Michael Heile Nelson 3 English 11 Honors April 29 2016 Honeybee Population Crisis Bees are very crucial to our society. They pollinate over $14 billion worth of crops each year (Ballaro and Warhol). With that amount of money you could buy almost 15 new Viking stadiums each year. They are so valuable to our society and if the bee population goes down, the human population will soon follow. Although many people are unaware of the shrinking bee population, scientific evidence has proven it to be a major problem.…
Chris Cleave's, Little Bee is literary fiction, narrative story, about a sixteen year old Nigerian English girl named Little Bee, who spent time in a British immigration detention center. When she left the detention center three other girls came along with her. They all had a plastic bag with their belongings in it, the only things Bee had was a driver’s license, and a business card belonging to Andrew O'Rourke. When the girls leave the camp, Bee calls Andrew on the phone to inform him she will be coming to see him, but Andrew thinks it’s a joke and tells her not to come, but Little Bee still goes anyway.…
I became interested in beekeeping while observing the behavior of bees while working in my garden over several days. The bees were working to increase pollination among the plants in my garden which resulted in an increase in yields from my fruit trees and vegetables. According to the American Beekeeping…
In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a fiction novel, Lily, a fourteen year old girl learns about her past, including the death of her mother and her father’s true feelings for her. She travels with her fill in mom Rosaleen, to try to find a new and better life. Many reviews state how pleasurable this book was. Book magazine states: “Maybe it’s true that there are no perfect books, but i closed this one believing that i had found perfection.” (Monk Kidd)…
“Daddy!” Most often, this is a proclamation of joy, a child announcing happiness toward their father. However, in Secret Life of Bees, a novel brilliantly written by Sue Monk Kidd, this is a cry of despair, a plea for one’s life. This stirring story is a tale of a young white girl, Lily, who with a black nanny named Rosaleen, runs away from home in search of a better life. Although often portraying events similarly, occasionally the book juxtaposes the film, which can be traced to the fact that different techniques are used in the different mediums.…
The bumblebee is an insect belonging to the Apidae family, a subcategory branching out from the Anthophila clade. The bumblebee belongs specifically to what is identified as the Bombini tribe of bees, this tribe consists of large apid bees that commonly feed on pollen or nectar. The Bumblebee belongs specifically to the Bombus genus classification. Bumblebees require an ambient amount of flowing plants in their habitat.…
The video itself does not have more meaning than a scrapbook for the project, but the song I chose relates to transcendentalism. It is called “I Like Birds” by Eels. Throughout the song they talk about how they like birds, similarly to how transcendentalists (Thoreau with the loons) admired nature and aspired to be near it. Another stanza,”I don 't care for walkin ' downtown--Crazy auto-car gonna mow me down--Look at all the people like cows in a herd-- Well, I like--Birds,” talks of resistance to conformity and anti-societal thoughts, both of which were found in…
From the time any living creature emerges into this world, their life becomes dedicated to growing and developing. Humans are especially suited to survive and endure the harsh attributes of life. Through each challenge that a person conquers, they become increasingly wiser. As life progresses, more and more challenges are brought on.…
HIVE / HOPE I want to tell a story without the word fear. Something that sounds more like spring; early-morning dew & pastel skies, the smell of lemons & sugar. But maybe I can't say hope without panic.…
As depicted in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and…
The Iron Giant – A point of reference in the history of animation In late 1996, Brad Bird, an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, using Ted Hughes book published in 1968, “The Iron Giant”, as a starting point, pitched his ideas to the famous entertainment company Warner Bros. At that time, Bird was working for Tuner Feature Animation, a multimedia company that merged with Warner Bros. after being purchased in 1996 by Time Warner, Warner Bros parent company. It appears that Bird’s pitch was based around the idea “What if a gun had a soul?”.…
Besides providing immense entertainment for both kids and adults alike, certain children’s movies, such as Disney Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, explore deep sociological concepts and structures found in our society. The movie successfully and simultaneously shows both structural functionalism and conflict theory - despite their stark differences - in the interactions between the ants and grasshoppers. Throughout the film, there are also instances that show the theories of false consciousness, collective conscious and symbolic interactionism. A Bugs Life is about a colony of ants that is separated by most other insects through geographical isolation.…
Animators have the best inspirational believe for many people to see life in another perspective. Animation is created for everyone to view the different experiences life experiences based on genres. Similarly, it depends on how the animators show their personal perceptions and experiences in their storylines. Meanwhile, the audience can see the animators’ point of view or have another perspective towards the animators’ goal. A successful animator is able to create a captivating storyline and let children believe in a magical world through the animator’s perspective.…
The Secret Life of Bees is a novel about a 14 year old girl, Lily, living in a time of segregation. She grows up in the time of the Civil Rights act. After reading The Secret Life of Bees book, we watched and compared it to the movie. A movie based on a book wouldn’t follow the exact plotline. There were key differences, but the movie followed a similar plotline.…
Socialism in the Bee Movie The Bee Movie follows a newly matured bee by the name of Barry B. Benson and his begging of work in the hive. When Barry takes a flight outside the hive he ends up finding that the humans are stealing and profiting off of honey, the bees’ creation. Barry vows to sue the human race, subsequently wins the suit, and the bees regain all of their stolen honey. The Bees begin to slack off with their newly acquired honey, only to find out that they were an integral part of the earth and that the bees absence has caused the earth to decay.…