We were to evaluate each microhabitat in terms of the tree species present, the number of individuals present per species, the size of the trees, and the distribution of the tree in the habitats. ... Tree species present is finding what tree species are found in the particular microhabitats. ... This field trip would give us the frequency, density, and cover of all of the trees found in the habitats. ... You would have to be familiar with most of the trees found and definitely know how to key out an unknown tree. ... All of the most important trees in each area are climax trees. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Givings goes so far as to question why women are the chosen gender for the torture of giving birth and providing food for the child, perhaps even suggesting that women have to endure worse than what Jesus had to go through. ... Givings spends his days giving other women a kind of satisfaction that he denies his wife, which leads Catherine to experience jealousy, even though she isn't completely sure what she is jealous of. ... Daldry returns to the Givings' home in a flustered state as if sexually aroused, which Dr. Givings responds to by giving her further "treatment.... Giving...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each part of the tree illustrates a facet of our nation. ... We give much more freedom than many other countries do to those of different races and religions. ... Thus, there would be no country as there would be no tree. ... It gives protection to the squirrels and birds from the harsh elements. ... From the fallen acorns come new trees as if it were a miracle. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Bean Trees is a book of determination, compassion, and love. ... What would be interesting, maybe even in the long run, is to share her life with the kid and give Turtle her best effort. The Bean Trees is the first book I read written by Barbara Kingsolver. ... Great tale on love and friendship, abandonment and belonging. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bean Trees : A Novel > Customer Review #2: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEST NOVEL EVER I read The Bean Trees, as a ju...

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Morrison gives insight to the emerald closet with, "Veiled and protected by the green walls, [Denver] felt ripe and clear, and salvation was as easy as a wish"(31). ... The occurrence of trees in Beloved such as those in the emerald closet shows how trees represent safe havens for characters like Denver from their painful problems. ... "Yonder" refers to the unsafe world outside of the tree Clearing. ... The occurrence of trees in Beloved like those of the Clearing shows how trees represent safe havens from the life hardships that characters like Baby Suggs undergo. ... The words of one Che...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Robert Frost's poem, "Tree at my window," the author uses imagery to characterize the relationship between the speaker of the poem and the tree outside his window. The tree represents the speaker in both of his conscience and subconscious states. ... Frost gives this tree a personality so the speaker can have something to relate to himself. ... It seems as though the speaker is having a nightmare as he and the trees are "taken and tossed"(9). ... The speaker's focus changes from his dream and his connection with the tree to how their paths crossed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In only one year of his life, Little Tree learns about prejudice, violence and death. ... Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. ... Little Tree will, one day, grow into a "Big Tree,"" lucky to have a great heritage and family who truly cares for him. ... Little Tree also learns right from wrong. ... He talks to the oak tree, watches the clouds, the sun and the Dog Star. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are many reasons why Cold Sassy Tree is such a good book. ... All of these elements of the conflict help give the reader . ... The names really help give the book a flair. Finally, the setting of Cold Sassy Georgia, the conflict between Miss Love and the towns folks, and the meanings of titles and names, all help give Cold Sassy Tree an aura of excitement. ... All of this self sums up Cold Sassy Tree. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most of us have at least heard or read Forrest Carter's "The Education of Little Tree," a book he published in the 1970s, that is now celebrating being in print for more than 25 years. ... Little Tree's uncanny ability not only to prevail but also to survive throughout the narrative is mirrored. ... They commence a gentle initiation and give the boy the Indian name Little Tree and enlighten him on the way people have always lived and their land customs. ... Take the slower and smallest and the deer will not only give you meat but it will also grow strong. ... Even though the s grandp...

• Word Count: 938
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A poison tree is a poem about the growing anger. ... Trees can grow fruits which represents happiness. ... However, those apples are poised is on a tree. ... From this line let that there was a garden that belonged to the owner, where he owned many trees, it either can be good trees or other hand bad trees that are poisonous. ... In the movie snow white the queen gets in range and hands her an apple, at this point snow white is her enemy in her eyes, wants to make her lay in bed in other words make her "die " by giving her a poisonous apple....

