According to research, exposure to a certain type of bacteria called mycobacterium vaccae which is found in soil can help increase serotonin levels in the body. Serotonin is a chemical found in the brain. It can boost a person's mood and decrease anxiety. This same chemical can help people better process information in their brains. Just by being outside, our bodies can breathe in this bacteria. Research has shown that this bacteria appeared to boost the mood in laboratory mice. Additionally, the mice that were given this bacteria in their diet were able to move through a maze twice as quickly as mice that were not given this bacteria. These same mice also behaved less anxiously than the other mice. Based on information from the passage, the reader can tell that

What is easier living or dying?????

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. You could date a great change in the world to a visit one Madame Villeneuve made to France in 1714. That year, Pauline, an enslaved woman from the Caribbean, arrived in France as the personal servant of her mistress. When Madame Villeneuve set off from the coast to visit Paris, she left Pauline in a convent. The young woman spent her time studying with the nuns and went so far in her training that she asked to become a nun herself and remain in the convent. The nuns agreed, which enraged Madame Villeneuve. She rushed to a judge, demanding to have her property back. Was Pauline a free woman, a bride of Christ, or an item to be bought, sold, and warehoused when she was not in use? Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. But when two slaves managed to reach France, he freed them—saying they became free "as soon as they [touched] the soil" of France. The judges sided with Pauline—she was real to them, human, not a piece of property. For Pauline's judges, as for King Louis, slavery far off across the seas was completely different from enslaved individuals in France. Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should be able to list their slaves as property when they arrived in France and take them with them when they left. Though most parts of France agreed to this, law­makers in Paris hesitated. Pierre Lemerre the Younger made the case for the slaves. "All men are equal," he insisted in 1716—exactly sixty years before the Declaration of Independence. To say that "all men are equal" in 1716, when slavery was flourishing in every corner of the world and most eastern Europeans themselves were farmers who could be sold along with the land they worked, was like announcing that there was a new sun in the sky. In the Age of Sugar, when slavery was more brutal than ever before, the idea that all humans are equal began to spread—toppling kings, overturning governments, transforming the entire world. How do the details in the passage support the central idea? A)They compare the end of slavery in the French colonies with the end of slavery in other colonies.
B)They provide details about the final few years of slavery in Europe and its many colonies.
C)They provide examples of how laws and attitudes about equality changed in France.
D) They explain why enslaved people entered convents in an attempt to gain their freedom.

Which sentence in this excerpt from Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" uses personification?

In negotiations, what does back-up mean?having a plan so you can walk away
splitting the difference
meeting halfway in a deal
hiding how much you can really spend

A reward that follows an action is called

3)Which sentence shows the correct verb mood usage?We were being in the grocery store.
My mom recommends that he get a cart before going in.
Go telling your friend to get a cart from the front of the store.
If you wanted the better deal, you should be arriving when the store opens.