Monarch Butterfly Project

Introduction: My kindergarten learners are very diverse. It is comprised of twenty-one 5 and 6 year old students. There are 11 boys and 10 girls. In my class, there are children with ADHD, severe learning disabilities, multiple ESL learners, Cerebral Palsy, Severe Behavior, and other assortment of needs.

10: The life cycle of the organism: The life cycle of the Kamehameha butterfly is the females lay their eggs on the mamaki leaves. After it becomes a caterpillar it feeds on the mamaki leaves before pupating and transforming into a butterfly.

In the book “ In the Time of the Butterflies,” the author describes the lives of four revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic. These sisters were Dede, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Minerva Mirabal. Minerva was the one who stood out the most to me. The passion she had and showed made her sound like a sacrificial leader. Minerva was the type to stand up for what she believed in. Rafael Trujillo was the leader of the Dominican Republic, whatever he say or want to be changed it changes. He was a brutal dictator. Minerva showed him that she is brave and strong. In the book she stated “ I was the one always standing up to him”. When she needed his help she buttered him up into making a deal with her. The Mirabal sisters will always be a

Culture is found throughout the entirety of “In the Time of Butterflies” written by Julia Alvarez. There are points of conflict due to culture and one's personal beliefs. There are also ways that people are connected through their culture and beliefs. There are cultures found both, within the families and across the country. Widely accepted cultures and ones that are not as popular. Culture that is taken away and replaced with a different one. Culture is a very broad term in a book like “In the Time of Butterflies” because of all the different types of culture there is.

Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies shows the lack of fairness in society and the importance of maintaining a strong family bond. Trujillo was not fair between men and women and granting men the rights to do whatever they want. The Mirabal sisters’ revolutionary against president Trujillo and fighting for freedom of the country and its people. In Saudi Arabia women are now granted to drive, but there some other things that men can do but women cannot. The Mirabal family has a strong maintain of a family bond. Minerva is one of the four sisters who is brave and had the courage to stand for others and started the revolution against the president.

“If you don’t study your history, you are going to repeat it” (312). Dedé states this in In the Time of the Butterflies after being questioned why she shares her story. The historical fiction novel by Julia Alvarez, takes place in the 1940’s, under the dictatorship of Trujillo, and in 1994 when Dedé recites her family’s historic and engrossing life. The Mirabal sisters up rise against the government, hoping to gain freedom for the Dominican Republic. Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies exemplifies the attributes Vladimir Nabakov would consider necessary for great literature as specified in his essay, “Good Readers and Good Writers.” Alvarez’s masterpiece focuses on a rebellious young woman who challenges the dictatorial Trujillo

The first component of the work is a butterfly shape with a raised neon green and orange skull in the center. It is in a black frame with a black background. Colorful patterns radiate out from the skull onto the wings, first into leaves, and then to looping, wavy shapes. The leaves and skull are shades of green, and the other colors are yellow, blue, pink, brown, and red. Small, repeating dark green semicircles outline the butterfly and extend to the black background.

Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of Butterflies is a work of historical fiction set in the Dominican Republic under the rule of powerful dictator known as Trujillo. Four sisters work together to resist a force greater than themselves to stand up for their beliefs and protect their family. Patria, Dede, Mate, and Minerva, “the butterflies”, experience the loss of their father and family members to the regime. They work together to retrieve them back or use their losses to drive them to overthrow their compelling government. Each of the sisters represent a larger theme of the novel such as religious importance, identity, or coming of age. Minerva Mirabal is driven by the need to escape the “cage” she is locked in by Trujillo. Therefore, the theme

“In the Time of the Butterflies” takes place in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. The author, Julia Alvarez is a native of the country, but moved to the US at a young age. She first heard about the sisters roughly around 1986 and instantly felt the need to share their story with the world. In the book, Alvarez tells the story of the Mirabal sisters and their fight for freedom against the Dominican dictator Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo reigned for about 30 years until his assassination in May of 1961. Trujillo’s reign of terror began in 1930 and the violence soon followed. The self centered dictator changed the names of cities and murdered roughly about 20,000 Haitians from the neighboring country. The book not only tells the sisters’

