Berlin Wall

excerpt from the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls creates a somber tone towards the town of Welch. Jeannette develops this tone through the use of repetition and word choice. The word choice throughout this excerpt is always heavy-hearted and gloomy. Jeannette's purpose is to portray the town in a horrid way to show that this was the turning point in her life when she lost her purity and began to see the world in reality. Jeannette Walls suggests repetition when she talks in…

The organisms used in this lab are the Ascomycota fungi Sordaria fimicola. S. fimicola is made of haploid cells in a hyphae. A diploid cell is formed when two haploid nuclei bud off of the hyphae. This diploid cell then undergoes meiosis and mitosis forming eight haploid cells called a tetrad. The cells develop within an ascospore, and a group of ascospores is an ascus. An perithecia contains the asci (Glase, 1995). S. fimicola have a unique feature in their meiotic process which easily lends…

The memoir The Glass Castle, written by author Jeannette Walls was published in March of 2005. In August of 2017 Jeannettes memoir was adapted into a movie by screenplay writers Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Lanham. Some of the actors that starred in the movie were Brie Larson (Jeannette Walls), Naomi Watts (Rose Mary Walls), and Woody Harrelson (Rex Walls). The movie adaption did exceptionally well gaining a gross revenue of 21.70 million USD, but i would not recommend the movie to those who…

The hypothesis could be proven. If water is filtered through a pine dowel, then this permeable wood will filter the impurities out of the water through the process of osmosis. The water will pass through leaving the impurities behind. This experiment did prove the hypothesis however, it may have worked better if more time was allowed for most of the water to go completely through the wood, if the wood were less dense, and if the dirt in the water wasn’t so fine. In my experiment I observed that…

WALL-E Film Review In the future, the earth is a giant dumpster covered by technologies garbage. Humans flee from the Earth and leave millions of tiny robots to clean up their heaps of rubbish until the Earth is habitable for life. However, all of the robots stopped working after 700 years, except a robot who still laboriously does his job. The production of Pixar Animation Studio and Disney, WALL-E was a 2008 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Andrew Stanton. As an animated…

Artists use their own personal context and connection to their society. Barbara Kruger does this through her work “Buy Me, I’ll Change Your Life” as she confronts consumer culture, economic and social issues. Another work by Kruger “We’ve received orders not to move” this work also reflecting her societal link. The Guerilla Girls are a group of anonymous feminists that fight racism and sexism in the art world. Two of their works include, “How many works by women artists were in the Andy Warhol…

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the Communists were unsupportive of the Weimar and didn’t want to associate with other parties who supported them. There were several economic difficulties that Weimar endured throughout their time; for example, the Wall Street Crash of 1928 and The Great Depression of 1930. American banks saw their losses mount and they started calling in their short term loans with which so much of German economy had been financing itself for the past five years. Amongst…

By mid 1930, just before the wall Street crash the Great Depression in Germany just started. The economic situation in Germany briefly improved between 1924-1929. However, Germany in the 1920s remained politically and economically unstable. The Weimar democracy could not withstand the disastrous Great Depression of 1929. The disaster began in the United States of America, the leading economy in the world. The impact on Weimar Germany was even more dire. Germans were not so much reliant on…

quickly as possible, the mud and brick construction worked rather well for a hasty construction. The Great Temple of Aten was made to follow a new cult of Aten, the Sun disk, a small division from Ra the sun god. The temple was located right along the wall separating the public from the royal family. This was done to minimize travel from the palace to the most visited place in the city. There is also a small Aten palace which was used for lesser religious practices and more daily, without the…

indication of the country’s abiding durability was an exclusive configuration known as the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall was assembled and established by a man named Qin, the first emperor of China. He conceived this complex as a forcible blockade to defend the Chinese and their homeland as well. Much of the Chinese society became endeavored to death in the development of this unforgettable wall in China. Qin was frightened that one of his rivals of the other six different kingdoms in…