“Butterfly Fairy”: Artist Statement Have you ever thought about how long a person can survive under a tree? Our environmentalist, Julia Butterfly Hill, broke a world record of living on a redwood tree for 738 days. Hill was an environmentalist, dedicated to protect some of our Earth’s most precious resources-- especially the redwood trees. However, Hill was not always dedicated in protecting the environment, until she was involved in a severe car accident at the age of 22. A drunk driver had aggressively
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Both the video of “Cremation ashes dispersed in Fireworks memorial” and the “Neptune Memorial Reef - Neptune Society” are interesting. I have never seen or heard about the fireworks memorial and Neptune memorial reef. From the firework memorial video, a terminal illness patient named Caroline asked her remaining family to organize a spectacular sendoff using the fireworks that has her ashes in it after she passed away. The reason she chose the fireworks was that she doesn’t want any of her friends
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The sun threw itself in the air as it rose through the darkness that had shadowed the whole area, soon replacing the coldness and sadness with warmth and happiness. Birds flew in the air after lying low from the darkness, chirping loudly as they felt alive and free once again on the winter day, The sea sparkled in the welcoming sun, swishing and swaying with joy, softly so that it wouldn’t distract anyone that was sleeping. Greenery swished in the breezy wind, the sky filled with blissful clouds
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shapes and sizes and colors of green, she describes the hills and the beginnings of mountains, she talks about the clouds little and big, and the yellow moon with the mist around it. While she thus describes this she sees a bird that flies against the sun so swiftly and disappears into the sky hardly leaving a shadow behind. When she sees this it brings to her realization that even this beauty that she was at present enjoying and which is so real right now will soon be gone like a shadow never to be
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In the first four lines, the old woman tells us that she has to get up at sunrise, start a fire and prepares to cook throughout the day and work. It is obvious that the mother is compared to the sun in a metaphorical way. First of all she states “I rise in the dawn” which is an image of the sun rising early in the morning. The fact that she says 'I must scrub and bake and sweep' gives the impression that she has no other choice, and does not enjoy this work. . The only time that the mother is
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UNIVERSITY NAME Assignment Title Marketing STUDENT NAME 3/8/2012 Executive summary Hidden Valley Cabins and Tours is an award winning solar power user which runs their resort fully by solar power. They have a solar power plant of their own and this plant provides them with their essential electricity. This electricity and power is cheaper to them than the fossil energies. The price of fossil energy is increasing day by day. But expense for solar energy is not increasing
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Solar energy is simply the light and heat given off by the sun. most people actually want to know how we get power from solar energy. In other words, they really just want to know how we turn the sun’s heat and light energy into a usable power source. Both methods use solar panels to collect the solar energy but one process focuses on the sun’s heat and one process focuses on the sun’s light. The first process is called solar thermal which the energy works by harnessing the sun’s heat. The second
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We want to start up a solar energy company, which manufactures products utilizing solar energy work. Below are several reasons why we would like to start up this company. Solar products have a huge market in domestic and overseas. Because solar products haven't promoted on a large scale yet. If we start up the solar energy company now, we will capture a large market share; Besides solar energy is a kind of free resource, people don't need to spend money on it, so people can be more pleased to
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To Drill or Not to Drill? In Need of Alternative Sources of Energy Rosario Carrillo HUM / 114 October 17, 2012 In Need of Alternative Sources of Energy There are many people that are debating how to best meet energy needs in the United States. The argument is that the country must decrease its dependence on oil and invest in alternative sources of energy. The United States uses oil daily witch tends to be very expensive. People believe that to best meet energy needs would be to
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2012 English Comp 1 A Day on Lake Chicot Waking up to see a beautiful, blue, sky on a hot, July, summer morning is my kind of scenery. As I roll out of bed raising my arms high above my head to stretch, I can not help but admire the view of the sun beaming down on the twenty mile long oxbow, natural lake. My anticipation to participate in the water filled activities that awaits the day is at an all-time high. I immediately rush to my swim suit draw, and pull out my favorite hot pink swimming suit
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