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Prologue

The song/poem in the prologue commences the play, and notifies the audience that two families in Verona, Capulet/Montague have had a fight for along time. Two star-crossed lovers, one from each of the families, commit suicide after trying to run away from their own families. The loss of the parent's children ends the family fights.

1.1

Capulet slaves are on the street waiting to see Montague slaves. When they do, Samson the slave from the Capulets bites his thumb at them (this is a rude gesture). Abraham (from the Montague's) accepts the insult and the men start to fight. Benvolio is a peace maker and also Romeo's cousin, he enters and makes the men withdraw from the battle by drawing his own sword. Tybalt, (instigator) Juliet's cousin, then also enters the street. When he sees Benvolio, he also draws out his sword and enters the fight. (Old Capulet) runs in and demands a sword so that he can fight. His wife stops him, even when Old Montague emerges with his sword. Spectators manage to signal Prince Escalus to arrive. The Prince yells at them three times before causing the street of Verona to be unsafe. He orders them to return home, but he escorts the Capulets. They ask Benvolio why Romeo was not with him, and he tells them Romeo has been in a strange mood lately. When Romeo appears, the Montagues ask Benvolio to find out what is wrong, and then leave. Romeo informs Benvolio that he is in love.

1.2

Paris insists that Juliet gets married even though she is only thirteen. Lord Capulet tells him to wait, but decides to allow Paris to try to win her . He then tells his servant Peter to take a list of names and invite the people to a party he is hosting that evening. Peter discovers Romeo on the street. He asks Romeo to help read the list for him since he can't read it himself. Romeo does, and realizes that the girl he loves will be attending this party. Peter tells him that the party will be held at Capulet's house, and that he is invited if he wishes to come. Both Benvolio and Romeo decide to attend the party.

1.3

Lady Capulet tells the Nurse to shout out for Juliet. She shouts out and Lady Capulet tells her that Juliet will be 14 in a few weeks. As she is still calling out, Lady Capulet talks about how much of an embarrassment Juliet was when she was little. The mother notifies Juliet that Paris has come to marry her. Lady Capulet then tells how beautiful he is, and compares him to a nice book that lacks a cover. Juliet does not promise to marry him, but agrees to look at the man that night at dinner. It's the least she can do.

1.4

Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio travel towards the party. Romeo is depressed, even though he gets to see love. Mercutio attempts to cheer him up by telling a story about a fictional elf. Romeo stops his stupid nonsence about the elf story and tells him something terrible may happen at the party tonight.

1.5

Romeo is on the sideline during the dancing when he spots Juliet. He falls in love with her right away! Tybalt recognizes Romeo as Montague. However, before Tybalt can destroy the party, Old Capulet tells him to leave Romeo alone. Old Capulet does not want the party demolished. Romeo sees Juliet and touches her hand. They speak to each other, and Romeo eventually gets to kiss her. Juliet is then forced to go see her mother. The Nurse tells Romeo that Juliet is a Capulet, at which he is startled. (she is in love with a rival family) Juliet finds her Nurse at the end of the party and begs her to find out who Romeo is. The Nurse returns and tells her he is Romeo, the one and only son of a Montague family. Juliet is heart-broken that she is in love with a person that her family hates.

1. The package from Zimbabwe was fragile.
2. The new art work in the library is genuine like no other art.
3. The gruesome kid was so rude.
4. The visitor was a hindrance to my privacy.
5. The immense fog was so dense I couldn't see.
6. The salesman was so influential on his product.
7. The insurance on the car needs to be updated.
8. Your appearance is your liveliness.
9. Other thing that cannot be put into a category belongs in miscellaneous.
10. I am not going to oblige to your promise.
11. If you have the serial number to your computer we can help you.
12. The “Gilligan's Island” television series is a great pastime.
13. Before the show starts tonight I am going to rehearse.
14. We scarcely have enough food to last us the winter.
15. I cannot feel any sympathy for your wrong doings.

Every day we go through life, but how does it work? In a life time we grow 590 miles of hair, we wait 2 weeks in front of a traffic light, how about 2 years on the telephone. We even spend the same amount of time eating as we do blinking. We would have to be alive to enjoy those pleasures. So how do we grow? How do we live? And how do we die?

The reason why humans grow is because we are composed of cells and the cells multiply making us larger. Miller Levine's Biology says, “A baby's cell is the same as an adults cell, but there certainly are more of them.” There are limits though! A cell cannot be as big as a human. There is something called a surface area to volume ratio that doesn't allow cells to be as large as humans. The larger the cell is, the smaller the surface area to volume ratio gets. The decrease in this ratio would not allow enough components to enter through the membrane such as food, water, or oxygen. Without these components leads us to thought of living.

In addition to those components entering the cell there are also waste products leaving the cell. They are not always waste products though according to Bernie Faber from Salem, Oregon. Cows and their guano are turned into manure. Releasing methane gas while being fermantated on the fermantator (bottom).

In order for a cell to live energy is required. Energy is taken into a cell through respiration for an animal cell. These factors are required for this to take place:

• Oxygen
• A food source
• Water
• Shelter

Respiration is an aerobic process, which means it requires oxygen. Respiration takes place in the mitochondrion. The object is to get ATP a source of energy for the other organelles.

Before respiration takes place Glycolysis occurs to acquire 2 net ATP. Glycolysis is an anaerobic process so it does not require oxygen. Its energy is quite useless though at 2 ATP.

At 2 ATP for Glycolysis and 32 ATP for Respiration the total comes to 36 ATP.

Portland General Electric has made a power plant in back of Faber's farm pumping manure into a fermantator. At the fermantator certain bioagents are added to allow the manure to release methane gas. The methane is used to turn a generator capable of producing a whopping 100 kilowatts, an estimated 70 homes can be powered from one generator. The generated power is fed to a feeding plant and into some power lines to feed the surrounding homes.

Telomeres are repetitive Deoxy ribo neucleic Acid (DNA) sequences found on the ends of chromosomes, specifically eukaryotic chromosomes. These telomeres maintain a fidelity of genetic information during replication. Every cell division causes these telomeres to shorten to a point that a telomere is so short. When this happens the telomere signals the cell to stop dividing. In abnormal conditions such as cancerous cells the telomeres are repaired under each cell division with an enzyme called telomerase Telomerase contains some Ribo-Neucleic-Acid (RNA) that codes for some proteins that fix the telomeres.

Without Protein Synthesis then we would not be able to make a RNA on the telomerase enzyme. Without RNA we would not be able to make a protein, because RNA codes for the protein. No protein = No repaired telomere.

Protein Synthesis starts out in the nucleus. Here in the nucleus the DNA is not allowed to leave. So an enzyme separates the two helix strands to make a copy on to an RNA. (This activity was demonstrated on the “Sickle Cell Activity”) That process is called transcription because DNA is transcribed into RNA. The RNA copy is allowed to leave the DNA and is taken (actively transported) though the cytoplasm to the ribosome located on the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough ER). At the Ribosome a small piece of it joins with the RNA and the RNA attracts anticodons located on a Transfer RNA (tRNA). On the tRNA an amino acid on the top is brought. A larger piece of the ribosome then joins with the smaller one. More and more tRNAs are brought then peptide bonds form between the amino acids. (This is sounding like the protein synthesis video I made). The polypeptide chain is made from these amino acids forming the protein.