mfenton's Space http://mfenton.posterous.com Most recent posts at mfenton's Space posterous.com Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:56:45 -0700 100 word statemnet http://mfenton.posterous.com/100-word-statemnet http://mfenton.posterous.com/100-word-statemnet The way that we are learning about these topics like sustainability and allowed to then go on Field trips after we study is really cool. When we show up to the field trips you really feel that all that time studying that topic it really completes your research. The topic of sustainability ties in to everything were studying. It has everything to do with school,food,water, and companies. All the things were looking at are very interesting from how food gets to hawaii to how to make plants grow by stepping on leaves that just how diverse are learning is. I think are purpose is to study all these things so we can really have a thought to are learning. We study and class and are reward is to be able to go on Field trips to get a better understanding. Its so much more of a satisfying way to learn being able to see what you have learned about. In some cases like Rwanda we wont be able to get to go there but as long as we put in the effort to believe were there we can still learn a lot!

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Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:19:24 -0700 Nitrogen cycle http://mfenton.posterous.com/nitrogen-cycle http://mfenton.posterous.com/nitrogen-cycle The Nitrogen Cycle is one of our planet's most important nutrient or biogeochemical cycles.There is no shortage of the element nitrogen here, it makes up 78-79% of our worlds atmosphere. The atmosphere's nitrogen, N2, has a very strong triple bond between the two atoms and it shows.As plants need fixed nitrogen and we rely either directly, by eating plants, or indirectly, by eating animals that have eaten plants, on them for our lives, fixed nitrogen is critical to life and all the things around it.Nitrogen fixing bacteria are able to fix nitrogen by breaking apart the triple N bond and reworking it to make plant friendly compounds that are ammonia or nitrates. They fix around 120 million tons of nitrogen per year around the world waste.

http://www.the-compost-gardener.com/nitrogen-cycle.html

http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/fundamentals/needs_carbon_nitrogen.htm

http://ag.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/nitrogencycling2010.html

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Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:20:13 -0700 Rwanda further investigation http://mfenton.posterous.com/rwanda-further-investigation http://mfenton.posterous.com/rwanda-further-investigation Are there physical differences between hutu people and tutsi people? Hutu's and tutsi's are two ethnic groups from rwanda, the thing that there really know for is obviously the genocide that took place in 1994.The main difference that could really be shown as that the tutsi people have a lighter brown color than the hutu people.In terms of problems before the genocide and even still today the way there lifestyle works they regularly mix. Researchers found that if your a tutsi you have a less shot of getting sickle cell disease. When the belgian colonists took over the country in 1919 it almost started a whole difference in groups. Because imagine being in a group and than your competition becomes the group that you have peace with, then it just comes down to who is going to get land.600 years ago the tutsi came to rwanda and conquered the hutus and made them grow crops for them. Another physical difference is that the tutsi had longer necks and a bigger skull. Which was most noticeable to any government official or person. I feel like if know one ever made a ethnic difference it would of never made a difference and know one would of ever looked at physical differences.

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:04:00 -0700 Orgin of life http://mfenton.posterous.com/orgin-of-life http://mfenton.posterous.com/orgin-of-life I think life started from people being born and than every year the people that were 1st born start realizing how life works and they just kept explaining to the next group of people. The human race just kept evolving from half humans in to full human form. How and why that happened has all come down to the earth changing and how all life started. I think the meaning of life is that every organism is born and you live out what ever you are in. Some people say when you die you could come back something else. But that theory is completely unknown.life is all controlled by a couple amount of acids and things we need As evolution keeps moving on the changes of life will be so greatly different.

1.The ideas are connected because i already knew that there are things that all living organisms need. I did not know that it was a 20 set of amino acids that make up entire life through.

2.well the question how did earth know what these amino acids work to live life? Its cool to think about, that there are a group of amino acids things that all living organisms need to survive. Really cool how they are looking at things from space that have these amino acids and etc. that could of created the earth and life. Unfortunately most of that evidence is not on earth.

