Redwood

this is where she gets her inspiration for her poems. Hirshfield published “Tree” in 2000 as a free verse poem, breaking it into 4 stanzas and 4 sentences to convey the nature world. The poem represents a “young redwood” (line 2) that is growing near a house, near a kitchen window. The redwood is already scraping against the window frame of the house, reminding the reader of the “foolish” (line 1) idea of letting it grow there. Humans were created to be one with nature, but as they evolved as a…

Christine S Christine is one of the original members of the Women on the Move (WOTM) program. She started as a member in the pilot project and participated in the first leadership development program. While Christine lived in the shelter with her two children, the staff identified her as someone with natural leadership skills because of the way in which she took on the role to support other women in the shelter. Today, she has complete a business administration diploma, started a career in…

broadcasting the tree sitting lifestyle of an environmental activist that risks his life and gives up years of his time to protect a redwood forest from being cut down. As stated in the film, farmers and activists that are part of an environmental advocacy group called Humboldt try to ward off a company that is trying to clear-cut and log a large area inhabited by redwoods, in California. The activist takes to trees and live in makeshift canopies as a form of protest and sit in; meanwhile, the…

even call it a back yard it was more of a field or forest that went on forever. It was the prettiest thing you might have ever seen. The meadow was full of an assortment of flowers and plants. Then just beyond that was the forest with tall limber redwood trees, the trunks with a minimum diameter of forty feet. Mom and Dad told us not to go beyond the trees since we didn’t know what the threats were beyond them. Of course I didn’t listen to them, because I felt like there would be absolutely…

advances in technology during the war. Fibreglass was the most significant of these, also there was plastics and styrofoam. The first fibreglass board was built by a man named Pete Peterson in 1946, this surfboard was a hollow plastic mould, with a redwood stringer (a piece of wood running down the centre of the surfboard) and sealed with fibreglass tape. Other pioneering modern surfboard shapers of this era were Joe Quigg and Matt Kivlin. Around this time a very significant man in surf history…

The Butterfly in the Tree. 20 years old, two years in a tree and risked her life to save the trees. This woman was Julia Lorraine ¨Butterfly”Hill. she is one the people defend the trees so they don't go extinct and from the illegal loggers. Julia´s childhood wasn't that different then one of ours. Hill was homeschooled in a Christian family that settled in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She began college at age 16 and opened her own restaurant at 18. At age twenty, Hill moved to Fayetteville…

beauty and sanctity of these trees, the main purpose of this essay is to convince people that the safety of these forests is as important to the world as politics and wars are. Muir begins creating his argument by illustrating the importance of the Redwoods to the world and the immediate need for a change in the way we treat our forests.He states what we as people are often told, that the world is falling down a steep and rocky slope as it continues to worsen. The world is impacted greatly by…

Giants". This film follows a man with the nickname "Farmer" and his friends as they protect the ecosystem. Of course, their conservation plan could be a little unusual to the average person. For the past three years, they have lived in the Redwoods, specifically Redwoods in California. This is what they call "tree-sitting", defending the trees from Green Diamond Co., the people who plan to cut down these massive natural structures. In my opinion, cutting down these structures is erroneous, and…

I thought the documentary “Waiting for Superman” was informative and also sad. Informative because we get a real idea about how schools are In the inner cities, and also how poor test scores are and how horribly we rank as a nation regarding school. Also, the method of “Tracking” which prior to this documentary I have never heard before, nor have I heard from the track being scores of obedience and appearance of neatness? What does that even mean? It also goes into how it’s nearly impossible…

people can actually see what they are doing which creates more fear (Cockburn, 2015). These clips also exacerbate the “othering” of ISIS and the West. ISIS’ use of the media is very deliberate, as it helps build their name and their legitimacy (Rose-Redwood, Arab Spring & Middle East Geopolitics, 2015). For example, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris, but even if it was not them it would be to their benefit to claim accountability as that even further creates fear towards them.…