The Dish Essays

  • American Culture: Life in a Petri Dish

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    anticipating writing this paper on American culture, I kept thinking of the culture that biologists grow in a petri dish. More specifically, the bacteria strep, which must be grown in a special medium called, blood agar. If someone has a "positive" culture, the bacteria strep has metabolized the blood in the agar and the petri dish will be clear. If someone has a "negative" culture, the petri dish will remain red. I can't help but make some analogies between science and American culture. The United

  • DISH Network Company

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    DISH Network was organized as a corporation in 1995 under the state laws of Nevada and began operation on March 4, 1996. They are primarily focused on delivering high-quality video entertainment. DISH is a publicly traded company with common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and is traded under the ‘DISH’ symbol. DISH is a nationwide company, and is the United States third largest pay-TV provider. DISH Network’s three main business subsidiaries are DISH, Blockbuster, and Wireless Spectrum

  • Petri Dish Lab Report

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    is a tool used to obtaining a pure culture. The technique consists of taking an original inoculum that contains a mixed culture and spreading the bacteria into four quadrants on a solid medium. The purpose of spreading the mixed culture on a petri dish is to reduce the number of bacteria in each subsequent quadrant to one parent cell of each type of bacteria. One isolated bacterial is called a colony; which consist of thousands or even millions of individual replicates of the original parent cell

  • Joy of Cooking

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    The creative format comes from the chef. Since I am the one who cooks in my house, I must prepare each dish tasteful and attractive. For example, I was thinking of a creative cake for my daughters&rsquo birthday. I decide to make her a choo choo train cake. The way I want to present this dish is by making it look like a toy train with zoo animals standing near by. The idea of this dish is to make the train look similar to the candy house in the story, "Hansel and Gretel". The first step

  • Italian Culture

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    is tasted with every single bite. One of my favorite dishes would have to be fettuccini alfredo and it just happens to be a fairly easy, but extremely delicious, dish to make. Trust me, if I can make it, you can make it. The most important part of Italian cooking is the ingredients. Quality makes a huge difference in the outcome of any dish. For fettuccini alfredo you need: one pound of uncooked fettuccini, two cups of finely grated parmesan or romano cheese, one pint of either heavy cream or half

  • The Effect of Acid Rain on Germination of Cress Seeds

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    have on germination of seeds. Apparatus: · Petri dish (11) · Cress seeds (20 11) · Sulphuric acid (70cm³) · Distilled water · Measuring Syringes (11) · Beakers · Filter paper (11) · Specimen tube (11) · Pipette Diagram: Method: 1. I collected all the apparatus needed (see apparatus list). 2. I made a dilution series (see dilution series). 3. Placed the filter paper in the bottom of the petri dish. 4. Took 10cm³ of diluted acid from dilution of 0.010

  • Overcoming Obstacles In Ethan Frome

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    There are certain people in the world where they "see obstacles as threats. Still others see obstacles as meaning they cannot succeed" ("Overcoming Obstacles."). This is the type of thinking Ethan and Mattie had throughout the story. Being in love caused them to see Zeena as the threat and be scared of overcoming her due to the fact that they might upset her or bring her down, although they still loved her. An example of an obstacle between them would be Zeena's black cat, which she loved deeply

  • Free Essays on Wharton's Ethan Frome: Unselfish and Stupid Ethan

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    Besides helping Mattie with her chores Ethan stood up for her and stood up for her in front of Zeena. When the cat broke the pickle dish when Zeena was away at seeing a doctor Ethan went out of his way to try to cover it up. He concocted a plan to buy some glue and put the dish back together so that Zeena wouldn't notice. When that plan failed and Zeena found the broken dish, Ethan was willing to take the blame instead of Mattie.

  • Kicking Spaghetti

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    and a sweet and savory sauce that will make your mouth water. My homemade spaghetti is a knock out of the park! Olive Garden can’t even compete with it; it’s impossible! After a few trial and errors, I have concocted the recipe that indeed makes this dish flawless and now I want to pass it down to you. Not only is Courtney’s Kicking Spaghetti scrumptious, but it’s also inexpensive and effortless to prepare. Before you can dive in and learn how to formulate your spaghetti, you have to know exactly

  • Ferm Life Cycle

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    process which we used to grow a fern. I will discuss the methods and the results of the lab exercise. Finally, I will discuss the evidence of the methods and results that were obtained . Methods and Results: To begin our experiment we obtained a petri dish from our lab instructor which contained fern spores and the food they needed to survive. We then look at the spores through the micro scope. It was to soon to see anything but little green dots. We then put our petri dishes under a light until next

