1.) When we first meet Elisa Allen in her garden‚ with what details does Steinbeck delineate her character for us? She is thirty-five‚ with a "lean and strong" face‚ a figure that "looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume"; her most feminine features are covered‚ hidden from view—she wears a loose dress‚ a heavy apron‚ a man’s hat‚ "clodhopper shoes‚" and gloves. She is also described as full of energy—apparently too much stored‚ unexpressed energy" ". . . even her work with the scissors
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Elisa does not appear to be comfortable with her sexuality and shows a bit of her manly side: “Her figure looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume.” This is also shown by her appearance: “a man’s black hat‚ clod-hopper shoes and heavy leather gloves". There is also a feminine side to her clothing when she had on “A figured print dress almost completely covered by a big corduroy apron
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plants with fish. In aquaponics‚ fish waste produces nutrients for plants and the plants provide a filter for the water. Aquaponics is better than traditional gardening‚ since it can be used to grow food year round. In places‚ like Chicago‚ where the weather changes drastically aquaponics is very useful. Moreover‚ the chores in traditional gardening are cutback; the chores are more based on feeding the fish and just making sure the plants are growing well. There may be times when the system must be clean
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caffeine retards plant growth but the presence of potassium and phosphorous in coffee reverses this effect. Materials The materials required for this science fair project: - 1 packet of mung beans - 3 gardening pots - Enough soil to fill the 3 pots - Gardening utensils - Tap water - Caffeine tablets - Coffee powder - 2 beakers - 1 measuring cylinder - 1 digital weighing scale - 1 black marker Procedure Procedure: 1. For this science fair
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Particular techniques are used in the poems: ‘Leaving Prince Charming Behind’ and ‘This is Love’ by Karlo Mila to challenge the views of what love actually means which is held by society. ‘Leaving Prince Charming Behind’ is about a girl that was in a relationship which appear perfect on the outside‚ with a partner that played the perfect role but did not feel comfortable in the relationship‚ while ‘This is Love’ is about a girl who had all these misconceptions of love and is guided by her partner
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father and grandfather is evident in lines 15 and 16 where he says‚ “By God‚ the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man.” The setting of this poem begins at the narrator’s desk in an upstairs room of a home. The narrator hears his father gardening below the window and quickly shifts back in time twenty years. The narrator never bothers to describe his physical location‚ choosing instead to focus on his memories of the redolent smells of the past. We can assume‚ based on the author’s name as
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Allen. In the beginning‚ she is presented to the reader as a physically strong‚ masculine persona. “Her face was lean and strong and her eyes were clear as water…Her figure looked blocked and heavy” (Steinbeck 513). Elisa is wearing an androgynous gardening outfit‚ complete with heavy shoes and an apron filled with sharp‚ phallic implements. Steinbeck purposely describes her character as “mature” and “handsome”‚ suggesting her image to be manlike‚ strong and powerful. By contrast‚ the author mentions
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contemporaries‚ and in this sense he nor any other can claim to be the authority with respect to this sort of direct communication – as opposed for example to the author of the gardening book‚ who might easily be the author and inventor of his theories concerning gardening‚ or perhaps drawing on a previous tradition of gardening theory. This‚ according to Kierkegaard‚
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happened and she hadn’t seemed to be troubled at all. Walter then tells Mama to open a gift that he‚ Ruth‚ and Bennie had gotten her‚ so she does. Mama was extremely surprised to open a gift of gardening tools to use at their new house. Travis then gives Mama a gift that he had gotten her which was a gardening hat that she loved. At that time‚ a small man rings the doorbell and happened to be a friend of Walter’s. The man enters the house‚ sits down‚ and informs Walter that their business partner was
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Reflective Journal Psychology of Creativity Name: Ian Tan Yi Wei Admin number: 0901383J Course: Diploma in Moving Images What is Creativity? When I first came into the School of Design in Temasek Polytechnic‚ I always thought Designing was always part of drawing‚ or visually tell what you are thinking and I had thought that the school would teach me these things‚ but as I went through my first semester‚ as a Year One student‚ I start to ask myself: What is Creativity to
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