These explorers and fur traders made it possible for farmers, homeowners, and merchants to move westward from the coastal settlements. Crossing across the continent, through the Midwest and Great Plains to the gold-rich areas of California, under the guise of "Manifest Destiny" they destroyed wetlands by draining and filling in these lowlands for their own needs.
Vileisis depicts the importance of wetlands as simply making a choice. In her view, it is a choice between good and evil; between preserving nature and preserving landowners" rights; between using the land and destroying the land. Wetland ecosystems are a sustainable network that can be upset if altered or tainted. They afford a habitat to small organisms, fish, and birds; provide a buffer for flooding, and preserve water quality by filtering excess nutrients and pollutants. Wetlands allow for drainage and runoff zones with "their spongelike capacities providing natural flood control along many rivers." Disturbing this hydrological process will make "more runoff flow downstream, and neighbors" basements may flood." This disruption can even reverberate upstream as exhibited in the "Flood on "93" when the Mississippi River, Missouri River, and several smaller tributaries flooded to the point that numerous riverfront towns were submerged for more than ten days. .
The author emphasizes the damage and destruction to the environment, the wildlife, and the waterfowl that migrate through the region, which comes with draining and filling in lowlands. She alleges that governmental attempts to drain the "pot holes" of the northern Great Plains using taxpayer funds resulted in additional costs to build alternate suitable waterfowl habitats to replace those that were wiped out by drainage. Also, from the late 1950's until 1970, plans were in the works to allow for the expansion of San Francisco, Oakland and the communities near the San Francisco Bay by draining and filling in at an "astounding rate over 2,000 acres of marsh and bay per year.
Most obvious is Marlow's journey to discover Africa, and the effects of imperialism. ... The landscape takes on a hellish nature and the wilderness is personified. ... Based on the racist views of the time, it is not surprising that Conrad describes the vast unknown that Africa was at that time, as paralleling hell. ...
This is done by means of connotations and imagery inherent within the landscape; therefore, utilizing these concepts to create an alien, but common internality. ... By using the words "down there," the poem creates a mysterious and incredible interest because now the reader desires to discover this unknown thing to be told, to understand oneself for the better and one's reality; however, she ends it here. ...
Effectively, in the book untitled The spontaneous poetics of Jack Kerouac, the author Regina Weinreich says that: "Kerouac's writing is an attempt to discover form not to imitate it and to discover experience in the act of writing about it, as if the language of the "mental spontaneous process " could expose some human experience as yet unknown simply because no writer had dared to set it down unimpinged by "craft "and traditional sense"" (4). ... For example, in the novel, Kerouac and the other authors live and breathe the country of America: its colors, landscapes, sou...
Did the Portuguese "discover" Australia in the 1520's? ... The Portuguese discovered the offshore islands of Timor and Solor in 1516, however the official sighting of the mainland was much later. ... The question remains however, as to who exactly were the unknown Portuguese navigators who discovered Australia in the 1520's. ... It has been suggested that the possibility of "coincidental duplication," that is, of two separate visitors, unknown to each other, being involved, is most unlikely. La Trobe conjectured that the keys were one hundred to one hundred and fifty years old,...
Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. ... While the shift to landscape painting in Europe at about the same time was seen as a move away from the more eminent topics of historical painting, in America the representation of landscape by the Hudson River School was understood as a form of historical painting in which the landscape was filled with culturally rich iconographic and symbolic meaning. ... His perception of the American landscape was produced by th...
Geographically, it may not seem like a new world, or even an unknown one for that matter, considering the Dominican Republic is well known for its world class, all-inclusive resorts. However, culturally, it might as well have been a newly found planet, and we were its discoverers. Being the discoverer of a new planet, I naturally ventured out and explored my immediate surroundings, encountering things I could only imagine. ... However, this was not the grassy countryside landscape where we set up camp. ... That voyage into the unknown made me re-prioritize my values and reassess my goals for...
These words have been an instrument in the social landscape of the United States since they were penned in the Declaration of Independence. ... We count these moments – these moments where we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, reach for the stars, to make the unknown known - we count these moments as our proudest achievements. ... We have discovered that when we create something that awards us with pride and a sense of achievement, we literally feel happy. ... Weiner visited many countries as part of a quest to discover the true meaning of happiness. ... What he discovered was somewh...
., a group of Italic people known as the Oscans occupied the region; they most likely established Pompeii, although the exact date of its origin is unknown. ... In the 1500's workers digging a tunnel to change the course of the Sarno river discovered parts of a temple and the forum, but no one paid much attention. In 1748, a farmer discovered a wall and the authorities in Italy began a series of excavations. ... (pic. 1). , of unknown artist, this painted wall in Pompeii is about 12" x 8". ...
., a group of Italic people known as the Oscans occupied the region; they most likely established Pompeii, although the exact date of its origin is unknown. ... In the 1500's workers digging a tunnel to change the course of the Sarno river discovered parts of a temple and the forum, but no one paid much attention. In 1748, a farmer discovered a wall and the authorities in Italy began a series of excavations. ... (pic. 1). , of unknown artist, this painted wall in Pompeii is about 12" x 8". ...