Lydia+Tissues+Project

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The tissues project was originally a group project, then turned into an individual. This seemed to be a good system, at least for this particular project, because it depended on both finding the pictures of the tissues on the slides given to us, taking pictures of them, and finally putting them onto the computer on a power point slide that presented the information in an orderly way. The pictures were taken in a group of two from a slide put under a microscope. The camera was then used to zoom in on the picture even more to get the most accurate and closest picture of the respective tissue that was possible. Then, after all the pictures were taken a storyboard was created by each individual person. This storyboard was a paper version of the 37 slides that we would later have to put onto PowerPoint. This was an outline that condensed all the bullet points that would be on the PowerPoint with the sound that would accompany each slide and the navigational buttons to move around easily from one slide to the next. After the pictures were taken and the storyboard was outlined, the actual work for the PowerPoint presentation started. Each sound bite had to be carefully recorded so that the speaking was just perfect, without mess ups in the wording or anything akin to that.

I think that this was probably my least favorite project of all the ones that we have done so far because it took so much work and was not very rewarding, at least not to me. The project, although it covered a lot of material, took a very long time to finish and was also extremely tedious, monotonous, and insipid during its completion. The PowerPoint program was also not the easiest to work with and, as my computers are both older than the 2007 version used at school, were unable to allow me to work with the Microsoft PowerPoint program. This led to unending frustration on my part as well as many extra hours spent at school trying to get my project completed before the turn in date. To its credit, I know that this tissues project covered more material than pretty much anything else we have done this semester in a short amount of time; however, I believe that there is definitely a better option for doing the project.

The tissues, are however, a fascinating subject. There are so many different kinds that, though confusing at times, can also be interesting. The multitude of combinations for the tissues and where each is located and what the different function is for each of them can be quite overwhelming, but there is a fascination that I felt while learning them nonetheless. As an example, when I was younger I used to trip and fall a lot. I would scratch my body up from my countless examples of my lack of coordination. Oftentimes these tumbles would result in bruises only, but other times I would cut my skin straight open and I can remember two times in particular where the cut was so deep that I could see what was working inside my skin, even though I had no idea what it was at the time. The first time that I ever cut my skin open enough to glimpse a look into the whole new world of what lays beneath the skin I couldn’t have been more than six or seven years old. It was a custom for my friends and myself to run all the way back from the playground to where we lined up for the classroom after every recess. One day, even more forgetful then than I am now, I had taken my shoes off and forgotten to tie the laces after I put them on again. I got about half way down the blacktop (the kind used for streets) when I stepped on one of the loose laces and went falling straight onto my knees, hands, and face. My face was all right, my hands just a little scratched up, but nothing serious; however, my knees were completely busted open and I can remember feeling queasy when I looked down on my knees and could see inside the skin. I cut them so badly that I even got a chance to look at my patella, even though I didn’t know that’s what I was looking at until later on. I remember my curiosity about the fall and my knees before shock set in and I started crying (being as I was only in elementary school). As a little kid in elementary school even I was curious about the inside parts of the body, and, although a gruesome way to peak my curiosity, that fateful fall in elementary school one day opened my mind to the new world of tissues that I hadn’t even known existed until then. Everyone has some kind of fascination with the body, whether they buried it under other interests, are disgusted by it, or embrace it with an open mind. Tissues are just one thing under the skin that I believe everyone is at least a little bit curious about at one point in their life or another.


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