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My optional artifact to include in my portfolio is another wiki that I did right after the axial skeleton wiki. This particular wiki is entitled the appendicular skeleton and it relates directly to the axial skeleton. Although the two are both parts of the human skeleton, the appendicular focuses on the bottom part of the body with some other parts mixed in while the axial is concerned mainly with the top part of the body. The appendicular skeleton is made up of the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle. The main difference between the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton is that the appendicular is made up of heavier bones that are thicker or are used more for support of the whole body weight. The pectoral girdle is made up of the clavicle and scapula and is what allows for the large amount of movements that our arms have. The pectoral girdle is made up of heavier bones than those bones in the axial skeleton and that is partly what classifies them as part of the appendicular skeleton. The pelvic girdle includes the pelvis which has many different parts to it. I did not originally think that the pelvis was so confusing or had so many parts to it, but doing this wiki taught me better. The bones connected to the pelvic girdle and part of the appendicular skeleton are all the bones that are below the pelvis along with the bones of the arms and the finger phalanges. The appendicular skeleton is much more extensive than the axial skeleton and more complicated just because of the amount that is covered in this particular part of the human body skeleton.

This wiki helped me to understand what we were talking about in class, as previously stated in the axial skeleton wiki page I was not understanding anything that was going on in the class at that time and wasn’t taking anything away from the class at that time. This wiki, along with the axial skeleton wiki, helped me to understand what was going on in the class and figure out what everyone else was talking about that I wasn’t getting. I really enjoyed learning about the appendicular skeleton once I could understand and follow what was going on in class. Although I started to enjoy the subject of the two different types of skeletons in the body more and more as I started to understand it better, I was still quite confused on the subject. Doing the wiki on the body skeletons helped even more with that confusion. Passing this class is very important to me and I am thankful to anything that helps me to do that successfully, thus this wiki about the appendicular skeleton.

The appendicular skeleton, like the axial skeleton is something that everyone should have at least a basic understanding for. The body is something that people use every day and I think that that deserves respect. It would be impossible to live without our bodies and so I believe that all people should know at least a few basics about the body that they inhabit. Even the most sedentary person uses their body whether they want to or not, or whether they intend to. There are involuntary functions of the body that keep us alive that even sedentary people use their body for. The fact that our bodies are the thing that keeps us alive and functioning properly every day of our lives is something that I believe should be respected and revered enough to learn what we can about it, even if it is not that much. The simple fact that we use our body every single day of our lives is an example for how the information is relevant to real life situations.


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