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Walk Two Moons and To Kill a Mockingbird are two really good book. Between these two books they hold many similarities and differences. For instance they are both told in first person and they are both told by girls. These are just two of the similarities that they hold. Walk Two Moons is told by a girl that is about 11 years old and To Kill a Mockingbird is told by a much younger girl about the age of 6. Those were some various differences among these two books.


            Scout is the narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird and Sal is the narrator in Walk Two Moons. Scout and Sal are both adventurous. Sal goes with her grandparents on a road trip across the country and meets a new friend, Phoebe. While Scout deals with growing up and hanging out with her brother and Dill. “He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.”- To Kill a Mockingbird- Scout. “… My grandparents came up with a plan to drive from Kentucky to Ohio…”-Walk Two Moons-Sal.

           Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird, shares what she sees and hears not always understanding what she is reporting on. When her dad, Atticus, is defending a client, Tom Robinson, She doesn’t fully understand what the trial is for and the meaning of what all is happening. “This was as much as I heard of Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination, because Jem made me take Dill out. For some reason Dill had started crying and couldn't stop;” Dill later tells that he didn’t like the way Tom was being treated and that is why he was crying. Anyways, Sal in Walk Two Moons she is a little older and has a better grasp on life. When Phoebe’s mom disappears Sal doesn’t think that a lunatic took her like Phoebe does. ‘Phoebe said to me, “If I see the lunatic once more, I’ll phone the police myself.” Sal doesn’t think that the lunatic took her mother, but Phoebe does.                                                            
                                                                                                                                           
            These two narrators describe things in great detail. For instance, “Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning; ladies bathed before noon, after their 3 o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer.” This quote is from To Kill a Mockingbird. “The waves splashed up on our clothes, and the sea gull flew in circles overhead, calling in one great chorus, as if they were glad to see us.” This quote is from Walk Two Moons. Both of these quotes show how much detail Sal and Scout use.

            These two books have a lot in common and a lot of differences. I have enjoyed reading the books. They took me on different many adventures.

Patella Tendentious

Patella Tendentious is when a ligament between your knee cap and your tibia starts to have pain. You usually start noticing it when you are exercising or just after. Sometimes it becomes a nuisance. It starts getting in the way of your normal day routine.

            Patella Tendentious it isn’t as serious as it sounds. It is a strain on your ligament in your knee. It is bad, but not as bad as it sounds. When you get patella tendentious you get a pain in your knee. Your knee will often swell up and become red. The swelling is trying to help with the pain. Swelling is your body’s way of a temporary relief. Some common causes of this are athletes who jump around a lot. Basketball players often get this condition. However, even though it is most common in people who run and jump, you can get it just from everyday life and not from sports, because it is an overuse injury.

            Patella Tendentious is usually treated through RICE. Sometimes your doctor might refer you to physical therapy where they help you strengthen your muscles in your knee to prevent further damage. Your doctor might also give you a strap for you knee to relieve pressure on the tendon. To prevent such a condition you can strengthen your muscles in your legs. If they are strong they won’t put so much pressure on your knee. You can also stop if you have pain in your knee. Since this is an overuse injury, once you start having pain stop and go through the RICE process.

            If you have patella tendentious then you should consider exercises to help you knee. You can use the exercise call the slant board squats. This exercise is when you “Place one foot on a bench behind you, and the heel of the other foot elevated on a 2-inch by 4-inch board or an angled board. Perform a slow squat, lowering yourself to the midpoint in five seconds, and return. Repeat for up to three sets of 15 repetitions on the afflicted knee” ( livestrong). You should feel this in your knee. It will hurt for a little bit because you need to strengthen that muscle. Another exercise is called ankle mobilizations. With this exercise you “Kneel on your right knee with your left foot in front. Place a stick perpendicular to the floor by your left little toe. Keeping your foot flat on the floor, push your knee to the outside of the stick until you can no longer keep your heel on the ground. Repeat up to 15 times before switching sides. Perform up to three sets on each ankle” (livestrong). You will also feel this in your knee for the same reason above. Another exercise is called the eccentric squats. With this exercise you bend your knees as if you were sitting in a chair so your thighs are parallel to the floor. Hold there for ten seconds then slowly come back up. Do 10 rep of this exercise. Again you will feel this in your knee for the same reason above.

            Patella Tendentious is not fun to have. If you want to avoid having it I would suggest doing the squats. Even though I told you to use it for rehabilitation, you can also use it for prevention. If you do these before or after you are preventing this condition. Your tendon will be strengthened and you will have decreased your chance for having this condition. I am not saying you are guaranteed to not have it; just it is a good way to prevent it.

Recycling

Since I didn’t go to the biology field trip, I had to write a summery on these articles. So I’m going to share 2 of the 4 that I had to do. I hope you enjoy.

Recycling Facts and Statistics

There are so many random facts in this article. It’s hard to organize them all. So this is just a list of some important ones that I liked in the article. And I quote:

“The United States has finally reached a landmark in its paper recycling efforts in 2006 with 53.4% of the paper consumed being recovered for recycling.

Mount Rumpke is the highest point in Ohio at over 1000 feet, it’s no Mount Everest; however, Mount Everest is not made up entirely of garbage. Mount Rumpke is literally a mountain of trash and is located in the Rumpke landfill.

Greece falls short with only 10% of its waste being recycled and the remaining 90% going to the landfills.

Just one quart of motor oil that is disposed of improperly can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.

Motor oil gets dirty but does not wear out.

Oil too can be recycled by re-refining the oil it can be used again and again and can help to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.”

As you can see the littlest things again have the biggest impact. Did you know that oil does not wear out? I sure didn’t. This article was another eye opener. We should take these to heart and really start recycling more in this world.

Recycling Stats

            In this article it has many cool little facts that are important for everyone to know. It says that the average person goes through 4.5 pounds of trash/garbage every day. That is a lot of trash for one person. Just imagine all of the people in the world going through 4.5 pounds of trash each and every day. That is a whole lot of garbage.  No wonder that our world is in the state that it is in with all the pollution. A lot of that trash is wasted food. Every time that you throw away a sandwich you are taking up more space in the landfills. If we recycled the food we would have thrown away we would save a lot of space in the landfills. You could put some leftover food in your garden. Some foods are great fertilizers.  

Food is not only a great contributor to the landfills. With all the construction and demolition that is going on with homes, we are using up a lot of trees. The article says that if we used the 1.2 million new home’s lumber and set them side by side it would extend 3 million miles. That would be like going to the moon and back six and a half times! That is a lot of wood. If we would just be conscious of all of the wood that would be thrown away we would save a whole lot of trees and it would cost a lot less.

As you can see there are a whole lot of little factors that in the end make a big difference. With all the food that we don’t eat because we don’t like it or whatever the reason may be, we would save a lot of landfills around the world. So think before you act when it comes to throwing away things.