3.the thought that if there is one change in these amino acids can change everything and the overall being of that organism is scary to think about. My question still remains how is it that there is a specific set of things all living things need when all we do is live are life not thinking about that? Because i have never even really thought about life before. I mean I've just thought about how did life start where are we right now? Is life just you live and than you die?

I think its so intresting how sceintist make there entire life on studying just one thing. I think the fact that everyone should know how life was created and how we live from these things that we dont even know are

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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:37:03 -0700 Primary source http://mfenton.posterous.com/primary-source http://mfenton.posterous.com/primary-source The author is descrbing what really happened in terms of what were peoples thoughts. Everyone had something that they did or they thought about during the genocide and this just makes it more clear.I am getting tons of useful things to think about like the fact that it just destroyed some people inside. It just took there whole body over. I think the author is trying to show us what we think just to be some genocide story that there was people killed. The author wants us to know what it did past just killing people and hiding.I agree with that author is saying i mean i can see how the fact that everyone was killing eacother would bother you just make you crazy. It supports itself with the facts giving in the atricle. This is a story of a man who finds himself killing people but then had the power to be able to admit he killed people because he couldnt handle what was going on.The authors main point was to show us a story of someone who experieced, what it did to them, and how it affected others.The author confirms tons of stuff i knew before like the fact that some people just wanted to kill because they knew everyone else was doing it. The human race is very intresting and this is a great example of what some things can do to your humanity.I never knew that people were actually arrested for crimes that were such things as killing. Some questions i still have are: What happened after rwanda when hutus and tutsis moved to other countires what happened when people found out what they were? How did the fact that they said the tutsis shot down the plane anger the tutsis, if the tutsis didnt do it? Is there a reason that the genocide even started besides the fact that they shot down the plane? Was there another personal reason that sparked? Besides anything we have ever learned about, why did it start?!

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Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:47:28 -0700 Triangle activity http://mfenton.posterous.com/triangle-activity http://mfenton.posterous.com/triangle-activity

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Drawing the triangles was very hard with a compass. Its hard because makeing lines is hard with compass because there made to make ovals and circles. I think the the website was really good through it showed us how to do it well.

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Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:39:41 -0700 321 Bridge http://mfenton.posterous.com/321-bridge http://mfenton.posterous.com/321-bridge Matt Fenton 9/3/12 321 bridge
I am curious about how much electricity it takes to use lights in my house. If we don't turn off the lights does it drain allot of electricity . The only thing i really know is that my whole life people always say turn off the Lights when your home. I think that we really need to fix the amount of electricity we fix. We should use more natural light when we are in school and at nome. How much electricity would it waste if you kept every light on in a house? What are the effects of using a lot of electricity? Are there light bulbs that save a lot of energy.

http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/index.html

Of the total energy used in america 39% is to create electricity.All forms of electricity have an environmental impact.If we use combined heat to create electricity we can reduce the amount of fuel it takes to create electricity.What is combined heat? And how is it used to help create electricity? How do we reduce the amount of electricity the entire world is using? Because with the amount of fuel we have left we cant be wasting it all on electricity.

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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:45:00 -0700 Reflection week 3 http://mfenton.posterous.com/reflection-week-3 http://mfenton.posterous.com/reflection-week-3

