Before the sun is up, a woman is scrambling around her house, searching for a clean dress to wear. It has not rained the last few days, so she has had to cut her shower to only three minutes and hasn’t been able to do the laundry that has started to pile up. The woman finds the proper outfit — a blue, floor-length dress and a white bonnet that she ties under her chin. She peeks out of her bedroom window, the first burst of sunlight now streaking across the black water.
In 1980 Candy Lightner was a woman who stood up against drunk driving by creating a club called MADD (mothers against drunk driving). According to their website (madd.org) their mission is “To end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking.” MADD’s goal is for there to be no more victims in the entire United States. That would save thousands of lives that are killed each year from drunk driving.
Timmatha Gagner, McKenna Townsend, Rebecca Hamilton Math 302- Habits of Mind 1 For Habits of Mind Problem 1, we were given the ratios of carnations to daisies, roses to peonies, and peonies to carnations. We were asked to find the remaining ratios of flowers, which would be peonies to daisies, carnations to roses, and roses to daisies. Madison also wants to give her teacher a bouquet using appropriate ratios and whole flowers. So, for this question we were asked how many of each type of flower should be put in the bouquet. The ratios we were already given are represented in tables 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 Table 1.1 Carnations 14 28 42 56 70 Daisies 7 14 21 28 35 Note that 14:7 simplifies to 2:1
Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl is a memoir divided into three parts about her role as a scientist, friend, mother, and lover. In the book, Jahren gives intimate details into her childhood, years as a student, professor in three separate universities, wife to a brilliant mathematician and as a mother to a boy. Sometimes the facts about her life transition seamlessly into a narrative about botany, usually revolving around the secret life of plants of all different types. Whether she is describing the early years and patient hope of the seedling, the restlessness of tree awaiting death, or the evolved spine of an ingenious cactus, Jahren relates the plants’ internal desires and activity in a break takingly human way throughout the book.
Hypothesis: If four lights (UV Light, LED Light, Infrared Light, and Blue Light) are used to perform photosynthesis on a spinach leaf, then the spinach will respond most to the blue light and perform a more efficient photosynthetic process.
Desire-a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. Although it is a powerful feeling, desire can disappear, as soon as the want is fulfilled. Desire is created by the barrier, preventing one from reaching his or her destination. In both of these poems, “I had been hungry all these years” by Emily Dickinson, and “The Lighted Window” by Sara Teasdale, the theme of desire is shown. Dickinson and Teasdale both suggest that desire is no longer present once it is fulfilled, and that what is desired can be changed over time.
The Trickster Tale Trickster and the Talking Bulb is a Native American folklore. Native Americans would tell these tales orally to the children in their tribe. The trickster tales weren’t read from a book, they were told by and brought down from generation to generation. This particular tale is from The Winnebago Trickster Cycle. According to the passage on page 35 of the Norton Anthropology American Literature Beginnings to 1865, Winnebago is a term that comes from Algonquian people.
Regarding the circumstances the plant will not grow as they do not have the ‘“sunshine” to do
The light bulb is the most important because at night there would be no light and you might hurt yourself if you had no light to see. Also, you would be able to work longer and with the light. This is important because if we didn’t have light at night then we wouldn’t be able to work longer and accomplish more things. Another example why the lightbulb was the most important invention is because we wouldn’t be able to see at night when we are driving. It is extremely important to see when you are driving because you could crash and hurt you or someone else.
Two of the same types of plants were used, in order for the results to be reliable. One of the plants was labelled DISTILLED whereas the other was ACIDIC, so the results don’t get mixed. The DISTILLED plant was used as a controlled variable, where normal spring water was used (pH 7.3) The ACIDIC plant was the one the experiment had taken place on, this was where lemon water was used (pH 2.0) Throughout the experiment pictures were taken, so one will be able to notice the colour change on the acidic plants, as it had started to slowly die. With both plants you are able to notice that they had both started to grow flowers, but more the spring watered plant than that on the lemon juice watered one. The results of the plant growth was recorded to we would be able to notice the amount it had grown, this would be the water compared to lemon juice.
Zoe De los Santos 4-2 ELA Period 4 Ms. Sandoval 22 October 2015 A Lasting Impression The lightbulb. The moon landing.
Research Question: How does the presence of light impact the rate of transpiration in plants? Aim: The aim of this experiment was to investigate how the presence of light affects the rate of transpiration in plants. Hypothesis: As light intensity increases, the rate of transpiration (water uptake) in a plant increases.
Thomas Edison Name: Institution: Thomas Edison Thomas Edison was born in eleventh February year 1847 In Ohio. Edison had received limited formal education and attended school for only a few months. His parents taught him writing, reading, and arithmetic. However, he was a child who was inquisitive and, as a result, taught himself how to read his conviction in self-development played a core role in his life. Thomas started to work at a tender age.
Applying the idea of learning in plant systems certainly makes for fascinating future ideas and research. The mimosa pudica in itself is enough to stimulate new testing with its unique capabilities and
Zoe Wicomb’s novel, Playing in the Light (2006), is set in the 1990s in Cape Town, South Africa, post apartheid. The novel revolves around Marion, the protagonist, and her intricate relationship with Brenda, the first person of color she has ever employed at her travel agency business. This post apartheid novel offers interesting and an insightful viewpoint of South Africa following the fall of apartheid. By analyzing the passages in this novel, one will be able to better understand race in the context of South Africa.
