Bread, or хлеб (hleb) in my native tongue, with its wide range of uses, textures, and appearances is the staple food for most if not all cultures. Bread’s versatility and symbolic nature within the religious landscape have established it as a central source of carbohydrates and nutrition in everyone’s daily diet.
When I first heard we would be baking bread I was nervous, as I do not eat gluten for my anti-inflammatory diet. Gluten free bread is something I am grateful I can buy at Trader Joes, as I have no idea how to make it. Gluten is a critical component in bread that holds it together and without it, baked goods often end up (as I have learned the hard way) as a sticky mess on the counter (“How Gluten-Free Bread Works,” 2016). Since those that cannot have gluten must avoid all flours that contain it, flours like rice flour, almond flour, and even chickpea and coconut flour are used.
As someone who very much enjoys eating baked goods, I was excited to bake my first bread. To begin with, my four main ingredients were instant yeast, all-purpose flour, sea salt, and water. Being relatively new to baking, I was admittedly intimidated at the prospect of baking, even if the ingredients and overall process was so simple. Luckily for me, the most difficult part was just the mixing of ingredients, which ended up not being all too difficult.
It has been almost two months since the first stay at home orders were put in place in the United States. Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, governments around the world have shut down entire economies in order to protect the health of their citizens. The United States now has over one million cases and more than 50,000 deaths, with numbers still rising. The rippling effects of COVID-19 have shaken almost every form of industry.
What I would like to focus on is our connection with nature, how nature can benefit us, and how we might use that during this pandemic.
Music, often described as organized sound, plays an incredibly important role in our lives. It allows us to feel emotion and express ourselves as well. Music allows individuals to come together who listen or play the same music and create a collective. It helps shape musical communities and ideologies.
Today our world is controlled by the COVID-19 pandemic, and we seem unable to defend ourselves against the attack of the virus. However, as is the case with all viruses, general immunity proves to be a great asset in prevention of infection and dealing with its onset. According to Dr. Gombart, acute respiratory tract infections were responsible for the deaths of 2.5 million worldwide annually, even before this pandemic. A great deal of research indicates that many of these cases could have been mitigated with improved immune function as a result of proper nutrition. Dr.
If I’m being honest, most of my life has been spent in front of a TV or computer screen. Playing video games has been something that has been my greatest double-edged sword: providing my greatest sense of comfort and entertainment, while also being one of my greatest hindrances due to the excessive amounts of time I have sunken into it. Throughout the last few decades have completely changed at nearly every level since its inception with Pong in the 70s.
There are many different types of therapies including visual art, music and dance therapy have been used to stimulate the minds of individuals who are in the early stages of dementia. Participating in art therapy motivates patients to interact through nonverbal means of communication.
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Video 1: The big lesson from South Korea’s coronavirus response (Source: Vox)
The sound of a ventilator, courtesy of Youtube, 2016
With each week, I have been exposed to a variety of different perspectives relating to the outbreak at hand via the Honors 177 blog posts, a welcomed break from the constant stream of COVID-19 updates. It is for this reason that I would like to turn my attention to the solution, in other words, what will be involved in ending the outbreak: antibodies.
In my childhood, one of my favorite TV channels was Jetix. Frequently after school, I would rush to TV to see many vibrant super-hero cartoons, where characters were able to fly, climb on walls without any harness, turn invisible, heal without any medicine, and perform many other "magic" feats. After episodes with new heroes with their new amazing capabilities were introduced, my friends and I would argue endlessly on which super-power was "cooler" to have.