Suhani's SAS Blog

I feel really bad for Ahmed because he didn't do anything wrong, and just because of assumptions people made (with no evidence/proof), he got arrested. I think that many people think that the phase of racism is over, but using this article, you can see that people may have guessed that this clock that Ahmed made was a bomb just because of his ethnicity and race. I am very shocked with the reaction of Ahmed's teacher because Ahmed is just a kid who's hobby is to build things. The lens that I reacted to was definitely shock because in this story, people just judged this high-school student by what other people who have same race. This is really unfair. The police officers said that they weren't satisfied with what Ahmed's definition of what the clock was. Ahmed didn't have any other explanation, other than the fact that he made this clock, and he was proud of it. I learned that I was one of those people who thought racism was almost over, but I can tell that it i...

       9 BILLION PEOPLE . What will life be like? I think that demography will impact the world because with more people, there will be water and food shortages because there won't be enough for 9 BILLION people. On the bright side, technology and transportation will be much better, and things will be more efficient. This will be because there will be more people with great ideas to make things happen. There will be an longer life expectancy. New discoveries will be made! This has relevance to my life because I may use the new technology, and I may not have a of of water. Lots of open land that we have will be gone because the 2 billion new people will need houses to stay in, so the houses will be built on the beautiful open land we have. Many more trees will be cut down because of need for paper. Oxygen will also be consumed faster. Global warming will get worse. Demographics will help me in the future because when I am going on vacation (which will be often :) )...

I agree with most of these, but I think that my perspective, and forgiveness should be lower down on this chart, and I think that bravery and zest should be higher up. By changing some of these, I may become more successful because I can have make a better environment for others. I may want to change the place of where kindness, honesty, gratitude, and humility. These are traits that make people nicer to be around, so if I try to do these more, I think I would be more successful because people would want to hang out with me more. I am also fine with wether they are because compared to other strengths I have a lesser amount if them, but they are still strengths. I now know that I need to value what I can do best, and that I need to value what other people do best (a.k.a. their character). I will always remember this quiz and every time I do something I will think about valuing what I am good at and I won't dwell over things I am bad at, so I won't try to be perfect be...

1. Where are the oldest parts of the oceans? The oldest parts of the ocean are near the coast of each continent, or away from the Mid-Ocean Ridge. This is because the Mid-Ocean Ridge is actually an underwater mountain range of volcanos, so when the volcano erupts, the magma hardens because of the water, creating new rocks. Once the new rocks have formed, they need a place to be, so they push the other (older) rocks outwards, so that the older rocks are on the edges because they have been pushed there by the new rocks. This is also why there are so many earthquakes (the dots on the first map) happening in the Mid-Ocean Ridges (the earthquakes are caused by the volcanos erupting). 2. Do the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic ocean basins have the same age and patterns? They have different ages, but they have the same patterns because they all increase in age as the reach landmasses. You can see this by looking at the maps above and seeing that the dark blue is in the mid...

I am making an educated guess for all of these answers! 1. Where are the oldest parts of the oceans? The oldest parts of the oceans are the ones in the middle, or the bottom of the ocean. This makes sense because the bottom layer always comes first, and the middle of each ocean has been untouched, so maybe it's the oldest part because thing usually grow around a center base, and the middle would act as a center base because it has been untouched. The deeper parts of the ocean may be older too because they would have more water over them, going back to the theory of the bottom layers coming first. 2. Do the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic ocean basins have the same age and patters? I think they have the same age and patterns, because if there was one big landmass (Pangea) all of the oceans had to be joined to form a mega-ocean, meaning that they all would have the same age and patterns. I think that some oceans may have split apart form the mega-ocean (by Pangea splittin...

Analyze the data and explain how these two stratigraphic columns are further evidence of continental drift. This shows that these two continents were once together because everything except for the first layer of items are the same. This is the latest layer of land, the layer that you would stand on if you went there. MYA (the numbers next to the specimens) stands for MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. The date for everything before the first layer of land is the same, showing that these continents were once together (Pangea). For example, the Volcanics are both in the 100 - 150 MYA range. The first layer is probably different because Pangea has been split apart for millions of years, so it makes sense that there might have been a new layer of land created after Pangea split apart. When Pangea split a part, the took all of the same bottom layers with them and became individual landmasses.