Suggested Headline: Are Your Cemetery Trees a Safety Risk? Suggested Subheading: Learn how to perform a risk assessment on your trees – and why it’s important to do so each season. Your trees – with their beautiful budding branches – provide cemetery visitors a quiet, shady place to reflect. Yet those enormous, stunning trees won’t always be a safe haven for your guests to sit under. From just-planted to always-present, all trees need a seasonal inspection to ensure the safety of your…
ave you ever read the book The Giving Tree? Well it is one the most read children's books. If you have never read the book the giving tree then you should look into it. Then people would say why would I read this book It is a children's book. So what if it is a children's book it still is a good book. In the book The Giving Tree the thesis is, it is better to give than receive and you will be happy if you give. But if you give to much that could be a bad thing. The tree would always give to the…
a passing child who asks why the tree branch is being chopped down. The branch symbolizes Melinda because she has a branch that is dead from a disease. She realizes that she needs to cut off those branches, no matter how painful, in order to grow again. Another example of redemption is when Melinda is finally able to complete her art project. “My tree is definitely breathing.. One of the lower branches is sick. If this tree really lives someplace, that branch better drop soon, so it doesn't kill…
When thinking of a tree, it is easy to imagine a strong plant, established firmly into the soil, with a thick substantial trunk and vast outreaching branches. However, what does not typically come to mind is a scrawny seedling, with its new roots hardly ingrained into the soil. One with a toothpick of a trunk that is struggling to support itself. The fact of the matter is that every tremendous tree started as a measly sapling, but not every sapling is able to grow into a tree. The forest can be…
The Skeletons’ Illusory Performance (Palace Museum), is an ink and colors on silk painting produced by the artist Li Song in the 13th century. This painting has the dimensions of a width of 10 5/8 inches by a height of 10 ⅜ inches. The painting is showing with minute brushstrokes a woman holding a child sitting next to a skeleton playing with a puppet of a smaller skeleton and a child and woman facing them mesmerized by the puppet. The brushstrokes are very difficult to see from afar, but as it…
a clump of light green leaves. Gradually, he slithered out beyond the vegetation, and looked out upon the thick, green tree canopy. He breathed in the moist air. He was deeply relieved, for Pablo must still be asleep. He looked down from the tree branch he rested on. Below, in a clump of wood lay Pablo. Pablo was a long, tall python, lime green with a bright gold patch in the centre of his forehead. Diego shivered and backed away from the edge. He looked down at himself, his tight, sickly green…
The cedar tree has lived on planet earth for thousands of years, watching the evolution which has taken place to bring us to current day. Standing tall at heights of up to 150 feet, the cedar tree takes pleasure in the beauty of it’s surroundings. The cedars are known for their networks of strong roots which go deep beneath the ground, as well as their strong trunks which protect them from anything mother nature has in mind. Cedar wood has also been extremely useful to the people, and has been…
Literacy Essay I wonder what it would be like to want a friend so badly that you would give them everything you had so that you could be friends. Well that is what the tree in “The giving tree is doing.” From what the book had said the tree desired to have someone to be friends with so she gave him everything to be friends. We all want something, whether it’s something simple or big. The tree wanted a friend to stay with her forever, so that she could be happy, but the boy grew older and he was…
Malicious A twisted tree trunk protrudes out of the silt like earth, covered in crude knots and lanky dead branches; the trunk hovers over the small stretch of land it sits upon. The rough, callous bark of the foreboding tree a dark hazel splattered with sections of sunken grooves. A shadow casts upon the intruding tree, darkening the bottom section of the once splendid trunk to a sinister shade of black. The upper top half on the trunk splintered, as if its own structure and size had betrayed…
I felt the harsh dirt under my feet. Bobbing my head, I swayed back and forth, struggling to avoid hitting my head on the low branches that filled the dense forest. In the background of my thoughts, I heard my friends trying to talk to me, asking me, “Hey, you gonna jump?” “Mmm..hmmm,” I replied. Their question didn’t matter to me. I wasn’t interested in what they had to say, only intense focus filled my mind, about what I was about to do. Distraught about my decision to sneak out with my…