Science Systems Essay: A Letter to the Human Body Corp.

Dear Human Body Corporation:

I have just learned that you are planning to fire me due to cut backs. Fortunately for both of us that's not a good idea, and here are some reasons why. Firstly, aside from you, I practically run this place! You fire me and every system goes into emergency shutdown. Secondly, you know as well as I do that this whole place is run on memory banks and empty files for storing later discoveries. Fire me and all that data is gone, "poof" plus no storage for new data. Lastly, the senses. Those wonderful little inventions that were so valuable in your rise to a successful company, you guessed it, those are gone too. To make a long story short, do not fire me!


Okay, back to the idea of total shut down. Let me give you some reasons to show you why that's not a good idea. Number one, your respiratory system, the only way to gather the oxygen we need to keep this corporation running. You lose me you lose that too. Same with the circulatory system. If you lose that then no food for the employees. No food for the workers means unhappy and unhealthy workers and that leads to strikes. If that happens the rest of your body shuts down. Basically it ends up in a series of... well a series of unfortunate events that all lead up to the eventual paralysis of the company, which would then lead to the complete shut down of your whole corporation.

Next we have your precious memory banks. Again, you fire me you lose all those memories. All your previous achievements...gone. You wouldn't even remember my birthday and no one forgets my birthday! Also, you wouldn't be able to document any further discoveries. In fact, you would lose the ability to formulate any future information to store. Also, your communication would utterly fail. No speaking, no hand signs, nothing. Like I said, you fire me, you lose everything.

Now on to our next reason. Your senses, what you wake up and smell the coffee with, the things that keep you from getting badly burned. If you get rid of me your throwing those wonderful things away, and losing those things can be potentially life threatening. First, you would lose your ability to feel. So if you put your hand on a burning stove you wouldn't feel it and next thing you know your staring at a pile of black ash and wondering how it got all over your morning bacon. Not that you would be able to see that because you lose your ability to see also. Putting it simply, the only thing you'd be able to successfully do is sit on the floor, and even then you wouldn't be able to tell if you were sitting or standing.

Can't you see, you just can't fire me! Let's review why you shouldn't fire me. Number one, I operate this whole place. You lose me and everything goes into emergency shut down. Two, all your memories and further empty storage disappear. Lastly, you lose all senses. No smell, no vision, no hearing,no nothing. To put it quite simply, I go down, your company goes down with me.

Sincerely,
The Nervous System

Save School Money NO LAPTOPS!

Laptops at school? Total waste of money. Firstly, it would be way too expensive to supply laptops to every student at Blatchley. Also, with the way that I've seen a lot of kids act, the laptops would most likely be broken almost every week. Lastly, there are plenty of other ways to get to a computer. I say kids don't really need laptops.

Providing laptops to students is a dream much too expensive to make a reality. Firstly, the cost would be way over the school budget. That being, the school would have no money for repair and other needs. Also, the school would likely have to buy new laptops each year causing more budget decrease. Laptops for students would be way too expensive.

Looking at the way a lot of the students here at Blatchley act, I doubt the laptops would stay intact for long. Anything could happen to the laptops. They could get stolen, dropped, have water spilled on them, heck they could be dropped in water. Then you have the parents, who would likely have to pay for damages just like other school property, which would not make them happy. Then the school would have to pay for repairs or even new laptops bringing us right back to the finance thing. Give kids laptops and watch them burn!

Students really don't need laptops because they have plenty of other ways to get to computers. Firstly, the public library has computers just for that reason. Secondly, kids could stay at school and use the computers there. Lastly, plenty of people have computers at home so what's the point of a laptop. Like I said, laptops just aren't needed.

Again, laptops for students is a very bad idea. Number one, repair and upkeep is just way too expensive. Number two, admit it, laptops are just way to fagile for the common middle schooler. Number three, there are plenty of computers out there, why do we need more? Avoid the trouble, keep laptops away from school!

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Book Review: The Pirate King

The book The Pirate King by R.A. Salvatore is yet another book about the heroic drow ranger Drizzit Do'Urden. This one takes place four years after my first book review The Orc King. In the book, Drizzit and his halfling friend Regis have set out to see their old barbarian friend Wolfgar. In their travels they come across the port town of Luskan, a dangerous city full of crime and betrayal the perfect setting for a Drizzit book. They soon find themselves caught in the middle of huge rebellion at war with the Arcane Brotherhood and their undead leader Greith. Through the chapters after that they mount an attack on the Hosttower of the Arcane which Greith explodes with a magic staff killing 3/4 of the population of Luskan but freeing it from his iron rule. Later Drizzit's friend Dodermont, one of the leaders of the rebellion, is elected governor of Luskan. Then everything goes down hill. The five ruling gang lords of Luskan all turn against each other causing a huge civil war. Will Luskan survive this time of turmoil or will it become the home of the new Pirate King?

I think that the theme of the book is mind your own business or bad things will happen. Here is an example I found in the book. In the beginning of the book a Waterdavian lord talked Dodermont into helping him in the rebellion against the government in Luskan. Not for any good reason but just for his own personal gain so he could look like a hero. The result of that was the death of the Waterdavian lord, Dodermont, and many of Luskan's population in the rebellion and the civil war. That is why I think that the theme of this book is mind your own business or bad things will happen.

I would defiantly recommend this book to other 7th grade readers for these reasons. One, it's a wonderful book and is a good long read. Two, the author has a great insight on life and because of that the book makes you think. Three, it's a Drizzit book so what's not to like. For these reasons and many more, I say you should defiantly read R.A. Salvatore's The Pirate King.