Organic Compounds

Author’s note: This is a research essay that is writing on the topic organic compounds for science, which is also for language arts. 

Have you ever wondered why you don’t feel the greatest sometimes, this could be because you are not eating enough or too much of the five organic compounds.  Your body needs five organic compounds to work properly.  These five compounds are fats/oils, carbohydrates, protein, enzymes and nucleic acid.  Without just these five compounds your body will not work right.  But giving your body too much or not enough of these compounds will also not make it work correctly.  These organic compounds are important in many ways, and it is necessary to eat enough of them.  Organic compounds give you many things, but if you eat too much of them then you may have a high risk of getting a stroke or cancer and other things around those lines.   

First off, the organic compounds give you many things.  Eating fats and oils is very important because they give you the “Fats that are needed to carry and store essential fat and vitamins for example vitamins A and D” (Ltd.).  Also digesting carbohydrates gives you energy (Mr Richomnd's Food Technology on the web).  Your body uses protein in your diet to build new cells, maintain tissues, and synthesize new protein that makes it possible for you to perform basic bodily functions (Mr Richomnd's Food Technology on the web).  Also, enzymes are a source of energy that if not used for activities will turn the protein into fat (What are Enzymes and Why We Need Them).  Nucleic acids are very important because this is what makes you unique.  

Unfortunately, if you have too much or not enough of one of these five organic compound then you are at a higher risk of getting cancer or something around that line.  “Eating too much fat may also increase the risk of getting diseases like cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure or stroke” (Ltd.).  Eating too many carbohydrates is not bad for you it just makes you gain weight (What can happen if you eat too many carbohydrates?).  Many people in other countries and our own say that there is no such thing as to much protein.  If you eat to hot of foods the enzymes will stop working and are then useless to the body (Enzymes ).  When you eat too much nucleic acid, your body creates too much uric acid, leading to gout, a disease of the joints (Redzic).        

Although getting the right amount of each organic compound is important they have a very important purpose.  Fat is a nutrient that is an important source of calories (Ltd.).  Carbohydrates do not just produce energy it also protects your muscles (Diet & Nutrition Glossary).  If the protein you have in your body is not used for activites the protein will be turned into fat (Mr Richomnd's Food Technology on the web).  Enzymes can build structures inside the body, can help provide the body with energy or can break down structures or molecules in various places in your body (What are Enzymes and Why We Need Them).  A nucleic acid gives you your outer features. 

        

Organic compounds are very necessary to have in your diet, but getting the right amount is key.  Although they can cause cancer and other awful things from getting the wrong amount, they are still something you need to have.       

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Conflict Resolution Piece

Author's Note: This writing piece is a conflict/resolution piece about the story The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

 Katniss and Peeta are very brave when it comes to the Hunger Games. Fighting until death is not an easy task. When Katniss takes her sister's spot in the Hunger Games her life changes forever. Peeta and Katniss are from a very poor district. District twelve.  The only District 12 victory that has ever come out of the Hunger Games alive was Haymitch. There are also important people that are apart of this story, like the game makers for example. They control everything that goes on in the Hunger Games. One thing that they did was when the games got boring they added fire bombs that tried to kill Katniss. I believe that the game makers made this a conflict, because this was repeated many times by the head game maker.  The main conflict in the book the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is the fact that the game makers and the capital thought that they could control the tributes.

First, during the Hunger Games the job of the game makers was to make it not easy for the tributes and for them not to be ever be at rest.  For insistent if someone hasn't died in a few days then the game makers will make a obstacle, such as throwing fire bombs at the tributes for days.  These fire bombs ruined many of the tributes camps.  The capitol thought that to have more viewers  and to get more money they would have to have more  tributes fighting so it would be more interesting.  Also the people that are watching the games in the districts want more action so the capitol tries to either kill or bring together the tributes to fight.         

While the game makers made it hard for the tributes they do this because they think they can control the tributes.  The game makers think that they have the tributes at their finger tips.  This is the conflict in the Hunger Games , the capitol thinks that they can control the tributes.  Katniss knows this so she tries to do her best and fight through the obstacles the game makers throw at her.  Because Katniss plays with their minds, she can get through anything that throw at her.  The game makers try to make it really hard for her, but she defeats them and fights until the end.    

Although the games were difficult Katniss and Peeta to get out they did.  They fell in love so that they can get out of the games alive. This helps them, because then they both came out alive.  This made the game makers and the capitol a little mad because they are in district 12 which means they have the worst tributes for the games.  So it was a big surprise when both tributes came out of the games alive.  If Haymitch was not helping them, and using the money form their sponsors to give them the things they needed it would have been very hard for them to make it out alive.  For example Haymitch gave Katniss burn medicine which was a good thing because it would have been very hard for here to gain back her strength without the medicine.       

The game makers made it very hard for the tributes to get out alive Katniss and Peeta did.  They surprised everyone, and told them they even though we are from district 12 we still can win.  District 12 is the last district which means they are the lowest is winning the games and the least amount of supplies.  Katniss and Peeta proved everyone wrong in the end. 

New Retelling

Author's note: This is a retelling piece that I redid to get a higher score.   The retelling is on the book "The Gorgeous Game".

A high school girl enter a literary contest,  which she wins and gets to work and write a book with a priest and novelist, Mark D. Brendan.   Olivia was ecstatic when she found out that she won, until she found out that he was a stalker.  Olivia finds the courage the ask for help which she gets from her mother, friends and the church.