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The early nineteenth hundred was an important period for African Americans. During this time period, there was a lot of turbulence for race relations and gender role. Zora Neale Hurston was a writer who grew up during this time period and went threw a series of events prior to writing the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. At an early age Hurston’s mother passed away and her father went off to remarry but continued to pay for her education till he eventually stopped. For a bit of time she…

and while experiencing this madness he accuses Janie of infidelity and tries to kill her and in order to protect herself she shoots him. The hurricane represents nature’s destructive fury and God’s power, complete opposite of the visionary behind the pear tree and horizon where nature is beautiful and pleasurable. It also displays how damaging the world can be but the aftermath provides hope for restoration, this reflects back to Janie especially “Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a…

Leaves Chlorophyll and Active Iron Content Figure 1 represents leaves chlorophyll and active iron of Le Conte pear as affected by different iron concentrations used in this work. In general, both leaf chlorophyll content and active iron gradually increases by increasing the concentration (Conc.) of iron. The highest significant were achieved by high Conc. (1000 and 2000 ppm) with no differ between them, except the 2nd season in active iron. Meanwhile, the lowest significant recorded by the…

When Nanny tells Janie she wants her to marry Logan, “The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree” (14). The pear tree had been her first glimpse of love and how things naturally work. With this in mind, she thought “she would love Logan after they were married...Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant” (21). She…

Introduction Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill belongs to the family Cactaceae. Its globally common name is the sweet prickly pear locally is called Albarshom. It has widely international spread. Firstly, Opuntia ficus-indica has founded Central America (Mexico). And later the species have been introduced to many areas of savanna regions and inhibit South Africa, Asia, and Australia as an ornamental, for camel feed (Brutsch and Zimmermann, 1993) and for its delicious fruits as food for humans,…

Augustine is composing his work, he comes to a multiple of realizations through his praise of God. In book two, Augustine writes about the sinfulness of his adolescence. He writes of his experience of robbing pear-trees with his friends. Augustine and his friends went out at night to steal pears. They did not steal the peers to eat, instead, they tossed it away to feed pigs. The act of stealing from an individual is wrong and Augustine knew this. He enjoys gaining the feeling of pleasure when…

Human nature dictates that a person’s ultimate goal is to achieve happiness. Ever since the dawn of moral philosophy, brilliant minds have struggled with the meaning of “good” or “bad”. In the late 1200s, not long before Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales take place, St. Thomas Aquinas postulated two definitions of “good”. On one hand, he said, a good action is one which propels us towards happiness. However, from his religious standpoint, Aquinas considered that one may never achieve final…

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live." -Albert Einstein. Bees play a major role on Earth, they are vital to the human food supply, they are contributors to nature, they have historical significance, and they are good for business. The bee population has been decreasing for plenty years, and I believe that we need to save them. Bees need to be saved because of the huge impact they make to the earth, without them we won’t survive. Bees are…

The pear tree symbolizes the major growth in Janie’s life. “One of the most obvious symbols used in the novel, and charged with sexuality, the pear tree motif is introduced early in Janie’s story” (Kendall). Each time Janie grows in love in the novel she thinks of the blossoming pear tree. Janie longs to change and grow into a woman who understands love. “Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back yard…It had called her to come…

is taken through the development of Janie from her early life to her later years. You can read as she struggles with love and finding her own voice in a time of racism and inequality between both races and genders. We watch her struggle to find her “pear tree image” of love through several marriages. Although some may argue that she never found this in her life, further investigation shows us how Janie's relationship with Logan, Jody, and Tea Cake throughout the text leads her to self…