The Botany of Desire

She drew them almost to the point of it being unflattering because she would not idealize them. Mary’s most popular reoccurring theme is mother and child. Some believe that this was because she did not have children of her own and was showing her desire to be a mother. “After the Bath” features a scene with three figures, a mother and two children. The children surround her and are reaching out to each other. Her pastels used are very colorful and bright to represent domestic life. The way…

In the article What factors facilitate teacher skill, teacher morale, and perceived student learning in technology-using classrooms, researchers Amy L. Baylora and Donn Ritchie conducted a quantitative study that investigated how technology in classrooms effects student’s planning, leadership, curriculum alignment, professional development and technology use. The study also predicted whether teacher’s openness to change plays a role on their technology competency and their ability to incorporate…

about business, raw material, logistics, and production from my childhood. I am a science student with technical aptitude and an interest in management. Since my school days I started developing interest in science, which stemmed from an innate desire about heading out into new terrain, developing ideas and subjects that fill needs that aren’t yet being addressed. I was determined to learn more about science in my higher studies. With this aspiration in my mind, I joined for my under-…

The first time the human story is mentioned in Life of Pi, is when Pi is being interviewed by the two Japanese officials. Pi only produces the second story to satisfy the two interviewers, by stating what the Japanese men desire to hear and are successfully able to believe. The officers cannot comprehend how Pi’s animal story can be true, so Pi creates a more upsetting and darker story. Both of the accounts begin with the sinking of the Tsimtsum. In the movie Life of Pi, when Pi reveals the…

in trying anyway.” These, among other comments, plagued my early stages of mental development. People never expected me to acquire a level of knowledge and comprehension compared to the rigorous academia of the Stanford community. Nevertheless, my desire to combat stereotypes and cliches allowed me to not only be admitted into Stanford, but search for a greater form of thought. Just like greater thinkers John H. Newman, Gerhard Casper, David Foster Wallace, and Robert Harrison, I aspire to…

Vanessa Parkey Coach Matt Health 4 May 2015 Opium Introduction Twenty-eight-year-old, Thomas De Quincey, took 50 to 150 grains of opium daily for relief. He had used opium since he was eighteen. A classmate recommended laudanum (a form of opium) for pain relief from a toothache to De Quincey in the autumn of 1804. He started taking opium as a pain reliever for intense stomach pains, most likely caused by the stresses of his childhood. De Quincey was a full supporter of opium and found it…

Stephanie Lane General Botany Dr. Sthultz Essential Oils and Aromatherapy Plants have been used in medicine for thousands of years. Well before the time of modern treatment, we, humans, began to experiment with the vegetation that was around us. Instinctively, it seemed, we knew that plants were good for something other than just food or drink. We learned from watching animals consume certain types of flora, from our own exploration, and as we discovered the benefits of each new herb or…

European life. A quote by Michael Collins, an Apollo 11 astronaut, embodies the spirit of exploration in America. “It’s human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice, really; it’s an imperative.” Exploration is a desire rooted deep in everyone’s soul. There is a thrill or natural high that comes with discovery. Americans believed that this untamed and unknown land of vast potential was a direct correlation to American identity. The earliest Americans…

the government does this is through the hatred of books. On page 22 it states, “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives (Huxley).” The reason why the nurses conditioned the infants to hate books and flowers was not because it could danger themselves, but it could danger…

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes a totalitarian government that controls every aspect of every citizen's life. The government controls its citizens with science, technology, factories, and an industrial based religion. Throughout the book Huxley uses these themes to show the kind of society the World Controllers are trying to create. He does this to show what science and technology can do to a society. Huxley also shows that when technology is in the wrong hands society can take a…