Sequoia

This i It, or This was it, or that was it? Either way something was it. I had successfully made it through my first year of Junior High and my first year at Sequoia Union. It was the worst year of my life. Especially at the beginning of it all. Now what I’m about to tell you seemed like it happened along time ago compared to the difference from then and now, not to say it wasn’t a while back, yet it feels as though it were yesterday. At the beginning of this entire story, believe it or not, I…

Planting a Sequoia, by Dana Gioia is about a father that loses his first born son. To honor his memory, he plants a sequoia tree. The narrator of the poem speaks in the the first person viewpoint thru the eyes of the father to the tree. On a very deep level however, he is speaking to his dead son. The speaker expresses that his sons memory will live on and never be forgotten. The first stanza of the poem creates the setting and a very dark, sad scene. The title of the poem literally describes…

near Mariposa Grove in Yosemite. The Tunnel Log is a hole cut into a large sequoia tree, which lies horizontally across the roadway. The tunnel was created in 1937 after the tree fell over Crescent Meadow Road. Rather than cut the tree apart, Sequoia National Park decided to create a tourist attraction and cut a hole through the tree. The hole is eight feet high and 17 feet wide, so most vehicles can pass through…

with the other 15% surviving as a trader, settler, or explorer. Settlements have great stories but this settlements story is a story that changed east coasts of the wastelands. STORY 200 years after the war, in the caverns of what used to be the Sequoia Forest a settlement is thriving. The town is hovering by being supported on top of very sturdy and strong manmade scaffolding. Families are gathering in the main hall used as a restaurant to celebrate the settlement's 25th anniversary of when it…

Muir’s plea to save the Sequoia Forests is highlighted by his beliefs in the 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…

Alex Wang English 10H Ms. Denchfield 10/13/15 Day 1 Alone, yet encompassed by the masses. Sequoia Middle School. The previous day, I had come and registered at this school, so consequently I had no idea what to expect, where to go, and who I was going to meet, seeing as how I hadn’t gone to orientation and didn’t have any idea about what this school was like. The first person that I happened to converse with was a yard duty of whom I asked for directions. He seemed to be a…

A possible getaway location is Sequoia or Kings Canyon national park in California. For instance, on the National Parks Service website, the text states that “In the spring, the colorful mix of wildflowers along the ridge trail and near Redwood Creek will delight hikers as much as the giant sequoias. In the fall, the dogwood shrubs turn a deep red color, and the fall light provides good photo opportunities.” campers can hike underneath towering trees that can get as tall as 378 feet and these…

When we hear the words Sequoia and Kings then we imagine a place where beauty and giants reside. And that is what Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park is all about. The parks are known as the land of the giants because of the immense mountains and world’s largest trees found there. You also get to experience rugged foothills, deep canyons, and vast caverns. Sequoia and Kings National Park lies in the southern Sierra Nevada which is east of the San Joaquin valley. Sequoia and Kings Canyon…

endangered species list for this area is the Sequoiadendron giganteum, or Giant Sequoia. (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2000). Sequoia National Park is home to the General Sherman tree. It is the largest tree in the world. The sequoia depends on fire to thrive. Its bark protects the tree from fire, but the heat from the fire releases seeds from the cones. (Giant Sequoias, n.d.). Photo credit – NightRyder84 vis…

Dana Gioia wright a poem that holds a quiet beauty in its tale of an infant ( child’s ) death. The first person narrative is not abused by melodramatic, theatrical emotion as it instead by focusing on the sequoia planted in the child`s memory, and its significance to the narrator`s family, ( the tree is builder as a memory to the sin that had no space in this word, and didn not service the birth) . Therefore the poem nightlight the effect of their terrible loss and suffering regarding to that…