Rice Book Reviews Samples For Students

Chapter 1: Mendel’s little secret.

Gregor Mendel, a Moravian monk, carefully bred peas in separate breeding lines, crossing and backcrossing to watch how traits appeared in future generations. He found out that traits were transmitted to future generations from parent plants. Mendel also found out that there were certain plants such as the hawkweed that did not need any kind of sex to reproduce. Simply put, the plant was asexual hence self-reproducing.
Mendel is considered as the founding father of genetics and despite his death, more than one century later, scientists are still struggling to investigate this botanical mystery that is Apoximis. All this ...

“Sacred Rice” by Joanna Davidson looks at how people respond to changes in their environment, especially when that change is the loss of a critical resource. For the people of the Jola located in Guinea Bissau that critical resource is rice “our money is rice, rice is our life” (Davidson). Rice was once the most important aspect of their tribes. It was used as food, in ceremonial rituals, clothes were fashioned from the stalks, and it was also used for burial rites. Then it stopped raining as much as it had and the Jola people were unable to grow ...

Elements of a Book Review

Book reviews is a very essential element of a sound criticism, which pushes literature to further development. The practice demonstrates that writing a good book is rarely done from the first attempt. Instead, the writers have to complete many editions, revise it continually and introduce modifications, so that their writing becomes heartily perceived even by the inveterate critics from the community. Thus, the main purpose of a book review is to interact with the writer, and to inform him or her whether the work was a) relevant to the today’s interests of the community and b) whether the ...

The Immigrant Advantage: What Rest of America can learn from the fresh Immigrants.'

Cultures for Longer and Happier lives
Inspired by her culturally diverse life in Houston, award winning journalist and author Claudia Kolker investigates the attitudes and traditions towards education, hard work and health that have been imported into the United States by immigrants from different nations. She addresses the fact that natives to the United States have so much to learn from foreigners and that they should not be viewed form only an outsider point of view but should instead be embraced for the diversity they introduce to America. She argues that it is meaningless to fuss over their ...