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…are people whose only concern is to eat an addicting plant called the lotus. If one happens to eat the lotus, one becomes obsessed with browsing on the lotus. Odysseus does not send the entire crew out to this land; he sends a small party of men to explore…

…in sufficient quantities to maintain health. These amino acids are considered essential and must be obtained from food. When we eat food high in proteins, the digestive tract breaks this dietary protein into amino acids. Absorbed into the bloodstream and sent…

…What is cooking? In the literal sense, cooking is the preparation of food for eating by subjecting heat (as by boiling, baking, frying, etc.). However, through reading “Like Water for Chocolates,” by Laura Esquivel and the poem “What’s That Smell…

…slaves felt slavery was a good thing because it gave them the only shelter and food they had ever had. When freedom came hard times came for a lot of former slaves. Many no longer had shelter or food to eat. There sufferings after freedom multiplied…

…the Victorian Era; whereas today they are thought of as almost equals. Nora Helmer is a perfect representation of the ideal Victorian wife. One example of this is Torvald, her husband, forbidding her to eat any sweets. She loves to eat macaroons, but Torvald…

…that there is no vegetation because he had not made it rain. So he watered the whole Earth and from the dust he created man. He then planted a Garden of Eden in the east, and placed the man there. He put him there to take care of it and to till it, telling him, ”You may eat…

…. Chipmunks eat nuts, seeds, wild fruits, and berries. They have inner cheek pouches that they can stuff with food. In the fall they may store some extra food to eat before they hibernate. By late spring, around 30 days after mating, the female chipmunk gives…

…Fungi is neither a plant nor an animal. They make up their very own kingdom. Fungi has characteristics of animals and plants. Like animals, they eat other organisms for nutrition because they can’t produce their own food, but like plants, some…

…, the sailors commonly gave the food to slaves twice per day, but sometimes slaves refused to eat for some reason. Then the sailors would burn a hot coal, and put it near their lips to scare them. Moreover, a lot of slaves were affected by seasickness because…

…” is, but already likens it to the Adam and Eve’s “trivial” mistake, eating from the tree of knowledge, which forced them out of Paradise. It will take a further reading of the poem to learn that the crime is simply the cutting of a lock of hair, and not a monumental…