Julia Butterfly Hill Essays

Julia “Butterfly” Hill and her act of Civil Disobedience Julia “Butterfly” Hill, an environmental activist and author once said, “What happens on the planet is the outward reflection of what’s happening inside of us.” (Sacred.) Hill’s involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences, she chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest against the clear cutting of redwood trees, and she achieved success using the controversial method of standing up for what she thoroughly believes

These two activist, John Francis and Julia Butterfly Hill started extraordinary and brave movements in their life time. They both wrote memoirs. John’s is named Planetwalker, which is about when he decided after an oil spill in 1971, to stop using automobiles for twenty-two years and stop speaking shortly after for seventeen years. Julia’s memoir is called The Legacy of Luna Julia, which is about when she wanted to stop Pacific Lumber and decided to sit in a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt

It has lovely streets lined with shady eucalyptus trees. There are workshops where you can buy nanduti – beautiful and intricate Paraguayan embroidery. The hills of Cerrito loom over the city. Filadelfia sits on the edge of the Gran Chaco from where the forests and hills of the Regional Oriental head out into the great boreal plains. This town is also home to German speaking people. San Estanislao was named after a Polish saint and founded by Spanish Jesuits

A small delicate creature that flutters from flower to flower, dancing in the wind, is nature’s very own ballerina, the butterfly. Their fragile wings represent many things ranging from free spirits to the human soul. In Greek mythology, Psyche, the goddess of the human soul, is compared to such creature, and so portrayed to have butterfly wings or a butterfly itself. However, times change and new heroes emerge, for instance in The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak, the character Liesel Meminger, a German

Many Monarch butterflies migrate 2,500 miles across the Americas each year to arrive in order to hibernate during the winter months. The expedition presents many unavoidable challenges, making it much more difficult for a Monarch to migrate. The weather plays a big role in how and when the Monarchs start their trip; Monarchs leave when the climate becomes cooler where they live and the weather forecast plays a big role in how easy their trip is; if it were to rain a Monarch could be left without

question will likely be influenced by a person’s upbringing and outlook on life. Some people might respond with something along the lines of a pack of gum, others might say, “Not much you can have it.” The album which the song comes from, To Pimp A Butterfly, involves the expression of a multitude of different concepts. This question is a great way to think about how someone's upbringing directs them towards who they become. The reasons behind this are: one's environment shaping who they

Meosha Robinson 　　　ISBL 　　　10/22/2015 　　　Monarch Butterfly Decline 　　　The monarch butterfly, scientifically referred to as danaus plexippus, is an extremely popular insect among North America.This insect is highly popular, not because it is beneficial to human existence but because it has the most distinctive migration pattern on top of its physical attributes that catch the human eye. The monarch butterfly has been recorded to travel over 2000 miles in order to get to their summer breeding ground

While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.[2] Although the rules for distinguishing moths from butterflies are not hard and fast, one very good guiding principle

with a butterfly design on it suddenly opens up. Suddenly, white butterflies are seen fluttering off the ground as they fly around the domed-like shaped room. Suddenly, among the flying white butterflies, Hawk Moth himself is seen standing in the middle of the room. "Ah, a disappointed chef, who just got his tomato garden ruined by a spoiled brat, now that sounds like the perfect prey for my little Akuma," Hawk Moth says chuckling evilly. Hawk Moth then extends his hand out and a white butterfly lands

Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are an itchy, embarrassing and increasingly common problem. Although they spread no diseases, bed bugs are hard to get rid of and easy to spread, making them a problem no one wants to admit having. Many people do have the problem, however, due to increases in the frequency of travel and the insects' growing resistance to common pesticides. As the risk of bed bug exposure increases, it's important to understand how to identify and treat bed bug issues. You should also

Imagine one day waking up with a terrible dream and was turned into a bug. Well, that’s what happened to Gregor Samsa, a short novella called “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka. When Gregor Samsa was turned into a bug, his father, mother, and his sister treats him differently. At first, Gregor’s family feels sorry for him and then later on, his family treats him like a bug. As the days goes by his family became more frustratuate on him. Gregor’s sister, Grete, treats him with kindness and at the

Butterflies and moths can be interpreted as a lot more than beautiful, flying insects. In O Pioneers these insects are mostly shown as being white in color, this color can be understood in many different ways. Willa Cather uses moths and butterflies many times throughout her novel. There are several legends and beliefs that show how the butterfly is a spiritual being, that represents humans. She uses them as a way to compare the characters to the insects. Throughout O Pioneers white butterflies

have always been delighted by the beauty of a butterfly. Butterflies are considered to be one of the most beautiful insects in the world. In many cultures they symbolize rebirth, and the transformation from youth into adult-hood and maturation. What begins as a starving caterpillar, one day, stops eating and hangs upside down from a tree, wraps itself into a cocoon, or chrysalis, and initiates the concealed transformation into an eye-catching butterfly. You wouldn’t know it by looking at them, but

“Butterflies” by Roger Dean Kiser, is a literary non-fiction piece about Roger as a young boy in an orphanage who likes to play with the butterflies that land on him. One day he tries to save some butterflies that were pinned to a sheet of cardboard by his house parent. Despite his efforts the butterflies die. From that day on he never allowed another butterfly to land on him as he could not bear to see them die. Roger Dean Kiser expertly describes his childhood in a way that allows the reader

Diptera is an order of insects commonly referred to as true flies. Diptera stands for two-winged insects (di = two; ptera= wings), because the first pair of wings is primarily used for flying and the second pair is modified to form a small, club-shaped structure called halteres which aids in flight. Also flies have a mobile head, with a pair of large compound eyes, and mouthparts designed for piercing and sucking (mosquitoes, black flies, and robber flies),or for lapping and sucking in other

This butterfly is closely related to the Painted Lady, Red Admiral, and the West Coast Lady. The front legs of this butterfly are very short and are covered with little hairs. Because of their short front legs, they sometimes appear they have four legs. This butterfly forewings and hindwings are the colors black, orange, and white. You can see two blue eyespots on each of the butterfly wings. You can see this if the wings are open. When the wings

Butterflies, as free as they may seem, were once creatures incapable of flying along their own paths. As caterpillars, their mobility confines them and limits their abilities. Through their development in metamorphosis, caterpillars turn into an independent insect worth marveling over. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, the symbol of a butterfly fits Patria Mercedes Mirabal well because her views on the rebellion change suddenly and dramatically, from isolation to involvement

Why are butterflies and human life so alike in their life stages? One reason an insect can be compared to a human is because both life cycles’ start with birth and end with death. The common fear for a butterfly is death and most humans share the same feelings. Each one tries to embrace change and goes through a transformation period. The physical changes between the two consist of four stages. Most of these stages are experiencing events that can’t be avoided and must happen. For instance, the

In New York City the decade of the 1920s was a prosperous and carefree time for many people that featured an economic boom in regards to automobiles, radios, and telephones. It was a decade of change for many reasons and for Fernand Leger it was a decade of demobilization with the theme of the city. Leger used this time to focus on the city and make it the inspiration for his new line of paintings. He wanted people to embrace the industrial time and using it in his paintings gave the topic emphasis

This is the most inspiring documentary I have ever seen. Kevin Pearce, his family, and his friends are inspiration to us all. I randomly turned it on, on net flex, and was immediately interested, even I don’t know about snowboarding. It was interesting to learn about snowboarding and how dangerous it is. The Crash Reel is a sports documentary directed by Lucy Walker which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013. “Lucy Walker is an English film director. She is best known for directing