Tulips - Grade: A PDF

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Botany of Desire: Tulips 1. What humans and honeybees have in common is that we both think flowers are beautiful. And I would agree completely because the beauty of the tulip has made it such a valuable commodity that it led to Tulipmania in Holland in the 1600s. I would see a parallel with fashion and high end clothing. Although not everyone can have nice clothes or participate in conventions featuring them, they are looked at as such beautiful pieces of art and that our lives revolve around them. We find many people attending different conventions and fairs that showcase the newest fashion designs with the newest trends and I find it quite similar with Tulipmania. Tulips were the ultimate example of human folly because people were willing to do whatever it took to buy the tulips, which would provide no actual benefit to them other than a beautifying element to their homes. The broken tulip was the outrageously priced tulip, which was priced at our equivalent of 1015 million dollars. 2. Beauty defined by google is “a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight” which I agree with. I strongly believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, in that not one thing can be defined as beautiful by absolutely everyone. Beauty defined by society depends on the category of what is being categorized as beautiful. Usually, beauty in society is associated with the outward appearance of whatever it is, rather than the internal components or how it can really benefit you. 3. The international flower trade takes place in the Dutch town of Aalsmeer in one of the world’s largest buildings (stretching about 200 football fields). This dutch town is the flower capital of the world. There are about 19 million flowers that are involved in the trade, but its very fast pace due to the short shelf life that flowers possess...