Trust No One Blog

The fifth book in the Cahills vs. Vespers series “Trust No One” is the penultimate book of the series.  So naturally a lot of things happen in this book and it ends in a complete cliffhanger.  The main purpose of this novel is to set the stage for a grand finale.  Everything that could go wrong does go wrong in this story.  This leaves the readers drooling for the finale, which is the job of any good penultimate book of a series.

In this novel we find the main characters Dan and Amy reaching the limit of their strength.  Amy begins to get tired of taking such difficult tasks and making decisions that affects the lives of many others.  So she starts to go into a shell and becomes disconnected from rest of the world.  Dan on the other hand realizes he must take charge.  The only way he knows to do that is by taking the master serum made by his ancestor Gideon Cahill.  He knows that eventhough the serum gives immense power; it is also unstable and can even kill him.

At the end of the book Amy must give Gideon Cahill’s ring to Vesper One.  Cahills had been protecting the ring for five centuries, but Amy gave in to save the lives of seven kidnapped Cahills.  They then realize Vesper’s plan is to end the world by putting together a machine that can cause natural disasters all over the world.  And it was Dan and Amy that handed Vesper One all the materials needed for the machine.  This makes Amy become completely unresponsive, and compels Dan to take the serum. 

This is where the novel ends, leaving the readers craving for more.  What effect will the serum have on Dan?  Will Amy recover from the depression?  Will anyone be able to stop Vesper One?  And the most intriguing of all, who is Vesper One?  The book serves its purpose of guaranteeing that readers will be eagerly awaiting the final book of the Cahills vs. Vespers series.  

Non-Fiction RRE (Parasite Disease)

The article Vector-Borne disease in 2012 discusses the transmission of diseases in the year 2012.  It focuses on diseases spread by vectors such as mosquitoes.  The Europe Center for Diseases Protection and Control (ECDC) has done research over the past year and found that there is an increase in vector borne diseases.  They found several reasons for this.  One is climate change.  The transmission season lasts from spring to late fall.  But due to increase in temperature, mosquitoes stay around longer spreading more diseases.  Globalization is also another reason.  People are traveling all over the world, so diseases are spread more easily.  Also there are more and more microbes that are resistant to anti-microbial medicines.  All these reasons are contributing to spread of diseases like West Nile virus, Dengue fever, and Malaria.

          This article shows another reason why we should try and stop climate change.  If temperature increases like this, we will soon have mosquitoes flying around all year long.  We can’t stop globalization.  However we should still find other ways to contain people who are carrying certain diseases.  We also need to work on finding more antibiotics to replace the ones that have stopped working.  With more globalization we have to work harder to stop the spread of diseases.

Work Cited

Unknown. "Vector-borne Disease Transmission in 2012." - Public Service Europe. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013. <http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/2884/vector-borne-disease-transmission-in-2012>.

Poetry Slam!

Krishna Roy 812                                                                                                                   

Magical Horses

Body of a horse and the horn in its head

The touch of its horn makes anything gold

BANG! BOOM! For this creature the world has the bread

The unicorn is magical and bold

Wings on its back and fur on its wing

Soars through the sun and prances in the moonlight

As Hercules rides on it, it goes Bling-Bling

Pegasus is the mighty Zeus’s might

Superior of all magical horse

It has both wings and unicorn Horn

Like a hurricane it has very strong force.

If you are wondering its alicorn

Watch My Little Pony you’ll find all three

Let your imagination wander freely

BY: KRISHNA ROY 

Poem on Bullying

Some children are just not kind

We all don’t share the same state of mind

People who pick on others

Should be nice and treat you like brothers

We should all unite as one

So point away the bully gun

Bullying is not nice or fun

You should be sweet like a honeybun

Saying bad names will put you to shame

Won’t bring any respect or any fame

People are People

Like you and me

That’s the end of this poem

So Goodbye and Peace!

By: Krishna Roy 812

Nonfiction RRE (Genes)

            The article, New tool identifies drug resistant genes, drug targets discusses a new technique designed to find mutations in genes.  Genes are sequences of DNA.  They code for proteins.  Proteins carry out majority of cell functions.  Drugs are designed to target certain genes.  However mutations in the genes can cause a person to become resistant to the drug.  Sometimes scientists just create drugs through trial and error without knowing the exact target of the drug.  Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine came up with a tool called “variomics”.  This not only allows researchers to find the gene target of a drug, but also find mutations in it.  This experiment was carried out in yeast cells and gave very good results.  Now scientists are looking forward to testing it in human cells.

            This article was interesting because it could completely change the use of medicine in this country.  Doctors, I feel, prescribe too many medicines to patients.  I think this is because many drug targets are unknown.  Also many times, the patient ends up being resistant to the drug.  If we know details about genes and the target of drugs, doctors can be more specific about the medicines they prescribe.  The improvement of technology will make life better for all of us.

Work Cited

1. Gutierraz, Graciela. "New Tool Identifies Drug Resistant Genes, Drug Targets." - Baylor College of Medicine. BCM, 20 Sept. 2011. Web. 26 Feb. 2013. <http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=6823>.

Ocean of Blood Post

            In the book The Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan, Larten Crepsley faces a terrible concept that goes on through life. The concept that takes place is something that you can never forget but only destroy. The concept is……guilt! Guilt is a very strong emotion and unfortunately it is something that everyone has been through one time or another. The only way to not be guilty is not to do something guilty.

            Guilt is an emotion that lives on forever and Larten faces this problem because of his childhood. Before Larten Crepsley became a vampire he had murdered a man. In the book Tanish who is one of the Upper Vampires asks Larten “have you ever killed before” and Larten answered looking sad “not before I got blooded”. Larten is definitely not proud of his actions nor regrets his action but he does feel guilt.

            I know I have guilt and stuff that I am not proud of doing and I know you do too. A few days back my tutor was telling me about how she yelled at her sister for clogging the toilet and when she found out it actually wasn’t her fault she felt VERY guilty.

            Therefore Guilt is a terrible thing and it is a concept that is amazingly shown throughout the book. 

My Response to Naomi's Blog (Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Woah!!!! Great Reading Response! I love how deep you were and how well u were able to respond to the book with such heart and emotion. That Spoiler Alert thing was cool and your focus and lead on the book is very precise and demanding. You are able to relate the book to real life very well. Good Self to text connection and you make the reader feel like the same while reading the book. (Maybe i will read the book now?)

3 Reasons why Plagiarism is Bad!

1. Dont Plagiarize because when you finally finish the response you have nothing to be proud of. All the hard work really isnt your hard work it is somebody else's.
2. Instead of Plagiarizing you should paraphrase and at the end put the cite so you give Credit where credit is DUE!
3. Read books that interest you so you wont be encourages or tempted to plagiarize! REMEMBER MS GALANG KNOWS ALL!!! 0 for plagiarizing!