Grape

Cabernet Sauvignon is a black colored grape from Bordeaux in France. Bordeaux is an incredible wine region with diverse sets of grapes. People from Spain call this sensation a Burdeos Tintos, which is very interesting. The grapes come in clusters, the black grapes produced are tiny and round, the leaves are dark to light green with lobes and the shoot tips are colored red. Today, the wine is favored in many countries all over the world and some distinguish it by Vitis vinifera. Cabernet…

This problem involves a co-ownership of Edible Estates (EE): Apple Manor (AM), Blackberry Lodge (BL) and Mushroom Cottage (MC) between three co-owners Teresa (T) and her daughters Benedetta (B) and Jacopina (J). A third-party, Graham (G) rents MC and cultivates a Mushroom Patch (MP) on EE from which he makes a living. T and J have joint legal title and equitable interest in sale proceeds for BL. J and B have joint legal title and equitable interest in G’s rent payments and sale proceeds for MC.…

Common Name: Clary Sage Essential Oil Botanical Name: Salvia sclarea Description/Distribution: Native to southern Europe, clary sage essential oil comes from the Lamiaceae family and has a fresh sweet herbaceous, wine-like aroma with floral notes. Clary sage oil has been cultivated for centuries. Once, extensively cultivated in France, now Russia is the main supplier. The oil is steam-distilled for its medicinal and cosmetic qualities, and the best clary sage oil is obtained from the green…

Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) tolerates well both hot and colder temperatures, also drought. This is due to the dense horizontal root system that goes deeper than most Pinus species'. (Magyar 1960) As a tree that feels itself home mostly in continental mountain ranges and the Mediterranean climate, its home range stretches from Iberia through the Alps to the Taurus mountains in Asia Minor. It is medium to fast growing with a pyramidal crown. It is mostly resistant to breakage. (Gilman-Watson,…

Monongahela National Forest is home to many unique plants and animals. Three of these organisms, the American beech tree, the black cherry tree, and the Virginia opossum, make Monongahela especially extraordinary. The American beech tree is one of the many beautiful types of trees that you can find at Monongahela National Forest. It has smooth light gray bark, that you can run your hand along without getting a scratch. The leaves are dark green and simple, and turn a golden yellow during the…

John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath fought major backlash from critics and battled grievances from offended readers on its way to becoming immortalized in literary history among the greatest works of all time. The Grapes of Wrath, at the time of its publication, was disliked by many Americans, who had lived the tumultuous lives portrayed in the book, but with age has become a prized, frequently-referenced description of life following the Dust Bowl. This essay follows The Grapes of Wrath along…

Steinbeck's greatest contribution to America was his novel The Grapes of Wrath, which explores the struggles of a farming family as they flee the Dust Bowl for a better life in California. In order to create the book, Steinbeck “would take extensive notes for his novels … interviewing as many migrant workers as he could” (Parini 194). The first-hand accounts that Steinbeck collected would expose the terrible conditions and discrimination that refugees from Oklahoma face once they arrived in…

In Grapes of Wrath, poverty is stressed through the times of the Great Depression. In the book, “many farmers in the 1920s faced mounting debts that were growing harder to pay. Just maintaining the payment schedule was worrisome and often difficult, and most…

As a final point, Cesar Chaves utilized civil disobedience and non-violent protest, inspired by Thoreau’s beliefs, to improve the lives of struggling farm workers in United States. Chaves was born in 1927 near Yuma, Arizona where he grew up and worked alongside his family as migrant farm workers (Edwards 29). He understood the hardships of the farm workers well and he desired too improve their treatment, working conditions, and pay. He set out to organize a union of farm workers and in 1962 the…

movie I learned that in 1964 a movement was on its way up and the union United Farm Workers Association (UFWA) was formed with 1,000 members, mostly from the workers in the grape farms around Delano. The farm workers wanted better wages and better working and living conditions so, in August 1965, a strike of Mexican and Filipino grape workers in Delano caught the leader of the United Farm Workers Association, Cesar Chavez’s attention. An even larger strike led by the Filipinos against all the…