Bad apples excuse

brown. When fruit is exposed to the air, it turns brown so the target of the lab was to try and prevent discoloration of the fruit. Using lemon juice and water, apples and bananas were tested to find if the chemicals really did prevent brown coloring from appearing on the fruit. With the lemon juice as the independent variable and the apples and bananas as the dependent variable, the fruits were tested for twenty minutes to see if anything pertaining to the color changed. Introduction/…

Apple cider vinegar is a popular and useful health aid. Diabetics often take a swig to help control their blood sugar. Trying to lose a few pounds? Many believe that the consumption of apple cider vinegar leads to reduced belly fat, lower triglycerides, and weight loss. According to Doctor Oz, it is an excellent way to control dandruff. With so many uses, it is a staple in many homes, including my own. In fact, I bought the largest jug I could find, but I had never considered the shelf life of…

The Great Blueberry Harvest of 2012 The rays of the sun were relentlessly beaming down on my back and neck as I scooped away at the ripe blueberries. The heat had no sympathy for me, and thoughts of quitting my job right there on the spot were running through my head. But my ego would never let me give up. I sent the negative thoughts away and got back to work. There is light at the end of the tunnel. A spark of motivation runs throughout my whole body. It is day two of the harvest and the…

The piece that I decided to present was a poem penned by Ted Kooser called Apple Sauce. In this poem there are descriptive elements that break down some points in making apple sauce. In the beginning of the poem the setting is established in a first person point of view to give the audience an opportunity to experience what’s running through the author's mind. He conveys to the reader what he likes about “her kitchen” (line 5). Considering this poem is about food being cooked in a house, the…

What’s a stereotype? A stereotype is to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. It’s a bad trait that most human beings have and do every day without even noticing. We tend to “Judge a book by its cover.” But you never know what could be in that book, may it just be a clear white cover with just the authors name, or a colorful active cover, that seems more appealing. It’s all about the material inside, that we wouldn’t know what that material is…

The Baudelaire children have been in and out of foster homes, trying to find a parent who will take good care of them. Unfortunately, they don’t exactly have close family. So they were taken in by this man named Count Olaf who is absolutely evil and trying to take the children’s fortune. These children aren’t your average 14,12, and 2 year olds.They have managed to escape him each time. Violet, the oldest has an amazing brain to make up inventions. Klaus is able to read and obtain all of that…

Breaking bad is a television show that follows a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his life and son. The protagonist, Walter White , is diagnosed with stage 3 cancer early on in the series and is given only two years to live. In order to secure his families financial state, White decides to enter into the world of drugs and crime. The series goes on to explore the daily life of White and his right hand man, Jesse Pinkman, and all of their adventures as drug lords. The show also…

who needed to use the bathroom, came upon them. The man aimed his pistols to fire at him, but the roadagent quickly moved and “grabbed the boy” and “came up holding him against the chest with the knife at his throat” (66). The man offered to let the bad man go free if he lets the boy go. The man threatened him, saying, “You think I wont kill you but you’re wrong” (65). The roadagent refused to free the boy; and the man shot him in the head, covering the boy with the man’s gore. To protect his…

Change Is Not Always Bad As I sat in my room and reminisced over the change that happened in my life, a smile crossed my face. My smile was not because I like change, but it represented me overcoming the fear that gripped me every time change occurred. Many times in life I began to love or hate certain factors that life handed me depending on how I went through my first experience of that situations. Change is one of those factors I hated because when I first encountered it, I was young and…

However situational the plots in which Shakespeare writes can apply to everyday life, such as in Hamlet it is very situational to be mad at his uncle about killing his dad and replacing him as king and his technically his step father? Uncle dad something like that, seems like it Hamlet would fit in just right in Kansas... But being mad at a step-parent is a very apparent thing that occurs on a daily basis, the child in everyday life is not plotting his revenge on the stepparent... hopefully.…