Marites Vitug (1993) narrates in her book‚ entitled The Politics of Logging: Power from the Forest‚ the possible environmental conditions that we can have if the current abusive practices which are being done to our environment and in particular to our forest continue. Moreover‚ Vitug (1993) also stated how the cases of deforestation in the Philippines started. She highlighted the rate of the environmental destruction that happened during the Marcos regime. After that‚ the actions made by the Aquino
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The Sundarbans Forest is the largest collection of tidal halophytic mangroves in the world. The Sundarbans Forest encompasses 10‚000 sq km with 60% of it in Bangladesh and the remaining forest in West Bengal‚ India. The Sundarbans Forest is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger. The Sundarbans provide a unique ecosystem and series of habitats for a wide variety of wildlife. In addition to the tiger‚ 42 species of mammals‚ 35 reptiles and amphibians‚ 270 species of birds‚ and over 120 species of fish
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Collins in 1859‚ ’Sikes and Nancy’ written by Charles dickens in 1869 and ’ the Treasure in the Forest’ written by H.G. Wells in 1895. A feeling of suspense is created the black cottage when the two housebreakers attempt to break into the Black Cottage. The climax in the story is when Bessie finally escapes from the cottage just as Dick and Jerry break the door down. HG Wells Treasure in the Forest creates suspense as the two explorers find the dead body of the Chinese man near the treasure. The
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Emerald Forest John Boorman’s 1985 film "The Emerald Forest" begins with the point of view of a white family out on a picnic. Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) is the supervisor of a dam construction site on the edge of the Amazon rainforest‚ which looms menacingly. He warns his children to stay out of the forest‚ since there are dangerous things inside it. By the end of the film‚ the point of view becomes entirely reversed. It is the forest that is the safe haven and it is the outside "civilized" world
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Package ‘randomForest’ February 20‚ 2015 Title Breiman and Cutler ’s random forests for classification and regression Version 4.6-10 Date 2014-07-17 Depends R (>= 2.5.0)‚ stats Suggests RColorBrewer‚ MASS Author Fortran original by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler‚ R port by Andy Liaw and Matthew Wiener. Description Classification and regression based on a forest of trees using random inputs. Maintainer Andy Liaw <andy_liaw@merck.com> License GPL (>= 2) URL http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/breiman/RandomForests
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from the darkness into the brightness. I also would like to say many thanks to the juries and MC who have given me opportunity to deliver an English speech in front of you all. Ladies and Gentlemen‚ The title of my speech is “Save Our Earth; Save Our Forest”. As we know‚ people from all over the world always commemorate Earth Day every 22nd April. The idea of earth day is based on the awareness to save this world from the environmental destruction. It aims at making global movements to participate actively
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individual in the past Hawthorne has better related his characters and their times to the reader. One of the best ways of accomplishing that in the novel is through the use of symbolism. The forest‚ for instance‚ is vital to the book “The Scarlet Letter.” In order to comprehend the symbolic importance of the forest it is essential to understand the social stigma associated with it during the time period of the book’s setting. During the 1600’s the Americas were frontiers of the European world. Upon
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stay the same throughout the course of the story. Many characters develop in different ways‚ some bad‚ and some good. In the story‚ “The thing in the Forest” the characters change. This is not a sudden change‚ but more a gradual change. Trauma can cause a shift in personality‚ and there is change in the characters over time. “The thing in the forest” shows the effects trauma has on kids and how they have changed over the years. In the story‚ Penny is a very logical character. She depends on the facts
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The enchanted forest beckoned me into its pulsing heart. How could I resist such a lush Garden of Eden? The deep‚ haunting ballad of its ancient song called out to me. As old as Adam‚ the forest was still steeped in plushness and brilliance. With a light heart‚ I plunged into the over-arching vault of leaf. It was not what I had expected. Coils of vaporous mist enwrapped the shaggy heads of the oak trees. They writhed around them like a milky smoke‚ exquisite and over-whelming. Huge amounts of mist
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Evaluation of Sources The two important sources used for this investigation were 1. Death in the Forest‚ The story of Katyn Massacre by J. K. Zawodny (1971‚ Macmillan and Co Ltd) This book was first published in 1962 in California. The author J.K. Zawodny was an associate professor at University Of Pennysylvania and is of Polish origin. As stated by him in the preface‚ his aim was to reconstruct the details of the Massacre and establish who killed the men. The book makes extensive use of primary
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