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Unit 14 The Mystery of the
White Gardenia
Gardenia
• Gardenia is a genus of 142 species of flowering plants in the coffee
family, Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of
Africa, southern Asia, Australasia and Oceania.
• The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus after Dr. Alexander Garden
(1730-1791), a Scottish-born American naturalist.
• They are evergreen shrubs and small trees growing to 1–15 metres
(3.3–49 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite or in whorls of three or four,
5–50 centimetres (2.0–20 in) long and 3–25 centimetres (1.2–9.8 in)
broad, dark green and glossy with a leathery texture. The flowers
are solitary or in small clusters, white, or pale yellow, with a tubularbased corolla with 5-12 lobes (petals) from 5–12 centimetres (2.0–
4.7 in) diameter. Flowering is from about mid-spring to mid-summer
and many species are strongly scented.
Marsha Arons
• Mrs. Arons has developed a mathematical formula for a perfect
literary analysis. For starters, there are five basic rules that are
inviolable for literary analyses: 1. You cannot say anything about
literature. Any comment about literature must be supported by
textual evidence. You must use hard and fast evidence that you find
in the text to prove your point and cannot just "feel" or "sense"
something about what the author is trying to convey. 2. Literary
analysis is always written in third person, present tense. No
exceptions. The reason that literature is always written about in the
present tense is that he work continues to exist and the characters
continue to go through the same actions long after you have finished
reading. 3. Literature appeals to human beings because it always
deals with some element of the human condition. You must identify
which element you will examine in your paper. Your paper must
examine something and not just contain observations. 4. You must
prove your thesis in the body of the essay. 5. There can be no fewer
than five sentences in a paragraph.
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Marsha Arons is also a contributer to
Series. She has authored over 50 stories in the
series and has been featured on the cover
seven times. In addition, she is the author of
Teen Miracles, a collection of inspirational
stories for teens and a part of the Samll Miracles
series of books , and also contain articles
written by her.
• She resides in Skokie, Illinois and has a family,
which includes a loving husband, and four
daughters ranging from sixteen to twenty eight.
She is an affectionate grandmother.