The Silver Lining

roots via macro-sized nutrient pores and continue through the plant by two modes of transportation: apoplastic and symplastic pathways. The apoplastic pathway is the non-selective pathway that silver also uses to move between the cells. This is only restricted by any interactions with the cell membranes lining this pathway. The symplastic pathway utilizes ionic channels and protein pumps [15]. For cellular uptake of strontium and calcium, cells may use non-specific ion pumps or element…

using words with proper knowledge. “Powerless a person would be WITHOUT words”(446). Zusak show that rebirth through words is a can cause one to learn how powerful the knowledge of words is. Interpolated stories bridge Zusak’s use of seeing the silver linings in destruction to insure one creates an understanding of healing. “It could never destroy all of it, but if nothing else, a different colored path was carved through it” (450). Zusak brings to light that words can hold a vicious value…

affected people across the nation. There are lessons to be learned from the meltdown, and if people remember these lessons it is possible to avoid a similar scenario in the future. Despite the damage that was done to so many lives, there are some silver linings to be found in the aftermath of the meltdown. Additionally, many real estate buyers today are benefiting from the effects of the meltdown and from the lessons that were learned as a result of it. The real estate and mortgage meltdown that…

last reason people love to get into sports in superstitions. People think that if they wear the same thing, eat the same thing, and same the same thing every game day, that it will make a difference to how the team plays the game. In the movie, “Silver Lining Playbook”, the main character played by Bradley Cooper, his dad (Robert Dinero) thinks that his son is the one who controls how the Eagles play every Sunday. If he does not watch the game with him, his father thinks that the Eagles will…

After fear, our journey's next stop is at happiness. Finding happiness, isn't that sums up our entire life? Everything we do in our lives is to achieve that satisfaction or meet that expectation or to be calm and content. All these are what I call the quest for happiness. The problem with us is that we are dependant on others for our happiness. What we need to understand is that happiness is not a physical entity that someone can give us rather it's a state and an elusive one at that. What if…

Me Talk Pretty One Day, written by David Sedaris, tells the story of how an awful experience with a French teacher actually benefited his learning of the language. In the exposition Sedaris presents the reader with a scene of his internal anxiety as an adult met with the first day of class. Unfortunately this fear is met with a unforgiving and ruthlessly evil French teacher who hounds her students over minute details like the gender of nouns. He describes how his "sadistic" teacher verbally…

Going out-of-state would not be too great of a challenge for me because I love new adventures. I believe that going out-of-state to pursue my education would be very beneficial to me in the future because with that experience it would help me deal with new situations and different environments. The discomfort of going outside my comfort zone will help me create a great mindset on how to approach every day as a good day. With this pressure, I will also learn many essential skills, not only for…

faces challenges. I have chosen to explore the connections family and friends support, and Determination. The texts/films I have chosen are; Michael Hill (Silver Linings), Craig McKibbin (Silver Linings), Soul Surfer (Sean McNamara) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Matthew Vaughn). Text 1: The challenge for Michael Hill in Silver Linings was that his house had burnt down with everything he owned in it. He had hit rock bottom, but still he pushed himself way out of his comfort zone and went…

more educational movies so that people can actually have fun while learning something new. Back then movies weren’t a big impact but now society takes over. Even little kids watching movies want to be a certain character like Batman. The movie Silver Lining Playbook has been praised for showing a positive side of mental illness and not like in news where they share negative stories. Also this film at the box office made $236.4 million worldwide meaning that even it involved a mental illness many…

herself. So be it, sister young lady! 2. Continuously search for the silver linings. I'm an enormous adherent to positive considering and seeing the silver coating. One of the greatest lessons life has shown me is this: everything occurs which is as it should be. Indeed, even the hardest, times of my life have prompt the best circumstances of my life. There truly is a lesson in everything, and there's dependably a silver coating. Pat (played by the mind-blowingly skilled Bradley Cooper)…