Snowball Earth Origin

Two weeks have passed since the beginning of the new semester, and in contrast to my mixed feelings regarding Biology 110 and Public Speaking, this has proven to be my favorite class. Thus far, we have covered early Native American settlements, the Columbian exchange, and the efforts of the Europeans (particularly the Spanish, French, English and Dutch) to colonize the New World. In addition to these lectures, we have already taken our first test, which was basically a review of the lectures. Perhaps the eight-week span of this course rather than the usual 16 is the reasoning behind the condensed lesson plan. However, I for one am not complaining. Overall, the lectures draw my attention and retain it, and a cursory glance at CrashCourse videos

This class experience has enhanced my understanding of the art world and how visuals play a major role in expressing certain ideals. The way certain artists portray their art is caused by many different techniques. It’s amazing to see my progression through out from week to week through my discussion boards. I even learned something the very first week of class, in the Abbott reflection I stated, “A big theme in this photograph is the use of lines. As we have studied in class lines add a lot of meaning and can be used interchangeably. Also, I like how the

I am amazed at how the reading assignments in this class interest me. I gave up my leisure reading in order to have the time to attend this school, and I find myself losing my self in this reading, just like my "fun" books.

I have played soccer since 2008. I had been playing with them for years, there was Squash, Josh, Jake and more. I was with them for 6 years but got kicked anyway. This is similar to how Boxer and Snowball were betrayed by the pigs and had to get out of the farm even though they were there from the start.

There were several parts of this Bio 105 class that I felt were important to my continued education at UNCG and to the rest of my life, but for now I would like to focus on three main sections that I feel were particularly valuable. Learning about anthropocentrism, human impact through pollution, and the human population helped me change the way I think about the world and see myself in it.

Throughout the semester in this class I have learned many valuable things. Each topic that we learned every week helped me understand the process of human development in a very clear and enlightening way. I believe that every subject that we covered will somehow be able to help me throughout my life and I may not be realizing that it is. This semester, I really enjoyed covering three different topics: nature vs nurture, IQ scores, and the effect that relationships have on development.

I personally learned more than I imagined in this evolution course. Learning biological evolution began to expand my understanding of our world and how it all started dating back to thousands of years ago. I learned that natural selection accounts for the rise in pesticide resistance among pests and gives rise to new technologies to protect crops from insects and diseases. Scientists today are applying lessons from evolutionary biology to our world. I was also able to learn many ways that scientists gather and analyze information, test hypotheses, and ultimately come to a consensus about explanations for certain events that have happened on our planet. To understand evolution is essential because not only is it important to learn evolutionary patterns of certain organisms but it is fun to learn as well. I was able to understand relatedness among different organisms and how they are related by descents from common ancestors. The class taught me that evolution explains the great diversity of modern species. The evolution of species and how they emerged from evolving from a common ancestor was personally a good topic for me. I think its fascinating to think species can originate from one ancestor and

Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker is a story of an ex-marathon runner name Paul Hoffman who moved to Canada to follow his dream of studying rock formations to reveal information of an unknown period, the pre-Cambrian era. When Paul first moved to Canada he was interested in the Slime that still remained in some areas of the world. The slime was the only remaining information that Paul had from the pre-Cambrian era and wanted to find out what had happened during that time period. In Canada Paul studied rocks everyday and because he was in the northern part there was sunlight for 95% of the day so Paul was out all day searching for evidence. Paul had heard a theory from a young scientist called the

Over all, it was a good book. I would never recommend it to anyone, but that is just because of the topic. I would recommend it to someone next year when they do their first nine weeks book review, or if they just had an unquenchable thirst for early exploration, but those are about the only circumstances that I would recommend this book.

There was such a variety of topics covered in this course and I wish that I had taken it in a classroom instead of online. With this online course, I feel like the material went a little too quickly. If I were in a classroom setting, I feel that

When attending this lecture I did not know what to expect because I had never been to one. Being an elementary education major, biology is not a strong subject. I was never very good at it in high school and I still struggle with it today. The man speaking about the frogs was very informative I actually learned a few things about frogs. When he began talking about complex phenotypes, phylogenomics, and neurophysiology I got a little lost so, I researched a little bit more about other things I understood.

Personally, I did not enjoy the book. It didn't get all that interesting until the last couple of chapters. Before that, it spewed facts in my face and lacked an intriguing plot. I learned a lot from this book, but You would be better off reading a science journal, magazine, or website. Otherwise, it was an okay book.

Turns out the least helpful section of this course in my opinion was the chapter on actively reading. I have always been an avid reader and I’ve never had a problem with reading comprehension so most of the information and reading strategies that were presented in the text just sounded redundant and didn’t seem to apply to me. There isn’t much I would change about the course except for maybe the length of some writing assignments.

Overall the book was a good read and touched on some various topics that are discussed in our class.

In summary, this course has really educated my view of being a teacher as well as being able to interact with today’s diverse and fluctuating educational setting. Therefore, the discussions were very good ways in understanding how