Alexandra Gardens

Huntington Gardens Response The Chinese and Japanese Gardens at Huntington are two of the most unique sites that I have ever visited. As soon as I walked into both, I felt completely immersed in their respective cultures. In our studies of Japanese Culture, we discussed the attachment that the Japanese felt to nature prior to their period of modernization. This reverence for nature is clear in their attention to detail throughout the Japanese Garden. For example, the Japanese House blends…

Allowing Renegade (Gardens) Saint Louis is home to “about 10,000 parcels of vacant land that have come to public ownership involuntarily through tax foreclosure”(Land). A majority of these vacant properties are in low-income neighborhoods, the residents of which, live at least a half mile (often more) away from a grocery store with fresh produce. Saint Louis as a result, is barren, as outlined by the graph provided by the USDA Economic Research Service (pictured right). This type of barrenness…

starting a low budget Organic Vegetable Terrace garden” is mainly written to encourage people to use their empty corridor space or any other available space for growing plants which gives some yields for the kitchen.Organic Veg garden is good for healthy living as well as for…

What’s The Difference Between Krypton And Argon Gas In Windows? Of all the features in a new window, one of the things you might not have thought about is the kind of gas that is used between the glass window panes. Windows can have krypton or argon gas, which is more dense than oxygen. It helps provide additional insulation for your windows, with each type of gas having advantages and disadvantages. By understanding how these two gases are different, you can select the type that is best for…

A Place of the Heart Gardens are known for bringing beauty and color into people’s life and on many occasions they hold secrets to the creator's life. People plant their gardens to express themselves in a different way other than just words.The garden’s design or plants use can relate to certain aspects in a character's life. In the novel Samurai’s Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama, the author metaphorically compares the two very different gardens of Matsu and Sachi to show how they overcome their life…

In The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyamauses drastic scenic garden comparisons to display key differences along with similarities between Matsu and Sachi’s gardens along with their individual personalities. From the very beginning of the novel Stephen is exposed to Matsu’s beautiful garden which is depicted as “The sweet perfumes were immediately intoxicating. A silk tree still heavy with summer blossoms, and two large black pine trees shaded the house. An oval-shaped pond, with hints of movement…

The fall of man occurred due to temptation that Eve fell into inside the Garden of Eden. Although there were certain rules put in place and Eve ultimately knew what she should and should not do and temptation became too strong for her and she made a deliberate choice to pick an apple and share it with her husband Adam. Throughout my time in church and numerous sermons preached by Pastors I have formed an image in my head of the moment the fall of man occurred. As I have grown up I have come to…

Knight 7). The creation story is recounted in two parts. First, the creation of the earth, its separate parts, and of the plants and animals that dwell upon the earth. Second, is the creation of all these same parts inside the Garden of Eden. God is clearly setting aside the Garden of Eden as a lush paradise for his chosen servant, Adam and, by extension, Eve. God 's decision to make Adam is portrayed as a final grand act, a piece de resistance if you will. For all the living creatures created…

Free will is an extremely important concept in John Milton’s Paradise Lost that greatly impacts the fateful decision made by Adam and Eve. Many questions are raised in the face of a notion such as free will, which prompt the reader and Milton to understand God’s logic and Adam and Eve’s reasoning for turning their backs on it. God makes his new creations “just and right / sufficient to have stood, though free to fall,” and, therefore, obtain the explicitly stated ability to turn against…

governing and determining our lives. Paradise Lost is the book Milton wrote to portray his beliefs concerning this question of justifying the ways of God to men. The answer to this question, at least for John Milton, revolves around the events in the Garden of Eden, concerning the two infamous and yet highly regarded individuals, Adam and Eve. In answering the question many atheists and skeptics pose to Christians, why do evil things happen if there is a God who loves us unconditionally and is…