The trees provided shelter from the heat in the summer and protection from the areas fire, windstorms, ice storms and snow storms. The forests were home to many plants and animals that the natives used as their primary food source. The forests were also the reason that the lumber companies gained an interest in this area. The logging industry expressed their interest in this area around the 1900s when the timber industry became to boom. Loggers came and started clearing the forests in many Appalachian communities leaving the people with limited shelter and food.
The Bean Trees tackles such huge issues as divorce, child abuse, and illegal immigration through Taylor Greer, a girl from rural Kentucky who, while trying to start a new life for herself outside of her home town of Pittman County, ends up with an abandoned child who was molested in her previous home, and thus is reluctant to speak. Taylor names the baby girl Turtle, and when her car breaks down in Tucson, and she can’t afford to fix it, she decides to live there, renting from a recently divorced mom named Lou Ann. The Bean Trees is beautiful book about Taylor trying her best to raise Turtle despite the challenges presented. The book goes on to criticizes the United States’ immigration policies through the story of Esperanza and Estevan. Esperanza
The well-known Christian author once wrote, "Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty.
Mary Frances “Francie” Noles is the main character of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn; a story about a poor second generation immigrant family living in Brooklyn during the early 1900s. Despite the fact Francie is a young child, she has been made to endure the hardships of living in extreme poverty. She is inquisitive, lonely, resourceful, curious, and honest. Francie’s endearing, childlike wonderment and compassion are contrasted perfectly by her analytical, wise-beyond-her-years perception of the world. Francie’s nativity protects her from the sadness and demoralizing conditions of tenement life, but the hardships she can understand are surmounted by her tremendous strength of will making her a likeable character.
The Aspen Tree, written by Bart LaRocca, is a delightful children's book that provides a unique and engaging explanation of the iconic white bark of the Aspen tree. The book's folklore-style narrative is entertaining and well-written, with a flowing narrative that is easy to follow. The illustrations in the book are beautiful and align perfectly with the story, making it a visually appealing read. What sets The Aspen Tree apart is its ability to teach children about the natural world in a way that is both fun and educational. The story of mother nature and the four spirits—winter, summer, spring, and autumn—provides a fascinating explanation for the white bark of the aspen tree.
Our society as a whole must work to preserve all the ‘Good Oaks’ in the environment for future
I. Attention Grabber: Safety and shelter. These are two very basic needs that many of us take for granted. But sadly these two needs are denied to many women and children within our community. II. Thesis: Domestic violence twists the lives of many women and children within our community, but through donations to The Shade Tree, we can help these victims and survivors gain control over their own lives and feel safe again.
Tenement districts in Brooklyn throughout the early 1900s provided challenges that entire families were forced to handle. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, depicts the Nolan family facing difficulties that even children had to overcome while they lived in one of these districts. Francie Nolan, the main character of the novel, is faced with the greatest difficulty of them all: growing up. Poverty was one aspect of Francie’s life that caused her to lack certain fundamental features of a regular child’s life. This is shown through Francie consistently being without food due to poverty, and having to discover for herself in a very difficult way that hunger was a painfully real issue.
In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the author, Betty Smith, establishes a form of bildungsroman in which the story centers on a protagonist who matures and learns from various experiences. Throughout the novel, the audience is able to witness the hardships of the Nolan family, consisting of Francie, Neeley, Katie, and Johnny. A pivotal moment in the maturation of Francie occurs in Book Three, when Johnny Nolan dies from alcoholism. This event is significant in both the psychological and moral development of the young girl. It causes changes in Francie because she begins to see the world in a different way.
I think people should use fake tree's because they are not that messy as the real tree's. And the real tree's a lot more dangerous the plastic because the real tree's can catch on fire more easily then the plastic on's. And the real tree's. And the fake tree's won't catch on fire as easily as the real tree's do because the fake tree's are fire restarted proof. And the real tree's are not fire proof and they catch on fire very easily the real tree's can catch on fire from the lights, to anything a candle, or from falling over and hitting a light that is on the ceiling, or from a electric fire.
Betty Smith, the author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 15, 1896. As a child, she was an avid writer, and in eighth grade, she received her first “A” on a writing composition for school, leading her to aspire to become a writer. Betty Smith’s family was poor growing up and had few resources. Like Francie Nolan, the main character of her novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith grew up in Williamsburg and her father had an alcohol addiction. In Williamsburg, where Betty Smith grew up, she says, “‘Williamsburg was a poor and sordid neighborhood’...
They are being cut down for fun, or for as long as a dollar can be made out of it (Document A). These trees, as long as the ones cut down are replanted, could be used as the foundation for the future generation, serving as the paper bound by a cover, as the furniture used to live in, as part of the pencil to write their ingenious ideas on. Deforestation is still a problem today, but luckily for us there are trees still standing. Our mission is to keep them standing, or else our futures will burst into flames before our very eyes, like the firewood burned in a fireplace during
Andrew Solomon’s chapter on rape from his book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, examined women who are raped and decide raise the children who were the product of this heinous violation. Solomon examines how rape has been perceived by different cultures over time and interviews various women who have first hand experience with rape in order to show the reader show the aftermath of this terrible crime committed against them. Initially, this student imagined rapists as outlaws who crawl out from the shadows to prey upon their victims, however, “80 percent of rapes are committed by someone the victim knows” (Solomon, 2012, p. 481). According to Solomon (2012), “more than half of rape victims in the United States
The cool, upland air, flooding through the everlasting branches of the lively tree, as it casts a vague shadow onto the grasses ' fine green. Fresh sunlight penetrates through the branches of the tree, illuminating perfect spheres of water upon its green wands. My numb and almost transparent feet are blanketed by the sweetness of the scene, as the sunlight paints my lips red, my hair ebony, and my eyes honey-like. The noon sunlight acts as a HD camera, telling no lies, in the world in which shadows of truth are the harshest, revealing every flaw in the sight, like a toddler carrying his very first camera, taking pictures of whatever he sees. My head looks down at the sight of my cold and lifeless feet, before making its way up to the reaching arms of an infatuating tree, glowing brightly virescent at the edges of the trunk, inviting a soothing, tingling sensation to my soul.
Sustainable forest management requires three major criteria which are the maintenance of ecological processes within the forest (soil formation, energy flow, biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nutrient and hydrological cycles), maintenance of biodiversity of forest, improving the net social benefits derived from the mixture of forest uses within the constraints by considering the future. Forest provides habitats for more than half of the fauna and flora on the Earth (SCBD, 2001). Forest biome plays an important role in mitigating climate change by serving as carbon sinks (Hassan et al., 2005). Forest land is the most fundamental natural resources which become reduced mainly due to anthropogenic pressures. For proper management of land, it is essential to have information about existing land cover and about the naturalness of the land.
