The Bean Trees

The middle school years are when, I find, kids start to become independent. They go out on their own, strive to better themselves, and have an impact with their words and actions. When I was thirteen, I might have had too much of these middle school ambitions. Those days were not easy. My father and I had recently moved to a new country and were struggling. Some of our issues with each other and others more personal. Our two person family moved into a house on a sloping hill. Beside us…

In the story “Maria's story” by maria cardenas she described the struggles she went through in life, from working on the fields at a very young ,to her dad abusing her mother, being raped and getting pregnant by her rapist, lastly having to marry her child's father who physically abused her. Cardenas developed an urge to teach herself to read. As she mentions “teaching myself to read became the most important goal in my life” (cardenas, pg.60). Reading became her number one priority because she…

Walk in Nature Thoreau once said,“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” In my case, however, it was brief walk. I began by jumping off a deck, a metaphor for leaving society behind. Much like Thoreau did in his Walden Pond experiment. I then took a quick walk by the lake until I reached a fallen tree. I crossed it to get to the other side of the lake, and continued on. By the time I was done, I had sticks in my hair and dirt on my knees. There were not any other people,…

Social Justice: As we have seen thus far, permaculture knows no class and is best suited in its nature to areas with more problems. It can provide jobs for people who have not been included or considered in the job discussion. It can be a safe place for children or grown ups in rough neighborhoods, and it is a great way to get teenagers involved. There is a woman named Pandora Thomas who works with people reentering the community after incarceration. She applies the first rule of permaculture…

I viewed the Netflix Documentary Forks over Knives Tuesday after noon from 11:55-12;10 ate lunch which consisted of meat and then resumed playing at 12:53-2:30. The Forks over Knives documentary heavily tries to per sway viewers to change their diets from an animal protein based diet to an all plant product diet. I heavily disagree with this idea and feel that meats in moderation or regulated amounts can be healthy. If you choose to have the meats grilled and not fried that would be a healthier…

The Spaniards subjected the land of the Aztecs and the Mayans. It was then called the land of Mexico where the cacao trees were first seen. The Spaniards then shipped the cacao to the Philippines through the use of the galleon trading system. The Philippines was the first country outside Mesoamerica that plants and grows cacao. It became more popular to the country and also to the other parts of the world. As stated by the Cacao Manual published by the Inter-American Institute of American…

in Surabaya can you find this kind of buffet?). Among them are chicken satay (grilled skewered chicken), soto ayam (chicken soup with yellow herb), leker (crispy banana snack) and tahu campur (fried tofu with rice cake called ‘lontong’, beef and bean sprouts, which comes with black soup). Enjoy the live cooking show of satay, where the satay chef will fan the satay, making you able to enjoy the sweet satay aroma, the aroma you may not be able to smell in your home country! For Japanese…

They live in the Amazon and Orinoco Basins and they also live in the low-land areas of northern and central South America. They nest in shrubs and mangrove trees near slow-moving rivers and lakes. Hoatzins also like to nest where it is quiet (Fields). They also live near swamps and marshy waters. The live in colonies, which consist of ten to fifty birds. Hoatzins usually sit in open areas unless they are being…

Pre-Columbian New World; they were the society who persevered their writings. The Mayans were primarily hunters until 2000BC and then adopted farming as a new way of resources. The Mayan culture had crops domesticated in Mexico especially corn and beans. The Mayan culture had difficulty in agriculture than others. For example, they had problems with keeping the corn last long because of the environment. By 900 AD the society declined and the central rain forest cities were…

The Greeks are an influential civilization, although the group does believe in some strange superstitions, such as not eating beans, for that fact that they believed beans contain souls of the dead (10 Facts About the Ancient Greeks)! Greece is a peninsula containing numerous islands, surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and the Aegean Sea on the other (Sakoulas “Introduction”). Its location is significant in helping create the Greek lifestyle, which highly depends on trade and…