![]() ![]() ![]() Allison is white her trials are a universal experience. Depicted with affecting honesty (and including quite a lot of dialogue), Allison’s journey is at once gripping and agonizing. After her parents finally do intervene, she begins seeing a specialist whose treatment, combined with Allison’s brave determination, makes all the difference. That her obvious distress flies under the radar of her parents and teachers for so long is especially distressing. ![]() Within weeks, she goes from being an excellent student positioned socially on the fringe of the popular group to a pariah who may fail her classes. First she has to avoid cracks in floors, but this rapidly devolves into restrictions on every aspect of her life-controlling her behavior, relationships, eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene, and completely derailing her ability to do well in school. Can a girl fall off a cliff in s-l-o-w motion? That’s how Allison’s life seems to plummet during her sophomore year of high school in this fine debut memoir.Īfter awakening from a terrible dream, Allison is abruptly afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder-although she doesn’t truly understand the reason that she’s suddenly associating commonplace objects and activities with brain cancer. ![]()
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![]() The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that constitute floral scents often have antimicrobial properties that defend that plant against pathogens (Junker and Tholl 2013). Other than attracting pollinators, floral aromas also play roles in plant defense. (corpse lily), which emits the smell of rotting meat. One good example of fly-pollinated flowers is Rafflesia sp. We usually prefer the perfume of the flowers that are pollinated by bees and moths, and we would surely dislike the smell of flowers pollinated by flies. Whether the wide range of variations in floral aromas has evolved to attract specific pollinators (bees, moths, bats, hummingbirds, etc.) is an area of active research (Glover 2011). ![]() Fragrances are powerful chemical signals that plants use to advertise their presence to their pollinators. ![]() While we may greatly appreciate floral fragrances, we should not flatter ourselves – the flowers do not emit these fragrances for us. Shakespeare is not alone praises of floral aromas are frequent in our prose, poems, metaphors and idioms. ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet' – the verse from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is overused but nonetheless captures how strongly we associate flowers with fragrances. ![]() ![]() His fiction aims to make the reader believe that it is fact to believe that the narrator was “really there”. Bollywood affairs, Indian kids, kaali daal: Imran Khan’s ex-wife spares nothing and nobody in memoirīenyamin is a reader’s writer.IPL 2023: At 41, MS Dhoni is striking the ball as well as ever has in his IPL career.How to stick to a gluten-free diet after starting on it: A celebrity nutritionist offers tips.Why is Punjab, a land of sublime classical music, known only for bhangra?.In Trump trial, his legal team used discredited myth about how women should react to rape.In his early days in the RSS, Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted minors to be banned from watching films. ![]() Fun watch: Actor Shraddha Kapoor’s ‘French’, ‘British’, ‘American’ accents while speaking in English.From Odisha to Kerala, a bus of climate migrants.To heal Manipur’s wounds, all groups must agree to replace identity politics with politics of peace.My Kerala Story: Finding liberation in Malabar.‘I don’t worry about those things’: Sudha Murthy when asked about communal politics in Karnataka.Twitter gives Modi a history lesson after he claims that no Congress leader met Bhagat Singh in jail. ![]() |