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Themes

Theme
A theme is a idea or a concept in which the yearbook is based.

Why do we need one?

It is important to use a theme because it tells something that is being repetitive. It looks good and interesting and also help the book flow from one section to another.

An idea for the yearbook?

I think a theme should be something which adds a meaning to our life. Such as a "colourful life" whih means life is full of colour and so many other things on our way, colour has a meaning. 

Capitalization Rules

First words of a sentence -

Let me finish my homework.

I like to play.

The pronoun I

My sister and I went to watch a movie.

I don't like to eat vegetables.

Proper Nouns

Eiffel Tower

Taj Mahal

Family relationship (when used as a proper noun)

I managed to do all my homework, before my mother came.

I remember Aunt Jones, who used to play with me when in my childhood.

The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books

The Jewish Torah

Lord Krishan

Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names

Jesus Christ, his life and teaching is way to peace and happiness.

Directions that are names

James used to live two miles away from me.

That tower is in Northwest direction from your house.

Days of the week, months, holidays (no seasons) 

Eid

January

Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups

The Vegans

Legislative Assembly

Periods and events (not century numbers)

Russian Revolution

Vietnam Era

seventeenth century

Trademarks

Pepsi

Lays

Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)

CNN

IBL

Is it Science

 Essential Oils Stops Cancer
  
   The article on this topic should have been supported by very many sources so that it would have appeared convincing to readers. Moreover, because not many persons know about the use of essential oils for therapeutic purposes, therefore, more sources of information would have convinced readers  about the benefits of essential oils for human body.

     The main claims by the article are about the  use of  most popular essential oils in current use, such as mint, ginger, lemon, grapefruit, jasmine, lavender, chamomile, thyme, rose, and cinnamon in combatting cancer of various parts of  the body. The article is based on results published by  a few journals, claims of a few individuals, and opinion of  authors of certain books.

 The claims appear to be valid in view of the fact that  a lot of information about essential oils  for therapeutic use is available in books and Internet.

In Article 1, they also talk about some stories of people who have been benefited from these oils but it seems like they didn't give a strong support or evidence to the readers. Therefore, the article wasn't much convincing. 

The article, however, raises questions (a) as to why the medical use of essential oils was not known before – is it because of  limited use  of oils or the oils have to be used under  certain conditions to make them effective, and (b) whether the essential oils would work on persons of all age groups, with various eating habits and across all regions of the world.

The vast amount of information available on the Internet does point out to the importance of essential oils for medicinal purposes.  It seems that the use of essential oils for treatment of ailments including cancer is gaining momentum because of  the limited use/ill-effects of other sources of  medical treatment including the much sought after Allopathic medicines which are mainly used in western countries.

      After having read the article, I am convinced that it is very   much science which needs to be explored more, especially we should take clue from the Eastern countries where this system for treatment of chronic ailments like cancer has been practiced since many decades. But essential oils alone would not work. This has to be used in conjunction with regulated diet, living style and positive thinking.

Part II- 

      Whereas in part II, the source of the article is based on work of  many persons, many of would have based their work on  studies and experiments. Moreover, as the article is based on works of  many persons/journals, therefore, the validity of claims made in the article could always be cross-checked with the references made.

       The main claim in the article is about  anti-bacterial and anti-cancer properties  of  essential oils of certain herbs and spices used by us  in every day life viz.  mint, ginger, lemon,  grapefruit, lavender,  thyme, and cinnamon.

      As already explained in Part-I, this article is definitely science, though it is a different matter that the benefits of essential oils is being studied  now  and therefore, needs to be researched more to determine  extent of  its applicability.

