Manar Dawood Period: 0 Mutualism Mutualism is when two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits from the activity of the other. An example of mutualism is the relationship between a bee and a flower. Bees need nectar to make into food and they get it from flowers. They travel from flower to flower collecting nectar. When the bees land in a flower, some pollen gets stuck on their hairy bodies. So when they go to the next flower some of this pollen rubs off on the other flower which pollinates the plant. This process benefits both, the flower and bee, because the flower gets to reproduce and the bee gets to eat. Bees do not purposely pollinate the flower, they actually want to take the nectar back
The primary setting in Laurie King’s The Beekeeper’s Apprentice is a Britain being agglomerated in the chaos of World War I, and King portrays the transformation of Britain’s culture and society over the course of the war synonymously in many aspects of the plot of the book. Mary Russell’s status as a detective in the novel and her attendance at Oxford University reflects Britain’s indifference towards workers being female and its proliferation of educated women due to the increase in the need of women workers with men being directed to war.
In the book, The Secret Life of Bees, my impression of Lily changes throughout the book because as she is learning and finding new information about her family, more specifically her mom and her reactions to the information she receives. For the rest of the book, I believe Lily gave me 3 different impressions. The 3 are that she feels insecure about herself, lonely, and a bit self-centered but also can be forgiving and loving.Throughout the story, many impressions changes as the situation changes.
In literature, young characters need mother figures to rely on to achieve their love needs. If they were ever separated from their mothers, characters would need to search for love somewhere else. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily loses her mother at a young age, and as a result, she looks to the Boatwright sisters for love and support. Similarly, in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet is not close to her daughter. Rather than helping Juliet and caring for her, Lady Capulet pushes Juliet toward the Nurse unintentionally. This behavior causes Juliet to seek out the Nurse instead of her mother to help with her troubles regarding Romeo.
Every species has their unique way to survive and interact with their environment. Some have extra appendages in order to better combat predators, or they have bodies that allow them to camouflage to their environment. Every species also has their way of reproducing and copulation, whether for necessity or for enjoyment. Two species with different mating habits are the Apis mellifera, better known as honey bees, and Pan paniscus, Bonobos apes. The former uses its reproduction methods for the survival of the entire colony of honey bees in exchange with the death of few and the former uses copulation in a social setting in order to keep the peace of the pack.
In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, the recurring theme is love. Throughout the whole novel Lily is looking for a mother figure. When she ends up at the Boatwright house she begins to learn more things about her deceased mother, when she is telling August about her mother and her father, T. Ray, she states that she is unlovable. Later on in the book when T. Ray is driving away after deciding to leave Lily at the Boatwright house she turns towards August and the Daughters of Mary on the porch and says, “I remember the sight of them standing there waiting. All these women, all this love, waiting.” (299). During this Lily realizes that she, is in fact loveable and that so many people are there to act as a mother for
Our livestock depend on bee-pollinated plants like grain. Poorly pollinated plants produce fewer fruits and seeds, leading to higher prices (New Agriculturist, n.d.). Some crops are entirely dependent on pollinators such as almonds and others are 90 percent dependent on blueberries and cherries (ABF, 2015). Bees give us honey and we use this honey in food, shampoo, and moisturizers (Mercola, 2015). Bees pollinate 70 out of our 100 major crops; that includes apples, cucumbers, pumpkins, and many more.
The second way in which the bees symbolize Lily life is Lily can live her life even with everything she has gone thought, on her mind, like how bees can stiff fly while carrying 2 times there weight. Lily has to bear the weight of her mother's death on her hand. Lily also has to hide the fact that she broke Rosaleen out of jail and ran away from home. Plus Lily has to hide the truth about her life and who she really is. As “The Honey Bee” once said “A worker [bee] is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with load heavier than herself” (257), Lily can also carry thoughts heavier then herself.
August Boatwright’s relationship with Lily shows her caring personality. August takes Lily in and becomes like a mother to her. Their relationship is significant to the rest of the novel because they make everyone else see that skin color does not matter.
Flowering plants have two main reproductive parts; the male part is called the stamen and produces pollen, while the female part is called the pistil. For pollination to occur, the pollen must be transferred from the stamen to the pistil. This transfer can occasionally be caused by wind, but it is most often facilitated by animals called pollinators. Pollinators do not intentionally set out to fertilize flowers; rather, they unintentionally spread pollen while roaming from plant to plant in search of food. There are many different species – including birds, butterflies, and bats – that act as pollinators, and many of these species are also suffering declines in population. However, honeybees are the most pr...
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During the novel The Secret Life of Bees, Lily’s perspective on her parents continuously changes as she learns many more things about them from August. In the beginning of the story Lily sees T.Ray as a horrible father. He doesn’t care for her very much and is strict to a certain point. In a way Lily hates her father who is abusive, pays hardly any attention to her and stops her from doing things she loves like reading for example. The relationship between T.Ray and Lily is not very strong as she looks to Rosaleen as more of a parent than she does with him. Lily, unlike she does with her father loves her mother very much despite the fact she is no longer physically with her. Lily continues to look up to her and likes to think that she is looking over her like a guardian
Pollinators are very important to the environment because many plant species rely on reproduction to be carried out by pollination1. Bees are dependent on plants for pollen and nectar and in return, are the most common pollinator of plant species and around 90 percent of plants require pollination by an animal7. Bees are used in farming, both for pollinating crops and for producing honey, and the estimated value of bees to the United Kingdom is £400 million per year9. Plants are the primary producers in many food webs and, as so many are dependent on pollination in order to reproduce, a decline in pollinators would have a detrimental effect on whole ecosystems. Therefore, the declining numbers of pollinators, particularly bees, are a cause of concern because of the environmental knock-on effects.
This is a poem wrote in Southern Tang, when Li Yu was the emperor. Different from most emperors’ ambitions of expanding their territory, Li Yu was fond of poems, songs, and other entertainments. Bodhisattva Barbarian is a form of Ci describing the romance between a young man and a young late at night. In fact, Li Yu wrote this poem to commemorate the scenes of his secret meeting with the sister of his empress. This poem is famed for the intimate relationship between two main characters. The heroine was afraid of being noticed by some one else. Thus, she took off her shoes and wore her socks, in case of making disturbing sounds at the silent night. Her fear and shy were replaced by the excited and sense of happiness, after successfully seeing her secret lover. In the second part of the poem, Li Yu used more physical words to describe the movement of his lover. They cherished the limited they only possessed at night. The lovely lady even confessed her sincere feelings for Li Yu, before she left. Even though secrete meeting is not an honorable behavior, from Li Yu’s Bodhisattva Barbarian, the viewers would be moved about their
The relationships between plants and pollinators play a key role in our ecosystems. Pollinators are animals, such as bees, butterflies, moths, bats, flies, wasps, and birds, that transfer pollen from one flower to another. Pollination is the movement of pollen to the male or female part of the plant. This leads to fertilization and the production of seeds and flowers. They maintain and establish ecosystems. “Pollinators are an integral part of our environment and our agricultural systems; they are important in 35% of global crop production” (NCRS 2013). “Pollinator declines can result in loss of pollination services which have important negative ecological and economic impacts that could significantly affect the maintenance of wild plant diversity,
Bees are small flying insects, buzzing around with its painful stings which always make people afraid and annoyed. What generally relate with bees are their roles in pollination and producing honey and beeswax. So it seems that bees might be nothing to human as it’s easy to find substitutes for honey as flavoring. However, this perception is mistaken. Without bees, aftermath.