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Griffin Gallagher Capstone

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Capstone · Todd · Wed on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 6:19 pm
​For my capstone, I tasked myself with creating a self sustaining fish tank. I wanted to learn about aquatic ecosystems. For my final product, I created a website that explains how I made my tank, and the steps for you to make your very own “Forget Me Tank.” I decided to call my project the forget me tank because once you set it up, you can essentially “forget” about it. You do not need to clean it or add food to the tank, that all happens naturally through the organisms that live in it. In the beginning I got a little frustrated because I could not get my tank to survive. After a few more attempts I finally got my tank to last, and it's still surviving today. I have not had to do anything to the tank for over two months. If I were to redo this project, I would purchase a larger tank, so I could experiment with a more diverse ecosystem. My capstone taught me a lot about what goes on under water. It means a lot to me to learn about this because I would like to study marine biology in college. I believe that this project gave me an opportunity to further my love and knowledge for marine life and environments. 


Website  http://forgetmetank.weebly.com 
Bibliography https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1m17epi93mbDp93qLhWaDKNA2sRdPnMazY1Szb4nusoE/edit?usp=sharing
Tags: capstone, Todd, 2017
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Breaded Chicken Cutlet

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Science and Society · Best · A Band on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 11:14 am
Breaded Chicken Cutlet 

Ingredients

1-3 Thin sliced chicken breasts 

1 cup of flour

3 eggs 

2 cups of breadcrumbs 

1/3 cup of vegtable oil 
Steps
Coat each chicken strip in flour. Brush off the excess back into the bowl. 

After the flour is applied dip the entire strip in the eggs (Raw and scrambled up so the yolk and whites are mixed)

Hold the strip over the egg bowl so the excess can drip off back into the bowl

Press both sides of the chicken into a pile of breadcrumbs, so they stick in an even coat on both sides.

Once the chicken has been breaded  place them in a frying pan that has the 1/3 cup of oil so they are not fully submerged but so they are in a shallow pool of oil.

Allow the chicken to fry until one side begins to brown (2-4 minutes depending on thickness of chicken strips)

Repeat the previos step but with the other side of the chicken.

Remove from pan and place the breasts on a baking pan. 

Bake the breasts until they are firm (about 8 minutes, this makes sure the center of the breast is not raw)

Remove from the oven garnish with lemon wedges and serve immediately.

This meal is not very healthy. There are quite a few processed ingredients. The main processed ingredient being the vegetable oil. Not only is vegetable oil extremely processed, but it is being used to fry the chicken. Fried foods tend to hold in all of the fats that are not good for us. Eating this meal every day would most certainly make you fatter.  

This meal is relatively cheap. My family picks up most ingredients from the farmers market so the are all grown locally. The things that we do not buy at the market are the processed ingredients. We but premade breadcrumbs and the vegetable oil from the super market. These ingredients are also fairly cheap, but are not as healthy as some of the alternatives. We could make our own bread crumbs but that's a lot of work on top of the already long prep time of the chicken. and for the oil there isn't really an alternative. We could use a different type of oil but it wouldn't taste the same. Almost all of the ingredients do not travel very far since they are all grown locally.  

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5 Minutes of science- Coral Bleaching

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Science and Society · Best · A Band on Monday, December 5, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Coral, contrary to popular belief, is an animal. It is composed of coral polyps, small organisms, no larger than the thickness of a nickel. It is involved in a symbiotic relationship with a special kind of algae, called zooxanthellae. Coral keeps the algae safe, and in return the algae provides it with oxygen.

When coral is under high stress, it expels the algae from its tissue. The algae is corals source of vibrant color, so when it is removed the coral appears white like it was dipped in bleach.The main sources of this stress are, changes in water temperature, Pollution, Runoff water, Exposure to air during low tide, exposure to too much sun light. 

Coral bleaching is a common event, mass bleaching events have happened over the years. the largest on record happened in 2002 at the great barrier reef, where 54% of the coral was bleached. Bleaching is referred to as "The beautiful death" because it looks nice, but there is a higher mortality rate in effected corals. An easy way to prevent/fix coral bleaching is to treat the enviornment better. Many factors that harm the coral are man made. 

