Cactus

our car. Two chickens and peanut the cat came later and we all walked towards Mumma’s front porch. As I walked in the green lush grass of her front yard, I noticed different types of plants that surrounded the front porch, which included Camellia, cactus, rose and lily. We met Mumma when she came out of her house and we sat on the front porch to chitchat. Mumma asked peanut, the cat to vacate the chair but she…

Symbolism is used many times throughout literature but many people are using symbolism incorrectly. They are expecting it to only hold one meaning, well they're wrong. Set in California near the Salinas River during The Great Depression, the novel begins when two grown men come looking in search of new jobs on a ranch. In Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor and John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, both the authors use symbolism to show that it is related to an action…

In the book The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico, specifically chapter 6 titled: Colonial Identity Rhetorics, author James M. Córdova explains the impact that visual art had on the people of a blended society in which combined Euro- Christians and the indigenous mesoamericans of Mexico. During the eighteenth century, Mexico was under Spanish ruling and was called New Spain. Spanish monarch forced the indigenous people of mesoamerica to worship their God and follow their religion of…

Nowadays, United States is the country that has a variety of cultures, races, etc. mixing together by having immigrants in the country. United States is wide open for people to settle down on this land and on that time there is no process for immigrants. However, in the middle of 1840 until 1880, immigrants started to come in the U.S. such as Irish and Chinese because of demanding of unskilled and cheap labors. In the 1920, automation replaced the unskilled labors as a result immigrant’s policy…

On February 4, 2015 PWS 100 went to the green houses for the first time and were assigned a species of plant that we were to nurture for the following weeks. These plants ranged from I was assigned the Giant Creamy Yellow Zinnia. Throughout this process Professor Stewart taught us about soil alternatives and the benefits of growing plants in a green house versus growing plants outside. I thought it interesting when comparing the background of the plant to what I observed in actuality. The…

For most people their favorite memories revolve around family and friends. My favorite memory involved a runaway horse. I will always remember my gallop in the Arizona desert fondly as one of the most exciting days of my life. It was mid spring when a band of nine riders slowly plodded along the Arizona Mexican border. The dusty prairie stretched as far as the eye could see, flat and endless. Brush, burnt from the sun’s blistering heat, filled the landscape with hazy color. Cacti were…

Have you ever had a dream? Obviously, the answer for most people is yes; dreaming is a natural process of the human brain. On average, most people dream about 4-6 times per night, according to dreamresearch.net, but most of them tend to be forgotten. Dreams are one of the many phenomena of the human brain. One thing that makes them even more unexplainable is the concept of daydreaming. A daydream is “a pleasant dreamlike fantasy indulged in while awake” (www.thefreedictionary). For most people…

My encounter with plants have not been joyful in fact the experience was the complete opposite of joyful. As I reached to place a plant back, my arm caught a cactus. It was no use in removing every single needle on my cotton sweatshirt and I still managed to remove some on my arm. From that day on I decided to stay away from all plants, whether they have needles or not. Transitional Sentence. Weather plays a major role in each of the character’s mood in The Great Gatsby. At the beginning of the…

clinical processes. Also introduces the new technique called Transcranial Magnetic stimulation, which gives Bubba Crenshaw another option. Palmer, Rebecca, et al. "Clinical And Cost Effectiveness Of Computer Treatment For Aphasia Post Stroke (Big CACTUS): Study Protocol For A Randomized Controlled Trial." Trials 16.1 (2015): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. Web. 2 Oct.…

In the novel, The Crystal Frontier by author Carlos Fuentes narrates the experience of nine different people to show his readers the continuous relationship between the neighboring countries of Mexico and the United States of America. Throughout the novel the nine stories, all contain different people and their experience with however it’s not till the end when the stories all interact with one another, to fully understand what Fuentes was trying to portray by telling these stories. One person…