BLOG 10 OF 10 !!!

I'm finally on my last blog and I'ts about what I think about blogging. Well at the beginning of the school year I had fun creating my blog username but I really wasn't to excited about actually blogging especially that we had to write about our books. But even though I didn't write any blogs throughout year until I had to I still don't really like blogging. But it was a blog that I was able to write freely and not specifically on books I probably would've liked it a lot more than i did but it was a different even though its kind of like what I did last year in Mr. Jackson's class last year but just the fact that it was on a website and that all my class mates were able to see it made it more enjoyable for me because i was able to read about what they're reading and what they think about them. 

BLOG 9 of 10

This blog is going to be on the last 3 Chapters of The Andromeda Strain. Well in Chapter 28 Hall runs back into the lab and tells Stone about his discovery and both of them together they decided to tell Burton to breathe deeply in order to alkalinize his bloodstream. But then Hall seen that a rat within the pathology lab that should have been killed by Andromeda is still alive and breathing normally and then in Chapter 29 Stone explains that Hall can get to a substation on another level by climbing up through the central core of the facility but as he was climbimg the machine sensors shot Hall. Then for the final chapter Hall wakes up in the infirmary on level IV. Where Stone congratulates him on stopping the countdown and saving the team. I actually liked the ending because it ended with him saving everyone and I always like happy ending. I thought the book was pretty good even though i wished it had some more action towards the middle of the book but besides that it was a pretty good book.  

Pgs. 338-357

BLOG 8 of 10

In Chapter 21 its starts of at a midnight conference, Stone sees that the team is exhausted and suggests that everyone should start getting more rest to avoid making careless mistakes and that there’s no hurry. Leavitt argues since the bomb has been dropped on Piedmont. Since the team has recently discovered a new life form and in Chapter 22 Stone and Leavitt look through the data from the amino-acid analysis machine. The test results indicate that both the ‘black rock’ and the green spot are made up of the same elements which make up most life on earth which is hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, etc. A Lot started happening because the government started dropping bombs on towns trying to eliminate towns that are filled with the virus 

Pgs. 262-271

BLOG 7 of 10

In Chapter 19 Arthur Mancek receives a telephone call at his home concerning the recent crash of a training mission near Big Head, Utah. The plane left San Francisco heading for Topeka, went off course, and flew through Area WF (The Piedmont zone) before crashing. Mancek wonders why they didn’t drop the bomb on that town, and why the Wildfire team didn’t protest and then in Chapter 20 in the spectrometer room, Burton vaporizes a piece of the black rock and a piece of the green flecks in order to figure out the elemental composition of each. Each element produces a different specter of light, and this data can be fed into the computer and analyzed. In another room, Leavitt is feeding the rock and organism into the amino-acid analyzer, trying to figure it out. Chapter 19 was interesting because they were trying to figure out what happened to the plane that crashed.

Pgs. 237-245

BLOG 6 of 10

Im going to be talking about Chapter 16 and 17. In chapter 16 Burton was working alone in the autopsy lab, Burton makes a series of mistakes that he later causes him to stress out and in his first experiments he places a live rat in a cage directly next to the rat that was exposed to the deadly bacterium. He places a series of more porous filters between the two cages until the live rat eventually dies and in Chapter 17 Dr. Hall looks over the computer tests results indicating that the baby’s status is completely normal, while Peter Jackson has several health problems. The most puzzling of his problems was the acidic pH level of his blood. Hall goes down the tunnel, into his suit, and wakes Peter Jackson to ask him a few questions about his health problems. I kind of picked up in the book because of the experimenting and just the way the author is explaining the situations in the novel.

Pgs. 206-219

BLOG 5 of 10

           This blog is about Chapter 13 and 14 and in Chapter 13 the team finally arrives at level five and enters a huge room sealed off from the bacteria infected areas where the satellite, baby, and old man are being watched. Stone explains that the operation is one giant “glove box”, any interaction with the test subjects will be done with mechanical hands controlled by the scientists to make sure and in Chapter 14 they are in the observation room where a computer tech teaches Dr. Hall how to use the computer system to diagnose and test the two patients. Hall uses the computers to order a series of tests, but must draw the blood, urine, and saliva samples from the patients himself. These two chapters really weren't that interesting in to me im just waiting for something exciting to happen. I really hope the rest of the book isn't like this 
                           
                                                                                                                      Pgs. 178-194

BLOG 4 of 10

This blog is about chapters 11 and 12. In chapter in 11 Dr. Stone explains that the team is now on the top level of the facility’s five levels of decontamination. The descent to the bottom level, where the capsule is located, requires the team to go through a rigorous sanitation procedure on each of facility's levels. Then in chapter 12 Dr. Hall wakes up to the recording of a woman’s voice and goes to the cafeteria where Leavitt gives him a suppository designed to decontaminate the gastro-intestinal tract. At their morning conference, Stone discusses the theories of Dr. Rudolph Karp with the group. Karp was a scientist who claimed he had isolates previously undiscovered organisms within. At least point in the book im actually kind of getting bored of it because the big slowed down tremendously and im just waiting for it to start picking up tempo.

