The Palm

Introduction The context for the writer is VITAS Healthcare in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach Program is part of a national for profit Hospice. The Context provides medical, emotional, and spiritual care to individual sand their families at the end of life. This paper provided a brief historical description of VITAS, information about VITAS in Palm Beach County, and the description of Palm Beach County. Historical Descriptions VITAS was founded in 1978 as Hospice Care Inc., a one of…

ABSTRACT Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm generally called African oil palm, and it can reach the height of 20 m or more at maturity. The oil palm is major importance in Africa as a multi-purpose tree where it supplies medicines, foods and many other products to the local population. Elaeis guineensis is rapidly becoming one of the world's most planted plants, being grown especially for its oil-bearing seeds and fruits. Usually 23 kg is the average weight of each bunch but a bunch may up…

it carried with it the salt of the ocean and the smell of fresh, clean water. Seagulls could be heard in the distance and that boat Tessla had seen in her scans earlier was just appearing around one of the hills on the other end of the island. The palm trees stood still and got closer to the Ops Trio as they finished crossing the sand. “Should we split up and search for the artifact?” Raidon himself didn't want to split up even though he asked, and he could feel that the girls didn't want to…

who are also experts in this field about the information and findings of this topic, in a process that allows for analysis of the subject matter’s legitimacy. The topic presented in the Obidzinski et al. article discusses the effects of growing only palm oil in Indonesia in terms of environment and socioeconomic impacts. Dr. Roth assigned this reading because it has many themes which relate to our class discussions. For example, the state of Indonesia draws some parallels with the case study of…

“Palm Oil”; The Ingredient of Guilt The American Embassy by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie represents how motherhood forces the mother to stay behind for her son. The author first shows signs of motherhood when The short story begins with the narrator being in line to get a visa to America. As she was standing in line, she was “trying to keep her mind blank”, trying not to grieve her son. When she did finally start thinking of Nnamdi, “she wanted to laugh and tell him not to play with the…

Sustainable Palm Oil: Palm oil is one of the main ingredients in the production of Biscuits. Semi-solid at room temperature, palm oil is used to give baked goods a creamy taste and texture. The increased palm oil production and demand is causing deforestation and reduction of biodiversity in Indonesia and Malaysia. Over 85% of palm oil production comes from species of palms introduced from West Africa and South America. These are not native to these areas and as such have a dramatic effect on…

Al Maktoum has spent the past two years working to turn his city into one that doesn’t revolve around petrodollars, UAE’s form of currency (Jennings). He wants to help his city by building the world’s three largest artificial islands, known as the Palm Islands. This is a very business-savvy thing to do. Sheikh Mohammed saw that his country’s oil supply is dwindling, and he chose to do something about it and…

draw attention to the damage done to tropical rainforest in Indonesia due to the production of palm oil (Economist 2010). They do this by creating social media campaigns, boycotting certain products, and even putting on live shows in big cities to display the negative effects of palm oil (Economist 2010). In response to these attacks by green activists, companies that use palm oil are changing their palm oil buying policies and they are paying more attention to the supply chain of their products…

Oakland touring the college of UC Berkeley with some family and had the opportunity to view the play Hearts of Palm written by Patricia Milton, directed by Gary Graves, at the Central Works Theatre. The main plot of this play is the use of palm oil found in many goods one would not discover or think of. It deals with the impediment on a small Asian community with the intention of expanding a palm oil production plantation with the intent on building capital. Viola Wells, the main character is…

folklore The palm tree (nakhlah), coffee pot (dallah), and censer (mubkhar or midkhan), camel (jamal), talli, and houses (tents), are key symbols of the traditional life unique to the emirates society that proves its ability to withstand rapid changes. First, the Palm tree (nakhlah) is an important part of survival in UAE, the oldest seed found on Delma Island back to 5100 BC. There are 44 million tree in UAE, of which 8.5 million only in Al Ain City. Palm tree represent the…