Currently the norther part of the great barrier reef is experiencing a bleaching event due to a 1 degree celsius change in the water temperature. Many were quick to say the reef was dead but its not too late, coral is a hearty life form and is known to bounce back from what seem to be extinction events. 

sources-

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral.html


http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html


http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/media-room/coral-bleaching


 
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Advanced Essay #4 Post Trauma Griffin Gallagher

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in English 3 - Block - D on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 10:25 pm
​In this essay I wanted to work on expanding my vocabulary by trying to reword myself using words I would not usually use in an essay. I also looked up synonyms of some words in order to use a broader vocabulary. I also worked on my editing skills, by watching kia as she edited my paper. She gave me a few good tips and tricks that will help me in the future.

War has been used for as long as history remembers as a tool of groups to get other groups to do what they want, this means giving up resources or land, or changing social policies or even just to destroy rivals. Everyone looks at the larger group, but almost no one looks at how each individual soldier handles  war.

Many soldiers are affected by a severe mental disease, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. PTSD is caused by a person experiencing a traumatic event like a natural disaster, a terrorist attack,  sexual assault or rape, and military combat. Only 4 out of 100 (4%) civilian men and 10 out of 100 (10%) of civilian women will develop PTSD., but this number jumps to roughly 15 out of 100 (15%) regarding veterans. These statistics come from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

PTSD has no known cure, but there are ways to suppress the symptoms, such as therapy and psychiatry. I seen an image of a man from Vietnam running away from a fiery napalm blast. He could most definitely hear the last screams and cries of the enemy soldiers. He heard their last breaths. The soldier is being torn apart inside by many mixed emotions. On one hand, he must be happy because there is no longer an immediate threat to his life, but on the other hand, he feels remorse for taking away the lives of so many people. Traumatic events such as the one described in this picture can cause PTSD. Soldiers living with this mental disease are not lost though, as I have said before there are lots of treatments.

However, these treatments are not always given to the people who really need it. One case of this is a man known as Eddie Ruth. Eddie served in the marines on three tours in Iraq and suffered from extremely severe ptsd. He depended on his mom to take care of him. Each day she drove him to work in the morning, but after work Eddie had a short period of time by himself in the afternoon before his mother got home. Eddie’s mother feared and prayed to herself every day on the way home, she feared he would kill himself due to all the stress. Eddie got no treatment for his PTSD, the veterans hospital said he had no signs of the disease and therefore would not pay for the expensive and long term therapy. One day Eddie was taken out to a shooting range by a man named Chris Kyle, also known as “The American Sniper,” the most efficient sniper the U.S. Navy Seals has ever had on record with over 150 confirmed kills. Kyle and a friend were taking Routh to a shooting range to help him cope with his PTSD, but it took an unfortunate twist when they got there. Kyle and his friend Littlefield were both shot and killed in cold blood by Eddie Routh. The two men didn't even have a chance to fight back, their guns were both holstered, the safeties still engaged. This is a perfect example of how not getting the proper treatment for PTSD can be dangerous, and in some circumstances even fatal. At his trial they argued that he was insane and had severe PTSD. His mother gave this statement, “This was a 6-foot-2 Marine, A tough man calling for his mama." This was in context to the fact that some nights Routh would get so scared he would have to sleep in bed with his mother. All this could have been avoided if the Veterans hospital would've given him the proper treatment. Since the military is a very large part of this country, we need to pay as much attention to the soldiers who are home as we do to the soldiers who are on the front lines. PTSD is a large part of the military, and since the military is a large part of America, PTSD should also be a large part of the things we address on a daily basis. Eddie Routh is just one example; how many other tragedies could be prevented if we just spent a little bit more time and money on our soldiers when they come home from war? We need to stop forgetting about our Veterans.