                                                                                                                      Pgs.114-155   

BLOG 3 of 10

I forgot to write about the last 6 chapters of the book (4-9) but in this blog I'm going to be talking about what happened in chapter 10. Well emerging from the plane, Hall sees nothing but a sparsely furnished Quonset with two pilots and a guard sitting inside. Leavitt and Hall drive a blue unmarked sedan down a pockmarked road towards the installation. As they drive, Leavitt confirms that the site down, in fact, have its own nuclear weapon capable of incinerating the entire area. When Hall mentions that the odd man hypothesis section had been deleted from his file, Leavitt responds that it will all be explained later.The two men drive into the wildfire compound, which is surrounded by a cornfield and a chain link fence to make the entire facility look like a government agricultural project. As they walk through the station and enter an underground elevator, Leavitt explains that the cover is a fully functional agricultural station designed to grow foods in highly alkaline soil. Everything about the facility is designed to draw as little attention to the project as possible. Hidden sensors and guard dogs also protected the base.Upon entering level 1, Hall must remove all this clothing, watches, rings, etc. and put on new clothing, in order to avoid bringing in unnecessary contaminants. Both fingerprint screeners and voice identification modules are used to verify Hall’s identity. Afterwards, a robotic medical machine scans Hall for fungus, allergies, and also gives him an intravenous needle and booster shots. Walking down the red corridor to meet with the team, Leavitt explains that each of the five levels is painted a different color. Finally, Hall enters a room marked “Conference room 7” where the rest of the team is waiting for him. Stone removes a red key on a chain from his pocket and hands it over to Hall. When Hall expresses confusion as to the purpose of the key, Leavitt reminds Stone that Hall has not yet been informed of the odd man hypothesis.The men sit down and Stone explains how the process through which the nuclear device can be detonated in the event of major contamination. Stone’s silver is inserted on level one. It prepares the device for countdown and can never be removed. Hall’s red key, however, will be inserted at the facility’s lowest level. There is a three minute delay between the insertion of the Stone’s silver key and detonation. During this window, it is Hall’s responsibility to think the situation through and decide whether or not to call it off by inserting his own red key.In response to Hall’s questions, Stone points out that Hall is the only single member of the team. Army studies conclude that unmarried individuals tend to respond better under stress than married individuals. Hall’s marital status, when combined with his occupation, makes him the ideal person to make the final decision on incinerating the station. The responsibility is his alone. Its crazy how its all on Hall now because if i was in a situation like that with all the pressure i wouldn't know what to do.

                                                                                                                    Pgs. 14-117

BLOG 2 of 10

        Im back to talk about chaper 3 of The Andromeda Strain. Well back in the opening narrative, Crichton explains the common nature of all crises and explains that the United States has never had a biological crisis until the Andromeda Strain. Back in the mission control center, Major Mancek slowly replays the tape from the radio broadcast from the van. Based on the rhythmic static picked up by the computer, Mancek decides that the van is probably still running and the van radio is still broadcasting. He orders a flyover of Piedmont and calls in a technician named Jagger to analyze the film. Minutes later, a scavenger plane drops phosphorus bombs around Piedmont and photographs the town. As Jagger analyzes the body temperature images picked up by the plane’s infrared camera, he determines that most of the people died quite recently. Further images indicate that one person is still moving around the town, checking the bodies. The plane’s motion pictures show the white-robed man, standing in the center of town, staring at the planes as they buzz past the town. Major Mancek puts in a call to General Wheeler and declares a state of emergency within the army base. I love how there is so much action in this book and the way he explains/describes the situation when you picture it in your head its like a movie is playing but inside your head.
                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                     Pgs. 9-14

BLOG 1 OF 10

The first 2 Chapters of The Andromeda Strain are really interesting to i understand why they wrote the comment that the wrote on the back of the book. The first chapter started on a cold winter night, by a abandoned stretch on highway in the Arizona desert, Lieutenant Roger Shawn stands atop a hillcrest and stares through his binoculars at the sleepy town of Piedmont, Arizona. In the back of the van, Private Lewis Crane, an electronics technician, is making the final calculations in an attempt to triangulate the final position of their target. The two soldiers have driven all day in search of satellite that has recently returned from orbit. Shawn and Crane know nothing of their objective except that the satellite, containing a series of specialized capsules, was designed to study the upper atmosphere before falling back to earth. Although the team had expected to recover the satellite from a spot twelve miles north or town, they are perplexed when their latest transmitter trace locates the capsule in the center of Piedmont. In the moonlight, the men can see birds, which appear to be vultures, circling the small array of buildings. They decide to drive into town and take a look. Now on Chapter 2 Back at "Project Scoop" mission control center, Lieutenant Edgar Comroe lethargically monitors the radio communications from Shawn and Crane’s van, which is coded "Caper One". As the vehicle enters Piedmont, Shawn reports that there are bodies strewn throughout the town. Upon hearing this discovery Comroe instructs Caper One to leave their radio open and proceed towards the capsule. Comroe then seals off the control room to prevent any news from getting out. He hears Lieutenant Shawn report seeing a man in white robes walking through the town and checking over the bodies. Suddenly, the white-robed man stops and begins coming towards the van. Horrified, the mission control team hears a high-pitched scream followed by a crunching noise, and the radio transmission ends. He ended the end of chapter 2 on such a intense part that you cant just stop reading.

                                                                                                                Pgs. 1-9