...FLOWER AMONG FLOWERS Flower among flowers, soft bud swooning, that the wind moves to a gentle crooning. Wind of heaven, wind of love, you who gladden all you espy; you who smile And will not sigh, candour and fragrance from above; you who perhaps Came down to earth to bring the lonely solace and mirth, and to be a joy For the heart to capture. They say that into your dawn you bear the immaculate soul A prisoner —bound with the ties of passion and rapture? They say you spread Good everywhere like the spring which fills the air with joy and flowers In April time. They say you brighten the soul that mourns when dark clouds gather, And that without thorns blossom the roses in your clime. If then, like a fairy, You enhance the joy of those on whom you glance with the magic charm God gave to you; oh, spare me an hour of your cheer, a single day of your career, that the breast may savour the bliss it knew! The 48-line verse talks of a romantic love for a girl, which is not surprising because Rizal had a lot of girlfriends. It seemed as if this was a personal poem because of the use of the word “I”. The metaphor of a flower is obviously a girl who is more beautiful than all the girls in her group that’s why it’s entitled Flower among Flowers. She is young like a “soft bud”. And when Rizal used onomatopoeia with the wind “crooning”, he was talking of how the flower makes the things it touches, the wind in particular, sing of love. The girl is perfect: beautiful and has...
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...more you pick, the more flowers they produce! The large seeds of sweet peas are easy to handle, but if sowing sounds complicated then buy them as sweet pea plug plants! A sunny spot, a supportive fence, and plenty of water is all these climbers need to produce your own 'home grown' cut flowers. Just keep an eye out for troublesome slugs and snails - they love the young shoots. nigella 3. Nigella (Love in A Mist) Such easy plants to grow. Simply scatter nigella seed across a patch of bare soil and let it look after itself! With jewel-like flowers and delicate ferny leaves, nigella is much tougher than it looks. As the flowers fade, this pretty plant will set seed for the following year. What could be simpler! aquilegia 4. Aquilegia Aquilegias are easy plants to grow from seeds and will come back year after year. Start aquilegias in small pots for transplanting later on. Once they are established they will happily set seed so you will never be short of new plants! They tolerate almost any conditions in sun or semi-shade, and their pretty bonnet-like flowers come in almost every imaginable colour combination. californian poppy 5. Eschscholzia (Californian Poppy) If you are not a fan of watering then Eschscholzia would make easy to grow plants for your garden. These colourful little annuals thrive in poor, dry soil and full sun so they are perfect for filling forgotten corners of the garden. Simply scatter them where you want them to flower and let them take care of...
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...PROFITABILITY OF FLOWER PRODUCTION AND MARKETING This study examines the production and profitability of some selected flowers in comparison with their competing crops. Identified some problems of flower marketing which are, * Unavailability of sufficient flowers according to demand at right time * Lack of adequate and suitable transportation system. Measures to overcome these problems, * Establishment of mode storage facilities, * Improvement of cultivation practices of flower for the whole year * Arrangement of contract marketing. The flower traders face various problems: * Institutional credit should be made available to the intermediaries on easyterms and at a lower rate of interest. * Marketing loss should be reduced by improving storage, handling andprocessing facilities. Government should arrange training for flowers traderson post harvesting handling and storage of flowers on scientific basis. * Market facilities, such as tin shed, drainage, etc. should beimproved Based on the findings of the study, some recommendations for facilitating flower production and developing an improved marketing system in Bangladesh may be feasible if government and non- government agencies should take a concentrated effort - * to enhance flower production by train-up the flower-farmers, * to provide appropriate production assistance and storage facility, * to provide support farmers in marketing of the produced flowers, * to train...
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...motivated by different feelings. Yet these feelings are motivating human in different ways. Our mind can lead us to reach our goals, in other words, we are motivated by reason and intelligence. But desires and passions can also motivated us powerfully, yet in a different way that reason and intelligence do. The Australian Aboriginals have always used flowers to heal the emotions and minds, as did the Ancient Egyptians. There has also been a very long tradition of use of Flower Essences in India, Asia and South America and they were also very popular in Europe in the Middle Ages. A popular, holistic healing alternative, flower essences are sun-infused solutions that possess flowers’ subtle vibrational energy imprint. Unlike herbal remedies or aromatherapy’s essential oils, flower essences mediate their healing without pharmacologically active molecules. Representing a higher vibrational octave of the plant’s herbal or molecular properties, flower essences energetically restore balance on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. There is no biologically active molecules essentially exist in a flower-essence solution. Flower essences’ mind-body-and-spirit healing is difficult to explain with traditional biomedical precepts. Mind-body-and-spirit perspectives have, in fact, been integral to most healing traditions throughout history. In Western medicine, however, a philosophical schism grew between spirituality and healing as church authorities deemed spirituality off...