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Q2 Art portfolio Griffin Gallagher

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Advanced Art - Hull - a1 on Monday, February 1, 2016 at 1:13 pm
Artist Statement

These pieces of art reflect on who I am as a person. I do not simply draw or make something that I do not find fascinating, or do not find some sort of passion in. Without passion I feel my are would be very dull and boring to look at. Each piece I created took at least two hours of focused in the zone work time.
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Griffin Gallagher Advanced essay #2

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in English 3 - Block - D on Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 6:20 pm

In grade school I had a friend named nick. Teachers would always call him out because he was scared to read in front of the class. From the beginning his self confidence was low. He was very shy and didn't talk to many people, and if someone new tried talking to him he would take a long time to feel comfortable with them. Nick had a stuttering problem. Whenever he was in front of a large group of people his voice would lock up and he would shut down. His self confidence was destroyed in the 8th grade when a teacher made him stand up in front of the whole grade, all 225 of us. He was alone and he shut down completely botching his graduation speech. I talked to him afterwards and he said he had never felt so sick before in his life. His confidence was no longer existence, he shut eve the people who were closest to him out.

People with speech impediments and other problems with speaking and writing have severe problems with their self confidence. They feel as though they are not normal. But what is normal? Is there a direct definition that labels these impediments as not normal? Normal is defined as standard, usual, typical or expected. But how do we define normal? Society's normal is, if people are all the same they are normal. Any defining feature or change to their personal, or physical appearance warrants them to be “not normal.”  There is a story written by Mike Rose called “I just want to be average,” And that is a direct quote from the story that points out how people who are not seen as normal feel about their surroundings. People who are not “Average” or “Normal” can feel like somewhat of a group of outcasts. They are separated from the mainstream classes and put in their own “Vocational Track” which means d-level learning which does not help. In d level classes you are not treated as a human being, and you are certainly not respected by the people who are teaching you. This very easily make these students feel like they do not matter. This is why many of them act out or show off, in an attempt to get the attention that they so desperately need. If people took their time to sit down with these students and try to help them, they would not feel the need to act out and do bad things to get someone's attention.

My older cousin Nicky had a speech problem when he was younger. It was hard for him, he was teased and put in a special learning class. A teacher sat down with him one on one and walked him through how to cope with stuttering. He told me it was one of the hardest things he has ever done, but having a teacher to help him and calm him down when he got annoyed or angry with himself, helped push him through the problem. Today he is an officer in the United States Navy, and has no problem whatsoever with speech.

With proper learning strategies and help, people with speech problems and other disabilities can feel like they are part of this so called normal society.


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Advanced Essay #1 Emotions

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in English 3 - Block - D on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 8:49 am
​My goals with this paper were to convey the idea I had been thinking about for a while, I had just never had the proper essay to do so until this one. Another goal of mine was to make my scenes have a balance of description and flow. I feel like I accomplished both of these goals very well. I also think that I got my point across very well. I would like to improve my vocabulary so I wouldn't have to use such basic words.





Advanced Essay #1 Griffin Gallagher


It was hot out and we had been on the water for hours, with no results. My little sister was getting impatient, just like any four year old would. Finally one of the lines took, and a fish was on. It was small so we let my sister reel it in. When the fish was finally landed my sister’s eyes light up with excitement. Many things make people happy. Happiness is an emotion that we experience very often, because we like the feeling so we try to make ourselves feel like that all the time. Just because something makes one person happy does not mean that the same thing will make a different person happy. For example, John Doe goes on a roller coaster, and he enjoys it, he has fun. On the same day at the same amusement park Jane Doe goes on the same roller coaster and it makes her feel fearful, or scared. There are certain things in the world that cause different people to feel Different emotions.


