Botany

”If you look the right way, you can see the whole world is a garden.”- Frances Hodgson Burnett. This quote is all about perspective and how changing yours will help you to see things in a more positive light. This relates to Scout in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee because her perspective changes throughout the story. There are many catalysts that help Scout to change her perspective, and Miss Maudie Atkinson is one of them. Miss. Maudie’s compassion and wisdom helps scout to…

I’ve never really been capable of actuality of making stories up or having a huge imagination. Although, I do love to read until my heart is content. I remember reading every single Harry Potter when they came out and I would fall asleep reading them every night. Until now, I’ve been really weary of college English classes. I went to ISU back in 2009 and I took two English classes that were absolutely horrible. When I was told I had to take, two more English classes at the same time, it was déjà…

Discover The Rope's Mansion Visiting the Rope's Mansion, I personally learned a lot about the history of America. The mansion taught me, even though our history didn’t carry a lot of technology like today's generation, people who were wealthy lived a rich lifestyle similar to today's society. The Rope's mansion had carried a big part in the women's history. The mansion is located on 318 Essex Street. The Ropes Mansion was built in 1727. Nathaniel Ropes II was the first person in the family…

There are five major archaeological paradigms, which include the Speculative Period that took place from 1492-1840, the Classificatory-Descriptive Period that took place from 1840-1914, the Classificatory-Historical Period that took place from 1914-1940, the New (Processual) Period that took place in the 1960’s up to the 1980’s, and the Post-Processualism that took place 1980 and present. During each period there were different interpretations of what archaeology was, there were new ideas of…

Ophelia was painted with oil on canvas by Sir John Everett Millais (The Story of Ophelia). Millais was known for his great attention to detail when it came to the botanical aspects, so much so that a professor teaching botany would take his students to see Ophelia because the representations of the flowers were so close to nature (The Story of Ophelia). The concept of this painting was born out of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Hamlet, the title character’s love interest, Ophelia tragically…

Forensic applies to courts or the judicial system, combine that with science and forensic science mean applying scientific methods and processes to solving crime. Forensic Science deals with the application of the knowledge and methodology of various disciplines of science to legal matters. It involves the use of multiple disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering for evidence analysis. For instance, physics is used to understand the pattern of a blood…

Edward M. Goolish is an astrobiologist and the Deputy Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, which is a position that he has held for many years ever since 2006. He has served N.A.I. (NASA Astrobiology Institute) or about six years, and he has been the Assistant director for research from February 1, 2013 to August 11, 2014. In 1994, Goolish came to Ames Research Center to conduct research on how the small forces within space can change aquatic organisms, vertebrates and behaviors. He…

The nation known as the Commonwealth of Australia was a colony of the British Empire and then its own independent state, this can be traced with the settlers from other parts of the world, namely those from Europe and Great Britain. I will focus on the immigrants who went to the continent of Australia and its development as a colony then how it became a nation. In particular, there will be a concentration on how mining and prospecting interest help cultivate Australia as we know it today. This…

I chose Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart over the others on the list of approved books because it sounded more interesting and more relevant than some that just focused on one branch of Botany, instead of the entire wicked spectrum like Stewart does. I like how she breaks up the world of devious plants into seven distinct categories. The plants are reported on alphabetically with relation to their crime, but with a heading that falls under one of the seven wicked categories; deadly, destructive,…

For my topic of a Famous Historical Figure, I chose to do my paper on Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkins. She is a scientist who discovered, through x-ray crystallography, that you can develop protein crystallography, helped with the advancement of the x-ray crystallography technique which was a key element to studying and understanding the 3 dimensional structures of biomolecules, and she also determined the structure of insulin (Women who changed the world •, 2014). Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a…