you at midday‚ With bright raintree blooms Flaming in my ardent arms; You dropped my blossoms in the pond. I crept to you at sunset‚ 10 With pale lilac orchids Trembling on my uncertain lips; You shredded my petals in the sand. I strode to you at midnight‚ With gravel hard and cold 15 Clenched in my bitter fists; You offered me your hybrid orchids‚ And crushed them in despair. I have chosen the poem “Offering” by Hilary Tham from the anthologies “In-Sight-Malaysian Poem” as the poem that I would
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understanding of her Chinese culture‚ and realization of how much a part of her it is. It is this theme of growth that I believe to be the most prominent theme of the book‚ and we must examine the plot‚ characters‚ and other themes to understand it. Brave Orchid is Kingston’s mother. She is very traditional and proud. She is intelligent‚ but is regularly shown to be ridiculous in that she doesn’t fully fit into American culture‚ both in that she doesn’t understand much of it and that she doesn’t want to
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1. Provide an in-depth profile of the family market that the club aims to attract. Use the demographic‚ psychographic‚ behavioral methods of market segmentation According to the demographic method‚ Orchid Country Club is located near Sungei Seletar Reservoir‚ Yishun Avenue 1. They target the middle ($3‚500 to $5‚500 a month) and high-income ($11‚500 to $16‚600 per month) families that have the spending power to purchase membership from the club. The minimum requirement for education level are
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Task D Orchid View Care Home Orchid View opened as a care home in West Sussex in 2009‚ providing care and nursing for up to 87 people who were elderly‚ frail‚ had nursing‚ or dementia care needs. The £3000-per month care home that was run by Southern Cross‚ closed in October 2011 following an investigation by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that found it had failed to meet eight of its essential quality and safety standards. While it was open‚ Orchid view had a number of adult safeguarding alerts
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rice water to water the orchids will help sustain the life of the orchid plant. Because I am the kind of person that needs to have things proven to me I asked my mother in law to water one orchid with regular water and another orchid with the first washing of the rice water. Both orchids were of the same family of orchid types. After two months the orchid that was watered with the first washing of the rice produce two times as much more flowers then the regular watered orchid and the flowers from
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that chronicles her childhood in California. The main characters‚ Kingston‚ Brave Orchid‚ Moon Orchid‚ and an unnamed aunt‚ are all mentally and emotionally abused by the society in both America and China. Kingston is judged and ignore by the people at school because she is Chinese‚ and in turn blames her mother‚ Brave Orchid‚ for her problems. Moon Orchid moves to America with the help of her sister‚ Brave Orchid‚ to confront her ex-husband‚ who cheated on her with a servant and abandoned her.
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Moon Orchid is Brave Orchid’s more timid younger sister. Brave Orchid has more energy and optimism than Moon Orchid as well. To me‚ Moon Orchid has been somewhat silenced by her husband marrying other women‚ she feels like she shouldn’t bother her husband and doesn’t really have any control as the First Wife. “Don’t leave me by myself. You can talk louder than I can. (pg.144)” This quote shows that Moon Orchid has very little confidence in herself. When
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author of Woman Warrior‚ and her mother Brave Orchid are the only two people to make an appearance in every chapter of Woman Warrior. Because of this‚ we can tell how much of an effect Kingston’s mother has had on her‚ and how her talk-stories influenced her views on the Chinese and American cultures‚ family‚ and maybe most importantly‚ gender and what it means to be a woman. In the chapter entitled “Shaman‚” we get to see the life story of Brave Orchid‚ with a few moments of transparency in which
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rainforest animals as well as taking part in the gas exchanges which provide much of the world’s oxygen supply. • Rainforest plants live in a warm humid environment that allows an enormous variation rare in more temperate climates: some like the orchids have beautiful flowers adapted to attract the profusion of forest insects. • Competition at ground level for light and food has lead to evolution of plants which live on the branches of other plants‚ or even strangle large trees to fight for
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SURVEY RESULT AND ANALYSES OF DATA: Q1 RESPONDENTS RESPONSE What are their sources of water? Purok Sampaguita Purok Zenia Orchid Purok Waling-waling Purok Ipil-ipil Purok Santan Purok Bougenvilla Purok San Francisco Deep well/water pump 1 2 1 1 Ardina/ Misaco 4 2 1 5 2 3 3 Water Refilling Station 9 7 13 11 10 14 11 The result show that 5% of the respondents of Poblacion 2 extracted drinking water from deepwell/ water pump which 20% of the respondents have
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