Nathaniel Rich, the author of several novels, reviews, essays, and criticisms for major magazines and newspapers, wrote this depiction of female Olympic boxer Marlen Esparza in the July 2012 Vogue magazine entitled Marlen Esparza: Going the Distance. Rich begins the article by recounting the events of Esparza's determination to be trained by Coach Rudy Silva; her persistent efforts and obvious talent caught the Silva's attention aside from the fact he did not normally train females. Her talent for this male dominated sport prompted Silva to inquire why she wanted to box and when she told of her troubles in school he gave her certain conditions in promises to coach her (848-9). Rich explain how by the time Esparza

The name of my project is “The Peace Arch”. I named my project this because my branches form an arch and it looks very simple and peaceful. I chose the bowl because I wanted a shallow bowl that didn't take any attention away from my flowers and leaves. I chose to fill my bowl with rocks instead of Styrofoam because I thought it would look earthy and natural. I chose my flowers because they were different shades of pink and they came with different sizes and length of branches. I also chose my flowers because they look like cherry blossoms. My project represents peace and love. The rocks and the simpleness of the project represents peace and the pink flowers represent the love. I placed my branches and my flowers on opposite sides of my bowl

"We cannot allow our children to grow up in this corrupt and tyrannical regime, we have to fight against it, and I am willing to give up everything, including my life if necessary." (Patria Mercedes Mirabal)

Discovering one’s identity has invariably been a struggle for mankind. From obstacles testing moral values to uncertainty regarding a role in life, the road to finding one’s character is not always successful. However, throughout life, different factors can have ranging impacts on the guidance of one’s identity and the shaping of who they are as a person. Whether it is family or a major life event that changes their outlook, the struggle to find one’s character can be addressed through numerous components. This idea is especially ubiquitous in the novel, In the Time of the Butterflies; the Mirabal sisters begin to discover themselves over the course of the story in a variety of ways. In her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez utilizes myriad literary techniques to establish the prevalent theme of finding one’s identity through growth, faith, and freedom.

Habitat Fragmentation is a serious issue for Fender’s blue butterflies. All three strategies were simulated under the same experimental parameters and against the same control to allow for comparison. The first strategy used in the simulation was the corridor strategy which decimated the Fender’s blue butterflies’ population. While bigger island strategy lowered the extinction rate of Fender’s blue butterflies in the simulation, it failed to address the initial problems. The stepping stones strategy not only lowered the extinction rate of Fender’s blue butterflies the most but also had an additional advantage over the other methods. Based on studies and the SimBio simulation, stepping stones seems to have the best reserve design to maximize

It was incredibly hard for me to choose which photos were my favorite. Partially because there was a large quantity of photos to choose from and partially because there were photos that, when I was taking them, I thought for sure that they would turn out well. However, when I saw the finished product, the picture wasn’t able to capture the same feeling as when I saw it in person. My favorite photo is the picture of the monarch butterfly resting on the yellow daisies. I choose this as one of my favorites, not because the subject matter was especially unusual or interesting, but because of the editing I was able to do to the photo. I don’t have much experience editing photos, so this project introduced me to some of the basic features available in Photoshop. I was able to darken the edges and blur some of the outer flowers so that the eye is drawn towards the center of the picture. Then I was able to alter the color of the flowers so that they were a brighter shade of yellow making the contrast of the yellow flowers to the orange butterfly more dramatic. After I did this, the photo looked too bright; so I made the shadows on the flowers more prominent and increased the overall saturation of the photo so that some of the darker areas balanced out the brightness of the flowers and the butterfly. I ended up centering the butterfly in the middle when I cropped it because I didn’t think the rule of thirds would apply well to this particular picture. I am happy with the overall