Land use planning

mitigation efforts have been defined in a plan that the recovery strategies will benefit the recovery efforts (p.24). Of course, when discussing the two areas during the planning process, they are independent of each other, but they work together to prevent and ensure a quicker response in the recovery process. Each course of planning requires an aggressive approach for them to be successful, as noted they work side by side in any comprehensive…

In 1990, first Ulta Beauty store was opened in Illinois. Ulta is a public retail company that specializes in various cosmetics, skincare and haircare products, and fragrances for men and women. Now, there are 700 stores operating in 47 states of America. Ulta Beauty carries about 500 brands (most popular are bareMinerals, Benefit Cosmetics, Clinique, Smashbox, Stila, Urban Decay and Tarte) and 200,000 products in their traditional single store. Moreover, Ulta Beauty established its own private…

it emerged in the sixties among the crush of several other art movements (Pop Art, Minimalism, among others) Land Art came to be an anti-gallery artistic offshoot that straddled the domain between architecture and sculpture. It had no manifestos nor schools nor leaders and it was not quite a movement; the artists who were involved with it were also involved in other types of arts. Land art was labelled as modern ‘sculpture’ but its versatility and introduction of new concepts and visual…

The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road (it is never referenced by that title in the original novel). In the later film The Wiz, Dorothy has to find the road, as the house was not deposited directly in front of it; in the novel…

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem that explains how people have become disconnected. Whether it be that mankind has become disconnected with nature, with a spiritual force, or with time, we have drifted away from having connections with others and the world that we live in, instead people are focusing more on themselves. Even though The Waste Land was written in 1922 it still holds some truth about how we are disconnected with time in today’s society. Time is an essential part in everyone’s…

the best way to spend your time. If i eliminate this habit productivity should significantly improve. The solution is to make a plan and then work my plan instead of doing instead of doing whatever grabs my attention. Next figure out the best way to use my time based on the top priorities for the week. That way i can spend more of my time on important things and less on consequential tasks. A plan can give a solid framework to decide moment-by-moment whether that squeaky wheel trying to grab my…

Is this land our land? In Woody Guthrie’s poem, “This Land Is Your Land,” the tone is set to be a joyful song, but the tone twists towards the end. As I read, I interpreted the poem in the tone of joy which transforms into disillusion when the speaker questions, “Is this land made for you and me?” (Guthrie line 24). Reading Guthrie’s poem, I came to the conclusion that because of all the hardships America went through in the 1930s, the American dream is not for everyone regardless of one’s…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by Lewis Carroll which tells the story of Alice, a girl who goes on an adventure in Wonderland in a dream. The novel, usually shortened to Alice in Wonderland, falls into the fantasy genre. The novel main setting is in the fantasy world, where Alice finds herself inside a rabbit hole and Wonderland. The setting in the beginning and the ending of the story, however, is in the river bank. Carroll divided the book into twelve chapters, each…

problems. The infamous idea of the crusade refers to the medieval era, 500AD-1500AD, where there was a rise in European military expeditions. This rise in military power created a series of European “crusades” and campaigns in attempt to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. Even in present day these crusades of the past get the new name, the “holy war,” which is believed to never end by a lot people. What makes the crusades very unique in its own and not just some random war is that this is…

end that customer came back because he was the best at his job. Afterwards, Black Beauty goes through a string of bad owners who don’t take care of him and overwork him. While he is working as a cart horse, his carter Jakes, overloads the cart and uses a bearing rein which prevents Black Beauty to easily pull the cart uphill. Jakes often whipped and lashed Black Beauty for stopping frequently and Black Beauty says “[t]o be punished and abused when I was doing my very best was so hard, it took…