Why am I essential to the cell?

Hello, miss! I forgot to post my speech yesterday, so I’m posting it today.

Now this looks like a job for me

So everybody just let me live

‘Cause we need a little of proteins

And it feels so empty without me!

Ok… this was the rap part. Just the introduction, you know. So, as you’ve heard before, I make proteins. Guess who I am. The RIBOSOME!!!!!!!!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! Hahaha. That was not funny. Ok. Fine. Alright. Now returning to the point which I forgot and remembered again, I make the essential part of the cell. Like Miss Silva said: if the cell is a factory, the ribosome is the machine that makes the product. Logically, if we don’t have the machine that makes the product, we won’t have the products. And if we don’t have the products, we have nothing to sell. And if we have nothing to sell, we won’t have money. And if we don’t have money, we don’t have supplies to run the whole factory. So the factory will have to be shut down! This was the logic part. Now the REAL part: almost all the organelles in the cells are made of proteins. The mitochondria is one of the examples. But I will not talk about this, because this is not my part. So returning, the DNA, the “brain” of the cell is made of proteins. I am needed to not just keep the cell going on, but to reproduce! If we don’t have organelles and DNA enough to the cell be split up, we won’t have the replication, which interferes on the growth and on the renovation of the cells on a living individual. Like a human!!! I make the vital and essential part and nutrient of a cell, so I can’t be abandoned. 

What kind of cell I would like to be and why

Helloooo Miss!! I’ve been floating (boiando) for all the week and I’m doing it only now… (but miss… I had A LOT of work to do on this week) so… I would like to be a prokaryotic cell, because simplicity is not so bad. Ok… well… you may be thinking that there are no connections between them, but actually, there are a lot of connections.

           Prokaryotic cells are the ancestors of the eukaryotic ones. They were present in the Earth for millions and millions of years. But the prokaryotic ones started dividing into different species and formed the eukaryotics. The old ancestors have a really simple structure and usually, are smaller than the descendants and don’t group up to form a single organism (yes, they are foreveralones). Their anatomic structure has a lack of nucleus, mitochondria and any other organ that has a membrane. So their organs are cytoplasm, ribosome, plasmids and a few more that stay on the outside of the cell.

           Now, why did I choose it? I like simplicity. I sometimes dream of leaving the city and going to the forest to have a simple and primitive life. No computers, no games, no THE SIMS, no television, no internet, no soap operas, no information. No outside world. Just me and the nature. If I don’t have this outside world, I don’t have any other problem to think but mine. I won’t have to think about global warming, poverty, diplomacy, politics, violence, society, knowledge. I won’t have to consult huge history books to know why Hitler killed Jews. I don’t need. The only thing that I have to know is how to survive with the nature on my side. And that’s why I choose this beautiful primitive prokaryotic cell. It was the mother, the root of all the living things. It survived cruel days and nights, but still survived and gave birth to the best invention of the nature: the woman (I'm feminist). They were simple, but continued evolving. To survive. To live. And they’ve done their job really well.

           I think that this type of cell is a representation of my personality. That’s the best word to describe why I choose the root of humanity.

Meals on Wheels

Science

Hello, Miss!

Intro

The Meals on Wheels project was made for helping Sarah Jones ( miss Silva’s second identity ) to decide which menu was the best menu to lose weight in short time without a lack of nutrients (if it was not the objective, well, I guess I’ve got short memory…). So we had to research about the foods present in the menu and find out the nutrients and its functions.

How it was

First, I actually couldn’t understand what we had to do in the beginning because I was traveling to the Moon (boiando, in Portuguese) when you were explaining the project. But my dear teammates like Marcella, Vitor and Bruno, explained to me the points and the views that I needed to have to do a nice project. Until the second day I was still confused, because I would travel to the Moon unconsciously (that was one of my objectives: NOT travel to the Moon at class – unfortunately I couldn’t achieve my objectives) and after coming back to Earth, I would already forget what I was doing. So I started doing a complicated research about all the nutrients and foods that were present in the menu. But when I was doing it, the second identity of Sarah Jones came up to me and put me in the right direction. “ Do it more generally, or you are never “gonna” finish this.” She said. In the third day, I was going good. But not exceptionally, as I would do on the next days. And the two last days were pretty much the same, because I kept researching and writing the text that I would read in front of the class ( including the “ fibers helps you when using the toilet” ).

I had some really good time academically, but socially too. I didn’t use to talk to my teammates so much like I did in that classes. So I became closer to them. They were somehow organized (yes, I’m talking about takasu. He is really organized) and really funny.

Analyzing the menus

The chosen menu was the one that I was researching ( hohohoho so proud of me ). It was the second one. Well, the criteria was the best menu to lose weight, but not making the person lose her/his nutrients so fast, making the person have a lack of nutrients. The first menu, even when I just looked at it, without reading, I was certain that it was definitely not the right one. It was the best one to lose the weight really fast, but not for long term diet. The menu was too poor on nutrients. And the third menu, the worst one for a diet, was good to maintain the weight or maybe, increase the weight. So the chosen one was the second (yay!). It fit perfectly for a long-term diet. 

End

I discovered some really cool stuff through my and other’s presentations. Like some curiosity about nutrients. I also discovered that I have a lot a lot a lot of things to study.

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“What was the purpose of these first two days of school and what are my plans for this year?”

Well, I didn't really think about it. I only found it good, because I wouldn't have to go to school on Monday, while everyone had to go on the day. 

Hm... I think that it was for the new people to adapt in the two days, so they 

could know what was missing and what they could do to adapt faster and make friends. 

My plans for this year is to prepare for my future, to take the IB test in a good way so I can get good grades to go to college. 

That's all, Miss! Thanks for the attention!