Monday, November 8, 2010

Flying Chairs

A cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh, on the east side of India, killing eleven people due to heavy rain damages. Weakened, it now turned towards Chennai. However, on the West Side of India, we still feel its effects. In the morning, it's bone chilling cold, tap water feels as if it is frozen, it rains, and, of course, the wind blows hard.
The wind is what I wanted to talk about. at around 9 in the morning it started howling. I was talking to my dad when both of our chairs that we had kept outside literally flew a little bit into the air, before they hit the ground and smashed into the railing. Imagine the embarrassment that would have followed had our chairs fell off. A spectator would see chairs falling from the seventh floor of a building, before hitting the ground. What if the chairs fell in another person's balcony? I would rather not think about it.

19 CRAZY facts on Cats


They may be your everyday pussy, but these felines have a lot more to them than you probably know....
  1. A cat can rotate its ears 180 degrees. Cats can also hear 65,000 vibrations per second; three times more than we and dogs can.  
  2. Cats have the largest eyes compared to their body. They have a reflective layer in their eyes called Tapetum Lucidum, helping them see at dark. 
  3. They have 230 bones in their skeleton, 26 more than us.
  4.  Some cats have been known to jump off 20 story buildings without a fatal injury.
  5.  Only domestic cats can purr.
  6. Cats walk on their tip-toes.
  7. Their sense of smell is 10 times sharper than us.
  8. Cats only meow at humans.
  9. Cats have rough tongues which take out loose hair like a comb.
  10. Cats are left or right pawed, like people.
  11. Cats have 200 hairs per millimeter of their skin. 
  12. Organs inside an ear help it balance. 
  13. A cat can jump five times the length of its tail.
  14. Cat tails have 10% of their total bones in their tail.
  15.   A cat has six senses: the last is the Jacobson’s organ, which separates odors from air.
  16. Close-up objects are blurry to a cat.
  17. Cats have 32 muscles in their ears.
  18. Whiskers help cats “see” close things by giving it information.
  19. Cats have five 5 toes, although it appears they only have four.

Types of Writing

When writing narrative stories, an authors individual style shows up; be it description, action, sarcasm, or stressing on emotions. When writing expository(non-fiction), it is vital that you keep in mind to use large, scientific words. Some use the passive voice rather than the active, but repetition of this can cause the reader to become bored and begin to skim. Below is an example of a science essay on evolution that I wrote:
              "Charles Darwin was a mass contributor during the 19th Century. Gathering together intellects who had a keen interest in biology, Darwin planned a mass journey: one around the world to study plants and animals.               
              As he studied, at first he believed his eyes had deceived him. Was it possible that the same vegetation was found in western Africa and eastern South America? What about fossilized ferns in Antarctica? Surely, these  pieces of a grand jigsaw puzzle could not be mere coincidence. This discovery drove him on till he managed to put the pieces of World History together with the theory of Continental Drift. And through years of strenuous research, he developed the idea of the most controversial scientific fact: evolution. With his book On the Origin of Species,Darwin was ridiculed by the masses, yet most scientists supported him.
             Centuries later, we still find ourselves in a state of confusion; we know not whether we should side with the supernatural being and creationism; nor do we know if we should remove ourselves of this faith and side by science, which continually experiments and, after years of work, attempts to release the light of truth that God conceals.
             How can we ignore the unstoppable evidence that science throws before us, when all we have is an  religious book that does not explain many mysteries of Earth? How can we delude ourselves by believing the earth is barely 10,000 years old when authentic proof shows the reign of the dinosaurs collapsed under a mass extinction 65 million years ago? This is the state of the human beings: unwilling to believe and unwilling not to believe. this is what has been causing confusion; our denial to both sides."