...In a style of almost the same all of his book “ A Walk in the Woods, Bryson’s research enabled him to include many stories about Australia explorers who suffered extreme, not having needed or wanted things, as well as detail about its valuable things from nature culture, and process of people making, selling, and buying things. Bill Bryson describes his travels throughout Australia, his conversations with people in all walks of life about the history, geography, unusual plants and animals of the country interested. His writings are twisted together with repeating humorous themes, especially in the chapter of crossing Australia that he make constant reference to drinking of urine to survive. Three parts: • INTO THE OUTBACK • CIVILIZED AUSTRALIA...
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...article written by James Wood and Alex Guth, which explained the details about the “East Africa’s Rift Valley: A complex Rift System.” According to the article, the East African Rift System is one of the most majestic and the geologic wonders of the world. Wood and Guth, (05-2013) Introduction: The old of the earth is ongoing debate, which has been debatable for over centuries, and I don’t think this debate will end until Christ return. In Wood and Guth’s article “East Africa’s Great Rift Valley” they have discuss the complicity of the Rift system that keep on to advance and play out in East Africa. In this case, they have an effort to link this complicated series of geologic wonders to the evolution of man. Brief overview and main point of the article: The article talks about the East Africa’s Rift System. The author’s Wood and Guth main reasons for conducting this article as I can see in this article itself is that, they talk about the general geology of the Rift System and stresses on the developments that comprises their geologic formation. This article gave detailed explanation of the Rifts, but at the same time recorded that precise apparatus of the Rift pattern has been continues debated between geologist’ and geophysicist. The strength of the article: I belief the strength of the article consist of the complexity and the details of the author’s beliefs of how the rift were shaped. Wood and Guth, gave vivid...
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...attending to Secrets of Wood class. First, I felt sorry for my friend for going to the Forest Science Exhibition Hall. I thought it was a place I would just read about the explanation of the plants. However, the Forest Science Exhibition Hall was like a park, where we could look around and sit on benches provided for us. There were even some people who have been taking a nap on those benches. The weather was so good and the trees were so green, it was really beautiful and a lot to see. There were a lot of families and children who came to look around this place. So it felt like I just came to walk around in a beautiful scenery. The place was pretty big than I thought. There were some buildings inside and there were a lot of trees and flowers to look around in outside. First I began walking around outside. It was nice to walk around and look through the trees in between spring and summer weather. All the flowers bloomed and the trees were green enough. There was a sign in front of the plants, which showed the names of each trees and flowers in both English and in Korean. It was interesting to read all those names because I realized that there were so many kinds of plants existing. It is said that in Forest Science Exhibition Hall there are about more than 2000 of types of species planted. After looking around outside the Forest Science Exhibition Hall, I went inside this one building. There were several desks that were all made out of different woods. They all looked different...
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...The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost: Memorandum Stanza 1 1. Two roads diverged[1] in a yellow wood, Line explanation: The speaker is describing a fork in the road. The 'yellow wood' suggests it is autumn season. 2. And sorry I could not travel both 3. And be one traveler, long I stood Line explanation: The speaker wants take both roads at once, but realizing that it is impossible, he decides to choose one. 4. And looked down one as far as I could 5. To where it bent in the undergrowth[2]; Line explanation: He is thinking hard about his choice. He stares at the one road, to see where it goes but he cannot see past the first bend because it bends in to the undergrowth. Summary of Stanza 1: On the road of life, the speaker arrives at a point where he must decide which of two equally attractive (or equally frightening) choices is the better one. He examines one choice as best he can, but the future (undergrowth) prevents him from seeing where it leads. [pic] Stanza 2 6. Then took the other, as just as fair[3], 7. And having perhaps the better claim[4] 8. Because it was grassy and wanted wear[5], Line explanation: He looks at the other road and thinks it would be better because it hasn’t been walked on/used very much. 9. Though as for that the passing there 10. Had worn them really about the same, Line explanation: He changes his mind and says that both roads look the same. Summary of Stanza 2: The speaker selects the road that...
