Month: April 2016

Zach’s Haiku

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This was one of the first Haikus that I have done this year. I made it with Miles Friedmen and Freddie Fine. I suggested we do a poem about breaking phones because I break and or lose mine a lot. Also whenever you watch your phone going down the stairs its almost like watching your friend get smashed and beat of by the ground. That’s why this poem is really personal for me. Haikus are not actually that hard to make. They consist of three rules, five syllables on the top, seven syllables in the middle and five on the bottom. After those three rules you can do anything you want. This was not that hard to do because as long as you have a main idea its easy to make a haiku. The one thing that was very challenging was rephrasing all of my words to sound better.

Structure Fits Function – Small Intestine

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Did you ever wonder what happens inside the digestive system or where your food goes after you swallow it. Part of the process of the food digesting is the small intestine. By the time the food gets to the small intestine it is broken down into almost a liquid. But what is the small intestine? That’s what I’m going to tell you today!
1. The Small Intestine has a rough surface (villi) so the food will be absorbed by it into the body. It isn’t stored, but it is absorbed.
2. It is 15-30 ft long, to make sure the maximum the amount of nutrients absorbed from the food.
3. Because it is so long, the body coils it up on itself.
4. So it doesn’t uncoil, the Small Intestine is surrounded by the Large Intestine.
5. It also has a thick muscle layer surrounding it to increase the surface area.

All of that helps the Small Intestine do it’s function! Screen Shot 2016-04-18 at 8.48.42 PM