The Disappearing Spoon By Sam Kean

In the article, “Don’t Blame the Eater, by David Zinczenko discusses about his childhood and how it has affected him. In addition, he explains thoroughly about fast food and the companies behind it. Zincozenko also talks about fast food companies have affected him and other in today’s world.

Since birth, a little girl by the name of Melody was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. That is a disorder that affects movement, muscle tone, and motor skills. It causes reflex movements that the person can’t control and it causes muscle tightness that can affect a part of the body if not the whole body. Ever since she was born, she was loved and cared for but she wasn’t able to say a single word. The book’s title is “Out of My Mind,” by Sharon M. Draper. It focuses on a disabled girl and her thoughts. Most fiction books have author’s purposes and this book’s author’s purpose is to entertain and inform.

Chapter one of The Disappearing Spoon informs us of the information hidden in the periodic table, and why the periodic table is arranged the way it is. Through its pages it explained the formation of the periodic table such as its shape, trends, and etc. The pages also tie into one or more learning goals in this unit. A periodic table is not just a chart with things splashed onto it, it is a chart that was thoroughly arranged based on the trends, the characteristics, the description, and formation of an element.

On November 9, 1933, Joseph Goebbels made a speech that initiated a crowd of violent Nazi activists who would burn down over 1,000 synagogues, and destroy over 7,000 businesses, thus creating Kristallnacht, ‘the night of the broken glass’. Following this act, was the beginning of the Holocaust. 6 months later, on May 10, 1933, members of the Nazi German Student Association, as well as other university students, burned close to 25,00 volumes of “un-German” books to promote their nationwide campaign: “Actions against the un-German spirit”.

John Dalton wrote the modern atomic theory, a fundamental component of that is, the mole ratios of elements in a compound will be small whole numbers.

¨There was a law against luke. Not him personally everyone like him, kids who were born after their parents already had two babies (pg 6)¨. Would you like a law against you? Among the hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix clearly shows that dictatorship is horrible. In this novel Luke is not allowed to leave the house or be seen. Luke leaves the house in cover and meets a girl the same as him she can't go anywhere so she tries to convince luke to rebel to be like regular people with her but he is to nervous. Luke shows the character traits of brave, jealousy and adventurous as he hides in the shadows.

Barbara Ehrenreich began her research to explore how people attempting to move from welfare to work are managing—if at all. This exploration also extended to those who are apart of the working class and having not been on welfare. Attempting to place herself in the position of her subjects, Ehrenreich strived to see if she were able to survive on the minimal income provided by a series of low level and low paying jobs. In was her foreknowledge of laws and the inclusion of these laws in Nickel and Dimed that brought about exposing historical and present-day 21st century contradictory practices, laws, and regulations that exploit the poor working class (if not through her experiment but by the subjects’ honest experience). In

In the book Food :A Love Story it isn’t hard to guess what parts of Jim Gaffigan’s life was used. Claiming that food is a very big and important part of his life. He justifies why he made an autobiography about his life with food. He had stated that “As a result of constant eating, I’m not thin. Sure my beard hides none of it, but at least I know why I’m not thin.”(Jim Gaffigan, 12) he also believes that because of his physique he is way more trustworthy in the food genre of life then compared to a skinny person. In this book he makes and abundance of really out there and hilarious jokes about food and topics around it. One of his better ones is the character known as the Fattelier. His definition for this name is a bigger/fatter food advisor who doesn’t advise the more expensive but instead the more fattening.

Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. He often conducted experiments in his basement and enjoyed making things such as homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and even making his own self-tanning lotion. Hahn especially loved chemistry and spent much of his time doing amateur chemistry experiments. The chemical reactions in these experiments sometimes went wrong and resulted in small explosions. We learned about chemical reactions in class this semester. He loved to read “The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments” that his father had given him and tried to collect samples of every element in the periodic table, including the radioactive ones. We learned in class about the elements in the periodic table and how they are identified.

Persona, the aspect of someone 's character that is presented to or perceived by others. So for someone to adopt a persona is them putting their self in the shoes of another character to give off a specific perspective or view. Diane Gilliam Fisher uses this effectively in the poems found in her book “Kettle Bottom”. She places herself in the positions of both the children and wives of the coal workers, as well as the immigrants who worked the coal mine. She took the stance of the company owners and operators, and even the news reporters who spoke of the rebellion that was starting to take place. She uses this technique to persuade her audience to see the wrong that was happening in the coal mines. In comparison, the cut scene from the film “Matewan” that was written and directed by John Sayles takes the view point of the actual Union members and the conflicts that went on between the workers their selves. Both, these interpretations of what was going on in the coal mines of West Virginia, gives the audience the same perspective that the owners of the coal mines were the antagonist in the story. In addition to both “Kettle Bottom” and “Matewan”, the article “The Second Civil War: Remembering the Battle at Blair Mountain,” written by Alan Grayson (SpeakOut), also takes a bias stance against the mining company owners. Grayson portrays the mining owners to be crooked and wicked people, who had no remorse for the troubled environment that their workers struggle through

-Dmitri Mendeleev- first periodic table, organized 63 known elements according to properties, organized into rows and columns and wrote name, mass, and chemical properties on each

The title of the book "Running on empty", by Peter G. Peterson tells what really happens behind the scenes of both Democratic party and Republican party, and how in their own way they are bankrupting our future. "Running on Empy" provides a cogent look at americans political, and physical deterioration describing the financial crisis in the United States. Having hands on experience with this several political and govenment views Mr. Peterson discuss how our country is totally in debt and how we as americans can rebuild our future. Being a republican Peterson calls out mistakes made by both parties being equally irresponsible and presenting nonpartisan solutions. As a Democrate I believe that the democratic party focuses more on everyone being equally happy and healthy and ignores the fact that they could help the financial crisis by decreasing some of the social programs they 've created that help people in our society. I truly believe that some of the programs that were created by the democrats have cost our citizems an exponential amt of money, with minimal improvement to our society. Also , a lot of these elected programs have handicapped our society. I personally believe that if you teach a person to fish , they will always eat. But, if you just feed people the fish you 've caught , it promotes laziness and the people will eventually starve. My take on this comparison is that the democrats only supply the fish to the less unfortunate and the Republicans teach the less

Arloa Sutter’s book, The Invisible (Sutter, A. (2010). The Invisible. Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House). This book is about how as Christians it is our job to go and help the poor. Sutter tells about her own personal journey of how she go to where she is now. She tells tales of some of the people who have been in the homeless shelter. These stories are touching and at times, really emotional. Sutter calls us to go and help the homeless. She gives us tips on getting closer to God and listening to his voice. She calls us to be more like Jesus, Sutter uses a lot of scripture to back up her points in how we can be like Him.

The Disappearing Spoon written by author Sam Kean, is a book in where it talks about how the elements from the periodic table play a huge role into where we stand today. Kean digs deep down into where and how these elements were discovered or created. From the stories of the elements he can tell the reader how it led to other stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more Ch. 1 In Geography is Destiny, the author Sam Kean begins by going into the organization of the periodic table.

Over the course of the last 5000 years, mankind’s knowledge has been constantly advancing. Chemistry, a branch of science, has experienced a tremendous leap and expansions since ancient Greek civilization. One of the major breakthroughs in the advancement in Chemistry was the creation of the Atomic theory, which laid a foundation for the modern-day Chemistry and future of science. The Atomic theory introduced the idea of atoms, which are defined as the discrete units of matter. There are five key scientists that significantly contributed to the Atomic model over a span of thousands of years. They are: Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thompson, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr.