Queen of Hearts

In this piece Darwin describes the differences between the hive bee and the humble bee. Bees have to shape their cells in ways that they hold the greatest amount of honey possible while using the least amount of wax. It seems quite amazing how these bees can make these shapes with all the angles and planes but what is amazing is that all it came from their instinct. The hive and the humble bee both structure their cells differently. At one end of the spectrum, the humble use their old their old…

after the passing of his father. His factory starts to go out of business, and Charlie and his employees aren’t making enough money. After accidentally meeting a drag queen, Lola, (Kyle Taylor Parker) Charlie comes up with an amazing plan to start making and selling boots for crossdressers. Lola, alongside with her chorus of drag queens, (Alex DeLeo, Dan Domenech, David Lopez, Stewart Adam McKensy, Geoff Stevens, and Jesse Weafer) design the boots for Charlie and his employees to make. One of…

Queens in the Closet Drag Queens are known as a male transvestite, especially a performer who dresses as a woman to entertain the public; a usually homosexual man who dresses as a woman and performs as an entertainer especially to caricature stereotypically vampish women. After studying this group over the last couple of weeks, it became very opaque that being diverse and not of the norm is not in society’s favor. There are two types of drag queens, such as those who are in the drag industry…

Taylor Mac was unlike anything I have ever seen at Mass MoCA. I’ve seen other work-in-progress performances (Big Dance Theater and another Sundance Theater performance, I believe), but it was hard to believe that this particular performance was work in progress. The entire show was planned so beautifully and Taylor Mac, was so easily adaptable that, despite his claims of it not being a polished show, everything that happened on the stage seemed intentional and very fitting. It made all five…

to be something other than who she was. A large struggle in regards to Queen Elizabeth’s reign versus her gender was that in regards to marriage. Aylmer spoke of the worry that many held in regards to the Queen marrying in his Harborrow for Trew and Faithful Subjects, wherein he states: “‘Whie may not the woman be the husbandes inferiour in matters of wedlock, and his head in the…

The mirror shattered and the shards infect a young boy named Kai, making him cold and cruel. The Snow Queen then takes the boy away and the rest of the story follows a young girl named Gerda, who is Kai best friend, who travels the world to rescue him. The story ends with Gerda finding Kai and freeing him from the mirror shards and they journey home. The Snow Queen herself plays a neutral and insignificant role in the story, and simple takes Kai away and goes about her own life. The…

The theme of free will and fate plays one of the dominant roles in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet love story. Fate and free will are responsible for a lot of conflicts that happened throughout the play. Shakespeare gives a hint to the audience about the doom of the couple by saying in the prologue that “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” (Prologue pg.23) Romeo and Juliet’s love is “dead-marked” which means that their love will bring their death. From the beginning, fate allows Romeo…

together as a collective they shape all walks of life. Posing the question of, how powerful an individual unit is in the grand scheme of a product is difficult when trying to find out the realistic power of just one. In the essays “The Myth of the Ant Queen” and “Biographies of Hegemony,” written by Steven Johnson and Karen Ho respectfully, the discussion of the control individuals in multiple types of societies arises. From hegemonic to self-regulated societies, the one neutrality shared by all…

demonstrate how a Queen should both be and act in order to support the peace and harmony of the nation, and to demonstrate that a woman’s…

Amongst the flying insects, bees are also closely related to wasps and ants, known for their ability to pollinate and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the super family, Apoidea and are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven recognized biological families. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants. Some…