The Walnut Tree In my grandparent’s backyard‚ there is a huge walnut tree containing two trunks at its base—I have never understood whether it was only one tree or two‚ planted right next to each other. It is as if someone has cut the tree into two unequal pieces with a huge sword. If I wrap my arms around the thicker half of the tree‚ my hands barely touch each other. Some of the branches that are grown out of the thinner trunk crossed over to the neighbor’s house‚ who is always complaining about
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Trees for Life - Grow a Tree (Fourth Project) Region: China Author: Zhou Yun‚ Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences Consortium Member: Green Earth Volunteers (China) Status: Funded and Ongoing Budget: $1430 Collected: $1430 Needs: $0 Result: To continue this education and reforestation project‚ in response to increasing interest from new schools in the Beijing and Xinjiang areas. Donors: Ron Blum‚ Massachusetts [September 2002]; Lydia Thompson and the 6th floor MADEP‚ Massachusetts
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The Tree of Knowledge It is important for society to find a reliable source of knowledge‚ as it is a powerful factor which helps society to attain success. As a good example of the significance of knowledge for society‚ the Tree of Knowledge from the Garden of Eden represents‚ not just a source of absolute knowledge‚ but how desperately human nature seeks that perfect source. However‚ the Tree of Knowledge does not exist in the real world. Thus‚ society is facing a problem of finding the most effective
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MANGO TREE Once a child threw the stone haphazardly on the ground after eating a mango. It got buried under the ground. As it remained in the soil‚ a sapping sprouted out of the stone. That was many years ago. An old man saw the newly sprouted sapping. He knew that it was the one of a mango of good quality. He took it to a garden and cultivated it there. There it grew into a plant and then into a big tree as I am today. My leaves are green and thick. They protect those who sit under me from the
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India - Chipko Anti-Logging Resistance by Amanda Suutari This was a defining moment in India’s environmental movement‚ and a modern application of the Ghandian principle of satyagraha‚ or nonviolent resistance‚ which has characterized many later Indian grassroots movements including‚ for example‚ protests over the damming of the Narmada River. It has also launched the careers of high profile Indian environmental activists including Vandana Shiva. While forests are critical for subsistence
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uses many instances where telling the truth would benefit him in proceeding with his plans rather than being honest about them. For his plan‚ he gets Cassio drunk and gets Roderigo to infuriate him causing further problems. Once these problems arose and Othello comes out to break up the fight‚ he asks “honest Iago” for the truth in which what happened. Here‚ Isco follows his plan and just tells the truth without being honest about it‚ causing him to benefit. By telling the truth only Cassio will
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Family Tree Exercise My grandparents from my mother’s side of the family were both born in China and resided in a small town their entire life. My grandmother—Po Po‚ goes by the name of Ling Tan; and my grandfather—Gung Gung‚ is called Chau Yi Chen. Both of them lived in the same village and were tied together through arrange marriage which is a very popular tradition in China. Due to China’s one child policy‚ my grandfather grew up with no siblings because it was illegal to give birth to more
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Man has been closely related with the nature since the down of civilization. Nature is helpful for all human beings. Nature abounds with trees. Trees are one of the best gifts of nature. As the civilization proceeds towards development‚ valuable nature assets are also getting damaged day by day. So it is the ease with trees. Now the ecological balance is distributed and the life becomes difficult. Our life and existence on earth greatly depends on trees. So we should plant trees through an existence
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Analysis of “Apple Tree” (extract) John Galsworthy is an English writer of XIX-XX centuries famous for The Forsyte Saga and he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1932. It is important to know‚ that he started his literary career with long short stories‚ and The Apple Tree‚ which was published in 1917‚ is one of the most popular by Galsworthy. This extract does not say anything in particular about the whole story‚ but we can see very vividly the beginning of certain kind of events. Basically
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The coconut tree as a “tree of life” is characteristically a food supplier as this tree provides fruit and is well-known to be devoid of any anti-nutrient factors and is known as a whole food with 5‚000 years of recorded use in food preparation with health benefits.The fruit is edible at any stage of maturity. It provides not only a solid food but a large volume of very safe and healthy drinking water-based juice. The fruit of the coconut palm is the main source of many food products such as coconut
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