We walked onto the wooden pier that had been here for years. The loud sounds of metal gears grinding and clanking was only outshined by the high pitched shrieks of people on the rides that seemed terrifying. It was my first time ever going on a roller coaster, I was terrified. But all my friends were excited, they loved going on rides. They had been on every ride, and rode the scariest ones twice. I on the other hand never rode any rides. I prefered to sit back and watch the flashing lights of one of the game stands. Many years later on the same pier I was the first person in line for “the great white.” If you have never been to wildwood, the great white is a wooden roller coaster. It is large and it moves quite fast, faster than the average car drives on the streets. This ride is my favorite out of all rides down the shore. This shows another face of how we experience events. When I was younger I was scared of all the big rides, but when I got older the fears disappeared and excitement took their place. This type of event causes a rush of adrenaline which when we are younger triggers fear, but when we can control this adrenaline, it can be used as a form of happiness. This shows me that over time people change, possibly even into a whole nother person. What we like at one time in our life may become a view of disgust later on in life. But the same can also happen, something that we hate we can grow and learn to love. A few examples of this is me, when I was younger I loved pickled beets, now i can't stand the look of them. This also works in reverse, when I was younger I hated kale, now I eat kale salads at least three times a week because I love kale.


When we change, the changes are seamless. We do not realize our emotions change they just do. there is nothing we can do about it. If we try to hide our emotions, we bottle them up and this is not healthy, because we become an unstable time bomb of emotion. When that bomb goes off things tend to be quite ugly. Emotions are meant to change and mold who we are as we grow up.





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Negative space things

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Art - Freshman - Hull - y2 on Friday, May 23, 2014 at 11:18 am
​What is negative space- Negative space is the blank space around the main picture or object

I found the negative space in my cut out by not cutting the black paper and only cutting the red paper, I found the negative space in the stool drawing by only coloring around the object not inside the lines

Negative space makes it easier to see the surroundings of the main image 

negative space is use full because it balances the picture out
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Mi familia de family guy

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Friday, March 7, 2014 at 8:54 am
family-guy
family-guy
Mi familia es muy grande. Mi hermano come. mi hermana nunca baila. Mi mama corre todo los dias. Mi papá siempre nade. mi hermano menor juga video juegos. mi mamá y yo aveses leemos. mi perro persegue su cola. mi hermana casi dibuja. mi familia es muy loco, pero me encanta mi familia.
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Todo es perfecto

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Spanish 1 - Manuel - C on Monday, February 10, 2014 at 9:50 pm

Todo es perfecto

Griffin Gallagher



 Soy Griffin Gallagher. Tengo catorce años Soy estudiante de Science Leadership Academy. SLA está en Filadelfia. Está cerca de TFI, siete once, Trader joe's y Arch Gourmet. SLA es muy muy divertido y extraña. Hay cinco piscos, 500 estudiantes y 24 profesores.  Tenemos muchas proyectos. Tenemos, fútbol, ultimate frisbee, baloncesto y muchos más. Participa en ultimate frisbee porque es muy divertido.


Mis clases son matemáticas, Inglés, ciencia, historia, español y TFI. Mis clase favorita es Español porque hablamos de un nuevo idioma. Estudiamos muchas cosas. Hacemos chistes en español La profesora es la srta. Manuel. No me gusta mucho la clase matemáticas porque es muy difícil. Escuchamos conferencias aburridas. Trabajamos en problemas difíciles. En español usted necesita un carpeta, y una pluma. En matemáticas usted necesita un lápiz y un bloc de notas. Para tener éxito en esta clase matemáticas y español tenemos que tomar buenas notas.


El sr. Todd es mi tutor. Le gusta largas caminatas en la playa. El enseña historia. él le gusta enseñar verbalmente. Su cumpleaños es el 7 de abril. Tiene una hija y una esposa. La srta. Dunda le gusta ir a los parques temáticos. Ella enseña la ciencia.


¡Me encanta sla! me gustan los profesores. también me gusta la comunidad. no me gusta algunos de los maestros. Sla es muy Divertida y bastante Lista. Sla es muy grande. ¡Que es mi preferida de la escuela!


http://www.powtoon.com/p/d8yc0gE94wg/


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Griffin Gallagher Q2 Media fluency

Posted by Griffin Gallagher in Technology- Freshmen - Hull - y1 on Monday, December 9, 2013 at 10:56 am
Griffins Slide
I made my slide the way it was so it would be easy to remember after only a glance. I left lots of space so your eyes are drawn to the red text that pops from the white background and black text.  I also added the picture for people who don't understand the saying. Fishing is my passion there's nothing in the world I'd rather be doing.
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