Trees

LED lights and fiber optic trees are two energy-efficient technologies that can reduce your energy costs, particularly when the lights are used for long periods of time, such as in commercial applications. LED Lights Light Emitting Diode (LED) holiday lights are a new application for a mature technology. Each year since 2002, manufacturers have improved the choices, producing bigger and brighter bulbs and new color options. LED lights have a number of benefits over conventional…

Goldsworthy uses this particular work in order to represent the often harmful relationship between wood and stone; the constant battle between farmland and forested landscapes. In Hanging Trees, the centre of the work- the tree, representing the natural landscape- is lying horizontally in what is strikingly not unlike a freshly dug grave. Lining the so called ‘grave’ are four high walls of stone-work symbolising the destructive nature of…

The book Have You Seen Trees? described different types of trees there are during each season, it reminded me of a time when I went to El Salvador during the summer with parents. El Salvador is my parent’s birthplace. The first time I went, the trees were really green, flowers were blossomed and the fruits were ready to be eaten. I was really fascinated by how tropical the country is with the different type of trees. In the beginning year in El Salvador, the first fruit to bloom is…

In the Promise by C. Wright Mills and The Forest, the Trees, and the One Thing by Allan G. Johnson shows how the connections between individuals impact on society. Human experiences are based on social order based on reason, intelligence, and good will. Mills explains, about the how individuals impact the society we live in directly because the personal issues of an individual can affect others in society creating it a public issue. Personal solutions don't solve social problems. In C. Wright…

Summary Over the summer, St. Francis High School juniors were required to read Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees. The novel is about the protagonist, Marietta Greer, otherwise known as Missy who starts out in her hometown in Kentucky. Her only goal is to leave the town after graduation without getting pregnant. Once she does leave, she starts on a road trip by herself. She ends up changing her name to Taylor after Taylorville, the first town she landed in. At Taylor's next stop in Oklahoma at…

The Laws of Morality. The book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver tackles some large important ideas. One of the most impactful ideas Kingsolver looks at is the idea of a person's moral code being more important than the law. Some examples of when this idea is brought up are Mattie helping refugees from Guatemala and El Salvador, Taylor’s favor for Estevan and Esperanza, and Estevan and Esperanza's favor for Taylor. By looking at these three examples it becomes obvious that throughout the…

groups affect the lives of their members. Allan Johnson, a sociologist and the author of The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise, explains how to view life in a sociological lens, providing the reader with a different perspective and understanding of life. Using examples from the film, Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross, key concepts from The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise will be explained and explored. Chapter One of the book deals…

From Cisneros one can judge that Esperanza thinks a lot about herself in a negative manner. The skinny trees in this passage are used to compare her, and it is portrayed to show that she has a very low self-esteem who seems to be very self-conscious about her image. Through this passage one can assume that Esperanza feels as if she is in a world by herself and that no one is on her side. This passage makes it seem as if she is just very lonely and has no friends or family she loves or loves her…

and the Trees, he notions that in order to understand the concept of social life, we have to not only look at the individual, but also at the environment the individual is placed and how they interact and create social systems. Johnson explains that “a forest is simply a collection of individual trees, but it is more than that. It is also a collection of trees that exist in a particular relation to one another, and you cannot tell what that relation is by looking at the individual trees.”…

American author Ernest Hemingway’s novel Across the River and into the Trees was his first published fiction since 1940’s For Whom the Bell Tolls with his only book in the interim being 1942’s anthology, Men at War, a collection of war stories by various authors for which he served as editor. Although Hemingway worked on the text in the late 1940s while he was in Cuba and France, Across the River and into the Trees was not published until 1950. It was first published in serialized form in…