Queen of Hearts

behavioral response from the other members of the same species” (Blackiston 25). Honey bee pheromones are basically the “glue” that secures the colony and certain pheromones stimulate different behaviors. For example, certain queen pheromones let the entire colony know that the queen is present, force the worker bees to work, and act as sex attractants. Other pheromones control the drone population, help guide worker bees back to the hive, alarm bees of aggression within the hive, and help…

the large hives had deniably more bees than the small hives. After a few months they noticed the “first sign of disease in some of the larger hives”(Smith, Carter and Seeley). Within a month the disease went rampant throughout the hive, killing the queen bee. This caused the colony to “collapse”(Smith, Carter and Seeley) and most of the bees to die-off. While the small hives did show some signs of disease but were able to fight it off. This study helps support the importance of small hives…

causes the character to fall in love with the first living organism they see. As a result, puck applies the juice to the eyes of the fairy queen Titania, from the magic world, and an Athenian man named Lysander, from the “real” world. Puck was suppose to put the juice on Demetrius, but he applied it to the wrong Athenian man. After they all woke up, the queen fell in love with a monster, and Lysander fell in love with another women, Helena, when he originally love Hermia. Realizing he made a…

debuted in 2009. The show focuses on drag queens and their ability to showcase their “charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent” through a variety of challenges: acting, costume construction, modelling, fashion forwardness and more are assessed by a panel of judges, including host and titular drag superstar, RuPaul. Drag queens have always been central to the lgbtq rights movement, tied to the Stonewall riots and existing as hypervisible queer folk, so queens occupy a political space that questions…

just found out his wife is going to have a baby, and now Casey has lost his gig as an Elvis impersonator.” (Arden Theatre PlayBill) This quote from the Arden’s PlayBill perfectly expresses the adventure and change Casey experiences to become a drag queen. Throughout the play the character of Casey is brought into a new world and lifestyle. From beginning to end, he completely alters his idea of the drag…

Priscilla queen of the desert is a musical about the journey of two drag queens and a transgender woman on their way to a drag performance from Downtown Australia to Alice Springs, Australia on a pink glittery bus. Throughout their journey, the three encounter many strange people, places and situations, which they handle with a comedic grace. The performance given by all the actors and actresses in Priscilla Queen of the desert were outstanding. The energy the characters had on a calm Sunday…

I recently attended A Christmas Wonderland, a drag show made up of some of RuPaul’s most talent drag queens such as; Roxxxy Andrews, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Naomi Smalls and many others. This was unlike any drag show I had been to before because instead of being in a small bar with limited seating and dingy lighting, it was in a real performance hall where the Nutcracker was being performed the following week. The first thing I immediately noticed was just how many different kinds of people…

Extended Response - Shakespeare INTRO William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are plays that share similar ideologies and representations despite them being a tragedy and a comedy respectively. The similarities are predominantly that of the father daughter relationship, as well as love, marriage and rebellion. Romeo and Juliet is a story about star crossed lovers whose families are feuding, with a plot line that focuses on Juliet and her father Capulet. A Midsummer…

builds a small nest and rears a starter brood of worker females. These workers then take over expanding the nest, building multiple six-sided cells into which the queen continually lays eggs. By late summer, a colony can have more than 5,000 individuals, all of whom, including the founding queen, die off at winter. Only newly fertilized queens survive the cold to restart the process in spring. Solitary wasps, by far the largest subgroup, do not form colonies. This group includes some of the…

rapper, songwriter, singer, actress, model, television producer, record producer, and talk show host. She is even an activist for women rights. This women is the Queen of Rap/Jazz, and her name is Queen Latifah. The simplest thing can make a person start to love music. For this black women it was the nickname she had been given as a child. Queen Latifah was born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970, in Newark, New Jersey. When she was 8 years old, a Muslim cousin gave her the nickname Latifah,…