Bees are amongst the most important creatures to humans on Earth. These amazing insects pollinate over 80% of all flowering plants including 70 of the top 100 human food crops. One in three bites of food that we eat is derived from plants pollinated by bees. But the role bees play in nature is likely part of a greater story. Bees have been producing honey from flowering plants for the last 10 to 20 million years. As major contributors to floral growth‚ bees provide nourishing habitats for animals
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full title · The Secret Life of Bees author · Sue Monk Kidd type of work · Novel genre · Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) language · English time and place written · 1997–2001‚ near Charleston‚ South Carolina date of first publication · 2002 publisher · Viking Penguin narrator · Fourteen-year-old Lily narrates the novel in retrospect‚ from the house where she now lives with the Boatwright sisters. point of view · Lily narrates the novel in the first-person‚ describing the events she experiences
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notices something extremely strange about one of the bees. It has a tiny red spot on its body about the size of a pinhead and the bees wings are crumpled like a piece of paper. It turns out that the tiny red spot is a varroa mite and it sucks out the honeybees blood. The bees that are weakened by the varroa mites are more likely to get other diseases and could infect the rest of the hive causing the colony to die out. Scientist worry that threats to bees could hurt many of our food supplies. Honeybees
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I smelled the smell of nature. It smelled like the wind. I heard people talking‚ and bees buzzing. Everything was going well. The sun was shining. We got tickets to go on the ferry to Fire Island‚ and we waited for it to come. When it arrived‚ we decided to sit on the top of the ferry. We liked the idea of having a better view and we could have the wind cool us off. Victoria (my friend)‚ her mom‚ my mom‚ and I was on top of the ferry. A bee flew below me‚ and I freaked out. I screamed at the top
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(“Sue Monk Kidd”). The Secret Life of Bees started off as a short story written after Kidd went back to college. It was published in the University of Tulsa’s Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. The short stories received awards like the Katherine Anne Porter Prize and were in the 1994 edition of Best American Short Stories‚ (“Sue Monk Kidd”). “The short story’s success prompted Kidd to expand the work into her first novel. The Secret Life of Bees became a bestseller and won the SEBA
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The oceans have risen and fallen throughout Earth’s history‚ following the planet’s natural temperature cycle‚ and now we are in a new warming phase‚ where the oceans are rising again after thousands of years of stability. As long as we continue to power our global economy by burning fossil fuels that pollute the air with heat-trapping gases‚ we are contributing to the increase in global temperatures. Consequently‚ the ice sheets in places like Antarctica and Greenland are melting‚ thus causing the
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Honey bees are one of the matriarchies in the insect kingdom. Colonies consist of one queen‚ a lot of male worker bees‚ and a few male drones. Ninety-five percent of the worker bees are female. A healthy hive is occupied by a collection of many generations. Tasks are divided up by age and colony through an intricate system of communication. Younger worker bees tend to the queen and the baby bees. Older worker bees forage for food and water for the colony‚ convert nectar into honey‚ construct wax
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Part A: Comparison and contrast is to show the similarities and differences between two or more things. 5 Strategies • Subject by subject comparison- a caparison that involves one subject in detail and discusses the next subject in detail. • Point by point comparison-Comparing a point of one subject with the point of another subject. • Parallelism- use of matching nouns‚ verbs‚ phrases‚ or clauses to represent similar ideas. Often used in comparison and contrast essays • Structure- an essay
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her bed‚ Lily waits for the return of the bees that have begun to live in the walls of her bedroom. The year is 1964; Lily is about to turn fourteen. She lives alone with her father‚ Terrance Ray‚ and their black housekeeper and nanny‚ Rosaleen. Lily can’t bring herself to call her cruel‚ confused father “Daddy‚” so she calls him T. Ray instead. Rosaleen warns her to watch out‚ because “bees swarm before death.” Lily insists on telling T. Ray about the bees‚ so she wakes him up‚ even though she suspects
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$9 billion of agriculture is pollinated by bees annually (Karimi). Bees pollinate many plants around the world‚ some of these plants grow fruit‚ nuts‚ and vegetables. The pollination process happens when bees transfer pollen from one plant to another so that the plants can make seeds and reproduce. Bee populations are rapidly declining. There are threats against the bee colonies which are causing a decrease in the population‚ including : pesticides‚ habit loss‚ wildfires‚ and monoculture. Some
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