  • IVF - In Vitro Fertilization

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    expensive and rather risky program (costing around $4000 excluding overheads) allows infertile couples to achieve pregnancy when conventional therapy has failed or is unacceptable. The procedure involves placing eggs that have been fertilised in a cultured dish directly into the uterus. A successful procedure will go as follows: - Couples are counselled about their situation and informed on the procedure, their obligations and rights. - Medical history, physical examination and other related tests are taken

  • Free Essays on Kafka's Metamorphosis: True Essence of the Metamorphosis

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    grotesque were evident here. Kafka used the constant setting of the Samsa household to show the true repercussions of the metamorphosis.  It is here that Gregor is truly dehumanized.  No longer can he stand the taste of what used to be his favorite dish.  He is reduced to a vermin who feeds on rotted, decaying food and who finds the presence of fresh food repulsing.  The very means by which he sustained himself is not fit for a human, but rather for a dependent beast. Gregor's eyesight begins to

  • The History of Pie

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    years ago to today. Pastry making goes as far back as the Neolithic Period. These round, flat cakes were first known as “galettes.” Our ancestors made these pie-like treats with oat, wheat, rye, and barley, then filled them with honey and baked the dish over hot coals (Montagne, 490). The tradition of galettes was carried on by the Greeks. Yet, this ancient people ingeniously realized that the galette idea served as a perfect vehicle to cook raw meat. So, they created pies with the popular meats

  • Grandpas House

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    pretending that I was in a jungle. Surrounding the yard are daisies and tulips, which every spring, bloom and provide beauty for the entire season. In the center of the yard is a large satellite dish. It is a large black ominous monstrosity, which seemed to turn of its own free will. Next to the satellite dish on the right side is a sandbox my grandpa and I had built one summer. On the other side of the yard near the house stands a crabapple tree that has been there for as long as I can remember. Behind

  • Best Man Wedding Speech (Roast)

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    Best Man Wedding Speech Ladies and Gentlemen, It's time for me to make a speech now and quite frankly, there's not a lot you can do about that. Well, if there's anybody here this evening who feels strangely nervous and apprehensive, it's probably because you just went and married Bill Meyers! Sorry Lacy - It's too late now. You're stuck with him. When it comes to Best Man's speeches there are some things in the interests of good taste, which are better left unsaid.....well, I'm here

  • Antimicrobial Drug Sensitivity Testing

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    Antimicrobial sensitivity testing is important clinically because the proper selection of an antimicrobial drug in the treatment of a bacterial infection is ideally based on the knowledge of the sensitivities of the infecting organism. In this laboratory exercise you will be working within a group performing a commonly used test that is designed to determine whether or not an isolated organism is able to be treated using a specific antimicrobial drug. The procedure is called sensitivity testing.

  • Cloning Dialoge

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    cloning is really not that complicated to understand. Allow me to explain as I split Dr. Wilmut's cloning process into three steps. During the first step, udder cells from a six-year-old Finn Dorset ewe were taken and placed into a culture dish. The culture dish, containing low levels of nutrients, starved the cells, causing them to stop their dividing and hibernate its active genes. Meanwhile, the nucleus with its DNA from an unfertilized egg--also called an oocyte--taken from a Scottish Blackface

  • Much Ado About Nothing Essay: Beatrice, Benedick, and Love

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    admits that there is something to be said for Benedick, were it not for his perpetual tattling (2.1.6-26)”  (Wells 167). Beatrice and Benedick had been more or less in love for some time, and Benedick had retreated: Bene: O God, sir, here’s a dish I love not! I cannot endure my Lady Tongue. Exit D. Pedro: Come, la... ... middle of paper ... ...eason’, she loves him ‘but in friendly recompense’; he takes her only ‘for pity’, she yields to him ‘on great persuasion, and partly to save

  • My First Date

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    right, it was pathetic, but the day had come and I couldn't wait to see the shimmer of her eyes. I was ecstatic through all of my classes. After practice, I went home started to make dinner. I planned on making a shrimp scampi dish, but later decided to go with a pasta dish. The end result was a seafood Alfredo stuffed with jumbo shrimp, king crab, oysters, clams, and many other ingredients and spices. Now that the food was almost done it was time to get ready. I let the Alfredo simmer while I

  • Pavlov Theory - Conditioned Response

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    was surgically put into their cheeks to measure the amount of saliva the dog had released. After repeating this process a couple of times he ran into what he called a problem, the dog would salivate at just the site of the food, and eventually the dish the food came in and even the sound of footsteps walking towards him. Pavlov, trying to get around this problem tried to sneak up on the dog, but to no avail. Later Pavlov realized he stumbled upon a form of learning now known as classical conditioning