(Butler, 2012). Humans affect the rainforest in many inadequate ways, such as deforestation and wildfires. “Deforestation refers to the cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforest or related ecosystems into less bio-diverse ecosystems such as pasture, cropland…
forests must be cut down or burned. (Perterson and Heemskerk, 2001). This makes all animals in there lose their home and die, even be extinct. Therefore, miners and mining operations are a probably big threat to the tropical rainforest ecosystems (R. Butler, 2012). In the world, mining exists in most places, especially in Guyana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and ASEAN countries, or in the US In South America, Amazonia region, Guyana, Suriname, and other South American countries.…
Scarlett O’Hara Many scholars argue that Scarlett O’Hara, the main character of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, is a true representation of a feminist character. At the beginning of the novel, Scarlett marries a man on a whim to make another man jealous. On their first night together as husband and wife, she refuses to share the same bed as him. J.M. Spanbauer explains that this is a feminist way of thinking. Spanbauer states, “throughout the novel, Scarlett contemptuously…
flourish like the green bay tree" (Mitchell 1180) In the novel, Mitchell shapes a variety of different characters. There are types like Scarlett O’Hara or Rhett Butler who stand out because of their strong will to fight after their life has been changed by their environment, whether it is being disowned and thrown out of the family like Rhett, or war and other strong deprivations in life. Alongside the strong characters are also those referred to as rather weak personalities by the readers…
The culture and society of the American South can be categorized into a variety of groups from stereotypes by outsiders, to the influence of politicians, and from the music that originated in the South. To help depict the American South, we can use literature and films that we have watched in class, such as; Mandingo, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Color Purple, Gods Little Acre, Tomorrow, Jezebel, The Littlest Rebel and with the special focus on O Brother…
There is a long-standing debate over the causes of the Civil War wherein one popular view is that it was a war waged to end slavery, while the other view, usually more sympathetic to the South, is that the contention was over states ' rights (in the interest of self-determination instead of subservience to the federal government). This is an interesting disagreement, because it implies a disagreement regarding which of the two sides was actually fighting for freedom. Despite the implicit…
Each rainforest differs in the animals it inhabits. Some of the animals that can be found are insects, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals (EL, 2014: para.4). The animals live in the four layers of the rainforest. The Emergent layer: This is for animals such as parrots, vultures and eagles, macaws. The vultures help eat the dead animals which help keep the rainforest clean, the birds from this layer also help to create new plants in this rainforest by eating seeds then dropping them…
Nowadays, forest performs a significant role our daily life. One of them is peat land forest. Peat land can be found in almost every country in the world. In Southeast Asia there are 27 million hectares of peat lands, of which 83% is located in Indonesia (Wetlands International, 2014). According to Wetlands International, (2014, p. 1) “Peat land is wetlands with a thick organic soil layer (peat) made up from dead and decaying plant material”. However, despite the fact that peat land has an…