Plant #2: Helianthus annulus (“The Joker” Sunflower)

1. Light Green

2. Falcate

3. Comes to a point

4. Serrate

a. One middle finger

b. Half of a hand

5. Cross-Venulate

6. The petiole is one thumb

7. The venation is slightly more distinct

8. Small hairs cover the surface

This is “the joker” sunflower because of its double-bloom, which are the two rings of ray flowers that surround the cluster of disk flowers in the center. The coloring of the petals is ombre as they go from a deep rust color at the center to a bright yellow at the tips. This flower is a vascular plant and it is also a capitulum because of its contracted raceme and its flowers are attached to a thickened stem. An interesting fact about this plant is that Sunflowers are native to the Americas.

Ender-session HW #5:

I hope to ideally gain experience in the field that I hope to go into for my career. Because I do not know for sure what I would like to pursue as a career yet, there are a couple of general ender-session option that I would like to explore. One of the two possible options that I am looking into is, to volunteer at Invisible Children. The other possibility that I am looking at for ender-session is interning with the person in charge of visual marketing at a store at the mall or with a personal stylist.

I would like to volunteer at Invisible Children because I am, at the moment, intending on majoring in International Relations and then possibly pursuing a career that involves working with global philanthropies (particularly ones working to help those affected by the central African genocide going on today). From volunteering with Invisible Children I would hope to gain even more knowledge about the genocide while at the same time giving a significant amount of my time helping the cause in some way.

I would like to intern with the person in charge of visual marketing at a store at the mall because visual marketing is another career that I am considering to pursue. I have already gotten my resume out to four stores at the mall about a possible volunteer internship with their visual marketer and should be hearing back from all of them this Monday. I would hope that if I completed this internship option, that I would not only gain some initial experience in the field that could later help me get a job, but I would also gain some more knowledge about what it takes to succeed in that field and if I truly am interested or not.

The third ender-session option that I would be interested in is interning with a personal stylist. This is another career that I am interested in possibly pursuing and I have a contact in the field whom I met two years ago and still have her business card. I would hope that if I completed this internship option that I would gain knowledge about how to get into the field and what it is like to actually be a personal stylist. I would also hope that I would gain experience in the field that could help me in the future should I choose to pursue this career option.