This week in mpx i really enjoyed the way we reviewed are infographics from the previous week with the other mpx class. I thought that was very helpful to see those comments. I am excited to see how are knew group rwanda infographics are going to look. The fact that where all answering the questions we wanted to know is really cool than we can add it all up and im really intrested to see how they look at the end. This week we also did our first sceince lab, i was true with my hypothesis so i feal really good about that. And it was helpful doing work with the corks too. Teamwork in mpx is definatley makeing us all better as a group. Are group has answered about 4 questions: what happned after rwanda? how did it start? why did it happen so fast? what happened during? The fact that we are answering these 4 questions will put up a really good amount of research to make a infograph.Im excitted to see all the infographics that are going to be put together by our class. I didnt have any problems answering my rwanda questions. I just researched alot and found out all the facts that i wanted to know and looked at tons of websites and on the mpx page with all the videos. The videos were a little harder for me to watch. Waatching people die,espically children on a small film was hard to watch. This week we also did the charcter profile. That was good, i wrote about ender. It was not that hard for me i thought ender was a pretty easy charcter to discuss. He had some many traits throughout his journey and the games. I just sat down and wrote the 8 paragraphs like it was nothing, I feal like we should do these writing papers more becuase it really inporves my writing and now next week we will be able to finalize it becuase it was just a draft this week.The only problem was really finding a quote that went well to explain what ender's peronsnailty. The fact that ender was really smart really helped him though his journey. He didnt let anyone get in his head for him to know what he know was the right thing to do

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:14:28 -0700 Show me(fenton) http://mfenton.posterous.com/show-mefenton http://mfenton.posterous.com/show-mefenton http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=iPwIqkS

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:09:35 -0700 Rwanda friday, what happened after? http://mfenton.posterous.com/rwanda-friday-what-happened-after http://mfenton.posterous.com/rwanda-friday-what-happened-after Rwanda started to rebuild after. But it was so hard because when you have 800,000 people died how are you suppose to barry them? After the battle they had just go on the streets and barry people and one big box basically. The country of rwanda was just done. Rwanda than had alot of rebuilding to do. In rwanda after they just now but people in houses and they lost tons of the amount of there population. After the genocide rwanda had nothing no president no government no anything. They didnt get very much help by other countries to start rebuilding. All the people who witnessed the genocide have problems now a day having to remember what happened.Rwanda is still not safe today through maily because now they have to worry about congo that is mainly made up of hutus. So i dong really think the genocide will ever be completely over. I think the fact that no countires surronding rwanda want to help them is maily the reason that there is still conflicts today. Say rwanda was on the border of canada. Us being the U.S we would find a way to help. If we tryed to help out rwanda now or say during the genocide we could of started something that destoyed are country.100,000 kids were left orpahned after the genocide.

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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:35:21 -0700 Thursday rwanda, too fast? http://mfenton.posterous.com/thursday-rwanda-too-fast http://mfenton.posterous.com/thursday-rwanda-too-fast ​ So many people were killed, the hard fact is that people that were friends and family were killing there on.It almost not physically inpossible that something like this could happen in 100 days. And all the media was wanting them to and forcing them to killing them.I don't see why anyone would want to do something like this. This happened in less than 100 days, that's the most disturbing part about this event. Mainly because, something like this could of gone on for like 5 years in terms of how many people died.It was almost like the genocide was rushed to happen in exactally 100 days. Im suspcious about the fact that it did end on 100 day mark.You could just see bodies and bodies on top of each other. If you tried to run away you were bigger of a victim to be killed.So many people were killed, the hard fact is that people that were friends and family were killing there on. And all the media was wanting them to and forcing them to killing them.I don't see why anyone would want to do something like this. This happened in less than 100 days, that's the most disturbing part about this event. Mainly because, something like this could of gone on for like 5 years in terms of how many people died.You could just see bodies and bodies on top of each other. If you tried to run away you were bigger of a victim to be killed. The way everything happened in Rwanda just doesn't make any sense. It seems to far fetched to be believable. It's hard to even talk about it with not wanting to stop.The stories that people have are just so disturbing but you have to listen to get a good real of what it was like there. if I witnessed this I don't think I could ever talk again. I could never imagine someone killing a child. but some of these people had to do what they had to do. or else they would be killed.In such a small country that no one thought could get worse something like this had to happen. If I was there I don't know how I would of handled it. I mean how could you go to sleep even though you know someone might kill you. When you are sleeping. But at least after 100 days this came to and end,I'm not saying it was a good thing that it happened but this was one of the worst things I think happen to a country.

