1. Description 2. Background Information a. Common Names African Baobab‚ Baobab‚ Monkey Bread Tree‚ Upside Down Tree‚ Cream of Tartar Tree b. Scientific Name Adansonia digitata L. c. Family Name Bombacaceae 3. Species a. Adansonia digitata L. b. Adansonia Grandidieri c. Adansonia Gregorii d. Adansonia Madagascarcariensis e. Adansonia Perrieri f. Adansonia rubrostipa g. Adansonia suarezensis
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Important Forest Trees And Their Uses ( Originally Published 1922 ) Of our native trees‚ the white pine is one of the best and most valuable. It is a tall straight tree that grows to a height of 100 to 150 feet. It produces wood that is light in weight and easy to work because it is so soft. At ‚one time there were extensive pine forests in the northeastern states. Many of the trees were very large‚ and occasionally one may still see pine stumps that are 5 to 6 feet in diameter. White pine made fine
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In this novel The Bean Trees the family aspect is not the traditional way of the American Dream. The “American Dream” is typically a father‚ mother‚ kids‚ and a house with a white picket fence. This novel shows a whole other way of being a being a family‚ and granted it isn’t the way most people think a family should be. Taylor Greer is a teenage girl who picked up and moved from Pittman County‚ Kentucky. She decided to move because the “norm” there wasn’t something she thought would suit her.
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Because it meant new beginnings. New beginnings with a future unknown. But change is necessary. Necessary for her to learn‚ to grow‚ and to better herself. Being fearful of something is normal‚ but not common when someone is fearless. In The Bean Trees‚ Taylor is faced with many challenges that she has to overcome. These challenges will test her strength and ability to be true to herself. The first challenge Taylor is faced with is Turtle. That one fateful night‚ when she found Turtle in the back
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Mutualism: Fig wasps and fig trees Fig wasps (Agaonidae) are a species of wasps that have a life span of a couple of days and could be as little as 2mm in length. Hence the name these wasps are sole pollinators of fig trees (Ficus)‚ each fig tree species has its own particular wasp for pollination. Fig trees are totally dependent on fig wasps for pollination and have been for the past 60 million years‚ this shows that this process of pollinating is efficient and sustainable creating equilibrium
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The plight of immigrants can only be told through experience not statistics mainly because statistics do not convey the predicament that they face in real life. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel‚ The Bean Trees‚ revolves around a young woman named Taylor who has never been a victim of injustice because she’s lived in rural Kentucky her whole life and once she leaves her county‚ she is exposed to the harsh reality beyond the boundaries. She began her journey in Pittman County where not much occurs and headed
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By the end of The Bean Trees‚ Taylor Greer is almost an entirely different character from the Marietta Greer that she was at the beginning of the book. Not only did she change her name to reinvent herself after leaving Pittman County‚ but she also underwent serious internal changes as well. When the book opened‚ Marietta was a poor girl from rural Kentucky who was too afraid of rejection to even apply for a job. By the end of the book‚ Taylor has become callous due to the nature of the life she and
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The Different Side of Family Barbara Kingsolver‚ in her novel The Bean Trees‚ utilizes figurative language to emphasize on daughters and families that exhibits the harsh truth behind being a person. Lou Ann ponders this when another character named Lee Sing states‚ “ ‘Feeding a girl is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig. All that work. In the end‚ it goes to some other family’ ” (43). This simile that compares girls to New Year pig stresses that the effort that parents put into their daughters
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mischievous‚ deceitful‚ lazy‚ and stupid. The antagonists are the ducks‚ the two trees‚ and the coyote. The plot is man against man which is Iktomi against the ducks and the coyote. Iktomi tricks the ducks into dancing around fire then kills them one by one. Iktomi wants revenge from the coyote but gets thrown into the fire instead. There is also man against the environment Iktomi against the wind. The wind and the trees won’t let him sleep and kept him from eating his meal. Also man against himself
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Berry or hallelujah Pick your poison tell me what you doin’ Everybody gon’ respect the shooter But the one in front of the gun lives forever And I been hustlin’ all day‚ this a way‚ that a way Through canals and alleyways‚ just to say Money trees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel‚ now‚ now A dollar might just fuck your main bitch that’s just how I feel‚ now A dollar might‚ say fuck them niggas that you came with that’s just how I feel‚ now A dollar might‚ just make
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