Ursula Burns

Riley S. Carey-Tilghman Mrs. Dawn Drake H. English II 13 September 2017 An Analytical Perspective of Friendship in Of Mice and Men Social interaction is becoming a lost art. In a world of online shopping, social media, and even door-delivered groceries, human interaction can be scarce. This society has made it easier to consume and easier to stay at home on the couch. This is the stance of many people around the globe; what they fail to see is that though there is, in fact, less in-person…

Is it morally right to kill someone? Could you do it? In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there are two best friends: Lennie and George. The two men search for work in the depression of California. Lennie was a strong man, however, he had a mental disability that made it hard for him to think for himself and control his actions. George, on the other hand, was a mentally sharp person and had to act as a guardian figure for Lennie throughout the places that they’ve previously worked.…

Of Mice and Men is a famous novel written by John Steinbeck. It was published in 1937. This novel is about two young men named George Milton and Lennie Small who move to a ranch to work during the period of The Great Depression. These two displaced men go through several situations at the ranch but still hope to work their best. Disenfranchisement is clearly presented in the society of this novel using gender and space through literary theories such as Foucault and Feminism. Steinbeck creates…

While wildfires have been around since the beginning of time, our encroachment into forested areas and dry locations such as southern California requires mitigation to reduce loss of lives and property damage. The most impactful thing I see the communities and individual owners do is vegetation management. There are multiple ways to fight overgrowth of vegetation; prescribed burning, chemical treatments, and mechanical treatments (San Diego County Wildland Fire Task Force Findings and…

Balsam Fir: The Balsam Fir is an average sized native evergreen tree. It can grow up 40 to 80 feet tall. These trees adapted to the taiga because they grow in acidic soil. Fireweed: The fireweed plants have adapted to become less affected by fires which makes it suitable for the taiga as wildfires are common in the taiga. They also have the ability to grow in all types of soils. Black Spruce: The Black Spruce is a tall tree. It can grow up to 25 meters tall. Douglas-Fir: Douglas-firs are very…

I believe that there should be prescribe fires. The reason why I believe there should be prescribe fires is because a bigger fire can eventually happen rather than just having prescribe fire that is under controlled. If there were not prescribe fires worse things will start to happen. Prescribe fires can protect the ecosystem in many different ways. Prescribe fires can also protect people by not being as many fires as there should be. Prescribe fires can also protect the ecosystem by protecting…

For example, if a prescribed fire isn't planned or overseen well, it can burn out of control as a result. In fact, this has happened before, in which a prescribed fire in the Croatan National Forest in June 14, 2012, got out of control and burned a large portion of the national forest, resulting in the postponement of tourism…

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…