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THESIS: Chemical free beekeeping saves beekeepers money, promotes the overall health of the beehive, and preserves the natural goodness of honey.
1. The only entities making money off of chemicals is the bee supply companies and their constituents.
a. Chemicals are not cheap; even those that are called natural chemicals.
b. The beekeeper feels compelled to buy these chemicals to avoid costly losses of bees.
c. Time is money and it takes much time away from the beekeeper to install and prove chemicals.
d. Week hives will not make it in the long run.
2. Chemical free beekeeping promotes the overall health of the bees tremendously.
a. Chemicals cause the guts of bees to become abnormal.
b. Chemical treatment can cause pest to become resistant.
c. If a pest becomes resistant stronger chemicals can be used.
d. Some chemicals have a half-life that can last
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There is no better way to keep bees than without the use of chemicals. There are beekeepers still using chemicals and will continue to do what they believe is the best for their bees. A healthy bee is drug free. No beekeeper wants his bees to die, it is sadly depressing. He loves his bees and wants the best for them and he wants in return more bees, wax, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, and honey. Beekeepers demand a lot from the bees and at times love them to death. What better way to achieve this than with healthy drug free bees. There are no bad things about a bee, even the venom from the sting is used to treat arthritis. They are at constant work, they never sleep, and all is done for the survival of the hive. They will defend it to the death. Humans could learn a tremendous amount from bees. If every beekeeper would employ this practice perhaps even the bees would thank us for it. That is why I have made the commitment to be a chemical free beekeeper or
Home in The Secret Life of Bees Sonsyrea Tate’s statement about “home” aligns with Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees. In this novel, the main character, Lily Owens, embarks on a Bildungsroman journey after leaving her birth home to find her true identity and “home.” The idea of “home” guides Lily on a path of self-discovery and leads her to the pink house and the feminine society that lies within, in which she finds true empowerment and womanhood in her life. “Home” plays an important role in Lily’s journey throughout the novel. Lily feels lost and alone at the Peach House with T. Ray because of his continuous physical and mental abuse.
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“‘I’m staying here,’ I said. ‘I’m not leaving.’ The words hung there, hard and gleaming. Like pearls I’d been fashioning down inside my belly for weeks” (Kidd 296). This is one of the examples in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, the Secret Life of Bees, where Lily has finally transitioned into adulthood. The author communicates the message that throughout the novel Lily endures an emotional struggle that helps build her into the woman she is at the end of the novel with indirect characterization, allusions, and symbolism. These literary devices display the characters’ emotions and feelings throughout the book. In doing this, Kidd establishes the relationships between Lily and the people around her as ones that giver her a hard time, but teach her to be more strong. Therefore, the author included literary devices as a method of emphasizing the maturing of Lily through hardships that she eventually resolves.
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