Personal Information

My name is Firebird and I am 14 year old. I am going to visit mesa. I am going to visit mesa because I have always wondered how they are made. I think once I get there it will be cool but I don't like flying. My parents think me going to mesa around the world will be a experience or something.

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Pitcher Plant

By

Firbird

Have you ever herd of a pitcher plant eating a monkey? This paper is about pitcher plants, also called Sarracenia purpurea. It will discuss parts or the pitcher plant and how they work,how they attract their prey and medical uses. The pitcher plant is a member of the milkweed family. Pitcher plants live in bogs, swamps, wet or sandy meadows and where the ground is acidic and water saturated. The pitcher plant eats insects and small mammals like rodents, the bigger pitcher plants called monkey cups are known to eat small monkeys. Some insects live in the trap of the pitcher plant like mosquitoes and a type of crab spider living off the trapped pray of the pitcher plant.

The rhizomes of the pitcher plant can live under ground for 20-30 years. The rhizomes is the part of the plant the leaves come from. The leaves are used to catch water and put it in the pitcher. Pitchers are a long narrow vessel or a pot belly trap. The hood and neck have little or no color so it makes light shine into the plant comforting? the prey to walk into the pitcher. Insects that are down in the pitcher and try to fly out sometimes hit the hood and then the insect will fall back down. The rim of the pitcher plant is waxy and some even have loose wax to stick to the preys feet making it even harder to walk. Inside the pitcher, after the waxy part, are stiff hairs that make it hard to get a good footing and make the insect unable to walk back up. After the hairs, the sides of the plant becomes a waxy, slick surface. The prey then drowns and gets digested by enzymes within the leaf. Some pitcher plants have a secretion to make the wings of the insect wet and useless. This secretion also breaks the surface tension of the water so insects that can walk on water can not on the pitcher plant. Some pitcher plants grow on tendrils, some can even climb up over ten meters. When they start to climb they make aerial pitchers. Aerial pitchers and the normal type look different but are on the same plant. Some types of pitcher plants have poisons that ether stun the insect or make the insect not a were of it's surroundings and not well footed. When the plant produces fruit the seeds in it are light and winged. The only use for its roots is to anchor it in the ground because it gets nutrition from the prey.

One method the plant uses to catch it prey is by using the insects that are caught to attract things like frogs. Another method used to attract prey is the use of pungent odors, it lures insects like moths and flies inside. The lower parts of the plant are colorful, which attracts bees, dragon flies, crickets and bugs. Finally the plant creates a sweet nectar that oozes from under the rim and when insects try to get it they fall in.

The pitcher plant was used for medicine by native American Indians. One use was to aid in stomach, digestive problems and urinary tract disorders. The roots where ingested to treat smallpox, lung and liver ailments. The leaves were dried and made into a tea to treat fever and chills. To date the pitcher plant has never been evaluated by the FDA for safety, effectiveness and purity.

All plants get energy from sun light, air and water but the pitcher plant survives differently. The pitcher plant can grow in areas with poor soil nutrients because it get the nutrients from the prey it eats. The plant has learned to survive by adapting to it's environment.

Culture

In the middle ages you would leave your family early or Henriette the land when you were young 14 or so because your family members would die when they were like 30 years old. Now we like to like 70-80 years and not like 30 years, so we would leave home at like 18 or 20 now. In the middle ages they had a king now we have a system of power so on one has to much power. Still the rich have the most say in the world though. In the middle ages they would cut your hand off or kill you in public if you did a crime (This would be like a fair for some people). Now if you do a crime they can fine you, put you in jail or both. If they do kill you its not in public and its not as painful.

Medieval Event

Sunday has come again time to wake up and go to church with everyone else. The church is so big and the paintings and really detailed. Its the time of the week again and we must pray and listen to the priest because we all believe in heaven and hell. The peasants have to stand but I get a bench with my other guild mates. I like this day because we get to talk to god and we get the day off. Everyone is so happy Sunday some because of god and some of a day of or like me I am happy for both.

Culture

I mostly interact with the nobles and higher because they buy most of the locks. Some of the richer freemen buy the cheaper locks. Once a peasant came into buy the cheapest lock we had because he thought someone was trying to steal from his house (I think he was crazy). Who would steal from a peasant they have nothing? I eat foods like meat, poultry, fish and a few vegetables. Theses foods have some spices on them to add flavor I liked that a lot. I drink wine because the water could kill you. Denmark is a very flat and in some parts flooding is very common. I would not call the hills mountains they are very small.

government

I hate my government all hail the king yak yak yak... I don't think its fair that the noble can wear all this expensive stuff and if someone in the lower class bought some they could not wear it. I think its a good law that minor law breaker must pay a fine and not death. I am a christian my king wont let us practice our real religion. I would like to choose my own religion and not have to warship something I don't no I believe in. The crusades are really sad lots of my friends have died and the king's land where I live is getting raided for metal to make armor and weapons, so i have no metal to make locks.

personal info

My name is Sheldon Locksmith, I live I west Denmark. I am 13 years old almost 14, I am an apprentice of a old locksmith. The only one left in my family is my grandfather he is 34, I live in a nice house with my locksmith teacher, My old house was made of mud and wood this one is made from mostly wood. I like to go out side and look around the market or play boardgames with my teacher. I don't like my chores I have to clean out the livestock's pens, start a fire, cook some meals, go to the market ( that is one chore I like) and worst of all clean the table you never know what in god's name is on that i have seen old rotten eggs to iron melted to the wood on the table (once I found a cat inside a roasted pig).