Goldenrod

of the Naval board. Edison received a Congressional gold medal in 1928. In 1886 Edison decided to build a home in Fort Myers, Florida. In a search reminiscent of his hunt for the light bulb filament he tested thousands of plants. He found that goldenrod had the most potential for a rubber producer. But he was 80 years old and in poor health so he never got to finish his last experiment. Troubled by diabetes and stomach ailments for many years, Edison’s health declined and he died at West…

evolutionarily causal. I have taken the stance that this section emphasizes, which is that niche construction and developmental evolution have a reciprocal relationship. An example is illustrated immediately following the claims, which involves a goldenrod…

Monarch butterflies are bright orange with black and white markings on its wings. Males and females can be differentiated based on observing their hind wings; while males have a black spot at the center of each hind wing, females do not. These wings give males a selective advantage; they are able to attract female mates. Similar to migrating birds, the monarch butterflies use the clear benefit of updrafts of warm air, called “thermals” and glide as they migrate, to preserve the energy required…

the garden but I found it. The garden had a welcoming and safe aura to it. Slowly I walked around trying to find an empty spot. As I walked around I saw many different plants, plants of all different shapes, sizes, and colors. There were tomatoes, goldenrod, guavas, and many more plants. After about five minutes I finally found a empty…

Growing up in Johto I’ve never really had a whole lot of friends maybe one or two. The people in Goldenrod City never really seemed to agree with me or what I had wanted to be. My parents were breeders and researchers, they wanted to know everything about Pokemon. I on the other hand had wanted to see the way Pokemon battle and their strengths and weaknesses. My parents had never agreed with my view and soon acted like I was never their child but someone who had just entered their house and…

vast swaths of conifers including sugar, and yellow pines, Douglass spruce, silver fir, and incense cedar. Many of the trees are over 200 feet high and six or seven feet in diameter at the base. This area has a multitude of wildflowers including Goldenrods, a variety of lilies, and lupines, and many other herbaceous plants. Wildflowerconservancy.org has photos of many of Mount Shasta’s wildflowers, and the Kelley’s Lily is shown at right. The next higher area is the fir zone, which is two or…

criticize others for what they have done or obtrude her beliefs. Mary Oliver also uses pathos to help the reader relate to what she is saying about the destruction of nature. She says that, “The blackberries that climbed up and down the hill, the goldenrod, the honeysuckle are gone; the pink roses are gone; the fox tracks are gone” and are replaced with “buildings to take care of this new and important work” (Oliver, 539). The author creates a feeling of yearning and desire to preserve nature,…

The Child of Fun Home Put simply, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is an autobiographical graphic novel about what it means to reject “the Child”: the unwilling heir to family and society that we project our future onto. To continue the legacy of the Child is to turn the eternal wheel of heteronormative succession, a subservient maintenance of a status quo embedded deep within society. Diametrically opposed to “the Child” then is queerness, the simple act of refusing the reproductive and reductive…

City #1: Salt Lake City Absolute location: 40° 45' N / 111° 53' W The city is located in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges on the eastern and south western borders. Salt Lake City has a dry continental climate with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters. Its current weather is partly sunny with occasional showers. An example of vegetation in Salt Lake City is sagebrush. It is a…

Wednesday Journal: Today, we spent our time at the Audubon Center of the Northwoods in Sandstone, Minnesota. The weather was sunny with splashes of clouds and it felt especially humid. The first part of the day was spent contrasting the prairies we observed yesterday at Sherburne Wildlife Refuge with the newly restored prairie at Audubon. Historically, the new prairie was an old agricultural field; the team removed the old plants, sprayed to remove the plants, burned off the older vegetation…