Birch

Acer saccharum (Marsh.) is a member of the Aceraceae family and is commonly known as the sugar maple. The sugar maple leaf is the main symbol depicted on the Canadian flag which further emphasizes its importance to Canadian culture and history. Along with it’s cultural significance, it is also extremely important economically in Canada due to the various products that are produced from it’s sap and wood. Due to it’s widespread canopy capable of blocking large amount of sunlight and its gorgeous…

The trees were about thirty feet tall. There were oak trees and there were birch trees. They reminded me that everything in the resort: the cabins, the small park down the road, and even the small creatures, were all there because of the trees. They, in a way, provided me with the feeling of safety and security. They made me feel…

Identity entirely. In the story by Irving, Ichabod is the moron who gets killed by his worst fear. Ichabod is power hungry and abuses the little power he has by whipping his students, knowing they can’t do anything about it. “The appalling sound of the birch as he urged some wrongheaded Dutch urchin along the flowery path of knowledge.” (Irving 6). Ichabod knows the students must honor him no matter what he does, hence why they are the only people he can push around. Ichabod’s inability to stand…

Easter 1916 through “his heroic character of his country (Brish, 2009)” portrayed Ireland that “has been changed (Yeats, 1921)” and his poetic symbols strongly favors symbols whose power promotes from long association. Moreover Yeats “dramatized (Birch, 2009)” his subject and from the terrible condition he celebrates the glory of beauty and his poem Easter 1916 was represented as a monument and remembered throughout the span of time when “green is worn (Yeats, 1921).” Furthermore these people…

largely mathematical conditions, as both parents are relative geniuses in this field. Under no circumstances will I ever become as mathematically great. Reverting to Gladwell’s analogy of a tree, no matter the ecosystem, an acorn cannot produce a birch sapling. (Gladwell 19-20)Without the seed, the most ideal of ecosystems will be wasted. An environment of mathematics would be completely wasted on me, because I do not possess the talent for…

(875 words) Woolly Days ahead for the Hemlock Tree -Angela Cannon-Crothers I like bugs, ask anyone. I am awed by the mechanics of their life cycles, the biodiversity of the entire Order of Insecta, the magical beauty of so many of their kind. But there are a few that strike more than a few heebe-geebes -- some are downright frightening. Take the tiny hemlock wooly adelgid (ah-del-jid) for instance: a needle sucking scale insect of miniscule proportions that reproduces asexually (no male…

needles and much of the beadwork was done on cloth from then on out. The final type of beadwork is called loom weaving. The earliest bead loom, which was used by the Ojibway women, was a bow-shaped ash branch. They would fasten a doubled over piece of birch bark to each end. This would create a row of holes made in these pieces that they threaded through the loom. When they worked with sinew, they wove in a particular way that the thread would pass through the beads and the other would pass…

he Nature Vs Nurture debate is a pair of opposing viewpoints, concerned with the extent to which particular aspects of behaviour are either inherited (genetics) or acquired (characteristics). It is known that a particular combination of our genes are inherited from our parents. For example, the colour of our eyes, hair and pigmentation of the skin are all part of our genetic makeup, determined from our parents. This is the nature side of the debate, arguing that the coding of our genes…

Have you ever questioned whether or not you are prepared to attend college? If your answer to that question is yes, then you should consider taking a gap year. A gap year is described as a year off of schooling between high school and college. Taking a gap year is more beneficial than going straight to college after high school because you will strive to do academically better, you will be better prepared for real world experiences, and you will be able to figure out exactly what you want to go…

stewards, and replenish and tend the earth. In the forest there are many different types of maple trees. A sugar maple has a higher sugar content than a silver maple or a red maple. Maple trees are tapped to make maple syrup. Other trees such as the birch and box elder can also be tapped. In order to make maple syrup, you don't go into the forest with a plate of pancakes and a fork and say, "Here syrup~" You choose a maple tree. It needs to be of a certain size and in good health. You…