Dormancy

Pompeii: The Tragic End of a Thriving City. Pompeii, a vibrant and prosperous city in ancient Rome, existed nearly two thousand years ago and was established between the 6th and 7th centuries BC. Located in the modern-day municipality of Pompei, near Naples in the Campania region of Italy, the city flourished thanks to its fertile volcanic soil and its strategic location near the Mediterranean Sea. Pompeii was a hub for agriculture and tourism, making it a popular retreat for wealthy Romans.…

consciousness relates to the outer world which regards the physical body as the self. Dream consciousness refers to mental images constructed from memories and regards the dream body as the self. Deep and dreamless sleep consciousness rests in a state of dormancy not split between the subject and the object. Pure consciousness is able to observe the changing states of waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep without being bound by these states or with the self that appears within…

An Investigation of the Effects of Cytokinins during the Germination of Brassica rapa Seeds Germination is a vital stage in a plants life, but it also plays a significant role in other animals’ (including humans) life cycle. It is the process in which a new plant grows from a seed. Due to the fact that plants are autotrophs; they use the process of photosynthesis to transform sunlight and make their own food. Germination occurs in gymnosperms and angiosperms when the seed is using its own…

Washington and is part of the Ring of Fire centered around the Pacific Ocean. Mount St. Helen's was created when the oceanic Jean de Fuca plate subducted beneath the North American Plate and has a long history of eruptive periods followed lengthy dormancies. Her volcanic activity was marked by thousands of years of lava and pyroclastic flows only to fall silent and then reawaken to begin her destructive cycle again. In the 1800's, Louwala-Clough fell silent, all signs of volcanic activity…

Ellie Wiesel once said, "For I belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people." The Holocaust left the Jewish people in a hysterical state of extreme self-preservation and desertion by the outside world. These overwrought emotions in Night recount the experiences of Elie Wiesel and his family while being imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II. Within the walls, Ellie is forced to work in deficient conditions while the outside…

Bud bank dynamics (Benson, Hartnett et al. 2004) study suggest that the densities and dynamics of tallgrass prairie plant populations, as well as their response to disturbance (e.g., fire and grazing) and climatic variability, may be mediated principally through effects on the demography of belowground bud populations. Patterns of seed reproduction and seed bank populations have little influence on short-term aboveground population dynamics of tallgrass prairie perennials. Our results indicate…

In 1893, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became sick of his character Sherlock Holmes and did the only logical thing he could think of: kill him. Within a short period subscriptions to the magazine publishing the stories dropped at unprecedented rates and people wore black armbands in the streets. Two years later, Doyle was forced to miraculously bring him back for the mere necessity to keep food on the table and death threats out of the mailbox. Now, even a century later, fans of the remake are…

largest diversity of subgenus of prunus. Plums have a greater range of flavor, aroma, texture colour, form and size, the qualities that gratify the senses and make fruits desirable, than any other of orchard fruits and require a cold winter to break dormancy and produce fruit on a yearly basis. Plums have a groove running down one side, smooth skin, and stone pits (Ilgin et al., 2009, Ramming…

The Effects of Poor Nutrition in Childhood Childhood is a period of basic development in which appropriate nutrition is completely necessary. Children who have terrible eating routines, whether on account of an absence of nutrition or in view of examples of eating that prompt deficient admission of supplements are inclined to huge transient and long haul well-being effects and illness. The effects of poor nutrition in America are potentially disastrous on the youth because it leads to…

The Disease Known as Political Correctness Political correctness has evolved from something that shouldn’t be taken seriously and has quickly destroyed any opposing views. The official description of political correction utilized by most is the practice of silencing opposing opinions that dwell on the concept of race, religion, or sex that might be offensive to some. The origin of this joke is just that, a joke. Taken from a comic strip, the term was utilized as a joke of sorts mocking how the…