Natural landscape

Atwood’s representation of the landscape and the wilderness in “Death by Landscape” is employed to symbolize the inscribing of Atwood’s portrayal of the self in a post-colonial setting; as it foregrounds a post-colonial topic. The symbolic usage of the landscape illustrates the explorations of the national and geographical identities, social class, and the psychological boundaries. The wilderness illustrates the hierarchical constructions of gendered and national identities. On the margins of…

it. They worked together with nature by utilizing sustainable harvesting and gathering strategies along with the use of fire for subsistence to create a cycle that allowed for landscape use and its regeneration. Although Indians did not have scientific understanding of ecosystem dynamics nor previous experience on landscape management practices, I still find Kat Anderson’s argument…

The Greater common God and The End of Imagination. Her role in Narmada Bachao Andolan and her view point regarding nuclear weapons can be comphrehended as her concern for human welfare. River meenachal is the most intergral feature of Roy’s natural landscape. Amost…

the people of the city. It is like every group of the people was fighting for its rights and abilities to access properly and safety at the expense of the other. Such examples and activities destroyed the environment of Seattle city. Most of the landscapes were degraded. The ethnicity that had gripped into the society was not strong enough to support the ideologies and capabilities that came from the people for the benefit of the entire society. Because of this, the place was parked with many…

humans from nonhuman natural aspects of the world. He proves this by demonstrating the fluidity of the concept ‘wilderness,’ whose meaning has continuously changed throughout time to connote different experiences. Cronon divides wilderness into two main categories: the frontier shaped in the image of Americans and Europeans as a space for men to prove themselves (Cronon, 72), and the sublime as a space of strong spiritual connection, with its blurry borders between the natural and supernatural…

human exceptionalism and toward a type of anthropology that thinks about non-human beings seriously. The matsutake mushroom, a Japanese delicacy and coveted global fungi, is our guide into the complex entanglement of humans and non-humans in a landscape defined by capitalist ruin. We transverse not only the boundary between nature and culture but also temporal and spatial orders, as the “matsutake forests in Oregon and central Japan are joined in their common dependence on the making of…

Landscapes in William Wordsworth's poetry As for William Wordsworth, the splendor of nature was everything, straight from childhood. This can be traced even as a toddler where he was brought up in a house on the bank of a stunning but a mighty river, nature penetrated his daily life in a region of stupendous natural beauty along the Lake District of the Northern England (Hartman 87). In like manner its beauty, however, William was very conscious of the terrible power of nature, and this is…

population growth would have significant effects on the agricultural landscapes and its sustainability. Population growth would inevitably lead to urban sprawl towards the outer urban fringes where agricultural lands generally located. Thus, urban sprawl would create conflicts between the most beneficial type of land developments for the land whether it be residential or agriculture. So, the sustainability of the agricultural landscape would ultimately be based on the result of desired land…

the winter. They believed that only the Indian women did legitimate work; activities that the men did, like hunting and fishing, seemed like a waste of time. The differing behaviors between the settlers and the Indians resulted in conflict on the landscape they share. Thomas Morton retorted against colonists who were critical towards Indians, but they believed that the Indians lived lowly and their land was free to take. The only exception to this was if the Europeans saw that the land was…

Where is this ecosystem found? An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living, parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms. Abiotic factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity. What roles are performed by this ecosystem in terms of the surrounding environment? All of the organisms…