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...museum I didn’t know what to expect. And when I walked in I was like, “Wow.” There were a lot of art sculptures hanging from the ceiling of the museum. It was really cool to walk into. There weren’t too many sculptures hanging that you would bump into one. When I walked up to one of the sculptures I was thinking to myself, “How can incorporate these sculptures in to my doorway for my doorway project?” I looked closer at the sculptor and noticed a woven material was contacting all the pieces together. Then I thought well maybe we can use the twine and maybe braid it and use it for our doorway. We are available to use wood, twine, and burlap. We can make shapes with the wood, such as triangles, and squares, and maybe weave twine around it to make it seem a little more interesting. We can also use the burlap if we want to make a solid piece. It could resemble strength or shade. Then I was thinking what if we used a few pieces to hang from the ceiling. Then we would be using our whole site. We can braid and weave the twine and maybe use some wood as a decorative piece to hang from the ceiling. I think after seeing the Priscilla Sage: 50 years of sculpting Museum it really gave me some new ideas I could put toward mine and my team’s doorway. We want our doorway not to be just something you walk through, but a passage way that has people remember it, and makes you think about it. Our door way is going to be the best. And no one will be able to beat...
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...Lucifer’s Spoils (Chinese version in English) One sunny day Wong and his wife Ling were planning on going camping. Wong brought his nephew, Chow, and his niece, Ming. They were all excited to share this experience together. As they arrived at the woods they unloaded the car. “We should hurry, for we only have so much sunlight left,” said Wong. They hiked for three miles paying close attention to the GPS. They found where they wanted to set up camp at for the night. Wong went out to gather wood for a fire, Ling and the kids stayed and set up camp, As time passed, Wong started to get a bad vibe about the woods. Ming screamed when she walked into a spider web. Thirteen giant spiders slowly walked toward her. Wong arrived in a hurry. He grabbed one of his sticks and fought them off. After he defeated the spiders, he checked on Ming to see if she was okay. Neither of them had seen spiders of such size. As it was getting dark outside, Wong tried to carry on the night eating, joking, and telling stories around the fire. Wong was dead silent because he still had a bad feeling about these woods. He told his family he would be back and that he had to use the restroom. He then went roaming around the woods and thought he saw a flash of movement ahead of him. Wong tripped and fell over something, about 50 yards away from camp. He looked around and discovered it was an old cemetery with a skeleton. It was half way buried with its finger pointing behind him. So he turned around...
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...“Miles to go before I sleep” Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, is a few lines describing a man’s horse ride through the woods, but it speaks to everyone who reads it about major questions concerning their lives. In Stanley Burnshaw’s Biography, “Robert Frost”, he said, “In the great short lyrics of New Hampshire (1923) and West-Running Brook (1928)—such as “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and the title poem of the latter book—a bleak outlook on life persuasively emerges from the combination of dramatic tension and nature imagery freighted with ambiguity”. Frost was a powerful poet who used metaphors and imagery in his writings; for that reason most of his written work is discussed at the academic level and his work can often be...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story of Young Goodman Brown is a story of an impressionable and curious young man who ventured into the forest in Salem, Massachusetts to witness the witches Sabbath. Brown leaves his young bride Faith against her wishes to go on this journey, feeling some guilt as he walked away from her, “Poor little Faith!” thought he, for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand!” (Hawthorne 606). Once in the forest Brown meets the Devil. As Brown and the Devil continue their walk through the woods the Devil tells him stories of his own Father and Grandfather walking this same dark path that Young Goodman Brown has taken. “Good goodman Brown! I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans; that’s no trifle to say” (Hawthorne 607). Goodman Brown enters the woods and has many ghostly and confusing experiences that changed his life forever. Brown wasn’t sure when he awoke in the woods if his experience was a dream or if it really happened however; the events that he witnessed changed his life forever. “Be it so if you will. But alas! It was a dream of evil omen for the young goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream”. (Hawthorne 614). Michael Tritt wrote his interpretation of the Hawthorne’s story, “Young Goodman Brown” and The Psychology of Projection. Tritt brings the idea that Brown has an underlying...