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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:56:48 -0700 Rwanda wednesday why did genocide begin? http://mfenton.posterous.com/rwanda-wednesday-why-did-genocide-begin http://mfenton.posterous.com/rwanda-wednesday-why-did-genocide-begin Why did the genocide begin? The genocide began because the fight over land by the tutsi and the hutu. After the president of rwanda was killed in a plane crash the hutus took that as basically there time to kill all the tutsis. If the president of rwanda was not killed i think something like this would not of happened. Or if it did the president would of helped out more so 800,000 people would not have been killed or injured. The RPF made a group to take over rwanda and the hutus were part of that. I think after like 50 days everyone was in full action of literally rather trying to kill or watch out all day to be killed. I think the fact that rwanda was just a troubled country and the people there thought they could not make it worse. So when they started i think they thought it was just going to begin a quick war and the hutus would make the tutsis flee and give them all the land. But the tutsi stayed and rather were a part of defense or just hiding so they were not killed. If the hutus would not of shot down there own presidents plane, there the ones who brought on all the bad history of rwanda.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:03:59 -0700 Enders game debrief http://mfenton.posterous.com/enders-game-debrief http://mfenton.posterous.com/enders-game-debrief The understanding i have now for ender is that he actaully was a killer. I mean he had to do sometimes and sometimes he didnt. He wasnt your typical murderer who hated someone so much he had to kill them.But it wasnt some accidental car crash. I still have mixed ideas on this topic through. Just becaause the fact that he had to train to kill people his whole entire life. Which if anyone did that they would probbaly end up killing or hurting someone in life.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:20:02 -0700 Ender game notes http://mfenton.posterous.com/ender-game-notes http://mfenton.posterous.com/ender-game-notes Ender did kill people but it wasnt really his choice. He was in battle school school and the guy who his mentor was mean to him. Ender and his siblings had to take over the world and ender was someone who grew up fast so thats what he wanted. But you cant blame ender for having to kill people becuase thats what his entire life was really set for.By the time he was grown up he probbaly wanted to kill them. The battles he was for sure ready for them from all his training since he was a kid.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:54:00 -0700 21 century skills rurbric http://mfenton.posterous.com/21-century-skills-rurbric http://mfenton.posterous.com/21-century-skills-rurbric

I worked well with my group. I feal like i brought a good energy to my group. I talked to all my members with good respect. My work ethic needs some work I could of helped out my group a little more.I found myself getting off topic alot. I am a very funn person to work with. I can work with anyone. Me and isaih spent alot of time in weinberg. Are work was very neat and you can see the effort that was put into this.I think next time we do something like this we should get to pick the partners we trust through. Because everyone in are class knows eachother. And i feel like if we had that option it was push us more towards getting more work done. I wish the people who we asked for the information could of got us are info becuase i actually wanted to know. I go to mid pacific and i feal like that would of been cool facts to know. But we scatterd useful information that shocked the new principle of the high school.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:41:00 -0700 Infographic critque 2 http://mfenton.posterous.com/infographic-critque-2 http://mfenton.posterous.com/infographic-critque-2

Some people had really good infographics.Are infographic is pretty good but more information wouldnof made it perfect.Are infographic did inpress the principle of the school which i think was very satisfying for me and my group. There wasnt any surprises on the critques of the infograph i mean everything they said about needed more info and stuff made since. The people who were suppose to give us are information backed out so it was a little hard to gather that information. But considering that this was very last minute facts i feal are group exucuted that very well and deserve a somewhat reasonable grade.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:33:34 -0700 Infographic critque http://mfenton.posterous.com/infographic-critque http://mfenton.posterous.com/infographic-critque They keep telling us to use more information. We shouldnof done more research on are topic so we would of had more to talk about. They didnt tell us what information to add to are infographic. That would of helped.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:50:00 -0700 Reflection week 2 http://mfenton.posterous.com/reflection-week-2 http://mfenton.posterous.com/reflection-week-2

