Wasp

silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate. The room was not empty. He listened. The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its…

Montag arrives at home and hears the familiar buzz of the earphones in Mildred’s ears. Bradbury describes the earphones as “...[a] hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest” (page 5). It is as if the earphones are a very comfortable bug, content, not wanting to be disturbed or moved - yet it is still like a wasp that is capable of inflicting great pain and discomfort but she just doesn’t realize it. Mildred is immersed in her TV world where her parlour is covered in three…

Swarm behavior is one of the main characteristics of different colonies of social insects (bees, wasps, ants, termites). This type of behavior is first and foremost characterized by autonomy, distributed functioning and self-organizing. Swarm Intelligence, SI, is considered to be the area of Artificial Intelligence that is based on studying actions of individuals in various decentralized systems~\cite{bonabeau1999}. However, there is still today big discrepancy between two schools of thought in…

Looking For Palestine, a book by Najla Said, explores themes of race/ethnicity, economic status, and patriotism while telling the story of a young Arab girl struggling with identity. Najla Said is the daughter of a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. Growing up in New York City’s Upper East Side, a fairly wealthy environment, her disorganized thoughts gradually plague her throughout adolescence and young adulthood, as she struggles to understand which cultural group she feels most…

Women Roles During World War II World War II forever changed the normative role of women. Before the war, a woman’s worth was determined by what she can do within her household. They were seen as inferior to men and exemplified the traditional role of taking care of the children, cooking and cleaning. However, the war changed people’s thoughts and ideas which gave women tremendous opportunities. World War II created jobs for women when the men in their families left for the war. These jobs that…

Symbiosis or a symbiotic relationship is a close a relationship/interaction between two organisms of different species. The three main types of symbiosis are mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Mutualism is the symbiotic relationship where both the species benefits from the other. For example, clownfish live in sea anemones and because of this the clownfish eventually become immune to the paralyzing sting of the sea anemone. The sea anemone gives the clownfish a home and protects the…

South Carolina. • Biology of the Animal (10 points total): Give some background about your animal without specifically talking about adaptations. Discuss: o Feeding: What does it eat, and what eats it (3 points) It eats insects, ants, caterpillars, wasp, bees, grass hoppers, and small frogs. It can be eaten by an aphid. o Reproduction:…

"Women of all races and backgrounds for many military directly in combat,, or other useful ways." (Regis 87). The 400,000 women who served split into different sections including the WASP, WAVES, and Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Though many women fought alongside men in battle, women often risked their lives to save men's lives everyday. " At the time of Pearl harbor, there were 8000 military nurses, but by the end of the war, there…

The reading of the will was short. No relatives, few possessions, hardly any money. Most of it went to Laurel; the rest to a local charity. She took the boxes full of books and trinkets and the weight of it reminded her of the funeral on the boat, the moments before she said goodbye. This wasn’t something they prepared you for. The fact that death left behind a thousand little goodbyes. It was hardly final. It was something that you need to spill out again and again. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.…

University who lectured on what was the life and uniqueness of the gall wasps. Kinsey falls in love with a student from his class, and marries her. Since they both were virgins, they had a difficult time with their sexual life at first due to a condition of the wife, but after intervention from a doctor, it is shown that she had an intense sexual appetite. At a book party celebrating Kinsey's latest publication on gall wasps, Kinsey approaches the dean of students about sex education course as…