End of Semester

Hello, Finally! The semester is over. This one was a special one. This was my last semester at Phoenix College before transferring to ASU West, and I am over the moon excited! I am very grateful to this program, I wish I had joined earlier in my education. A big thanks to Joshua James and Amanda Chapman. Thank you for guiding me thru this process. And thank you to all of my peers. You are all so brilliant and inspire me so much. Your presentations were phenomenal! I hope to see you all in the future. Maybe there will be a reunion someday, and we can have those chimichangas. Have a wonderful summer, Wendy

May 13th

Hello, Welcome back! While doing my research, I was very surprised that some of my most in-depth sources are papers written in the early 1900’s. Once upon a time, I was once told that a man with the name of Rockefeller had changed the medicine industry. I didn’t think much of it but decided to look into it now. I learned that in the early 1900’s Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, both very wealthy, influential men, brought about capitalism to the health care industry and re-invented the medical curriculum being taught in schools at that time. There is a book that was written in 1979 by Richard E. Brown that I plan on ordering and reading over the summer. The book is called: Rockefeller Medicine Men : Medicine and Capitalism in America. Perhaps this might explain why research on plants being used as medicine is not so easily available as plants are not so easily obtained throughout the world but a pill can be distributed without loosing it’s freshness. Thank you for visiting! Wendy Reference: https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/the-rockefellers/37/

May 6th

Hello there! We are nearing the end of the semester and rushing to get as much information into our brains as possible. Here’s a brief reminder: You’ve got this! This week I am getting my research together and finding as much as possible on my plants. In my list, there are four different plants with the ‘Prunus’ prefix and four with the ‘Lupinus’ prefix. All these names sure make me wish I knew Latin. I haven’t come across the language in community college but will hopefully be able to take it later at the university level. For now, I have just finished French 101 and am very proud of it. We’ve got this.

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