            The civilizations of many countries, especially which have  been known to exist since thousands of years, such as in the countries of Indian sub-continent, Middle East and China have a known history of  using  many herbs, plants and their fruits/seeds in their regular diet with a view to ward off  ailments. However, in view of the fact that  medicinal use of such herbs and plants were either not documented properly or the documented material has been destroyed with the passage of time, not much is known from ancient documented material. This has given rise to the suspicion whether the use of  certain herbs and plants and their essential oils are indeed capable of curing various ailments, and more importantly diseases like cancer. While a lot of studies are being undertaken in this regard, there are many persons who consider the study on this topic as a pseudoscience. Whereas this appears to be not the case in view of  proven record of certain essential oils such as mint, ginger, lemon,  grapefruit, jasmine, lavender, chamomile, thyme, rose, and cinnamon. Just because the present day generation does not know much about the scientific benefits of such herbs and plants  it does not mean we label it as pseudoscience. A pseudoscience is indeed dangerous because it has no universal applicability. Whereas the use of certain herbs and plants in various civilizations and their gradual acceptance world over now proves that the article is a scientific method of curing ailments, including chronic ones which needs to be studied more.

Article Comparison

Article Name - Pluto's Icy Landscape Comes Into View 
Magazine - Science News

When the radio antenna near madrid received the first signal from the orbit of pluto on July,14, the scientists were thrilled. And why not. A 9.5 year journey across about 5 billion kilometres right upto the point which is just 12,000 and 500 kilometre of pluto speaks of the meticulous planning in lunching of the "new horizon” mission to pluto. 

We are now in  a position to study various aspects related to the five moons of pluto and the 4.6 billion year old pluto itself, So far it has appeared that Charon, the largest moon has a dark patch on its north pole with more craters and less ice. The dark patch is probable due to leakage of hydo carbons from the pluto’s atmosphere. Another moon enceladus has presence of water geysers which erupt time ad again. Whereas, Pluto displays a heart shaped landscape informally named tom baugh regio - in honour of the scientist who discovered Pluto. There are no craters. The brightest regions on Pluto appears to be cited with nitrogen, methane and carbon mono oxide. To the south of tom baugh regio are mountains of solid water ice about 3000 meters high. 

Online Article - New pluto photos show "Astoundingly amazing landscape"

Taken from National Geographic Magazine. 

         While reading the online article I found that both the articles are basically talking about the same thing. Both the articles wants to convey the same message. For example the magazine article talk about "Tombaugh Regio" which means in honour of scientist who discovered Pluto and on the other hand, the online article tells more about "Tombaugh Regio" which is a heart-shaped region in honour of Pluto's Discoverer. The online article also talks more about "Charon''. The observation made by the Scientists along with "the similarly young surface on Pluto's largest moon" is challenging and tells how icy planets try to maintain their internal heat.  

Self Critical Analysis

SCRIPT

 I think the script was well written, It included all the necessary points it needed to have. So far,  I don’t really think I need to improve upon that. However,  the more I research  about any given topic, the better it would be.

TIMING

Timing of presentation is important. During our last presentation we exceeded the allotted time by about 10 minutes. Therefore, I need to rehearse my presentation individually and along with my group for next presentations so that I am able to focus on the allotted time. This can be done in a better way if all group members rehearse collectively so that we can sort out the short comings of each group members.

EYE CONTACT

Eye contact is another point where I think I still need to work on it. During my previous to previous presentation I was mostly focused on reading through the written text. Whereas during my last presentation I improved little bit but I think I need to sharpen my understanding of the text of presentation before presenting. This way I will be able to establish eye contact with the audience in a more confident manner. Therefore, I think my plan for improvement will be to- 

Understand the text which I want to present and then practice it before mirror taking into consideration the allotted time and eye contact with the mirror . This way I will myself feel how confident I look before mirror.

BODY LANGUAGE

Body language which is an essential part of presentation is one factor where I have noticed improvement. While comparing my last presentation with the last to last presentation I noticed considerable improvement in my body language in terms of my standing posture, movement of hands and overall confidence level. However, I think there is still scope for improvement by watching presentation of professional persons on Internet and comparing myself to see what are the areas where I need improvement

VOICE TONE

Voice tone during presentation adds to  quality of a presentation. It is very important for a presenter to ensure that he/she is heard by each one. Not only this, one needs to modulate tone in such a way that important points which a presenter intends to highlight is emphasised in a louder but soft tone. After my last presentation I saw the video and realised that the voice tone was heard properly by each one.  However, I need to work on how best to emphasise strong point of my presentation which can be done only by repeated rehearsals and comparing each rehearsal with the other ones to make it perfect.

