The Strawberry The strawberry, a fruit of the genus Fragaria, has been around for many centuries. Throughout the centuries the strawberry has been studied, cultivated, reported upon, and simply enjoyed by millions. This very abundant fruit has had a variety of uses: It has been used for medicinal purposes; for decorations throughout a person's home; and, for the pleasure of eating. The history of the strawberry goes back as far the Romans or maybe as far as the Greeks. In the thirteenth century
As a young student in India, every June, the first day of school, I was asked to write an essay that was always titled: "How I spent my summer vacation". "And make it interesting," my teachers would advise. I assumed that mere recountings of my days spent reading Nancy Drews would not qualify as "interesting". Neither would my detailed accounts of making paper straws and trying to blow bubbles with glycerin solution. So I always made something uplike visits to fairly exotic locales like Poona. I
Answer: __________ A. My favorite sweet treats are tiramisu, flan, and vanilla ice cream, with fresh strawberries. B. My favorite sweet treats are tiramisu, flan, and vanilla ice cream with fresh strawberries. C. My favorite, sweet, treats are tiramisu, flan, and vanilla ice cream, with fresh strawberries. D. My favorite, sweet treats are tiramisu, flan, and vanilla ice cream with fresh strawberries. 7. Choose the sentence with correct comma placement. Answer: __________ A. He also directed feature-length
imagination of the British. They surveyed and mapped the hills and started filling in what they felt as missing parts of the landscape. Thus spacious Victorian houses, country-style churches and spruced gardens came into being. They even brought the English vegetation like cabbages, cauliflower, strawberries, raspberries and flowers like buttercups and rhododendrons. They built the first railway line in this area and made Ooty the summer capital of the then Madras Presidency. Before the arrival of the
Creating a Garden for the Blind In creating a garden for the blind, the senses of smell, hearing and touch take on prominence. Even without sight, a person can enjoy a garden simply by feeling the symmetry of leaves, touching the bark of different trees and feeling for buds at the start of spring. Even though a visually disabled person cannot enjoy the vibrant colors of a rose garden, they can enjoy the strong scent from such flowers. Because the sense of sight is taking aback seat in this
spent in the garden when I was younger. From as early as I can remember, my entire family would spend (what seemed to be) countless hours in the garden on hot summer evenings picking strawberries and green beans and other tempting treats. There was even the dreaded job of hoeing weeds and attempting not to rip a plant out of the ground (or at least not letting Mom know if we did). Little did I know how much I would appreciate not only the fruits and vegetables we enjoyed from our garden for so many
I have an idea for you, why not start a school garden? A school garden would cost money to make and would take a lot of resources to build but it would all be worth it. Fresh food, you know exactly where it has been. Some people think that a school garden would be a wast of valuable resources. But we think it will be great investment for the students and teachers. Processed food you buy and you don't know where it came from. Having a school garden will be beneficial for the following reasons; It
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second: The Garden of England In Act 3, Scene 4 of The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by Shakespeare, the Queen finds that she is unhappy due to an unexplained intuition. While in the Duke of York’s palace, the Queen’s waiting-women try to comfort her until the gardeners interrupt the failed attempts to reach a happiness. As the Queen secretly listens into the gardener’s conversation, she hears that they are speaking about binding the apricots and plucking the
When we think about monsters, we all come up with one common thought. We think of a large, terrifying beast that most likely has sharp teeth, demonic eyes, and the strength of a thousand men. Frightening yes, but I think we actually prefer this image for a few reasons. The biggest one being that this deadly, mythical creature is just that: a myth. It is simply a character in a story and it will never actually harm us. I love this mindset as much as the next person but unfortunately, it is completely
Ideas and inspirations for modern gardens There is a Chinese saying which, when translated, roughly means “One who plants a garden, plants happiness.” There is no denying of the fact. Avid gardeners among you will fondly remember your first gardening experiences. Perhaps, you were only a toddler then helping the older members of the family in backyard landscaping. Don’t you still feel the same thrill when you see the first signs of buds in your daffodils or dahlias? You most certainly do! In fact
