Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Abstract

Our project is called are you Left or Right Sided. Our project consists of information based on the right and left dominance and hemisphere of your body. We have found some information that can help me with our experiment, We went to a website that told us about handedness, handedness can be describe as the hand that performs faster on manual tests. There are two type of handedness which is the left and right. We also found some information on the left and right hemisphere of your brain. It told me that your brain is split into two halves, which is a left and right side. We began to do further our search as we did so we began to think about what side of our body we use the most, we realized that we write with our right hand but we do most things with the left part of our body. We went to a website and it gave me some information that we found interesting. The web site said humans have the most obvious functional which is the left sides which is specialized in speech and language abilities. In the mid-1800s, Paul Broca a French neurosurgeon identified a particular area of the left hemisphere that plays a primary role in speech production. Shortly afterwards, a German neurologist, Carl Wernicke, identified another part of the left hemisphere primarily concerned with language comprehension. Therefore you can see above that the left side of your brain has to do with comprehending things and you speaking. The more one knows about the neurological mechanisms underlying language abilities, the more complicated these issues become, for example some people have problems speaking because there speech is specialize on the right hemisphere. However there is a great deal about brain lateralization that we may still not understand.

Science Project

Tihira Johnson
Quincy Adams
Katonya Leach
January 18, 2008
Are You Left or Right Sided?
Question: Will people use one side of their body more than the other?

QUESTION: Will people use there right side of their body more than their left?
HYPOTHESIS: People will use their right side more than their left?
MATERIALS LIST:
0. A ball
0. A paper towel tube
0. A phone
0. Pen and paper
PROCEDURES:
Step 1: Find volunteers to do take the test.
Step 2: Once you find enough volunteers have them go through a series of test to see what part of there body is in more use.
Step 3: First you see what foot they use to kick the ball and record your data.
Step 4: Second you give them a paper towel tube and see what eye they put it up to, then record your data
Step 5: Third give them a phone and see what ear they put it up to and record your data.
Step 6: Lastly give them a pen and paper and see what hand they use to write on the paper with then record your data.
Step 7: Repeat steps three through four, for all your volunteers.
GRAPHS:

Criteria Right Left
Hand 25 4
Ear 22 7
Foot 17 11
Eye 19 10
Total 83 32
Criteria Right Left
Hand 14 8
Ear 10 11
Foot 9 12
Eye 11 10
Total 44 41
Female Graph Male Graph
Results: The data tables shows that the biggest difference was between the right and left handed girls. The table showed that the right hand is the most dominate between men and woman. In women there was a far more difference but with the other categories it was very close. If you look at the data table you can see that men had the closes dominate in right and left hand, but you can also see that in men that there wasn’t that much of a difference. So according to our data the right part of men and women were used the most but you can also see in men that the total was right near each other.
Conclusion: Our hypothesis was correct. We stated that people will use there right side more than there left. The reason why we say this is because the majority of the people our partners and we tested were right handed and used the right side of there body more than there left. We got some information off the computer to back up some of our opinions. One website talked the handedness between rights and left, it said that handedness can be described as a hand that performs faster on manual test, according to our data that is the right hand. However I’ve found some information on the right and left hemisphere of our brain. Some people may not know that are brain is split into two such like and apple cut in half, one side of the brain is the left and another is the left. The information that we found tells me the side of the brain is specific for speech production and language comprehension. The right hemisphere comes into play when people can’t understand a certain language. Therefore our data proved that the right part of the body is used the most.

Monday, January 14, 2008

NHD links

Tihira Johnson

January 10,2008


Project Links

http://www.archives.gov/midatlantic/education/desegregation/philadelphia.html

http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html

http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/

http://www.landmarkcases.org/brown/home.html

http://www.famousamericans.net/stephengirard/

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Stephen_Girard

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0044-0094(195706)66%3A7%3C979%3ACTTFAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

Monday, January 7, 2008

NHD ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tihira
January 4 2008

Annotated Bibliography

1. Girard College, video cassette, Documentary
This source helped me really understand what actually happened during the Desegregation of Girard College.

2. Stephen Girard The founder, Cheeseman A. Herrick.
Kessinger publishing, copyright 1923
This source helped me understand more about my topic and basically everything that I needed to know about Girard College and Girard himself with access to Stephen Girards will.

3. The will of Stephen Girard.
Although this source did’nt give me enough information it gave me a very good understanding of the source itself and made me realize that Girard was very prejudice in my opinion.

4. The Americans.
This source helped me because it gave me alot of information on school segregation itself and of course segregation all around the world.

5. The Brown vs Board of Education Document
This source helped me because it gave me a brief decription of a small family of four that was decriminated against in their school which was also apart of segregation at that time.

NHD Topic Choice Essay

Tihira
January 4, 2008

TOPIC CHOICE FOR NHD!!!!!!


National History Day (NHD) is a day where students both elementary and secondary schools research a topic related to a certain theme “Conflict and Compromise” and then expand on it’s past and then they compete in a contest and the winner gets a scholarship for college etc.

In this years National History Day (NHD) contest I will be relating to the theme “Conflict and Compromise”. I will expand on the desegregation of Girard College and what actually caused this racist act to occur. I will be interviewing many people and finding out whether they were actually there to see this happen, collect information related to my topic and put them together to actually figure out what happened during that specific time period and what was going on in the rest of the world and how they felt about it.

Information that I have on my project is very precise I have maintained information on the court cases, books, and the actual will of the late Stephen Girard and what he actually wished before he past away information that he wanted to make known about his college that people misunderstood about it things such as money that he left for poor white orphan boys to get in to school. Girard’s will sparked up a huge civil rights story in Philadelphia causing the Desegregation Act to occur. Cecil B. Moore a criminal lawyer and civil rights leader led the movement because many people wanted the school to admit young black boys as well a they did young white orphan boys.

There is still much information that I must obtain in order to make my project more interesting so that people could understand what it is that I am trying to get them to see about my topic. My topic is very important and there is still much work that needs to be done.

I decided to choose this topic because I felt that my other topic was not strong enough because I did not have enough information related to my last topic which was the murder rate in Philadelphia and then I had to narrow it down and I choose the murder of Ivan Brown who played pro ball and was shot in the head. The topic that I have chosen now allows me to research more information on my topic better than to have someone bring me information at hand. So that is basically why I chose to changed my topic to the Desegregation of Girard College because I have a better chance at getting the information that I need right away besides depending on someone else.

My plans for this project are very precise I plan to go over all the things that need to be covered things such as why was Girard College segregated in the first place? What caused this act to occur? all of those things and much more so basically you should understand where I am going with my topic.

Inconclusion now you can see what my plans are for this project and what to expect from me when this project is done because I want everybody to get a feel of my topic so they can have a brief description of my topic.