Petal

The large bushy trees with the cinnamon colored acorns lye on the ground. While the delicate orange petals stitched onto the green stems swung with the wind. There was a big cave, and it seemed to be that I was moving closer with no control. My arms were strapped to the stretcher with big masked men carrying me. There was a long line continuing with all…

She knew it was wrong and how much it’d hurt Tita but couldn’t go against Mama’s wishes. I enjoyed the way the movie represented Rosaura, she didn’t say much and her character always appeared desolate. In the film, the scene where Tita served rose petal sauce; we get clear the imagery of how the meal is making everyone feel. Tita’s sensual being entering their bodies threw food. Gertrudis begins opening layers of her clothing. It’s the sexual tension transferred through the food that presses her…

Who Should I be Why pink is for girls and blue for boys? Why women have to stay at home and become housewives while men have to work outside? Why female is viewed as the weak and more evil side of the two? Throughout the human histories, women are often required to fulfill certain gender roles the society set up upon them. In the novel of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, the female protagonists Tita and Emma use fervor of the youth to conform…

Throughout history, colors have been used symbolically in most forms of literature, and this color symbolism can be found in almost any famous novel. The reason for this is that colors are the universal language of emotion. Colors, in literature, can show so many traits about people places and objects such as emotional state, social class, and even their meaning in the theme of the story. For this reason, color symbolism is an extremely important part of literature, especial in F. Scott…

The poem “Ballad of Birmingham” was written in 1969 by Dudley Randall. At the age of 13, Dudley Randall published his first poem which appeared in the Detroit Free Press. He is a poet, editor, publisher, and founder of Broadside Press in 1965. While Randall was earning his degree in English and library science, he was working at the post office as well. After earning his degrees, he became a librarian at the University of Detroit in which he retired from the job in 1974. Dudley Randall became an…

Table of contents 1. Introduction 2. General information 3. History 4. Morphology 5. Active constituents 6. Therapeutic uses 7. Toxicity 8. Safety aspects 9. Side effects 10. Contraindication Introduction Early modern voyagers to America, including the Central America, parts of Peru, and Chile, found so many forms of peppers, amongst of them were the very hot ones. In Spain, the very hot peppers are usually called ‘chili’, the meaning is gotten from the country Chile, and in India they are…

find its way into the piano from across the room. Kawai pianos have action pieces made from various metals and carbons making them stronger and more easily replaced (“K Series Upright”). The K series features a polished ebony finish as well as brass petals and casters creating a not only aesthetic of excellence but of strength and…

The relationship between central dogma and a genetic code The vital sequence of different processes that transfers the genetic code from DNA via mRNA to finally form the functional product (finished proteins) together forms the central dogma of modern molecular biology. Thus, the genetic code is the basis of the central dogma of molecular biology. Central dogma is nothing but the flow of genetic information in all living cells including human cells from DNA to RNA to proteins. The central dogma…

The Lost Love Namiko Haruno possessed a strong figure, flawless pale skin, long black hair as black as coal. She wore a traditional Japanese kimono with beautiful, elegant colors of black, red, and gold. Namiko had never been outside of her village of Kitanizawa, Japan. Her village population was small, but it was very tranquil without all the bustling sounds of a crowded city. Kitanizawa is surrounded by a mountain covered with forests covered with vines, moss, and the creatures that live deep…

John Steinbeck’s novella “The chrysanthemums” (1938) is a short story which encompasses the literary technique of realism (described by Harmon and Holman as focusing “on the immediate, the here and now”) and metaphors in order to “convey” Steinbeck’s criticism on economic and social conditions caused by “The wall street crash” (1929) – an economic crash which led to a period referred to as “The great depression”. Steinbeck uses metaphors “in order to express [his] particular idea[s]” about the…