"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom"-- Extra Credit

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom".

~George Washington Carver

This quote means a lot to me. Without education, you aren't going to achieve anything in life. If you don't learn anything, you don't know the simplest things, and can't pursure your life's goal. Working hard and understanding why education is needed is going to get you somewhere in life. If you prove that you're worthy of doing things, people are going to accept you more in life. Jobs & money are essentials that you need in life.Therefore, if you have a really good education you'll live life the way you want it. Without those two major things, you aren't going to get anywhere, and nobody is going to need you or want you. You need to study hard in order to have a good life. Education gives us all knowledge. It's something that can get us to even rule the world. Education gives us confidence, and confidence gives us things we want/need. If you aren't education, you be hesitant if you want to do certain things. You don't have the feeling: "I can do this, I know this stuff."  If you just study good and get a nice education, you'll be set for the rest of your life; no need to suffer in your futue. A person who's educated enjoys his/her life and can live the way he/she wants to live. They have their own freedom in what they want to do. You can prove yourself worthy everywhere if you're an educated person.  Without an education you are not free to do what you want. With education comes more choices and therefore more freedom to pursue your life's ambition. Education & working hard to reach goals is what we need to live life the way we want it!

Frog Dissection

        On Tuesday, we dissected a male frog and finished dissecting on Wednesday. First, we cut open the frog carefully and had to pin back its skin. I was really amazed at how the frog had so many thick protective layers protecting the insides of the frog. I knew that there had to be layers of skin, fat, etc. protecting the frog's organs, but what amazed me were how thick they were and how many there were. My group had a male frog, so we didn't have any eggs to remove, but we did have loads of fat bodies to remove. Covering many of the organs in my frog was peritoneum. I found a lot of it near the heart than any of the other organs. Also, as soon as we opened up the frog, we saw the liver. I just thought that the liver would be one whole piece instead of three seperate pieces being everywhere. What amazed me was the color of the frog's gall bladder. I thought it would be a brownish colors like the liver/lungs, but it was green. Another thing that surprised me was the spleen. I never even knew frogs had an area for holding blood until this dissection.









Here are some of the parts of the frog we saw.

   

        


 A frog's body isn't as complexed as a human's but it is quite similar to our body. We have most of the same organs like the frog. Although, they might not look alike, they do the same things and function the same way. For example: the heart pumps blood, the liver produces bile, the gall bladder stores the bile, and many other organs like that. We have the same systems that work together to create a specimen. I really liked how the small intestine and the large intestine were laid out, just like humans. I could just imagine the food going through the frog's digestive system. I just wish we could've saw its brain and its heart actually pumping. That would've been so cool! This frog dissection was really amazingly awesome, and I hope we do more things like this in the future!

         

http://www.biologyjunction.com/frog_dissection.htm