User talk:Mpmagi

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Reorganizing of RuneScape locations
Hello, and thanks for your edits to RuneScape locations. We appreciate your effort to improve the article; however, I'm changing back a few things you did, as there was a reason for the previous layout of the page. In general, when making such a major change to an article's structure, the edit should not be marked as minor, and in fact, it should usually be discussed on the talk page first.

In this case, I believe that the locations should not be alphabetized. The reason for this is that while it is nice to have the locations in alphabetical order, applying it to this article would cause some unnecessary confusion. The sections should be ordered in roughly the order that players experience the various locations, so starting with Misthalin and the other large kingdoms, and going on to the smaller free areas, then the more remote members' areas, and so on.

I still do appreciate your changes, as it brought it to my attention that some sections could use reordering. Pyrospirit Flames  Fire 14:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

English 12 CP

Period 4

28 September 2007

Santa Maria

Personal Statement

As long as I can remember, my worst fear has been of losing the ability to control any limb: to have such a brilliant mind as mine yet be confined to a defective body. The inablity to run alone would probably kill me, not to mention the inability to express myself through the written word. The one good that can come from any fear though, is using it as motivation.

I want to be a neuromechanic.

The world we live in today was violent, is violent, and will always be violent. Getting up from your bed, walking down the stairs, driving a car, all seemingly mundane tasks could render you paralysed, brain damaged or dead will a single slip. Including countries that live in violence – mines hidden in playgrounds, bombs hidden in belts, and the risk that somebody might have to live with an unresponsive body increase signficantly. Sure, prosthetics can restore mobility, but the nerves are dead, there is no feeling, no feedback.

There is, or soon will be, a huge niche for prosthetics. Not the simple metal contraptions, but feeling and reacting limbs. If the nerve cell can be regrown, the electrical impluses restored artificially, someone who has lost a leg could regain a better, stronger, and faster limb. It may sound like science fiction but it has been done already! In 2002 a british scientists managed to “install” a robotic arm that linked directly to the patients nervous system.

English 12 CP

Period 4

28 September 2007

Santa Maria

Personal Quality

Since when did I have a personal talent or quality I was proud of? Most of the talents I have are more enjoyable ways to past the time than provide any academic value. I suppose then, my best quality would be learning.

I had know idea how to learn up until the start of freshman year. Until then I had sloughed through class after class, going through each day in some small hope that I might actually gain something useful from countless hours spent at school. It mattered little to me that 2 + 2 =4, even if replacing the “2” with an “x” makes it a whole grade level more difficult. Science class was a general anathesic that made getting through the day much easier. History was regurgitating date after event after date. Nothing was interesting because everything had been done: the cell had already been discovered, the epic books already written. How could I possibly find a job amdist these paven and tiled roads? In short, my entire pre-high school career consisted of gazing at the lighted digits of the clock hoping that it might tick away another minute on this trip through hell.

Then high school came along. World History, biology, chemistry, and a slew of other classes. I began to notice each subject shared common threads with others, which could be picked up and studied further. In chemistry, I learned that a nuclear force holds the atom together, in history I learned a nuclear bomb blows them apart, in biology I learned how nuclear radiation affects the body and in English I learned how it harms the human psyche. I also discovered how much there is left to discover in the world. Books that had not been written, ideas that hadn’t been composed, technology not yet producd. The areas of life that had not yet been illuminated by the scope of science would be my territory. Space would not be a final frontier but my frontier, and learning would be the basis upon which I built.

-- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -Douglas Adams