Barley

It is a serious autoimmune disease that occurs in genetically predisposed people, wherein the ingestion of gluten (a protein found in wheat, rye and barley) causes an attack response from the body's immune system, directed towards the small intestine, which leads to damage on the villi (minute vascular projections that increase the surface area of a membrane) that aids in nutrient absorption. Source…

Anne Frank, Narrative Having a pen and my diary is what I’m most known for but I'm also a pretty good hider; I'm anne frank. I was born June 12, 1929. Margot, who was three years older than me, was my only sibling. My father was Otto Frank he was mostly known for the business he owned ("Anne Frank Biography"). My mother Edith Frank didn't take have a job, so she stayed home and cared for my sister and I and took care of things at our house("Edith Frank." Anne Frank House). Growing up wasn't…

The United States of America was not always a country of fast food eating Americans. It was only sixty-five years ago, that we were eating food portions that were four times smaller than what we eat today. Yet over the same time span South Korea has not spawned the health problems that plague the U.S. In the 1950s, obesity and diabetes were not the huge dilemma that they are today. The American diet has drastically changed over the years and while a variety of arguments can be made about the…

parents. Some might think that it was an impossible task, for example, in the story it states how family members and friends wanted to, or already had bought gifts for baby X, yet the parents would not tell them “what is was," in consequence, baby X barley got attention…

Carolyn about a black student in her kindergarten class whose name was Anthony. He was from the projects and she was not used to students on color of different background in her classroom. Carolyn made some assuming statements about the child she barley knew. She said, “he as trouble sitting in class, that he was not…

Martin Seligman shares how people can become happier by discussing three different life styles in which individuals are happy. After sharing how happy people differ from the average person, — they are more social— he goes on to describe the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life. In the pleasant life, individuals seek what makes them happy and surround their life around those items. The good life consists of individuals finding what their strengths are and integrating those…

One of Mesopotamia’s Greatest Inventions; Inscription The civilization of Mesopotamia differed from others in several ways. Mesopotamia grew along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where modern day Iraq is placed. They hold their monumental title because they taught themselves how to survive and make their lives easier. One of their most tremendous accomplishments consisted of achieving the ability of agriculture. This kept them alive but was not the only thing that made them who they are known…

other of my other discussions up until that point. I struggled to find the words to analyze Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride. My discussions before this one consisted of nearly 200 words and my discussion for this particular analyzation of this piece barley had 100 words. Another one of these discussions I struggled to make 100 words for was Module 2: From Flanders to Florence. I think Module 2 itself caught me off guard.…

John Steinbeck tells a story of two friends, George Milton and Lennie Small, and their search for a better life in rural California. George, a smart but small and wiry laborer, and Lennie, a giant man who is mentally challenged, take jobs bucking barley on a large ranch outside of Salinas and try to save money to get a place of their own. On the ranch, they encounter many who have dreams of their own, but Steinbeck manipulates his characters, particularly Lennie, to demonstrate that not…

How many students per class? Look around, how many other students are in your high school class? At least twenty, right? STAR, a project in Tennessee, was started, (Princeton, par 1) to see if smaller class sizes boosted student achievement. STAR found substantial evidence that reducing class size improved student academic achievement. Reducing the class size seems logical. What about over-populated schools? How do we minimize class sizes with minimum teachers and maximum students? This is a…