• Word Count: 963
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Poem: The Poison Tree The poem I chose to analyze is called A Poison Tree, written in 1794 by William Blake, a well-known 18th and 19th century poet. ... Blake continues by describing his rising anger with the use of metaphors which also cleverly pertain to the tree analogy he uses throughout the poem. By saying that he "water"d it [his anger] in fears and sunned it with smiles,"( lines 5,7) Blake, obviously not meaning these in a literal sense, implied that this person was using his other emotions to contribute to the growth of his anger, as would water and sun do to a tree. ... At th...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Blake's "A Poison Tree,"" the speaker, probably a young woman, tells of a grudge she holds against her enemy and the torture it inflicts upon her. ... While she attempts to mask this anger "with smiles,"" (l.7) she gives further encouragement to her anger and become increasingly and more tortured by this "wrath- she knows she is destined to inflict. ... The foe, however, is denied such congenial treatment by this "wrath,"" and instead the "wrath did grow- (l.4) and metaphorically begins to sprout to eventually become a tree. The speaker then cares for this tree with "tears- of ra...

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• Grade Level: High School

Timber is the most significant forest product, and extensive stands of Sal Trees constitute a particularly valuable asset in Nepal's southern plains. ... Forests act as a major carbon store because carbon dioxide and is taken up from the atmosphere and used to produce the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins that make up the tree. ... Forests are being cut down faster than they can grow, partly to make room for new farmland and partly to harvest trees as fuel. ... Trees draw ground water up through their roots and release it into the atmosphere. ... The Constitution states that the Kingdom o...

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As a reader, Taylor, the protagonist of The Bean Trees is important in drawing my interest because she narrates much of the story and most of the ideas have been seen through her eyes and point of view. ... This gives readers a great insight and quickly draws their attention into this novel. ... The change of her name gives her an encouragement to find herself and allows the readers to indicate her personality, which shapes the novel, at the same time. ... In The Bean Trees, Taylor being the narrator and speaking in first person reveals herself, which drawing the interest into this novel. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Gaines' Short Story, "Just Like A Tree" "Ernest J. ... The narration of "Just like a Tree," shifts from one character to another. ... Although Chuckkie is a child, and not experienced enough to guide the mule, Emile allows him to explore, and gives him a chance to perform a "manly" duty. ... Yet she walks through those mud puddles, in the rainstorm in order to give Aunt Fe a gift and say goodbye. ... The character of the community is illuminated in many ways in "Just like a Tree." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Frost uses irony with analogies to argue that his apple trees will not eat his neighbor's pinecones. Frost writes: He is all pine and I am apple - orchard my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines." ... In the poem "Departmental" my opinion is that Frost is giving his conception about the government and he demoralizes the concept of the departments. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This summer I read The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. ... I see Mattie being the perfect respectful person because of the way she cares for the other characters in the novel and how she gives advice to help the other characters make good decisions. ... Mattie also has a tendency to give advice about life and the world. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sexist? Is the Barbara Kingsolver book, The Bean Trees, sexist against men? The book is in fact sexist against men. The first reason the book is sexist is because of the way the men in the book are portrayed. The second way you can see the book is racist is by the narrator's actions toward men....

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Hero's Journey Essay Bean Trees After surviving and conquering many blood battles, Samson was considered by many to be a great hero. ... Take Taylor for example, the main character in the book Bean Trees written by Barbara Kingsolver, she has no rare god-like powers. ... Taylor had to give up some of her freedom in exchange for the responsibilities that come with being a parent. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But why are trees here? ... Being taller gives a plant an obvious advantage in the competition for light. ... Why do trees need water? ... Trees are the original multi-taskers. ... Trees can keep the ground stable On sloping sites tree roots act to prevent erosion and stabilise the soil. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

So our history books will rather give the credit to English descendants' founding fathers than the Americans Indians who truly had the formula to run the country after the ill Articles of Confederation that was really made by the English founding fathers. ... They valued nature and appreciated everything that the trees, forest, water and soil gave to them. ... The first treatment for malaria which came from the barks of the Cinchona trees was also discovered by these men. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Baron in the trees is a slightly different novel, but comprises some of the same features. ... He strives for objectivity, to distance himself from his natural world by living between earth and sky and sets up his society and livelihood, entirely in the trees, as his own Noble Savage. ... The path of Aschenbach is one of degradation and decadence in a life on descent, but Cosimo's is actually ascending, as his life in the trees enrich him, both physically and spiritually. ... As Calvino stated, Cosimo is something of a "Don Quixote of the Enlightenment", watching, from his perch in th...

• Word Count: 1221
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate