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...

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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...

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In line 6, "I give up my lungs which are trees that have never seen the moon", the speaker is expressing the moments he did not take advantage of when he had the chance. Within the lungs lies the bronchial tree, which assists in the ability to breathe, and directly relates to the metaphor comparing the lungs of the speaker to trees. ... Strand's structure of "Giving Myself Up" is very much so a litany. Lines 1-15 all start with the same three words, "I give up," followed by what the speaker is giving up and a metaphor comparing that item to an element of the ...

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When word of this starts spreading, Sully is commanded by the head of security Colonel Quaritch to report back any intelligence about the Na'vi that could give them an edge in battle. ... However, Sully is also feeding this information to the corporation funding the research, a corporation trying to exploit the Na'vi for the rich deposit of minerals under the huge tree which is their home. He tells them how if they "want to hit [the tree] it's going to be complicated " because "there's an outer row of columns, real heavy duty, there's a secondary ring here and an inner...

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The stanza opens with the use of personification; "Tree-leaves labour up and down" which creates a dark and eerie tone. The verb "labour" infers the trees are being forced to move hinting the trees are being pushed around by the wind. The use of this pathetic fallacy gives the reader a sense of abandonment and isolation as Hardy takes in his surroundings. Furthermore, the trees are further personified when Hardy states the trees "succumbs to the crawl of the night." The word 'succumbs' refers to the trees slowing down as night time sets in. ...

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Removing mass numbers of trees rich in these organisms not only hurts the future generation of trees that will be planted there, but the surrounding trees around them. ... With out healthy soil, trees do not grow rich and strong, which will ultimately lead to less lumber. ... For example, tree roots and stumps are physically removed from the earth, thus, the soil is deprived of the nutrients and water absorbing properties, this wood would give when it naturally decays over time. ... Usually, before the huge "cash crop trees" (trees that are grown to be harvested) such as the Douglas Firs h...

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The other is the Castilla ulei, from which rubber can be extracted only by cutting down the tree . ... No source of rubber comparable to the Hevea tree has been found in any other part of the world, although most of the world's rubber now comes from a variety of Hevea which is much more productive than the native wild trees of the Amazon . ... There could be no supervision of the tapping methods and no care of the trees to insure their continued productivity. ... Some very industrious workers, good rifle-shots and handy with the bow and arrow shooting fish, often manage to save consi...

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The white space brings the eye to the idea that this is a piece created in another world since there is no traditional view of landscape to give the traditional scope. ... The delicate brush strokes almost seem the lift the image off of the page as if you are viewing a 3D view of the ladies walking calmly under a plum blossom or cherry blossom tree. The use of the tree indicates that the ladies are in a natural setting as well as the flowers located on what you would naturally assume is a waterfront. ... Delicate defining lines outline the ladies' garments, producing a foreground with fin...

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In The Book of Genesis The story of Adam and Eve tells about where Eve took a fruit from a tree which God told Adam that the tree is forbidden and he should not eat of it, but Eve eats an apple off this forbidden tree and also offers Adam the forbidden fruit, for this action god punishes them by having women who have children give birth with pain and their sorrows when they suffered would be more deeply felt and they would have to live under the desires of their husbands who would have to work hard to earn food. ...

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The persona creates a sense of connection with nature through a personification " your windscreen parts the forest, swaying and glancing" giving the landscape of the forest a sense of life, as a result gives a sense of identity to the place. ... Nonetheless, the lively atmosphere is not to last as the use of ellipsis "jammed midday brilliance crouches in clearings" allows the readers to take time and soak in the vibrant visual imagery of the sunlight shining through the trees. ... Having just taken in the beauty and richness of the trees, the readers are suddenly introduced...

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Over time, biological processes such as natural selection give rise to new species. ... Through time, these two species might give rise to new species, and so on through millennia. ... Many connecting links between along various branches of the human family tree have been found as fossils. ... They reveal a branched tree, parts of which trace a general evolutionary sequence leading from ape-like forms to modern humans. ... Some features, including long arms, short legs, intermediate toe structure, and features of the upper limb, indicate that the members of this species spent part of the ti...

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In the Iroquois myth there was a married couple of gods and there is "a sacred tree that stood at the center of the universe" (Iroquois 25). The woman decides she wants some bark from one of the roots of the tree and her husband even knowing it is forbidden he gives in. So he decided to take some of the roots, "so he dug a hole among the roots of this great sky tree, and he bared some of its roots. ... The forbidden action of taking the fruit from the sacred tree differentiates in that for the Iroquois myth, the man touches the roots from the forbidden tree first, while in Genesis the wom...

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Cacao trees need a unique environment to grow. ... The cacao trees, which grow under the canopy of larger trees, must mature to five years old to produce the cacao fruit. ... However, all fermenting methods depend on removing the beans from the pods by splitting them with machetes, hammers or by hitting the pod against a tree, exposing a white, sugary pulp. ... A. pasteurianus contains genes that give the yeast and other forms of bacteria that are present energy. ... There are three species of Cacao trees, the Criollo species is more susceptible to disease than the Forastero and Trinitario tre...

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The trees, once happy in their multicolored autumn coats, stood void against the pale sky, and the last flowers of summer hung their heads in resignation, the frost haven stole their wills to live. ... Like a delicate smooth fabric, it draped the ugly angular limbs of the trees, converting them into a rather pretty sight. Only the stately pine tree had resisted the change in seasons. ... My hair and eyebrows became coated with accumulating snow, giving me the appearance of great age. ...

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Zora Neale Hurston enriches her readers" sense of her childhood through her descriptive diction and her skillful manipulation of point of view, giving readers the allusion that her childhood was a self-contained paradise full of riches and opportunities, but at the same time hinting at an ominous outside world. Hurston's choice of words, such as the repetition of "big" and "plenty", give readers the idea of grandeur and copiousness. ... She was adamant about her children receiving a proper education and would give them lessons on arithmetic and grammar everyday. ... He worried that, w...

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In Genesis 1 mankind was to simply "fill the earth and subdue it," as said in Genesis 1.28, while in Genesis 2 man was made in order to service the world they had been brought into, which can be inferred by Genesis 2.5-9 which states that "there was no one to till the ground he put the man who he has formed out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree". ... Mankind, from the story of creation told by Genesis 1, was meant to be masters of the world they had been put into, one way God enforced this was by telling the man and the woman ,in Genesis 2.16-17, "You may ...

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The elevated perspective that Bruegel gives the viewer as well as the lack of frame makes the piece looks infinitely large, expanding in all directions. ... Upon viewing The Harvesters for the first time, the viewer's eye is automatically drawn to the large tree looming over a large crowd of people. ... To the left of the tree we see a middle-aged man who is asleep, most likely exhausted from the heat. ... For instance, as one were to slowly look up towards the church, we see a man shaking apples from a tree and a smaller group of women picking them up. ... Through the use of three-dimens...

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Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. ... Implications of death later are more obvious as 'the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief'; the plosive harshness of 'dead' and other words in this section such as 'roots' and 'branches' conveying the harsh infertility of the human wasteland. The vast expansiveness of this desert-like area is explicated through the anaphora and repetition ...

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In the midst of this landscape is the European "old cottage" surrounded by imported species of trees "willow", "medlar" "crabapple" which casts a destructive presence over the native vegetation by choking the creek which is "leaf-silenced". ... We can hear a different voice to the first stanza in the diction of the yarner who narrates his story in the first person and animates it with his own comments on the characters: "I give him a wink" and "he went like a luny". ... An even bleaker view emerges in the poem "Flame ...

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Illustration of Smith's labor cost theory and cost of production theory: For example if we take a society in which land and natural resources are abundant and communally owned/ or not owned by anyone, the wood/bark on a tree has no value (either use or exchange) as long as it is on the tree but when a person cuts the wood from the tree and chops it up it acquires value (both use and exchange). Hence it is the labor that gives it the value. ... Using the tree example again, the tree is no longer on a communally owned land but belongs to the landlord, hence land figures in the cost of the ...

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Our imagination is meant to be a source of inspiration in our actual world, to give us something to aspire to in the tangible world. ... In Robert Frost's "Birches," the reader once again is exposed to this idea as Frost daydreams about climbing the branches of a tree "toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, but dipped its top and set me down again. ... A typical passport gives us the privilege to visit a foreign land, to travel and explore, to discover all the things we could never have believed had we not seen it with our own eyes. ...

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This affects the evolutionary development due to the fact that it aids organisms attract each other and mate, reproduce and continue to give growth to their species, population. ... It gives us more knowledge of DNA and how it works, how to improve it more efficiently, how to change it etc Not only does this intervention help us but it also helps other organisms. ... We can also do this in order to obtain better trees, trees that can stand different kinds of conditions; this would make it possible for tree to inhabit places that they cannot originally inhabit. ...

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History The first European explorer to encounter Costa Rica was the Great Navigator himself, Christopher Columbus. The day was September 18, 1502, and Columbus was making his fourth and final voyage to the New World. As he was setting anchor off shore, a crowd of local Carib Indians paddled out in...

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If you find problems in the surrounding environment such as malevolent landforms like jagged rocks and steep cliffs, grotesque-looking trees, threatening structures such as large power transformers, or a road running straight at the house, don"t give up. ... Animal bones, dead trees, and sharp protruding rocks may be considered bad omens, while vibrant foliage, meandering streams, and living game animals may symbolize good fortune, health, and happiness. ...

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"On this side there was no shade and no trees" (Hemingway 236). ... Jig feels that the shade and the trees are the opposite, and that they mean happiness and stability, something she has since longed for. ... Like the oncoming of the train, if she decides to give the baby up there is no going back. ...

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