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...The Flower-Fed Buffaloes Explore how either The Flower-Fed Buffaloes (by Vachel Lindsay) or Report to Wordsworth (by Boey Kim Cheng) powerfully conveys feelings about human destruction ? Uses: - Symbols - contrasting visual imagery. - tone In the poem called “The Flower – Fed Buffaloes” written by Vachel Lindsay. The poet uses literally techniques such as visual images, tone and symbols, in order for her to convey a strong image about the human destruction of the natural world. The poet uses visual imagery that opposes one and another, in order for her to create this image of destruction of nature by mankind. At the beginning of the poem, before humans intervened, the countryside was “blooming, tossing” and the “flowers lie low’. These words make nature have an ambiance of calmness, zen, peacefulness and harmony as nature is not disturbed by anything. But this visual image will soon change, as suddenly everything is “swept away by wheat’, meaning that this peacefully countryside is intervened by human activity. This creates an image of nature suddenly being attacked and confronted with mankind and its intentions. The changing of fields into wheat plantation is an example of one of many mankind’s’ intention (this being colonization and industry). The author also uses contracting tone in order for her to convey feelings about human destruction. Like with the visual imagery, the tone of poem is very happy and serene, as nature is free to do whatever it...
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...Orchid Flower Despite the astonishing diversity found in the thousands of wild species and man-made hybrids, orchid flowers show an unmistakable family resemblance. Orchid flowers are generally bilaterally symmetrical—only a single imaginary line can be drawn through a flower to create a mirror image. A typical orchid flower has three sepals (the outer segments that protect the bud before the flower opens), alternating with three petals. The petals and sepals may be similar or not, showy or inconspicuous. The middle petal, which is always opposite the column, is usually quite different from the others. Called the lip or labellum, it comes in a variety of shapes, depending on the species, and can be wavy or fringed or covered with hairs or other structures. The labellum often serves as a landing pad and attractant for insect pollinators. University of Chicago Press Journals. (2009, December 28). Orchids' sexual trickery explained: Leads to more efficient pollinating system. ScienceDaily. Retrieved December 3, 2014 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217183442.htm new study reveals the reason why orchids use sexual trickery to lure insect pollinators. The study, published in the January issue of The American Naturalist, finds that sexual deception in orchids leads to a more efficient pollinating system. While most flowering plants reward pollinators with tasty nectar, many orchid species turn to trickery. Some use what's called food deception. They produce flowers that look...
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...Mother’s Day flowers by award winning florist Todich Floral Design. Bountiful Blooms, spring aesthetics and flower favourites. London Florist, Todich Floral Design unveils its new line of mother’s day flowers. Mother’s day is a vital day around the world, the opportunity to celebrate our wonderful mothers who have nurtured and cared for us over the years. Many use flowers to convey their gratitude, love and appreciation and now with our exquisite new line of mothers day flowers UK, and mothers day flowers free delivery UK, Todich Floral Design Ltd, will help you say thank you with flowers. Mother’s day in the UK takes place at an exciting time of year; where budding spring flowers burst into a kaleidoscope of colour, providing endless...
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...Flowers for Algernon Is knowledge the key to happiness? Does the fact that you know almost everything, complete your life? Or does it make you distant to your friends and family? These are some of the main questions Daniel Keys raise in his prizewinning fictional novel “Flowers for Algernon” from 1966. The Novel is about the mentally challenged Charlie Gordon, who will do anything to learn, and become ‘a smart person’. Charlie accepts the terms of an experiment, which will triple his IQ, even though he is not told of the consequences of the experiment. The novel “Flowers for Algernon” is written in the diary form, and the story features a first person narrator called Charlie Gordon. The novel is combined of several progress reports that show the current intelligence of Charlie. As we follow his everyday life, we get detailed information about his increase in artificial intelligence. Throughout the story the reader almost gets a feeling that there are multiple narrators telling the story. Nevertheless the sudden huge growth in grammatical skills is not simply because of another narrator expressing the story, it it’s merely due to the fact that the experiment triples Charlie’s IQ. This experiment takes Charlie’s writing skills to a point, where it’s almost flawless. Having this in mind, the story in a way switches narrator three times. The story starts of with Charlie before his operation, where he’s not exactly mentally gifted. Actually he would be referred to as a mentally...
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...Flowers for Algernon -Mikkel Bæk Rasmussen The way people connect by emotions and similarities, show us the level of intelligence the human race have in comparison to animals. We connect in ways that no other living species does and have time and time again proved that we are the most technical gifted race. But some people aren't as lucky. Some people are born with disabilities, that makes it impossible to understand and communicate normally with other human beings. Should we try and do something about that? or continue to ignore the problem? Charlie Gordon is 37 years old and he's working as a janitor. Charlie has an IQ of 68, which basically means that he is a retard. Because of this, he's having a huge issue understanding the social behavior of other people. He goes to Beekman College Center which is a school for mentally retarded adults. It is here, he met miss Kinnian, his teacher. Miss Kinnian advised Charlie to apply as a test person for some medical research which should make him smarter. It's here that Charlie meets Dr. Nemur and Professor Strauss who is going to perform his surgery. He starts taking a lot of tests, where he is feeling very insecure, because he keeps failing them, what he doesn't know is that failing the tests is what got him in. The tests keeps on coming, and he is competing against a mouse called Algernon, which had gotten the same surgery as Charlie. Suddenly Charlie shows progress by beating Algernon for the first time, and from that point...