CLARITY

Clarity of my presentation though getting better can be improved further by me if I record audio part of my presentation and then listen myself again and again to see whether I was able to speak clearly. Still better, I can ask my family members to listen to my audio recording and comment on clarity aspect of presentation.

Summaries

NON FICTION 

Nonfiction books are based on facts Books can be organised using Dewey Decimal System. Its a numerical arrangement in which books are put on the same subject together. and are sorted alphabetically If one wants to find a book in a library  then he/she can find either by logging  to destiny and can find the books which ever you want or you can go to library and search for the books which you want in the huge section.  Once you have find the book you can further research by going to the index page where you can find which page you are researching for. 

DESTINY 

Destiny is an online library database. Its an easer way to find books online. When you log onto destiny you just have to write any keyword for ex - title, author or series and they will find the book which ever you want. It also renew books 

REFERENCE SECTIONS

From reference section you can find quick and accessible information on any particular topic. They are meant to be accessible to everyone. Reference sections are divided into 4 parts -

1- Atlasis - Mostly it is used for maps, places and address of different places

2- Dictionaries - List the words of the language and give their meaning 

3- Yearbook- Gives information about school 

4-Encyclopedias- Gives information on many subject and basic concepts 

Proposal

TEXT

Corbel and Eurostile

SUBTITLE TEXT

Helvetica and Palatino Linotype

CMYK COLORS-
Soft violet

Very Dark Grayish Magenta

 Moderate Cyan

 Soft Pink

Ecosystem Model Reflection

 

SCHOOL AS AN ECOSYSTEM

                                             REFLECTION

In order to complete this model we first compared our school to a forest biome. The environmental conditions and all the organisms looked the same as a forest biome. Our model is 2D representation of what our school looks like. It includes all the cycles. We have divided our model as Producers and Consumers in which producers are the plants in the garden and around the school, the Cafetaria ( staff), and the students who bring their own food. The consumers are the students, birds, insects, microorganisms and the school in its entirety is a consumer it self as it needs funds to function and that is obtained from the parents.

While making the model our greatest strength was covering every part according to our plan. We have covered every biochemical cycles such as Water cycle, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen cycle and Phosphorus cycle and we have almost covered everything that we learned in the unit such as population dynamics etc.

Some of the weakness that we faced while working on the project. First, we didn’t manage to take time out during Eid Break to complete our project. Everyone in our group was busy with one or other assignment to complete so time management was the biggest issue we faced while completing but gradually we gained pace and started working hard on the project. Still atlast we weren’t able to finish until Friday which was the deadline. When we asked for extension then we had until Saturday to complete it and finally we made a 2D model which was the poster. Another difficulty which we faced was how to design our experiment. A lot of time was wasted deciding whether we should make a 3D or 2D model. When having lack of time we decided not to make 3D model because it would then have taken a lot of time and weren’t also sure if if we could make a good model in the given time or not. At last we figured out a way and made a 2D model .

The challenges which I faced while working on my part were  not easy. When I was making Nitrogen Cycle, then I was required to  cover all the green areas of the school because Nitrogen cycle takes place in all the green areas which includes plants and grass. When I started making the school campus, I suddenly thought that how am I going to make Nitrogen cycle in all the green areas of school like the quads, fields and etc. I then erased everything and started with the new plan. I took one green area of the school and made the whole process of nitrogen cycle as an example. This way it was much easier for me to draw and write all the steps. I think, this was challenging for me a bit. Also, while writing steps of Nitrogen Cycle I wrote a lot instead of small steps so my diagram became  somewhat messy and untidy. I thought there would be enough space to explain the steps but it looked very untidy when I looked after completing it. So in order to look tidy and nice I then made the whole diagram again and this time I knew to write small steps so that it looked good and tidy.

My partners were Rameen and Omer.