What would happen to the water if instead of coffee beans, strips of dried seaweed were used? Explain your prediction.…
A tropism is a growth movement whose direction is determined by the direction from which the stimulus strikes the plant.…
Complete University of Phoenix Material: Week Four Deserts Lab Report by answering the following questions from your lab book: 15.4, 15.8, 15.16, 15.18, 15.19 15.20. Note that additional lab book questions and answer...…
This experiment will evaluate duckweed and its ability to remove nutrients and toxins from water sources. Thus, duckweed will kill the organisms that require similar nutrients, yet aid the organisms that would otherwise die to toxins. Specifically, if one was to place Elodea plants in a tank with duckweed, then the Elodea will die due to the lack of nutrients from the duckweed having used the nutrients for its own benefits. Furthermore, if one were to place an organism such as Daphnia in a tank with Duckweed, then the duckweed would remove any toxins present in the water and provide a food source to the organism, thus sustaining the life of that organism.…
Skywoman Falling, the first chapter of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s memoir Braiding Sweetgrass, is about the story of creation and what sweetgrass is. In the text, Kimmerer uses process analysis and description to evoke a feeling of connection and creativity.…
In response to this article I would have to say that it is quite an unprepared protestor unknowing of his own stupidity. He calls out the scientists fighting the overgrowth of this knotweed saying this and that, with reasonable arguments in my opinion, but then concludes with an overwhelmingly lacking solution of his own. John Stahl states, "I'm not sure how good knotweed will be as a paper source but it doesn't matter." Let's review John's solution . John's solution was to use knotweed as a paper source, yet he does not even know if it is in any sense an effective paper-producing resource other than the idea that it holds plenty of cellulose. Instead he uses examples of other plants that are useful in paper production, which have nothing to do with knot weed. He actually strays off topic a couple of times. Once with a discussion of mosquitoes and another with questions of God. And though I can tell his motives are honest with a great deal of emotional relevance, I do not see much as to logic or preparation into the essay.…
There are a multitude of ways in which a person can be enslaved. Sometimes, the captivity comes from a physical source, like a prison. Other times, it comes from within one’s own mind. Confinement can come, too, from other people, especially loved ones. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible explores these types of captivity in conjunction with themes of love and betrayal.…
History is everything but a great man’s biography. It’s what causes great men to rise, and sacrifice their lives for others. It’s what causes millions of deaths. In 1933, a genocide by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany killed six million Jewish people. This was one of the deadliest genocides in the world. Its horrifying stories are still told today through the books like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Yellow Star, and much more. Similarly, Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli is another novel that keeps history alive to make sure the children of today understand their ancestors and cruelties of the past.…
I predict that Charlotte Grimké and her daughter Hetty Handful Grimké, will achieve freedom from being enslaved to the Grimkés, a white aristocratic family. It is likely that the two African-American slaves, Charlotte and Handful, will adorn freedom because they are determined. As a means to earn money, Charlotte urges Sarah’s mother, missus, to allow her to be hired out to other white people, which will allow her to obtain a portion of the revenue by applying her sewing skills. However, missus is reluctant to allow Charlotte to work for other employers due to her irrational fear of Charlotte working harder for them, which in turn causes Charlotte to clandestinely and illegally hire herself out. Charlotte is deceitful, dishonest, and tenacious due to her thirst for freedom. She is willing to deceive her white owner, which may…
In the short story, “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, Lizabeth, the main character, a victim of poverty, took her anger out on her neighbor’s cherished marigolds without knowing what she was doing. She later realized the marigolds symbolized hope for her and her poverty struck community. This relates to a similar occasion that I experienced with my parents divorce.…
This passage towards the end reveals a storyteller telling the tale of slaves working through rugged conditions on a plantation. Nevertheless, they would soon go on to glory as some of which couldn’t stand the unbearable circumstances that were forced upon them. In addition, the storyteller described a few situations that slaves had to endure throughout their time spent on the plantation’s cotton field such as: nurturing an infant while proceeding in harsh labor and confliction between slave and slave owners.…
He lived in a comfortable home. Will's family had slaves and the slaves did all the real work on the plantation. Will is not used to manual labor and now, living with his aunt , uncle and cousin he needs to work hard everyday. His pride will not let him admit to weariness or dismay in how hard the work is on the farm. His uncle can sense the feelings Will has towards him. Uncle Jed has Will work along side of him and he gives him responsibility. Working along side his uncle, Will comes to a begrudging admiration of his skill and wisdom. Will also learns to trust his own instincts.…
For Douglass, he managed to make it through childhood without fully understanding what slavery was. It wasn’t till he witnessed his Aunt Hester being whipped by his master, that he understood what slavery meant. His real introduction to suffering occurs one day when Douglass collapsed from fatigue. Covey kicked him and gave him a harsh beating, and it's here that he learns to overcome suffering. After his experience, he vows that he would rather die rather than let himself be whipped again, he gains the strength of will he will eventually need for his journey north to freedom.…
In the beginning of the novel Will was un-extraordinary, he was small for his age but fast and quick-witted and his only friends were his ward mates whom he grew up with, although he didn’t get along with Horace, whom was a boy who was big and strong and he always got into fights with him. He wanted to attend battle school and become a warrior like his father, but he was denied on account of his size but was soon apprenticed by Ranger Halt. He was unsure as to whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, but as he didn’t want to be put to work in the fields he stayed with the grim Ranger.…
Comedy is a form of cognitive reappraisal, which Drew Hayden Taylor effectively integrates throughout Motorcycles and Sweetgrass to address tragic issues. Personally, I agree with Thomas King, that bombarding the reader with tragedy only results in their lack of interest. I believe that Taylor masters the use of humour to introduce sinister issues; he uses humour as a lubricating tool to ease the tension of the plot and maintain the readers engagement. Particularly, in chapter fourteen, I was intrigued by the way that Taylor glazes over the concept of the fallibility of humanity through Virgil's visit with Wayne. Due to their lack of knowledge, Virgil, and sadly, the entire population of Otter Lake, fall victim of humanity’s tendency to judge…