Water Lilies

surrounding environment to find an area where it would have the least amount of impact on the microclimates. This is a principle of permaculture as one’s design must cooperate with nature. By placing the pond in an area where the drainage dispenses water, we are using the resources that the environment already provides to fill the pond. (Another element of permaculture.) The permaculture zones helped me finalize the placement of the pond, as the pond would need to be placed in either zone 1…

reaching a staggering eleven feet tall. Running down the spines are 3-4 inch spines and on top are rings of yellow-green or red blossoms. Native Americans used to boil them into cabbage-like stews. They would also grind up the pulp and extract the water. Another plant native to deserts is the brittle bush. IT is a small deciduous shrub which grows as a low roundish mound 2-5 ft high. The branches sprout from woody trunks. On the branches are leaves about 1-4 inches long that are covered in a…

dove into the shallow end of the beach and acquainted our bodies with the cold, late Summer temperature. After a few minutes my friend Gage shouted, “Let’s Go!” and the four of us swam onwards toward the raft. As I paddled my body through the lake lily pads, weeds, and whatever was lurking beneath us brushed past my limbs. Ever so often I thought about the turtles. Although nobody was ever attacked by a Snapper our lake was known for having Snapping Turtles as big as a kitchen cabinet. As we…

mode of passive transport used by the cells. It involves the transport of a solvent like water across a semi-permeable membrane. Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules from an area of low solute to an area of high solute. In osmosis, the semi-permeable membrane (the lipid bilayer) enables the solvent molecules to pass freely between but limits movements of the solute. Osmosis is the primary way water moves into and out of all cells. In this experiment, the demineralized egg demonstrates a…

Reiman Gardens is a beautiful place not only filled with many different flowers, but with many trees and stone designed pieces of art throughout the entire garden. The natural beauty of the garden is one that has been around since 1914. Since 1914, the garden has been allowing students, faculty, and even guests to visit the pleasing garden. Reiman Gardens not only serves for its natural beauty, but also serves as a learning and research sanctuary for students and faculty. Reiman Gardens’…

warm sunshine against my face, and cold little sprinkles of water on my hand, it felt as if someone sprinkling a salt shaker on my hand. I looked up from the water to see the air filled with beautiful green trees staring back at me. I could just smell the aroma of bushy pines. I could hear the voices of other kids and parents talking. I looked back down at Glendale lake and saw a bundle of small gray fish swimming through the clear water, and happy birds chirping a soft melody. I thought…

daily lives, Christina Rossetti’s powerful poem Goblin Market is published to empower women of the Victorian Era. This poem is about two sisters, Lizzie and Laura, who live alone in the middle of the woods. They go into the woods every day to get water from the river, where they encounter goblin men selling fruits. After Laura tries the fruits and becomes ill, her sister Lizzie does everything in her power to get Lizzie the antidote from the goblin men, and eventually healing her. In Christina…

spring in the state of Georgia. The formation of this spring is due to the karst topography where the surface of the water infiltrated the earth crust surface that became the area ground water. Once the ground water travels through the rocks and cracks, water eventually emerges below the surface forming the spring. The Radium spring flow 70,000 gallons of water which empty out all the water in the flint river. What got radium…

She says: Despite the fact that it was June, and raining, the river was no more than a swollen drain now. A thin ribbon of thick water that lapped wearily at the mud banks on either side, sequinned with the occasional silver slant of a dead fish. It was choked with a succulent weed, whose furred brown roots waved like thin tentacles under water. Bronze-winged lily trotters walked across it. Splay-footed, cautious. (124) But the change in river, excessive deterioration and degeneration due to…

In the past, the citizens of a teeming metropolis lived in their own filth, drank the cleanest water they could find, and subsided on whatever food was in surplus. This was just the way it was. Their poor living conditions were not due to any malicious force acting to subjugate them. Rather, their poor living conditions were due to a lack of understanding…