Slash and burn

created digital burn severity map layers for 11 large fires that burned more than 10,500 ha and 11 small fires that burned less than 3300 ha. The findings were not significant as they found that high severity fires averaged 25% of a burned area and 19% for small fires. However, they found that large fires have larger patches that are more regular in shape and small fires have more edge. In their study they used Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper), which creates satellite images to categorise the burn…

Introduction: (250 words) Mr Burns is a 56-year-old male suffering from a terminal illness. Due to his illness, he is in a great deal of pain and has a heavy medication regime. During his hospitalisation Mr Burns has begun to develop pressure areas and must be re-positioned every 2 hours as part of his care plan. Even though re-positioning is a simple procedure, it causes Mr Burns a great amount of pain and requires large doses of pain relief for him to tolerate it. Mr Burns has requested that…

controlled burn is beneficial and effective, this seems like a perfectly valid argument. The purpose of a controlled burn is to limit the amount of fuel in an area that an actual fire can consume. Wildfires can cost millions of dollars of damage and a controlled burn is a relatively cheap and simple way of preventing such destruction. A controlled burn helps the environment by preventing larger and more destructive forest fires from developing later. The issue people see with controlled burns…

I think prescribed burns are useful. They decrease the probability of uncontrollable devastation from wildfires, insects and invaders, and increase biodiversity. Thousands upon thousands of acres every year lost in forest fires once a year. we tend to always hear about the dramatic losses caused by forest fires and are usually involved by them. There ar such a big amount of alarming effects from fires and most of them have an effect on such a big amount of individuals. Studies have shown that…

a story of healing and regret. Though I have never meet Brent Runyon, the way he tells his story, allows you to get to know him in a miraculous way. The Burn Journals is a journey through Brent’s own biggest mistake and recovery from it. The reason that makes this book a personal favorite of mine, is how Brent explains that after he tried to burn himself alive, he realized how much the little things mattered. While in the hospital he complains about missing ice cream. Once out of the hospital…

The short story, The Most Dangerous Game, written and published in 1924, by Richard Connell. In the story, a hunter named Rainsford is stranded on an island, owned by a wealthy Cossack named Zaroff. Who hunts humans, not animals. Zaroff then gives Rainsford a choice, to be hunted by Zaroff for three days, or to be killed by Zaroff’s manservant, Ivan. Rainsford chooses to be hunted by Zaroff and is given hunting gear. On the last day of the hunt, Zaroff and his dogs corner Rainsford, and…

Three Days of Heaven or Hell? What would you say if I was to tell you that within three days a festival will change the way you look at everything in a whole? How would you feel about the situation and would you write a paper about it? I can say that I have, and it is something that did change the way I look at music and culture in general. Within three days everything that I thought I knew about Lollapalooza and concerts in general would change forever. In case you are not sure what…

In the film adaptation of No Country for Old Men directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the directors use setting, motif, and plot to show how the modernization of Texas effects people, especially the older generations and causes them to lose grip with the new world that is blossoming. One way the Coen brothers do this is by mise-en-scene, but to be more specific, the setting.In this film the rural west represents more than just an old way of life. In a way the setting, West Texas, represents the…

Ahjussi (아저씨), also known by it’s English title The Man from Nowhere, is an action packed, thriller film starring Won Bin as the movie’s protagonist, Cha Tae Sik. The movie was released on August 4, 2010 and was directed by Lee Jeong Bum. The story begin with Cha Tae Sik, the owner of a pawnshop, who lives by himself and leads a quiet life. He is a quiet man and does not have any friends except for a little girl, Somi, who lives next door with her mom. Somi frequents the pawn shop, often selling…

No Country for Old Men tells a story that appears to focus on a satchel of money that everyone is trying to take, but the true meaning of the movie lies buried underneath all the lies, drugs, gun fights, and psychotic actions of a psychotic killer. Llewellyn Moss, a cowboy out for an evening hunt, stumbles across a drug deal gone wrong. After further investigation of the shootout he searches for the money. After Moss takes a satchel of money he goes from being the hunter to the hunted. Moss may…