Botany

Leonardo da Vinci is indefinitely one of the most important artists there is in all history. With his artistic styles, skills and discovery, he impinged the art industry most specifically in his time period the Renaissance, and remained influential even in the contemporary years. His works, which captures nature in the most realistic form of its time, and which emphasizes the importance of aesthetics combined with geometrical composition that purposefully pleases the eye, succeeded to grant da…

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, has been central to American literature for over a century. He was born on November 30, 1835 in a small town in Missouri. Mark Twain is one of the most famous American literature authors of all time. He has changed the way people look at American Literature and has wrote hundreds of stories about his past childhood experiences and way of life. Twain tried to embody his virtues into the stories he wrote to help readers through tough times…

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel near Potsdam (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.388) is an oil painting on canvas produced in 1834 by the German painter, Carl Blechen. The piece is 52 ½ by 50 inches, depicting a scene of lush greenery and four women who have the appearance of stepping from the pages of a fantasy novel, all united within the pastel confines of ornate greenhouse walls. Despite its mystic and dream-like properties, Blechen 's Interior of the Palm House is…

Obesity, a term coined for the people being under the state of having excessive fat in their bodies; that may cause medical issues such as coronary heart disease. It laid invisible across the centuries it has plague the human race, we didn’t even care about it until recently. The world started noticing this pandemic, an epidemic that is worldwide and realized that it is not just a small issue (Tortora, Funke, and Case 409). It has been an underlying problem that has plagued the world, being a…

Physical anthropology has been changed drastically by many people. This is because there are constantly theories being introduced and disproved. One scientist that had a groudbreaking theory, that paved the way for our study of many different sciences, was Charles Darwin. No one Impacted biology like Charles Darwin in the 19th century. Charles Darwin had a very intersiting life that was dedicated to sceince and he substantially impacted science with his theories and his astouding pieces of work…

sin Mohamed Mohamed1 Biology 9B Mr. Ryan May 21 2016 Evolution A common misconception about the theory of evolution nowadays is that it promotes human society to act in selfish ways because of “survival of the fittest”. 
 People who believe in this statement will start asking why is this a misconception. The reason…

Introduction Defined by the Patriot Act of 2001, critical infrastructures are; "systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters" (107th Congress, 2001). The National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience…

A major is required in either biology or chemistry. According to University of North Dakota, some classes that are taken for a biology major are cell biology, evolution, genetics, ecology, and botany (“Biology: Pre-Health Sciences”). There are many different classes to take to get a Bachelor of Science degree, and once these classes are finished, there is still much more work to be done to become an anesthesiologist. According to RUReadyND, to…

these missions successful. However, if the goal is to establish permanent colonies, settlers would need to develop a way to grow food on Mars. In the Martian, the character Mark Watney survives his dilemma because he is able to use his knowledge of Botany to grow potatoes in the Martian soil. Watney turns the HAB floor, as well as some pop up tents normally used in case of a rover breakdown, into a garden by covering it in a layer Mars’ red dirt. The soil on Earth contains certain bacteria and…

The politics of The Martian present a powerful counterpoint to the rise of anti-intellectualism in the United States. Whereas the heavy majority of big-budget space adventures set in present day or the near future pay little attention to scientific accuracy in the name of entertainment, The Martian is, at its core, about science. It is about the triumph of the scientific method and the value of education. Trapped alone on Mars, astronaut Mark Watney has to conduct what are essentially a series…