We did alot of mpx stuff last week involving rwanda. Some of it was very graphic but we have to learn it. Mpx is starting to pick up.I am excited to see what we have planned for the rest of the year becuase i really wanna find out alot of the stuff i dont know and what i want to know. So i am pretty pumped about that, and working with the mpx teachers and also with all the students. We all know eachother pretty well so there really should not be very many problems this year in terms of group working. During my rwanda entires i really feel like i have a good understanding of what hapened. Reading the stories from the killers and survivors was hard through. To think the person your lisetining to could of killed up to 20 people. Or the surviors who actually could of been a killer too. There is still so many questions i have though. I dont see how so many people paticapated in this genocide. I think it was becuase the fact that the media got invovled and just keep makeing it worse and worse. And the hutus just wanted to kill every tutsi in the whole country. The hard part about learining about something like this is because we never know whats actually there, we dont know what 100% happened. That would definatley be amazing to be able to commuincate with someone who was there and probbaly a survivor. Because they had to have a statgery to be able to survive. When we all get are questions answered i think that will be the best part, and i can tell people all about what happened in rwanda and why did it happen. Bceause that would really shock my parents and grandparents that i am learining so much stuff. We are still only 2 weeks in through so we will probbaly be going over rwanda for 2 to 3 more weeks which is a good thing. The fact that were doing this and not learining this in  a history textbook is a really cool thing. Were the ones who have to find all the facts and find out all the research which is really nice because thats how we learn the most and actaully keep it in are head rather than just forgetting it after you take a test.

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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:46:00 -0700 Self evaulation http://mfenton.posterous.com/self-evaulation http://mfenton.posterous.com/self-evaulation So far in mpx I've been working on many different things. Through I'm having a couple problems turning in my work I'm still doing the work assigned. I like the way we do stuff in mpx. I'm excited to see what we get to do for the rest of the 2012-2013 year. The feildtrips are definitely a big bonus and helpful to are learning.I dont like the fact that some people are leaving are class, because thats just less people to have to work with which is a big part of mpx. I have now relized that you really have to bring 100% everyday in mpx to get a good grade and to learn the most you can. One thing i need to work on is my grammar, when i write i make some mistakes that i really hope i can fix this year in the mox class.

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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:44:00 -0700 Week 1 reflection http://mfenton.posterous.com/week-1-reflection http://mfenton.posterous.com/week-1-reflection

My first week in mpx was really good. I like the way we learn without having to sit there and read a textbook all day. The Field-trip helped me get a better understanding of how we get our products to Hawaii. I told my parents everything I learned and they were very interested in what I had to say. They think mpx will really help me out this year and I think it will too. I hope by the end of this year I come out smarter and learn more about different things.When we were at matson i relzied how surprised i was to see the ships that bring are products. Also when we went to the E waste. I dont really know how they have such a set schedule for those ships where they come in days all the way from california. A question i still have is how do they get that much oil into the boat? I mean that boat needs thousands of gallons to be able to move so i am wondering how they then get that in the boat. At ewaste the tour we got was good, it was a plus being able to go in where the men work the crain to make the trash smaller and smaller. After we came is one for mpx and did an activty with all mpx students. I think it was so we all came aware of how good we have it and so bad so many people have it all around the world.Hearing the numbers was no surprise but thinking about them was different. The percent of the people who go to bed hungry was over 20%, i think that could be the easyiest problem for us to fix in the world. As long as other country has enough food to be affordable and safe we would never have that problem. Im really likeing the way that mpx is helping my writing. It feals good doing so many writing and project templates is a big help to me as a student. I hop that we get to do mpore feildtrips becuase that really helps you undrstand something way more than just going on goggle and looking at random facts. I hope that we will start doing these projects becuase i have so many ideas on what i want to write about. I want to do a project about lake erie becuase i go there every year and i want to do some things like why does the water get so dirty after rain? How do the waves start from no wind? How are fish living in the dirty shallow water?

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