, but quickly, tilt the boiling tube full of gas upwards and insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube.

Observations: It pops

Discussion: It pops because we drop magnesium into hydrochloric acid making hydrogen. Hydrogen gas fulls the test tubes and we add fire to make go pop. But why magnesium more reactive than zinc and aluminium because magnesium loses its electrons easily than zinc and aluminium, other elements and compounds like oxygen, water and halogens react vigorously with atoms that lose electron easily.

How do braces work?

Every day, we rely on a substance that's harder than iron or steel, our teeth. So if teeth are harder than steel, they must also be harder than bone and if they're harder than bone, then why does your jaw, which is made of bone, not crumble under all that pressure? There's a bit of tissue called the periodontal ligament, or PDL, around your teeth under your gums, The PDL is a shock absorber cushioning your jawbone from all the chewing forces. But what if your teeth come in all funky? Funky teeth can interfere with the way you talk and the way you eat. So how do we fix this? Well, we basically break our mouths with braces, except it's actually our bodies that do the breaking. The PDL has these cells called mechanoreceptors and when these cells detect a force on your teeth that's too big like if you accidentally bite into your fork, they signal the brain to stop biting down before hurt yourself. Braces tether your teeth, pulling them together or pushing them apart. Either way, they're applying a steady force to your teeth and when mechanoreceptors in the PDL sense this kind of smaller but sustained force, they signal cells called osteoclasts to the area, which spew out acid and proteins to dissolve parts of your jawbone. The pH of osteoblast acid is 6 or less. Then the mechanoreceptors signal osteoblasts to come and those cells deposit minerals that make bone. Osteoblasts rebuild the jawbone in a new shape that lets the PDL hold teeth in the new position. So braces basically force your body to dissolve itself and then rebuild itself your body is actually breaking down and rebuilding bone using osteoclasts and osteoblasts all the time not just if you have braces bone remodelling is just the way our body grows the infant body replaces almost all of its original skeleton by the time it's a year old and it happens throughout our entire life 10% of my bone material is technically new since last year we manipulate the bone remodelling process to not only get straighter teeth but also to treat diseases like osteoporosis which make your bones very brittle. By keeping overactive osteoclasts from dissolving the bone so much, or by boosting osteoblasts to produce more bone, drugs can prevent bones in those patients from breaking so easily. People with severe bone injury have to rely on bone transplants, where they take bone from other parts of their body and move it to the damaged area, which is sometimes not even possible and is always painful. This one example of how our body uses acid not just for digestion.

My Self Intro / Jikoshokai

This is my self-intro or Jikoshokai it is about my name, my age and where I'm living.