The Road To Cancer: What Causes it, and How You Can Fix it. Ali Lovek

Authors Note: Cells are anywhere and everywhere, just like any other living thing they die, but can also reproduce. Sometimes the cell division can cause cancer, but depending on your condition, there are things that can help.

 Cell: A microscopic body made of protoplasm; it holds one or more nuclei and other organelles  (Meriam-Webster, 2012). If you didn’t know by now, cells are everywhere, they’re the smallest unit of life and they make up just about everything. Believe it or not they’re even inside us! They can help us fight viruses but can also cause us to get certain illnesses like cancer. When you get certain cancers it’s because of your cells and mitosis, sometimes this can be fatal, but other times there are some treatments that can help.

Now, there are probably some of you are wondering what mitosis is, or how it affects cancer. Mitosis is the process of cell division; it’s when a cell divides into two daughter cells and reproduces a certain amount of times (What Is Mitosis? , 2011) (Arnold, 2011). Sometimes cells divide too many times, and it can be the start of cancer. These cells can live forever as long as they have their necessary nutrients like water and oxygen (Arnold, 2011).

Next on the list to talk about are cancer cells. Like it said above, if cells don’t stop dividing, it can cause cancer, and that happens because when cells don’t go away, or die, they can start to clump up, causing a tumor.  (Cancer Cells vs Normal Cells, 2012 ) So, depedning on where your cells decide to keep dividing, that’s where you’d get a certain type of cancer. For example: “adenocarcinoma (cancer of a gland), leiomyosarcoma( cancer of the muscle cells), neurosarcoma (cancer of the nerve cells),  liposarcoma (cancer of the fat cells)” (Cancer Cells vs Normal Cells, 2012 ).

Lastly are cancer treatments; it has been a long time since the FDA approved the first angiogenic drug to treat metastatic colorectal cancer, in fact it’s been nine years  (Farbod, 2012 ). Since then though, there have been setbacks in the treatment field for cancer, the tests that they run to see if people are more prone to things results turned out to not be as reliable as scientists thought they were.  (Farbod, 2012 ). However, there are some treatments that can help, like chemotherapy, that’s when they put medicine in your blood stream to destroy the cancer cells (Chemotherapy ).

So, in final conclusion, we now know that cells are everywhere, and they can be both good and bad. We need mitosis, but every once in a while something can go wrong and some unlucky person can end up with cancer. It isn’t always fair, but there’s nothing we can do to stop it. And even though there are some treatments, sometimes the best they can is just hold it off for a while. Mitosis is needed, but sometimes it’s not good.

Bibliography

Arnold, P. (2011, September 9). Out Of Control Cell Division . Retrieved April 18, 2012, from Bright Hub : http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/33788.aspx

Cancer Cells vs Normal Cells. (2012 ). Retrieved April 18 , 2012, from C*Health : http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_section_details.asp?text_id=1520&channel_id=136&relation_id=2530

Chemotherapy . (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2012, from Cancer Treatments of America: http://www.cancercenter.com/conventional-cancer-treatment/chemotherapy.cfm?source=GOOGLPPC&channel=paid%20search&c=paid%20search:Google:Google%20-%20National%20Core%20Terms:Procedures%3A+Chemotherapy:cancer+chemotherapy:Broad&OVMTC=Broad&site=&creative=39

Farbod, S. (2012 ). Educus . Anti-angiogenesis , 1.

Meriam-Webster. (2012, April 23). Meriam-Webster .

What Is Mitosis? . (2011, July ). Retrieved April 17, 2012, from WiseGeek : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3233587/?tool=pmcentrez

Zombies vs Unicorns

Authors Note: Right now I am currently reading a book called Zombies vs Unicorns and I'm going to kind of say what it's about and if I like it and junk!

The Book Zombies vs Unicorns is basically just a bunch of authors picking what team they're on (zombies or unicorns) and writing a story about it; it's almost like twilight or something. Personally I am team Unicorn, but some of my friends however are not (cough cough* Kasia). Anyways, I would definitely recommend this book because it's interesting and lets you read a variety of writing styles.

New York

Authors Note: If I got to go anywhere in the world to go I would take a weeklong trip to New York because there are just so many things to see and do.

               

 The concrete jungle, big apple, the city that never sleeps: New York.  If I could pick one place in the world to travel to it would be New York. This amazing destination has so many activities to do, and sights to see. There are so many things to see, I wouldn’t even know where to start! I’d want to go to central park, and see the statue of liberty, or visit a theme park, or even just walk on the streets of New York, to see all of the stores lined up, one by one, for miles on end.

               

 If I had to pick, the first thing I would do in New York upon arrival would to just go sightseeing. I already said id want to see the Statue of Liberty, but I’d also want to take a tour of the Empire State building. That would be so cool, especially to go on the top floor and look out the window, but I’d be really scared.  Then, I would go outside and stand kind of far away, once far enough, I’d raise my hand up so it looked like a was holding it, then boom: facebook picture.  Then, after a long day of touring I would go to a place called Joanne’s for dinner, it’s an Italian restaurant owned by Joe Germanotta (Lady Gaga’s dad).

                

 The next thing I’d want to do is have some fun! Not like “Oh that’s cool.” or “Yeah, very interesting.” Kind of fun, I’d want to go do some amazingly fun things! Things like going to Sylvan Beach Amusement Park and turning a boring day into a day filled with fun, games, and rides. Another thing that I think would be really exciting would be going to Madison Square Garden and seeing an artist I like perform there. And, it’d be even more exciting if that artist was Lady Gaga.

               

 The last thing I would go and do, would probably be just making a day at Central Park. If I had it my way, I would bring all my friends and could have a huge picnic there. Then, all day we could just talk, play games, and eat of course. I think it would be so much fun, just to have all of your friends with you, while sitting outside listening to a radio and watching other people do their own thing and then you do yours. Even walking around this huge park would be cool.

                

 Once everything was done, I think I’d pack up head off to the airport. There are probably so many things I missed or didn’t think of doing, but I’m satisfied with what I picked, besides, I like airplanes so there’s something to look forward to.  So, overall I think my trip would have been a lot of fun. And even though I’m not sure I’d want to leave just yet, New York is no Wisconsin.   

Bibliography

• "Home ." Sylvan Beach Amusment Park . N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2012. < http://www.sylvanbeachamusementpark.com/ >.
• "Lady Gaga’s Father Opening Restaurant." Music News - PopCrush. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2012. <http://popcrush.com/lady-gaga-father-opening-restaurant/>.

A Poem About Sitting By Each Other By: Ali and Kasia

Authors Note: in Language Arts Ms. Hanson Said if we didn't like our seating arrangement we could write a poem about it. So we did.

I like sitting by Ali because she’s very fun

She’s very inspiring and I get my work done

When I sit by Kasia we can collaborate

And then when graded, we get higher than an 8

When we work together things get done fast
it makes things easy and we're not done last

We really think that you should change your mind

Because it would be really kind

Now I know what you’re thinking

“Those girls aren’t good.”

But if you happened to change your mind

I can assure you we would.