Flower arrangement is the combination of several elements to produce a visually pleasing display of fresh‚ silk or dried flowers. Flowers are arranged in several basic designs‚ including vertical‚ horizontal‚ triangular‚ crescent‚ and oval arrangements. Other options include a minimal arrangement‚ such as the lazy “S” or “Hogarth’s Curve‚” and free-standing arrangements. Hogarth’s curve is named for English painter William Hogarth who introduced designs shaped like the curves of the letter “s” into
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Beauty of a Flower “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns‚ or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln” Most important living organism other than human beings are animals and plants. Flowers and weeds have a huge role in life that they tend to play. Flowers and weeds are completely different in which they grow to reproduce or grow to destroy. Knowingly that weeds also reproduce. Flowers are known to be a brightly colored and conspicuous example of such a part of
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A flower‚ sometimes known as a bloom or blossom‚ is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta‚ also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction‚ usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower). Some flowers produce diaspores
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Flowers for Algernon‚ written by Daniel Keyes‚ is a non-fiction short story that is an emotional roller coaster. Charlie learns the ups and downs of the life of a genius and was happy and carefree in his innocence. Eventually he learns shame and it is the only thing he remembers at the end of the story. All Charlie knew was that he wanted to be smart and this operation could get him his greatest desire in one easy procedure. Before long‚ the scientists first try this experiment on a mouse to
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This story takes place in an unnamed coastal city in India during 1975-1984. This novel is told in third person and is about a chain of circumstances that tosses four very different people together into one small apartment. A college student‚ Maneck Kohlah‚ rents a room in the apartment of Dina Dalal‚ a widowed seamstress in her forties. Dina also has two additional boarders; Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash; tailors fleeing low-caste origins. They do not get along but as a series of unfortunate
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The Nine Guardians �Nine Guardians� takes places in the State of Chiapas‚ in Mexico‚ where from the remains of the Mexican revolution came the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas. His presidency takes places between 1934 and 1940‚ during the time this novel takes place. Cardenas expropriated foreign-held properties‚ distributed land to peasants‚ and instituted reforms to benefit indigenous people and Mexican workers. Cardenas found it unfair for the Indians to not be treated as equals‚ so he demanded
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The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads
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Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed‚ her cruel wealthy aunt. One day as punishment for fighting with her teasing cousin John‚ Jane’s aunt imprisons her in the ‘red-room’ – the room in which Jane’s uncle died. Whilst being locked up in the ‘red-room‚’ Jane claims that she sees her uncle’s ghost and faints. She woke up to the company of Bessie and Mr. Lloyd who both decide that Jane was to be sent to the school and to Jane’s delight‚ Mrs. Read agrees. The school is extremely unhygienic
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A detective also working as a hired killer‚ tries to save his brother‚ a professional fighter from a ruthless criminal who coerces him into throwing a big fight. MALCOLM MORA (37) lives a double life. He’s a veteran detective and he’s a contract killer that uses a mime mask. He gets his assignments from FRANK. Malcolm forces fighter BULL (30) to leave the city after Malcolm learns that Bull is supposed to fight his brother‚ DIO MORA. Mobster‚ BILL SANTORO‚ who runs an illegal fighting organization
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" The flower is god’s finest workmanship in the world. It is his finest gift to mankind." Flowers hold grace‚ beauty‚ and love all inside a small‚ delicate‚ warm hearted piece of nature. Yes‚ flowers are nothing more than a foot tall‚ but the joy and happiness it brings to one‚ overpowers it by twenty. I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman The flower is a pure‚ beautiful creation of nature. Everyday we are exposed to the enriched colors and charming qualities
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