Kingsolver: Chapter Summary

Notably, the concept of improving plants has existed since the day humans started on the long journey toward agricultural advancement. This was

In Matt Taibbi’s book The Divide, the criminal justice system is revealed to have become a form of social control over the poor. Taibbi refers to this divide between rich and poor as “two systems in a vacuum,” where there are two separate systems depending on whether you’re rich or poor that people seem to accept. When looking at both systems in comparison, however, the system makes no sense. An example Taibbi uses throughout his book is the legal process of petty crimes, such as drug dealing or just sleeping on a park bench overnight, where, due to minimum sentencing laws, people have had to serve a minimum 20-year prison sentences. These are people that are poor and desperate enough to sleep on a cold park bench, but instead of giving them

Crevecoeur then goes on to make another comparison when he says “but now by the power of transplantation, like all other plants they have taken root and flourished” (Crevecoeur A: 606). He also used an extended metaphor when he compared people to new plants that “thrive in sunshine and showers of freedom” (Lanagan). Furthermore, these plants bloom into a new social structure and government.

Characters and Background: I just got in reading this book called variant by Robison wells with a total of 373 pages. This book is about a boy named Benson Fisher Who gets enrolled into a new school program called Maxfield Academy. This is a very suspicious school to Benson because it has a barbed wire fence that surrounds the entire school. There are no teachers or adults in the building at all, and There are three gangs called Variant, Havoc, and the Society, but the thing that makes suspense in the most suspicious, is the fact that everyone seems to be okay with this. Out of the three gangs that are at the school, Benson decided to be a Variant also known as the “V’s”. The V's are the smallest gang That consists of only 18 people. The largest gang is the Society. The Society are

Kingsolver makes a very good point when writing about her search for fresh fruit during a season when fruit doesn 't grow. She makes the reader aware of the fact that shopping for fruits and veggies out of season means we are impatient. To really make this point stick, she adds another commonly shared

The passage from They Came Before Columbus is important to use because it makes us think about how certain species of plants, that are not indigenous to a region, were grown or brought there. Finding new types of plants that are closely related to the ones in our own environment means that there were trade routes between nations long before Columbus and, may also explain how we colonized other continents as well, finding new types of herbs to help aide in sickness and other human ailments. The significance it has to botany is that it can tell where a certain plant originated. It can also explain a lot about the environment, for instance, a plant may have went extinct in the Americas and to rebuild that plant they had to transfer it somewhere

“America’s Father of Modern Horticulture,” also known as Liberty Hyde Bailey, a jack of all trades and a significantly influential botanist within the horticulture community, lives on in spirit even today (Gasser 2014). His nickname says it all, from his dedication in studying cultivated plants, to his many published volumes and papers about his findings, his research continues to make an impact on horticulture. Bailey began building his background with cultivated plants as a young child on a fruit orchard in South Haven, Michigan (Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum 2017). These early years shaped his views and desires for later dates to come, specifically regarding his college education and research that followed. Although, the vast majority of people did not find the topics within horticulture interesting or something of importance to investigate, Bailey took the world by surprise and found himself with a completely incongruous mindset.

The American frontier was a vast area of free land. The dividing line of the frontier was a boundary line that was continuously moving farther and farther west with each generation. It’s the frontier, and subsequently its boundaries, that determined the path of history more than other events. As the expansion of the west continued the attractions and conveniences of things were farther apart, yet the reward of moving westward reaped its benefits in the ways that each and every person had a chance to make their future and had the west as a blank canvas..

As the quote mentions, the study of plants is really important and can be very exciting. Before digging deeper into the quote from They Came before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima, I was not aware of how important relationships between plants and their environments were. Simple examples include a cactus to the desert climate, or a more complex example; the sunflower being native to both North and South America. This quote proves that botany is not just a simple science of plants, but very complex, for it opens up information that travels way back in time. Plants have been around since the beginning of life and are very important to the life of humans. The information from the slide titled “Did you know” is extremely important to the world of botany.

However, the claim of finding and harvesting the extinct seeds in a clay vessel is false. Through expert consultation with David Wrone, it was revealed that the seeds were never extinct to have been discovered in the first place. Rather, the seeds planted by the university students were received from the White Earth Seed Library. By contrasting MyModernMet’s article to a peer-reviewed paper, it revealed the lack of significant information in MyModernMet’s article, thereby decreasing its credibility. Furthermore, scientific literature on seed expiration and preservation decreased significantly the likelihood of harvesting the seeds claimed in the story. By discrediting the two major claims in MyModernMet’s article, it can be concluded the 800-year-old seeds found and harvested had never existed. In spite of this, the article does show the importance of seed preservation in our heritage, as a cultural practice, and as a means to preserve plant

In the kingdom of Poseidon there was a problem. Someone was stealing from them and King Percy Knew exactly who it was. It was Finnick from the kingdom of Hades. King Percy sent a messenger to tell King Blaze to meet him by the war stone the next day at high noon. King Blaze also could bring as many knights as needed.

Technology has been rapidly increasing in the 21st century. Dr. Ray Kurzweil has made successful calculations and predictions on technology advancements about the future during the 1980s. “His predictions featured the invention of small devices that may include a function to assist people who are blind, and give them the ability to read documents at anytime and location. He also predicted the rapid internet boom in the 1990s, which evidently became true.” Despite many of the new technology advancements that continue to develop, and Kurzweil’s accurate predictions in the past, his beliefs and opinions on technology and humans merging are a bit implausible and outrageous.1

In 1866, Gregor Mendel published his work on genes—though they weren't called genes at the time, they referred to them as “invisible factors”—and how they provided predictable visible traits. He started studying the genes of plants in 1854. What plant, you ask? Peas. Peas? Yes, he chose peas because of the variety of types and their quick growth rate. He worked with pea plants from 1856 to 1863, “cross-breeding” them with different types of pea plants to see what would happen. When I say different types, I'm referring to their physical traits; short plants, tall plants, rough plants, smooth plants, green plants, yellow plants, etc. He came up with two crucial conclusions from these experiments; 1) there are both dominant

I read the history timeline about having a garden. Gardening, it goes all the way back from ancient times, from when the earth was born. Also, true within my lifetime, lots of gardens, are here to stay. Gardens, already moved forward into the twentieth century. This is true, in my own current and present year of 2016. My knowledge, as knowing about gardening in itself, is the reality and actually to it, as garden continuous. With each garden, gardening will always be moving forward to our future. Along with that, by its own meanings, purpose, method(s), and strategy(s).

“set agriculture on its industrial path when he broke down the quasi-mystical concept of fertility in soil into a straightforward inventory of the chemical elements plants require for