Symbiosis

Also, the audio of the toad and Pale Man scenes help intensify the story. The audio elements accentuate the monstrous characteristics. When Ofelia enters the tree, she is breathing heavily. There are ambient noises from the bugs on the frog’s skin (Del Toro). Also, there is ambient noise at the beginning of the Pale Man scene. When Ofelia walks, her shoes hit the floor. In the distant, babies scream as the portraits of slaughtered children are shown. The cracking of firewood is audible when the…

embodiment of Indian savagery and cruelty. Much more than evidence of Indian warfare’s barbarism, however, scalping was a vital part of the nuanced and dynamic relationship that defined the colonial and Indian experience in early America. As the symbiosis that tied Indians and colonials changed, so did the function of scalping in the colonial period up through the early nineteenth century. Initially,…

Since the United States turned into a knowledge economy, education has been the key to success. This success has mostly been awarded to the white. The United States has an exceedingly slanted school system which favors a high level of education for white children, leading to the higher level of success in life. This unfair distribution of education is reparable through mandatory racial integration of school systems in the United States and is necessary in order for children, regardless of race,…

Introduction There is a handful of aspects that go along with healthy soil such as nutrients essential to plants, beneficial microorganisms, and organic additives important in organic farming systems because of the integration of biodiversity; allowing overall healthier lifestyles to all individuals willing to take initiative. The health of the soil is represented by the health and rigor of the plants growing within it. Organic farming is not only beneficial for the earth’s surface but it is…

Genetic modification is a widely debated subject since there is so much known about it yet so much that is still unknown. Some people don’t even know what genetically modified food is and how it came about. It was best said by John Donovan when he said “…nature has many unknowns, but one certainty is that tomatoes and fish do not have sex with each other” (Donovan). The experiment he is referring to is one of the most infamous early attempts at genetic modification. After Donovan said this quote…

Pectinolytic enzymes are produced by many organisms like bacteria, fungi, yeasts, insects, nematodes, protozoan and plants. Of that, microbial pectinases have more advantages as it involves in the phytopathologic process, plant–microbe Symbiosis and the decay of dead plant materials (Danielle, 2009) (33). In the industrial section, acidic pectinases are utilized in the extraction and clarification of fruit juices (Rombouts and Pilnik 1986) (34), while alkalophilic pectinases are finding…

Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song (1971; Sweetback hereinafter) is a low-budget, 97-minute-long independent film written, directed, produced and scored by Melvin Van Peebles (b. 1932). Its production is considered a watershed in the history of US filmmaking. Sweetback’s firm stand on racism in the movie industry and the wider US socio-political context is still pertinent today as the racist ideology is disturbingly still with us today. Hence, the importance of revisiting Sweetback to unpack its…

black and white, linking and blending in the most contradictory colors together. In terms of landscape, the concept of “grey space” can also be referred and it means to combine contradictory things organically together, which led to his idea of symbiosis in the 1980s (Baker, 1992). They are both of great implication in building public space for outsiders, and that is largely because outsiders as temporary tourists may lack of a holistic idea of the regions and space they are in. Therefore, when…

The rabbit hunt is a crucial part of maintaining Ha-lem, the Taos practice of balance and symbiosis between the individual, the community, and the environment (Lujan 32). However, due to the visitors’ distaste, the town of Taos shunts the practice by “[pouring] poison pellets near the big hotels and houses because they wanted no blood thirsty Savages around when [were] in abundance, or because they wanted to control everything” (Mirabal, Skeleton of a Bridge 59). As Whitt says, the tourists must…

My early lessons in love were always administered under the circumstances of loss, the depth of which correlated to the value (sentimental or monetary) of the missing entity in question. Anything that can be loved or owned can be lost. As a child, I was always losing replaceable, trivial things--sweaters, toys, teeth. My mother was often losing immaterial things, like her patience.. On many occasions, an item has gone missing from my life. And even years after, I’d still stop to ponder, over…