Potato

The Potato Famine, or Blight, was first recorded August, 1845 in Dublin, Ireland. It was the beginning of the greatest famine Europe would face in the 19th century. In a mere five years the potato harvest failed four times. During the famine, “... over one million Irish perished and a further two million fled the land, never to return.” (Nally, David. “That Coming Storm”). In just under five years, three million people were either dead or had immigrated. Needless to say the Potato Famine forever…

Abstract The purpose of the mechanical potato peeler design is to peel potatoes or any similar skinned fruit or vegetable quickly and easily. The problem is peeling any vegetable by hand with a hand held peeler is tiring, messy and the risk of injury is high. It also takes up too much time. Many people who prepare food at home, in a restaurant or a food franchise are faced with the tiresome task of peeling fruit and vegetables. When working in a restaurant food needs to be prepared as fast and…

Activity of Enzymes within a Potato Independent Variable: Temperature Dependent Variable: Visible amount of Fizz Constant: Size of Potato being used Introduction We have studied information about chemical reactions and how a catalyst is used to speed up reactions. We have learned that enzymes (proteins) in eukaryotic cells work as a catalyst to make this possible. Each enzyme in a eukaryotic cells has specific molecules it binds to, as they have a specific frame work. This…

sensitive topic in a unique way. Despite having a rather childish and simple title of "Mrs. Potato Head," the song is a PSA is concerning the problem of plastic surgery and beauty standards for women. In fact,"Mrs. Potato Head," by Melanie Martinez, communicates the pain of beauty using symbolism, similes, and repetition. Melanie uses symbolism to create an alternate figure for the people in her song. Mrs. Potato Head, which is the song's title, is actually a children's toy that allows kids to…

As of September 2016, over 260 million Americans have consumed at least 1 bag of potato chips. This means that at least 24375 tons of chips have been eaten in the past year. However, that calculation would only be true if each bag contained at minimum its labeled amount. When opening a bag of chips, it is easy to assume that the labeled amount is false due to the amount of empty space inside. Thus, the goal of this paper is to explore this idea and document the experimentation that follows in…

This paper is a story about how I went from a lazy couch potato to becoming a hard working young man. Do you know what it’s like to lose all of your free time? Teenagers need to learn how to balance school, work, sports, and a social life. One hundred percent of people are satisfied when they get paid for the first time. To begin, not knowing anything about the work force, I was scared to apply. My brother, who already worked at Chick-fil-a, talked to the owner and helped me get the job. He…

Juan Linares Mr. Maust 2 February 2016 Nocturne An Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. Fascinated by oil and water brush style painting, and brooding in a slow gloom of the mind, van Gogh remains the most well known impressionist artist around the world. Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has risen…

After one month of operation, Tate’s Potatoes is fully functioning and projected to be one of the best small potato businesses in the world. At Tate’s Potatoes there are only 3 employees, Tate, Mary, and Willy. I am twenty-one and a college graduate from southern California. Mary is twenty-three and moved to California from Canada in search of better weather. Willy left his home country, New Zealand, when heard about the open position at Tate’s Potatoes. Each of our day-to-day work is rather…

smile. I don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong, and you could be for all I know. What I do know is that you’re my daughter and it’s my job to stand by you and believe in you no matter what, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. From what my potato brain can comprehend, not killing anyone sounds a lot better than doing so, he added finally, and then he gave a small laugh. What I do want to make sure is that you speak properly when you’re talking about these things. Blur nodded,…

artist. They instead attribute his creative genius to either his desire to participate in the era’s leading artistic movements or his inherent mental instability. While art historian Griselda Pollock, for example, calls Van Gogh’s first major work The Potato Eaters (1885) a statement on industrialism, she later notes how its “failure […] began [Van Gogh’s] retreat […away] from a modernism situated in the contemporary social domain of either town or country […and] into the exotic, the fantastic,…