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...Task 1. The grandmother lives out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red Riding Hood enters the wood, a wolf meets her. Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he is, and is not afraid of him. The wolf thinks to himself, “What a tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful, she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.” So he walks for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he says, “see Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here, why do you not look round. I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. You walk gravely along as if you are going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.” Task 2 It was a beautiful day that morning. I sat on a bench waiting for the bus, when an elder couple sad down and asked me where I was going. To find love, I said. They seemed surprised, and asked me where I was going to find love. Apartment 77, that’s where my love is. I think they could feel how energetic I was. The elder women looked down at my shoes and said my shoelaces was not tied, I didn´t care. I was too nervous. Perhaps my expectations were too high, I was scared that she didn´t love me like I loved her. Then the elder man asked me why I loved her, i answered that she was the only person who always was listening to my crazy ideas, and always supported me. She is the most beautiful...
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...likely to be accurate. In “Young Goodman Brown”, the main character, Goodman Brown, experiences a life changing revelation at the beginning of this short story. The experience is a walk through the woods, something that he states his father and father’s father embarked on. This particular journey shapes his life and changes him forever. What is particularly peculiar about this journey is that it goes through the woods at night. And during this time period if you were caught in the woods at night you were considered a Satan worshiper, doing the Devil’s brood, or practicing witchcraft, which meant all the same things during this era. We know Young Goodman Brown is a Puritan based on his belief system, so this experience isn’t one he is looking forward to, but he knows he has to do it. Kind of like getting a shot, you know you have to do it, and it’s good for you, but you are hesitant about doing it. So along the journey he meets with a man that looks similar to him, but older. The man is kind of dark and shady, and he carries a staff that looks like a serpent. So the symbolism there represents that this man is the Devil. Throughout the duration of his journey, Goodman Brown sees townspeople in the woods, and the man that resembles the Devil talk to several of them. Knowing that being out in the woods at night associates you with Satan worshiping, he starts to wonder if all the townsfolk are two faced, Puritans by day, and Satan worshipers by night. The uncertainty is the revelation...
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...Wilhelm’s “Hansel and Gretel” is a fantasy about two children, Hansel and Gretel, which are left in the woods to die after their parents leave them. Hansel and Gretel are wandering throughout the woods to find their way back, until they come upon an old little house. This is not an ordinary house, but a house made of bread, a roof made of cake and windows made of sugar. Inside lived an old woman, whom of which pretended to be nice, but little did Hansel and Gretel know she is a wicked witch. This fantasy shows the argument from which Hansel and Gretel are left to die in the woods as a coping strategy. Hansel and Gretel’s parents are very poor. Their father is a woodcutter, and rarely can find food to support his family as this great famine has come to the land. He and his wife lay in bed and his wife says to him, “Early tomorrow morning we will take the two children out into the thickest part of the woods…then leave them by themselves and go off to our work…and we will be rid of them” (53). The stepmother gives the father no peace until he accepts this offer, about to let their children perish in the woods. Hansel, who overhears the conversation between his stepmother and father, goes outside to collect as many pebbles that he could fit in his jacket. When morning comes, the stepmother wakes the children and tells them to get ready to go into the woods to collect wood. Hansel and Gretel know what is bound to happen. The stepmother gives them bread; “Here is something for...
