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In the short story, “The Moths”, the narrator, a fourteen year old girl, assumes the responsibility of taking care of her cancerous and dying Abuelita. Her Abuelita is the only person who understands the narrator and the only person she feels she can turn to. After having followed man’s rules for so many years, Abuelita passes away. All the moths that lived inside her are freed and the narrator learns some life lessons. Helena Maria Viramontes uses symbolism and setting to illustrate the oppression of women in “The Moths.”

The leaves of a plant are the main photosynthetic organs and are involved in gas exchange and water transportation throughout a plant (Evans et al, 17). A leaf typically consists of an upper and lower epidermis, the mesophyll cells, veins, guard cells and stomata. The mesophyll cells contains spongey cells which have large gaps between each cell to allow oxygen and carbon dioxide circulation. The mesophyll cells contain palisade cells, which are located beneath the upper epidermis. The palisade cells contain many chloroplasts, which are green organelles. Located in the internal layers of chloroplasts is the pigment chlorophyll which is involved in trapping the light energy in photosynthesis (Evans et al, 17).

6. Describe several adaptations that enable plants to reduce water loss from their leaves. Include both structural and physiological adaptations.

In Allen Johnson’s “The Forest, The Trees, and The One Thing”, he expresses that in order to understand sociology we need to be able to understand the relationship between biography and history. To explain this, Johnson uses five rules to sociology called the sociological imagination. These rules explain how an individual relates to social systems.

Plant cells have selectively permeable membrane that allows selective substances to penetrate into the cell. Cell membranes are consisting of lipid layer that are made up of phospholipids. (Essays, UK.2013). These phospholipids are amphipathic in nature, which have phospholipids head and tail respectively. Phospholipids heads are hydrophilic and tails

In every city there are neighborhoods that struggle with the issue of violence, crime and aggression. These neighborhoods have also taken on the names of slums and ghettos. The same areas where children are faced with growing up too fast because of the violence, crime and drug trafficking that has taken over these communities. Not only do these children and young adult face with these issues, they are also faced with the reality that in these disorganized neighborhoods, there is a breakdown of the traditional family therefore they must learn and master the code of conduct and or the rules of the streets in order to survive. Not to mention learning the demands of socially regarding displaying appropriate behavior when they are outside of the disorganized community.

The smooth endoplasmic reticulum is responsible for production and packaging of lipids and steroids. (Plant Cell Anatomy, n.d.)

1) Leaves- Main organ for photosynthesis and transpiration. A flattened, typically green and blade-like structure of a higher plant.

In “the garden of the forking paths” and “There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella”. The theme is that no matter what the character tries to do to prevent certain things from happening, it is ultimately useless. The stories also state that what your destiny holds for you is bound to happen, the message is just conveyed in different ways in both of the stories. In “The garden of forking paths” the main goal is to find out more about tsui pen, but the goal is altered because his grandson was assassinated. In “There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” the author tries to get rid of the man who is hitting him. But after a while he comes to peace with it and ends up not being able to live

Photosynthesis contributes to the cell as it is the process of converting light energy to chemical energy that the rhubarb uses for food and other activities. Minimizing water loss contributes to the cell as water is important for the rhubarb as it helps the rhubarb by transporting important nutrients through the rhubarb in order for it to live. This means that if there is no guard cells to stop minimize water loss, the rhubarb will wilt and therefore die as it doesn't get the nutrients it

The leaves are modified into two terminal lobes that shut close to form a trap for catching insects

When it comes to murder cases, most people would agree that they can’t be left unsolved. In the short story “In a Bamboo Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the murder of Takehiro takes place in a grove of bamboo. Three people have confessed, including the victim himself. The author than decided to leave the story of by leaving it unsolved. I believe that Masago, the wife of Takehiro, killed him. I believe this because Masago’s confession was the only one that took place away from the courtroom. Also, all the confessions consisted of Masago wanting Takehiro dead. Although, the bandit Tajomaru and Takehiro played a convincing act of killing Takehiro, but they both have reason to cover for Masago.

Water- Water is required in the photosynthetic reaction. When plants lack water, their stomata close to prevent further water loss. At the same time, closing the stomata cells doesn't allow CO2 to diffuse into the leaf. Water is also therefore, linked to the carbon dioxide factor.

The surface of the leaf is uniformly coated with a water-resistant waxy cuticle that protects the leaf from excessive absorption of light and evaporation of water. The transparent, colourless epidermis layer allows light to pass through to the mesophyll cells where most of the photosynthesis takes place.

Photosynthesis is a very complicated process. It is not as simple as plants need a little sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, and viola oxygen is produced. There are many steps and processes that occur during photosynthesis which make it very complicated. Now the actual word photosynthesis in Greek means photo- “light”, and –synthesis “putting together”. This is the overall basic foundation that photosynthesis stands behind. Photosynthesis can only happen in plants and some algae, due to them having an organelle called chloroplast. Chloroplast has a pigment, which is called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a light absorbing pigment, which allows the plant to control solar energy and use it to distribute energy and food for the plant itself. Chloroplasts are usually located in the green tissue in the interior of the leaf called the mesophyll. A usual cell has around thirty to forty chloroplast. In the inner compartment there is a thick fluid called the stroma, with a system of interconnected membranous