Beetle

A superfood which is catching a big attraction everywhere is chia seeds and places itself on the top of the super food category. These are small greyish, black, brown and white magical seeds which have extraordinary medicinal effects. Apart from its weight loss benefits, chia seeds are beneficial in many other ailments and exhibit many properties. But before I explain these benefits to you, you must know some history about these seeds. These tiny seeds come from Mexico. These seeds are a part…

Many people think eating meat is wrong, but people should eat meat. People should eat meat because eating meat is a way of life. Since the beginning of time, our species would eat meat for nutrients. The world we live in has a recent trend of eating plants that produce the same sort of nutrients that meat normally provides. One of the reasons people choose to become vegetarians is the notion that people expose animals to “enslavement or exploitation…” (Pollan 108). The vegetarian lifestyle, in…

and placed in a canopic jar. This was done because the Egyptians believed that the heart might betray the individual when he came to judgement and thereby jeopardize the afterlife. The heart was replaced with a stone carved in the shape of a dung beetle. In Egypt this insect was the symbol of eternal life. By transplanting inside the mummy in…

In the museum, I have selected three part in the Lab. First of all, there is Tarantula Spider. Tarantulas diet including grasshoppers, beetles, and other spiders. Vertebrates, such as rats, toads, snakes, frogs and lizards may fall into a tarantula depends on the species. Arboreal species feed on insects, moths and frogs. Although they have silk manufacturing capability, most tarantulas don't knit air network to capture prey. Instead, they use ambush strategies or find food at night. According…

Amianthium muscaetoxicum, commonly known as fly poison, is a perennial plant found in throughout the Eastern United States. Other common names include crow poison and stagger grass; the name fly poison arose from the translation of the Latin name A. muscaetoxicum, muscae meaning flies and toxicum meaning poison. In the past, the Cherokee would use the plant’s poison to kill crows, hence its common name crow poison, while early settlers would mix the crushed up bulb with honey to kill flies (Fly…

The civilization of Ancient Egypt dominated the northeastern corner of the African continent for over 3000 years. They were located in an area that would have been a total desert were it not for the river Nile, which stills runs north from central Africa for thousands of miles before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea . The particular geographic location of the Egyptian empire meant that they were protected from invasion and in some sense from a strong foreign influence. In figure 1, the map…

Santiago is the protagonist in Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist. The Alchemist begins with Santiago sleeping in an abandoned church with his flock of sheep. He has been having a recurring dream. He decided to seek advice from the local gypsy woman and she tells him that he will find treasure near the Egyptian pyramids. When he leaves he finds Melchizedek, the king of Salem, who tells him the same thing. But he also told him that he is succeeding in discovering his Personal Legend which is…

Nathaniel Hawthorne included this brief paragraph in his first chapter to create a setting and to bring upon us the readers the possible theme of sin. Nathaniel brings up the word “utopia” which means a perfect world, but how will one live in a perfect world where humans commit sins. So the founders knew that it wouldn't be a perfect world so they needed a cemetery and a jail. In collaboration in the text it stated, “forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the…

Yoko Ono is a woman who is most commonly known as the woman who married the Beetles’ star John Lennon. In the article by Arthur C. Danto titled “Life in Fluxus”, Danto goes into detail about Ono’s art style, how she met and influenced her husband, and the amazing and shocking art she and her husband produced. Danto never outright defines what Fluxus means, but rather lets the reader learn the definition through Ono’s work. Similarly, Ono would often let the viewers of her art participate and…

The Egyptians believed that the beetle was a symbol of Khepri, the early morning manifestation of the sun god Ra, because of the beetle’s behavior of rolling a ball of dung across the ground and Khepri’s task of rolling the sun across the sky. When the Egyptians observed the young beetles emerging from the ball of dung, they inferred that the female beetle was able to reproduce without needing a male. From this, they made a connection with their…