Fact or Guess: Hypotheses and The Scientific Method John Storrs SC235 Unit 1 January 10, 2012 Kaplan University Professor Travis Kibota Hypotheses and The Scientific Method Assignment Question 1: Read the scenario below and then analyze what is wrong with the hypothesis given. Renee has noticed that a few of her friends have better eyesight than she does. She watches what they eat and then decides to come up with a hypothesis. Her hypothesis is as follows: My friends who eat tasty food for lunch have the best eyesight. Initially, Renee has completed a brief observation period, provided her hypothesis; however, concluded prematurely without conducting any type of study.
Chickens in motion tend to cross roads. Wolfgang Pauli: There was already a chicken on this side of the road. Carl Sagan: There are billions and billions of such chickens, crossing roads just like this one, all across the universe. Albert Michelson and Edward Morley: Our experiment was a failure. We could not detect the road.
With her flavorful diction, it’s clear why she favors this meal. She describes her meal as “…the lunch on this occasion began with soles, sunk in a deep dish, over which the college cook had spread a counterpane of the whitest cream…”. Wolf continues to dreamily dictate her meal with her creative descriptors and senses, “sharp and sweet”, “thin…but not hard”, “succulent”, “flushed yellow and flushed crimson”. The way she describes her meal, this is only her lunch, shows the pleasure she has, as if a 5 star chef had made it. However, she does not speak the same of the meal she “enjoyed” at the women’s university- to say the least.
Narrative Analysis “Killing Dinner” In the article “Killing Dinner” by Gabrielle Hamilton, she tells her real life experience of killing her first chicken. It was a horrid experience but I believe it is one that made Hamilton become a chef and give her a whole new meaning of what an animal goes through to feed our hunger-bitten stomachs. She can now kill just about any animal without a problem because of her experience as a seventeen year old girl killing that clucking chicken. Hamilton compares baby pigs to a beagle and how she cooks them until their skins become crisp. As a reader that is heart wrenching because I think of beagles as cute little animals and then the thought of them burning in an oven is just horrific but that is Hamilton’s intent.
Because there are many animals condensed in small areas, the workers mutilate them to prevent them from hurting each other. They “sear off portions of [chicken’s] beaks ” and “use pliers to break off the ends of teeth [on pigs]” without giving either any type of anesthesia or pain killers (Park 12-13). These are not the worst of the inhumane acts. After animals live like this to grow large enough to be slaughtered for their meat, there is an
One sausage and one hash brown for breakfast just doesn't cut it. All of these problems require an improvement in the quality of LSMSA food. Currently, the food here has a lot to be desired. Most of the food, and surprisingly even the fried food, taste extremely bland. LSMSA students are being repelled by the blandness.
Not only is his land being taken over, but he says that storm water runs-off from the city washes away the land. Next, Schlosser turns his attention to how “trusts” abolished competition at the beginning of the 20th century. He says that though these trusts were busted in the 1910’s, Ronald Regan permitted them to reform in the 1980’s and they are squeezing the life out of the cattle ranchers. If the cattle ranchers are being screwed, Schlosser says, the chicken growers are being raped. Through a system that impersonates sharecropping, the growers are under the thumb of the chicken corporation.
The manipulation doesn’t stop there. When you are old enough to go to school, the cafeteria of your safe and trustworthy environment will give you unhealthy treats and lunches that contain no nutritional value, yet feed it to you and simultaneously encourage you to do your best and make good choices. They also feed it to you without giving you a proper introduction of what it is you are actually consuming. This is where the lack of education of a healthy diet
“Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good” It isn’t a surprise that so many people aren’t really aware of what they are ingesting? Nevertheless; what is being put in many of the foods we are consuming? Eric Schlosser, in his essay “Why Mc Donald’s French Fries Taste So Good” explains to the public what is really happening behind closed doors. Eric Schlosser focuses on educating us in regards to the flavor industry; he also gives us examples, and facts that are very surprising regarding our food’s flavors. Once one really learns how the food’s flavors and colors are used in the food we eat; one becomes reluctant to consuming them.
We would answer the question by measuring the amount of planaria feeding on chicken liver conducted in five different trials, a duration of five minutes each. Because land planarians are photo-negative during daylight hours, they are commonly found in dark, cool, moist areas under objects such as rocks, logs, in debris, or under shrubs, and on the soil surface following heavy rain. Movement and feeding occur at night (Esser, 1981). This experiment will help support the notion that planaria negative phototaxis behavior has a correlation with their preferred environment to feed in. Methods: To test my hypothesis I prepared an experiment where I collected a total of ten planaria to divide them into two separate petri dishes.