Molly Bloom

systems of our waste for hundreds of years. "Harmful algal blooms are a major environmental problem in all 50 states. Also known as red tides, blue-green algae or cyanobacteria, harmful algal blooms have severe impacts on human health, aquatic ecosystems, and the economy" (Environmental Protection Agency). The pollution created by human’s activities is enabling these types of biological events to get worse, which is causing more severe blooms to occur more frequently. Recently we have significantly

cyanobacteria, that can be both non-toxic and toxic, but either one can have a huge impact on the ecosystem around them. For the past few decades, harmful algal blooms or HABs have been causing major issues to not only the aquatic life that lives in the water, but also to the land animals that live near the water, including humans. These blooms are also happening all over the world. Anywhere there are humans there are some form of factors that play a role into HABs, whether there is

Within Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian lies a chaotic, lawless wasteland corrupted with violence and nihilism. This violence and nihilism, however, is not limited to just to the landscape, but to its inhabitants as well, transforming them into merciless killers with no regard for the fragility that comes along with being human. Throughout Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy provides an image of the American Southwest during the 1850s, one that is of savagery and lawlessness. The entirety of the

Benjamin Bloom, an instructor and university examiner for the Board of Examinations at the University of Chicago, proposed his Mastery Learning Theory in 1976 (1). However, the idea of mastery learning was not authentic to Bloom; the origin of these concepts were found in the writings of Greek philosophers including Aristotle. Bloom’s major contribution to these principles is time as the foundation of mastery learning is the ability for the student to show they have mastered content before progressing

take into thought is the reason why we are reading these specific works of literature. There is no way to read everything because “Who reads must choose, since there is literally not enough time to read everything, even if one does nothing but read” (Bloom 15). The most common reason is we, as a society, have deemed specific works greater than others, even adding the label of “a classic” on to them to show exactly that. But what deems a work of literature to be a classic? The answer to this question

Growing up in one of the most biologically diverse estuaries in North America impacted my perception on nature from my first thought until now as a young adult. If you are from the south most people get a glimpse of how pretty Florida is but unless you fish, very few people get to check out the Indian River Lagoon. This massive body of water stretches whopping 156 miles and surprisingly takes up over 30% of Florida’s east coast. Here the Atlantic collides with fresh water and creates an epic battling

Fat bloom is directly related to the fats present in the chocolate coatings and fillings, either cocoa butter or vegetable oils. A bloomed chocolate product is characterized by the loss of initial gloss on surface or softening (due to melting behavior of fats)

One of the most memorable lines from “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” comes from the Misfit when he says, “She would have been a good woman if it had been someone there to shoot her for every minute of her life (O’Connor 309).” Flannery O’Connor’s depiction of Christian faith can be seen in almost all of her works. Inevitably, the plots in all of O’Connor’s stories end with a shocking conclusion, and this leaves the reader with freedom to interpret the central idea. From the endless list of themes that

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is caused by the consumption of the water soluble alkaloid neurotoxin known as saxitoxin from shellfish (mussels, clams, cockles, oysters and scallops) from waters contaminated by Algal blooms. The algal bloom that forms in the water has a fluorescent greenish hue and contains dinoflagellates that produces these neurotoxins and is found in both the temperate and tropical areas. Along with medications, the symptoms of may PSP resolve with the excretion of the toxin

Introduction Amnesic shellfish poisoning is a rare type of food poisoning caused by eating seafood that contains a poison (toxin) called domoic acid. Domoic acid is produced by a saltwater form of algae, and it is often eaten by shellfish, such as clams, oysters, and mussels. You can get sick when you eat shellfish or crab that contains domoic acid (is contaminated). Cooking or freezing the shellfish does not kill the toxin. Domoic acid causes stomach and intestinal problems. It can also cause problems