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...spot. This is my spot I don’t want to move, but she already hates me, she doesn’t need to hate me any more. I slowly stepped out of place and trudged to the back of the line. I hate her, she is so mean. The next day at school was unusual because Tori invited me to sit by her at lunch. At that point I knew something was going on. “So, Amelia, we just felt since you are on the team, we want you to do initiation, what you will be doing is going to the haunted woods, find the pink ballet shoe and come back within 10 minutes,” Kylee explained. The sun shone through the windows, making all the dirt on the tiles more noticeable. “If you are going to do it you will have to let us know by the end of the day, it will be held today after practice,” Tori said. I tried not to react because this was my one chance to fit in, all I want is to fit in. “Ok,” I replied after swallowing my ham sandwich, “I will let you know as soon as possible.” I don’t want to do this. Going in the woods alone. I hope Beatrice can walk with me to the woods, I don’t want to go with just Tori, Tarra, and...
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... 1 The Key Success Factors of IKEA Advanced English Writing 2 Abstract Taking advantage of three mayor cost-cutting strategies, IKEA has been able to maximize its profit and to succeed internationally with its concept. The self-service and do-it-yourself approach to selling furniture is one of the critical success factors IKEA uses to save costs and increase profit margins. Furthermore, it has a complicated company structure, partially in order to avoid taxes, but also to allow for some flexible management decisions to be made, based on the international needs. The third key success factor that can be held responsible for IKEA’s international triumph is its production and ordering system. The company uses recycled materials and wood alternatives in its mass productions, attracting customers from all kinds of layers of society. IKEA Key success factors International franchise Success Factors of IKEA 3 Table of Contents 1. Table of Contents ..................................................................................... 3 2. Introduction .............................................................................................. 4 3. Discussion ................................................................................................ 4 3.1 The Self-Service Approach ............................................................. 4 3.2 Advantageous Tax Planning and Decentralized Management ........ 5 3.3 The Production Process ...
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...1A 2/6/2012 A Walk on the Wild side The author starts off the essay about when she grew up in Southern Ontario and how it use to be when she was younger. The descriptive language she use to put everything into great detail makes you feel like you are actually there. “The trees were scattered to provide shade for the cattle and the river provided a drinking source”. Then she changes the mood of the essay to a dramatic feeling like everything there has changed for the worse. “The river was not poisonously polluted but often chocked from the algae and water plants.” She says how she wouldn’t even think about going swimming in the river. It seems like the author misses the house she grew up in when she was little. The story is directed towards older adults and bringing back their childhood memories and how bad it is not to be a child anymore. The reason I could tell who it is directed to is because that’s the only people that could understand what she’s actually feeling. She sadly talks about how the fields were ruined, elm trees she loved fell down, and that the town also built anther highway ruining the scenery. It shows me that enjoy the time as a child you have now because you will never be able to return to it. Another thing that had her chocked up was the private property signs. She loved walking through the woods freely not worrying about getting yelled at or arrested. The essay ends talking about how to try to preserve the wildlife. The essay a walk on the wild side...
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...Lisa C. Litz Ramona Brockman Environmental Science February 18, 2014 Benchmark Part 1 Nature Observation ~ Pond and Surrounding Woods, West Pointe, CA Our favorite place for taking nature walks is in the woods surrounding my parent’s cabin in West Pointe, Ca. My daughter and I have been taking walks in the woods up there for over six years. We have seen a variety of different animals up there on our various outings depending on the time of year we’re up there and the time of day we take our walks. All of the plants and animals we’ve seen up there make up the biotic factors for this environment. There are a number of different species of trees and flowering plants around my parent’s cabin and the outlying trails we go exploring on. Even though there are a number of cabins up here, they haven’t really disturbed the environment to the point that it’s affected the number of different creatures that still wander through the woods. Besides all of the wonderful biotic factors we so enjoy up here there are also a few abiotic factors that interact with the wildlife. There is a slow running stream that runs between a few of the cabins, and then a couple of miles down the road there’s a large standing pond just off to the side of the road. The main abiotic factor is the sun, which is where all the living organisms derive their energy from. Energy is another abiotic factor. The plants derive energy directly from the sun, whereas the animals get their energy indirectly from the sun by...
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