Leaf spring

The central goal in evolutionary genetics is to understand how different evolutionary forces have an impact in shaping genetic variation throughout the genome (Hellmann et al., 2005). Among those evolutionary forces, demographic fluctuations, such as bottlenecks, will cause genome wide variation to deviate from the neutral or usual model (Li and Durbin, 2011). Specifically, determining the effect of selection on genetic variation has been prominent among scientists since a long time ago (Phung…

last spring break, and the self-requirement I set up for myself as a international student. I have desire to learn the Japanese tea ceremony culture because I want to know the difference between Japanese SADOU and Taiwanese CHAYI (arts of tea). When I was child, I had learned some basic knowledge of Taiwanese CHAYI from my grandfather, who is running a small tea business in the countryside. For traditional CHAYI, Taiwanese people focus on the process of serving the best quality of tea leaf, and…

In the book Letters to My Daughters poet Maya Angelou wrote, “I am a spring leaf trembling in anticipation of full growth” (163). The anticipation Ms. Angelou speaks of is an accurate description of how I feel about becoming a thirty-six year old college freshman. In addition to anticipation; anxiety, self-doubt, and dogged determination are on the list of emotions I am experiencing. In January of 2015, I applied to South Plains College, bringing me one step closer to becoming a Physician’s…

I don’t remember much except for the game itself. I sat on the grass adjacent to the makeshift field, looking for a four leaf clover (I didn’t find one). Despite the lack of good luck charms, that day I had probably the best luck of my life. That was the day I was introduced to soccer. I happened to glance up from my exploration of the foliage and I saw it. The soccer game…

INTRODUCTION Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's leading firms in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. It is headquartered in Berlin, Germany with regional offices and major development facilities in Canada & the United States. Bombardier Transportation has numerous more minor generation and advancement offices around the world, for accessibility. It offers a wide range…

“A Worn Path”, controlling themes are obvious as to what the author’s purpose in creating the plot. In Jack London’s “Law of Life”, the major theme in the story is the concept of death. In the short story, Koskoosh states, “I am as a last year's leaf, clinging lightly to the stem. The first breath that blows, and I fall. My voice is become like an old woman's. My eyes no longer show me the way of my feet, and my feet are heavy, and I am tired. It is well.”(London 772) Koskoosh is trying to…

“Oh no, not even close. All that Puritan missionary fumbling with Mary has turned you into a little bit of a cold fish. When you tell me that you’re hale and hearty, well, I just don’t feel it radiating from your loins. It’s time for you to have a good fuck for once in your life. It’ll loosen you up a little.” The door to Sage’s office opened and two agents stepped into the room. The agents led Governor Birch and Sage out of the office. The door closed. William heard the lock on the door click.…

“Left to Imagination” Introduction {get attention} In their poems “Junk Car in the Snow” and “Burning the Hornet’s Nest” both poets Ron Rash and Robert Morgan describe to readers what it was like to be raised in the southern Appalachian Mountains as a child throughout seasons of life. Both poets Rash and Morgan were natives to the land of southwest North Carolina and created poems that would allow readers to interpret what life was like for these two growing up in the Appalachian Mountains. The…

Robert Frost is one of the most widely read and beloved American poets as well as one of the greatest. A four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert Frost was a national celebratory famous for writing poems about life familiar to the common man using rural imagery and American colloquial speech. Frost is well known for a few poems that he manages to remain in everyone’s head: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, “The Road not Taken”, etc.. Robert Frost was born in…

skiing on the many snow capped tops. It might be winter, but there is beauty in it, clarity, the kind of thinking that lets you notice small details. At last the spring had arrived, breathing warm winds over the desolate landscape. The disheveled grasses soon became lush, erasing even the memory of their wintry selves. The trees budded with leaf and blossom, and the harsh sleet became soft rain. The remnants of snow had entirely…