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    The Different Side of Family Barbara Kingsolver‚ in her novel The Bean Trees‚ utilizes figurative language to emphasize on daughters and families that exhibits the harsh truth behind being a person. Lou Ann ponders this when another character named Lee Sing states‚ “ ‘Feeding a girl is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig. All that work. In the end‚ it goes to some other family’ ” (43). This simile that compares girls to New Year pig stresses that the effort that parents put into their daughters

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    Berry or hallelujah Pick your poison tell me what you doin’ Everybody gon’ respect the shooter But the one in front of the gun lives forever And I been hustlin’ all day‚ this a way‚ that a way Through canals and alleyways‚ just to say Money trees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel‚ now‚ now A dollar might just fuck your main bitch that’s just how I feel‚ now A dollar might‚ say fuck them niggas that you came with that’s just how I feel‚ now A dollar might‚ just make

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    1. Trees save energy and money. Just three trees strategically planted around your home can cut your air conditioning bill in half. 2. Trees save tax payers. Trees in a city slow storm water runoff and reduce the need for storm sewers. Tree shade also helps cool municipal buildings‚ lowering electricity bills. 3. Trees cool our cities. Urban "heat islands" are directly related to massive tree-cutting for development. 4. Trees clean our water and air. From low level ozone in our cities

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    Beloved‚ Toni Morrison uses trees to symbolize comfort‚ protection and peace. Morrison uses trees throughout Beloved to emphasize the serenity that the natural world offers. Many black characters‚ and some white and Native American characters‚ refer to trees as offering calm‚ healing and escape‚ thus conveying Morrison’s message that trees bring peace. Besides using the novel’s characters to convey her message‚ Morrison herself displays and shows the good and calmness that trees represent in the tree imagery

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    Sometimes we feel hopeless‚ unable to believe in ourselves‚ and we come close to quitting. It is then that we need a friend‚ someone that can be there for us in our times of need to support and keep pushing us to maximize our potential. In The Bean Trees‚ Taylor is faced with multiple adversities‚ and struggles to overcome them when she finds herself alone. Through her novel‚ Kingsolver illustrates with character development and dialogues how Taylor must form solid bonds with others in order to combat

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    that increase air pollution levels. However‚ healthy trees planted effectively along roads‚ buildings and in parking lots can decrease overall air pollution levels for city residents.Trees can remove both gaseous air pollutants and particulate matter. Gaseous air pollution enters a tree through leaf stomata and is either held in intercellular cavities or processed into usable nutrients. According to David Nowack’s report‚ "The Effects of Urban Trees on Air Quality" for the USDA Forest Service‚ particulate

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    Why Do Trees Change Color? Everyone relates the bright‚ scenic colors of the trees with fall. What most people don’t know is why. For this process‚ also known as photosynthesis to happen it involves three different pigments that give the leaves their color. Trees are autotrophs; this means that they make their own food. The leaves obtain water through their roots‚ but also they need sunlight‚ carbon dioxide‚ and chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the pigment that gives leaves their green color and makes

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    Plains. People around the globe need to be more appreciative and have a positive attitude toward nature because when it is gone we will be the ones that will feel its absence. Parini’s poem “The trees are gone” is like a long complaint. He remembers when he was young the wonderful trees that surrounded him. Now that he looks back on it he sees that the beech in his yard has been cut down and the iron pillar of his mother’s garden. He is very upset with the changes that have occurred because

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    Philip Larkin – The Trees Commentary by Merve Hilal Taş The Trees by Philip Larkin is a 3 stanza poem observing the rebirth of trees. The trees are used as a metaphor for life in general symbolizing our hopes that we try to achieve to be reborn before eventually dying. There’s also a message within the poem implying that even though we as humans observe the trees to be reborn‚ they actually grow older. This poem shows that growing old and changing is inevitable. It also has a rhyming scheme of

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    are illustrations of nature portrayed in different ways. Vincent van Gogh’s The Olive Trees and Gustav Klimt’s The Park are clear examples of this. The Olive Trees‚ painted in 1889‚ and The Park‚ painted in about 1910 or earlier‚ are both from the Post-Impressionist movement‚ this explaining why they are painted in a realistic manner. The paintings of Gustav Klimt and Vincent van Gogh both illustrate the trees and nature and are oil on canvas‚ but in contrasting ways‚ one shows nature as "calm and

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