Your limitations can be space, time and resource, but never your imagination. Regardless of those few restriction, you can still create the idea garden that you and others can enjoy. Whether you plan gardening from plant pots or from a raised bed, your greatest challenge can be getting started. Before you begin designing or breaking ground for your garden, creating a list of ideas of what you want to plant and size your gardening will be. Another thing to consider is the type of ground or land that
Issues Facing Blacks in Alice Walker's In Search of our Mother's Gardens In Alice Walker's book, In Search Of Our Mother's Gardens, she addresses many issues facing blacks in today's society. The two essays examined here, "The Black Writer and the Southern Experience" and "The Unglamorous But Worthwhile Duties Of the Black Revolutionary Artist Or Of the Black Writer Who Simply Works and Writes," concern themselves with the truth and beauty of being a black Southern writer and the role of the revolutionary
The Power of a Front-Yard Garden Instructor’s comment: This student worked hard to forge a straightforward journalistic style that was supple enough to accommodate moments of poetic perception. This essay is a beautiful piece. Written with hard-won simplicity, it’s alive with images, and brimming with information about the possibilities of front-yard gardening. They were out there almost every day. Not always the same ones. Once, a line of preschoolers came by. Holding hands in twos, name
Comparing Death in D.H. Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter and Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party Controlling the movements of the short stories, death is a regnant theme in D.H. Lawrence’s “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party.” Death brings forth consciousness and it excites the need for an epiphany within the protagonists. To a lesser extent, death creates tremors in the worlds of the antagonists. Death furthermore makes the indifferences of the
fundamental typological element (Al Abidin, 2010). The concept of paradise garden has been well known for ages and it changes from time to time according to their culture. The interpretation of paradise garden itself varies from one country to another country. The implementation of ‘paradise garden’ concept in the Islamic courtyard is familiar in Islamic landscape. Often the Islamic courtyard consist the elements of paradise garden within. The word paradise derived from Old Persian word ‘pairidaeza’
Garden for the Blind Essay One of the first actions needed in constructing a garden for the blind on the south lawn of Hume Hall is to construct a barrier on the northern end and eastern end surrounding the garden so as to block out any unwanted street noise. The wall would preferably be cement, with the sides facing Museum Road and North-South Drive unpainted so as to absorb as much sound as possible. However, the sides facing the garden should be painted so as to reflect the sounds of the garden
Designing a Garden for the Blind Nature is so beautiful. It is unfair that due to uncontrollable circumstances, some people are unable to fully enjoy it. That is up until now. With the new wave of handicap focused services such as restaurants for the blind, even the blind can experience life the way it should be experienced, which is why I have designed a garden for the blind, or Jardin de la Nuit(Garden of the Night). I will begin explaining my design by describing the path that has been chosen
innocently, he can convince Cora that he really is so. In "The Flower Garden," Guterson continues his exploration of the fragility of a relationship between a man and a woman and again portrays this by drawing parallels with what is happening in nature. The relationship between Anna and the narrator is a very fragile one like the garden they ‘planted with nursery sets and fragile garden cuttings.’ The relationship and the garden are at the beginning of their being, and both are very fragile. Both
lowercase letters and identify each letter. My interest in plants came through watching and helping my grandmother in her gardens. Last summer, Jacksonville's historic Cummer Gardens needed workers, so I began volunteering there for several hours each week, planting new flowers, removing old ones, mulching, and weeding. My work there has inspired me to volunteer in other public gardens, such as those in libraries and nursing homes, in the future. Several years ago I became involved in 4-H and entered
Urban agriculture, the benefits of community gardens One of the first things Michelle Obama did, as first lady was to dig up part of the beautifully manicured South Lawn of the White House and plant a vegetable garden. The garden was just one of Obama's many efforts to encourage Americans to eat nutritious food and live healthier lives. In an interview with NPR, the First lady talked about how her maternal grandmother used to tend a community garden in Chicago. "My mom grew up in the South Side