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...magnificent creation of the Almighty are the variant species of flowers. Who could ever say no to the beauty and bliss that blossoming tulips in the daylight of Spring could give? The radiance brought by those yellow daisies growing in the alley? Or the exciting and delightful feeling it gives when your special someone handed a bouquet of luscious red roses to you during Valentine’s day? Flowers are perfect ornaments throughout the season. It is a perfect embellishment for the different occasion. The different scents it gives may lighten one mood. The vibrant colors it emanates are refreshing to the sight, especially when under the bright color of the clear blue sky on a sunny day. Flower, a word that originated in the word Florem, a Latin word that was associated with the language of the Aryan. During the 14th century, it was...
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...Flowers for Algernon Rita Ghatourey, a famous Indian writer, once said “I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.” Flowers for Algernon is a story, in which a man by the name of Charlie Gordon tries to change to impress the world. After reading Flowers for Algernon, one can see that Charlie Gordon was far better off before the surgery. He was happier, content with his job, and he had friends. He was living in a way that made him happy. In this story, Charlie Gordon is a man with very low IQ. He is chosen for an experimental surgery that can greatly increase his intelligence. Before the surgery, Charlie’s IQ is 68. He is living in his own apartment, going to night school to better himself, and is working as a janitor at Donnegan’s factory. Charlie has guys that he thinks are his friends. While he longs to be smarter, he is for the most part happy. After the surgery, Charlie slowly begins to get smarter; starts seeing things differently. He now notices that Ms. Kinnean, his night school teacher, is his age, and that she is very pretty. This was something he hadn't noticed before. He also realizes that the guys that he thought were his friends, are not. They make fun of him and laugh at his expense. Charlie’s intelligence goes from being inferior to greatly superior. In this story, there is character who is similar to Charlie, his name is Algernon. Algernon is a mouse who ...
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...Determining the Effectiveness of Sugar as a Preservative for Flowers An Investigatory Project for School Year 2014-2015 In Partial fulfillment of the Physics Subject Researchers: Salvethlyn Himaya Reambonanza Ma. Carina Cassimira Enopia Silverio Serion Submitted to: Engr. Mylene J. Lagahit Teacher I. Introduction a. Background of the Study "Beautiful" and "sweet-smelling" are two common terms that describe fresh flowers, and explains why so many of us like to place flowers in our homes. Having flowers in our homes adds color and a soft touch. In addition, the presence and scent of flowers gives us a psychological boost making us feel happier and livelier. Flowers certainly do help brighten up our day. However, fresh cut flowers do not last long as they typically wilt after a few days. There are a few ways to help flowers stay fresh for longer periods of time, once they are cut. One method is to cut the stem of the flower at an angle with a sharp knife and immediately placing the cut flower in lukewarm water. Cutting a flower stalk at an angle exposes more of the stem, allowing for a larger surface area to come in contact with water. Leaves that are under water should be removed. Interestingly, the removal of rose thorns will hasten the wilting process of roses. Another commonly used method is to add sugar and vinegar to water. Sugar is thought to provide the nutrition required by the flower, while a few drops of vinegar helps prevent bacteria from contaminating...
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...Symbiosis is what is called the relationship between flowers and bees. Bees go to flowers to try to collect pollen to take back to their hives, in this process they accidentally pollinate flowers. They go to flower to flower trying to collect pollen, while doing this they may accidentally pick up pollen from one flower and drop it on another flower, which means they transfer the pollen made by one flower of one plant to the flower of another plant, this results in the formation of seeds. Besides honey, pollen is one of the only other things bees eat. Bees also receive nectar from the flowers, which they then use that to make honey. But how do bees manage to be so efficient in their quest for nectar? At Britain's University of Bristol a scientist...
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...Keyes’s Experiment: Ignorance to Intellect, and Back Again What would happen if scientists found a way to exponentially increase human intelligence through a simple medical procedure? In his most famous novel, Flowers for Algernon, American author Daniel Keyes not only poses this provoking question, but shares his own answer through the story of Charlie Gordon, a mentally disadvantaged man whose IQ skyrockets within a matter of months after an experimental operation. Through Charlie’s eyes, readers are able to experience the ascent from mental incapability to profound intelligence, as well as the range of emotions that accompany it. However, Keyes was a far cry from mentally incompetent, and although he could not relate to Charlie’s IQ of...
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...If you were given the chance to increase your intelligence, would you? Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes focuses on Charlie, a man who surgically increased his intelligence. In my opinion, the operation improved Charlie's life because of his mental ability, emotional development/feelings, and understanding of others and the world around him. Charlie's life improved because of his mental ability did increase but it did eventually regress. The story shows that Charlie's mental ability increased because before the operation it said, "He said now sit down Charlie we are not thru yet," (page 1, paragraph 3) and after the operation it stated, "How was I to know that a highly respected psychoexperimenalist like Nemur was unacquianted with Hindustani...
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