Sand

skills and tools necessary in order to navigate the world. In a global perspective, education is important to individuals and to society as it is a path to opportunities, thus allowing humans to be a part of a much bigger world, hence freedom. In A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold expresses the theme of freedom and its limits through the…

creation of the Alberta tar sands in order to economically benefit as mentioned. Currently, the world is already facing various threats such as climate change due to an increase in green house gasses and the tar sands only further contributes to this increase. The tar sands are responsible for approximately 8.5 per cent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions (“Energy Alberta”, n.d). According to Weinhold (2011), “there are more than 1,400 known pollutants emitted by oil sands operations.”(p.…

What does the text say? A Sand County Almanac is a book comprised of a few essays for each month of the year. • JULY - Great Possessions describes the array of birds and animals that can be seen at the farm before dawn as more precious “possessions” than the Leopold’s “worldly domain”. Prairie Birthday is about the small flower with strong, deep roots called Silphium. • AUGUST - The Green Pasture depicts the silt ribbon on a river shore and its lush, temporary vegetation as an “evanescent…

attention to, when you’re at the beach on a regular day. Usually you we just look at the sand to see if there is any rocks or and we look at the water (and its colour). But this time while looking at both of these things I realized that when you pick the small gains of sand in your hand the sand is more of a white colour (mostly but not the only colour) then tan as well as it had different shades of colour of white. The sand grains were finer than gravel but rougher than slit, when we rub whole…

One of the main ideas in “The Book of Sand” is infinity and how it can not be defined and grasped by the human knowledge. An example of how infinity can not be defined and grasped by the human knowledge, is when the salesman tells the author to find the first page and he fails to locate the first page. The author says, “Every time I tried, a number of pages came between the cover and my thumb. It was as if they kept growing from the book” (Borges, 2). This idea of infinite pages gives the story…

materials such as sediment and sand, dynamically changing the shape of the coastline overtime. Currumbin Creek flows water through to Palm Beach. The word Currumbin is of native origin and means quicksand. Also, nearer the coastline where Palm Beach is located, is known as a place of shifting sands, showing that Palm Beach’s coastline is significantly dynamic and active (Stuckey, 2012). Evidence of erosion, deposition and longshore drift was…

It was evident from the sand dunes on Main Beach, that the further you progressed inland, the vegetation became more dense and abundant. There was no plant species present up until the 40 m mark. This in theory was due to the fact that if vegetation were to occur at the beginning of the transect line, they would be impacted by the strong wave action, which contains high volumes of salinity in it, which then affects the nutrients in the sand making it inefficient for plant growth. The spinifex…

My watch says 9:45 am as I get to work. I took off my sandals as I reached the sand. I strolled across the searing sand as I looked at the shimmering water. The morning fog was slowly burning away as the sun gleamed fierier. The blue lifeguard tower sat high and mighty overlooking the beach. I then climbed the ladder onto the deck. I set my watertight bag and red cooler on the ground. I unlocked the padlock on the side. The padlock releases the side flap and it swung open. I opened the…

first foot in the sand, you stop to hear small children running past you squealing with excitement, their faces full of joy and their parent’s closely following behind yelling over the gusty wind to slow down and wait for them. You take your first step…

Previously unknown to me, making sand trays is a therapeutic technique that allows the patient to express their worldview while allowing the counselor to gain some insight into the patient’s worldview. Obviously advantageous to the helping professions, this creative tool may prove to…