stay forever‚ but family‚ the family would never leave. Dead or Alive‚ blood kin or not‚ the people that you share the mutual feeling of love with will always stay in your heart. For Taylor though‚ one of the main characters in the book‚ The Bean Trees‚ she never really had much to lose. So when she starts to get more and more loved ones in her life‚ Turtle‚ Lou Ann‚ Estevan‚ she starts to get scared because there is a more of a risk of losing them. In which‚ one she does lose‚ and the other two
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Because it meant new beginnings. New beginnings with a future unknown. But change is necessary. Necessary for her to learn‚ to grow‚ and to better herself. Being fearful of something is normal‚ but not common when someone is fearless. In The Bean Trees‚ Taylor is faced with many challenges that she has to overcome. These challenges will test her strength and ability to be true to herself. The first challenge Taylor is faced with is Turtle. That one fateful night‚ when she found Turtle in the back
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Aroma of Christmas Trees One familiar smell around Christmas is that of the pine tree. The smell comes from the chemical pinene. There are two compounds in a pine tree‚ Alpha-pinene and beta-pinene. The chemical compounds The pinene is part of the terpenes family‚ which are produced by plants. Terpenes can form aerosols with other chemicals that go into the clouds and cool the air‚ as well as make the skyline above mountains blue. The terpene pinene is also a reason that pine trees are so flammable
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Mutualism: Fig wasps and fig trees Fig wasps (Agaonidae) are a species of wasps that have a life span of a couple of days and could be as little as 2mm in length. Hence the name these wasps are sole pollinators of fig trees (Ficus)‚ each fig tree species has its own particular wasp for pollination. Fig trees are totally dependent on fig wasps for pollination and have been for the past 60 million years‚ this shows that this process of pollinating is efficient and sustainable creating equilibrium
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The plight of immigrants can only be told through experience not statistics mainly because statistics do not convey the predicament that they face in real life. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel‚ The Bean Trees‚ revolves around a young woman named Taylor who has never been a victim of injustice because she’s lived in rural Kentucky her whole life and once she leaves her county‚ she is exposed to the harsh reality beyond the boundaries. She began her journey in Pittman County where not much occurs and headed
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By the end of The Bean Trees‚ Taylor Greer is almost an entirely different character from the Marietta Greer that she was at the beginning of the book. Not only did she change her name to reinvent herself after leaving Pittman County‚ but she also underwent serious internal changes as well. When the book opened‚ Marietta was a poor girl from rural Kentucky who was too afraid of rejection to even apply for a job. By the end of the book‚ Taylor has become callous due to the nature of the life she and
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The Different Side of Family Barbara Kingsolver‚ in her novel The Bean Trees‚ utilizes figurative language to emphasize on daughters and families that exhibits the harsh truth behind being a person. Lou Ann ponders this when another character named Lee Sing states‚ “ ‘Feeding a girl is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig. All that work. In the end‚ it goes to some other family’ ” (43). This simile that compares girls to New Year pig stresses that the effort that parents put into their daughters
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Sometimes we feel hopeless‚ unable to believe in ourselves‚ and we come close to quitting. It is then that we need a friend‚ someone that can be there for us in our times of need to support and keep pushing us to maximize our potential. In The Bean Trees‚ Taylor is faced with multiple adversities‚ and struggles to overcome them when she finds herself alone. Through her novel‚ Kingsolver illustrates with character development and dialogues how Taylor must form solid bonds with others in order to combat
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Berry or hallelujah Pick your poison tell me what you doin’ Everybody gon’ respect the shooter But the one in front of the gun lives forever And I been hustlin’ all day‚ this a way‚ that a way Through canals and alleyways‚ just to say Money trees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel‚ now‚ now A dollar might just fuck your main bitch that’s just how I feel‚ now A dollar might‚ say fuck them niggas that you came with that’s just how I feel‚ now A dollar might‚ just make
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1. Trees save energy and money. Just three trees strategically planted around your home can cut your air conditioning bill in half. 2. Trees save tax payers. Trees in a city slow storm water runoff and reduce the need for storm sewers. Tree shade also helps cool municipal buildings‚ lowering electricity bills. 3. Trees cool our cities. Urban "heat islands" are directly related to massive tree-cutting for development. 4. Trees clean our water and air. From low level ozone in our cities
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