Literacy blog #10

I'm surprised they said that climate change is actually more good than bad.Because for years all they have been saying is the negative effects of it.They also say that the warming would be beneficial to Earth.

"To be precise, Prof Tol calculated that climate change would be beneficial up to 2.2˚C of warming from 2009 (when he wrote his paper). This means approximately 3˚C from pre-industrial levels, since about 0.8˚C of warming has happened in the last 150 years. The latest estimates of climate sensitivity suggest that such temperatures may not be reached till the end of the century — if at all. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose reports define the consensis, is sticking to older assumptions, however, which would mean net benefits till about 2080. Either way, it’s a long way off."

A man wrote a book on it and reviewed previous years of climate change.Stating that it changed raised the human and planetary welfare.Calculating 1.4 per cent of global economic output.The world growing a 3% each year.Which is fairly low.Considering how many people there are in the world.

Literacy Blog 9

I don't really think Oreos are as addictive as cocaine.Because in my opion Oreos are good but they are not to the point where i just can't stop eating.My only addiction though is Honey Buns i can't get enough of them.Oreo's probably are America's favorite cookie,or Milk's favorite cookie.Eventually everyone will stop eating Oreo's pertaining to the high obesity rate and how supposedly addictive they are.They tested it on rat's so that is a whole other difference than humans are.Wer have different functions than they do,and different diets.
"Researchers tested rats' affinity for the chocolatey sandwich cookie in several lab experiments. Co-author Jamie Honohan explained that Oreos were chosen not only for their taste, but because they have high amounts of fat and sugar and are marketed heavily in areas where people tend to have lower socioeconomic status and higher obesity rates.
Why would you give cocaine to rat's.I am still not grasping that.Do scientists have nothing better to do.They should be finding a cure for Cancer because it is the number one killer in the whole world.But i do understand obesity rates have been going up the last couple of years.And they are worried about our health.Cancer is more important than obesity in my eyes.

Literacy Blog Eight

I think it kind of creepy that we are digesting peoples poop.But if it will cure the gut infections them it is worth it.They say 14,000 people die from it that is a lot of people.And it is proven that the pills help with the infection so i would infection.

"It takes 24 to 34 capsules to fit the bacteria needed for a treatment, and patients down them in one sitting. The pills make their way to the colon and seed it with the normal variety of bacteria.

Louie described 27 patients treated this way on Thursday at IDWeek, an infectious diseases conference in San Francisco. All had suffered at least four C-diff infections and relapses, but none had a recurrence after taking the poop pills.

Margaret Corbin, 69, a retired nurse's aide from Calgary, told of the misery of C-diff.

"It lasted for two years. It was horrible. I thought I was dying. I couldn't eat. Every time I ate anything or drank water I was into the bathroom," she said. "I never went anywhere, I stayed home all the time."

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With her daughter as the donor, she took pills made by Louie two years ago, and "I've been perfectly fine since," Corbin said.

Dr. Curtis Donskey of the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who has done fecal transplants through colonoscopies, praised the work."

They have a patient that says she took it and the symptoms have stopped.I am for this because if someone i know gets a gut infection i want them to have the best treatment they could get for it.Saying the poop pills are the most benefitial treatment for this so i would want them to have this treatment so they could get better.

SAt article

I didn't know the SAT was one-ninth of our overall grade.And that we can make up the stories that are needed for the article.So now that i do know that.I will use it when go to take the real SAT.And not have to recall memories from my childhood.I also didnt know that the essay readers have to read 20 essay a hour.Sometimes they read thirty essays an hour.They love quotions and do not care for big words on your essay.They take like two minutes to read the essays.That is pretty fast if you ask me.The writing section can make or break you when your trying to get into a top noch college.Parelman and Gere gave us tips on how to be seccessful on SAT Writing.And how to score your best on it.The essay revamp in 2015 SAT overhaul that focuses the writing more on the students ability to critically analyze a piece of text and craft an essay that draws on the information provided.

"An SAT essay based on a longer passage with more detail and a constrained set of
acceptable response options would likely result in written works that are much more amenable to
machine scoring than the current essays. The forthcoming attempt to “fix” the SAT essay may be
less about using a model that better lends itself to more valid assessments of students’ writing skills,
or turning out better writers, and more about saving money and time by eventually replacing human
essay graders with machines.
“It seems to me pretty clear that’s where the SAT is headed,” Gere says. “So it goes from
bad to worse, actually.”
And although other standardized tests—such as the LSAT and certain Advanced Placement
exams—include essay components that differ from the SAT in terms of what skills are being tested
and how writing submissions are scored, those alternative methods are not without their critics. So
there would appear to be no standardized-test-essay panacea.
Kaplan’s Gruenwald notes that there have been rumblings about making the SAT essay
optional. And some, he says, have suggested doing away with it altogether. Perelman would have no
problem with that option. He notes that there’s one thing he tells every student working to achieve a
high score on the SAT essay. “Use this [approach] on the exam,” he says, “but never write like this
again.”

So making the essay based on a longer passage would posssibly be more nerve-wrecking because of the little bit of time that is given to complete the task.This will probably change for the worse.Therefore more people will be more vaulnerable to not making the best grade on the Writing section of SAT.