Petunia

describes how it isn’t exactly picture perfect right away but she plans on turning it into something beautiful. When going from store to store she describes the experience like “Hands thirsty for shine, I reached for polyester satin / machine-made lace, petunia and Easter colored / brilliant and flammable.” (835)

didn’t really care about it. Expect for Doodle, he didn’t even eat his peach cobbler! He felt bad because he might have gotten a special connection from the scarlet ibis. So Doodle decided to bury the bird in the front yard in the flower garden by the petunia

Harry's first trait is that he is bold. One example of that is when he broke out of his uncle's house. "Harry couldn't believe it - he was free. He rolled down the window... looked back at the shrinking rooftops of Privet Drive. Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were all hanging, dumbstruck out of Harry's bedroom window. That is the first clue to harry being bold. Breaking out of a house is one thing, but talking with giant spiders is another feat entirely. Harry and Ron got taken away by giant

I am, as my friends say, frighteningly, competitive. Whether it was who could paint the prettiest petunia in preschool or who could answer the most questions during Friday afternoon Quiz Bowl practices, I always wanted to be the Picasso or the Ken Jennings of the group. The rush of adrenaline that floods my body during a matchup is the spark for my competitive

“...he carried the bird around to the front yard and dug a hole in the flower garden, next to the petunia bed”(154).The narrator letting Doodle handle this on his own creates a positive influence.Thus this event let's Doodle experience more of the world and makes him more independent.In contrast,the narrator creates a negative influence on Doodle when

Almost all biology students learn the fundamentals of gene expression, DNA contains information which is transcribed into RNA to create protein. Students however, are not taught of RNA Interference, the biological process where RNA molecules inhibit a gene’s expression, RNAi for short. While RNAi is a fairly new discovery, its use in modern biological research is groundbreaking. RNA Interference works by binding Double-stranded RNA molecules (siRNA) to a complementary messenger RNA. The enzymes Dicer

Ever since my formative years, I’ve constantly been, as my friends say, frighteningly competitive. Whether it was who could paint the prettiest petunia in preschool or who could answer the most questions during Friday afternoon academic team practices in the chemistry lab, I always wanted to win. I enjoy the rush of adrenaline that floods through my body during a competition. But regardless of the

The most important Theme in The House on Mango Street is identity. Identity is a very important part of everyone. Everything you experienced, you have done in your life is what makes your identity, shapes our identity It is what defines a person and how people see that person. Without an identity people would not know what kind of person they are. The book overall is talking about how the struggle of self definition Esperanza is going through. “You will always be Esperanza. You will

thing that makes me love it is both how beautifully the colors contrast against each other and how it makes the viewers feel. I enjoy how she's added subtle, radiant highlights to flowers and how the radial gradient is so gentle in her still life, Petunias. Blue Morning Glories is also a favorite because of how precise and sharply defined the flowers are and how the colors are used to make it, even more, enchanting. Georgia O'Keefe was one of the only artists who stayed true to her art form, and her

“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins” (Creech, pg.47) Sal goes on a journey through Ohio and Coeur D’Alene to Lewiston, she begins to realize things, but also understands her mother’s perspective. In “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech, Sal demonstrates that she understands, realizes, and accepts the situations that occur. First in Bybanks, where Sal lives most of her life and where all of her family memories take place. Sal says, “I have lived most of my thirteen years