... Dear Mr. Shaky: It has been a month since I was hired as GM of the Inn Restaurant. I am settling in well and look forward to a long prosperous relationship. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss with you some items of concern regarding the condition of the building. During this site inspection the following things caught my attention. * Old trees have grown so that their branches could become entangled in the power lines connected to the restaurant * Many of the windows have gaps possibly from the building settling * Water is not properly drained from the building. * Spider web pattern of cracks forming on the foundation. * The roof has tar paper that is pulled up in one section along with bird nests and tree branches. * There are also charred markings around the exhaust vent of the hood system. These are all potentially hazardous situations for our guest and staff. If we do not take action to fix these issues it will not only affect our bottom line but our ability to stay in business at all in this facility. The trees pose several problems. With the branches being so close to the power lines could potentially cause a fire if wind gust cause them to snap and clog up or wear down the gutter system. The roots could be clogging drains underground which could lead to expensive plumbing cost. The windows that have gaps in them are a major cause of our high energy cost. Water puddles up around the foundation because the current landscaping does...
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...Fall - A Time Transition The fall season has many meanings for me. It is a time of transition that takes us from warm balmy days to the more harsh weather of winter. It's a time that takes us from the spectacle of nature in full bloom, to nature in hibernation. The signs of this transition are everywhere. The vivid colors of summer fade away, the color of the sky changes from deep blue to gray. The green fades from the grass and plants lose their blossoms. The leaves on the trees turn color, and lose their grip. Insects disappear. It's the tune of year that signifies the end of summer and vacations. No more picnics, swimming, baseball, tennis, and a myriad of other activities that most of us enjoy in the outdoors. It signals that during the next few months we will have to endure weather conditions that are not conducive to spending quality time outdoors enjoying nature. The knowledge of this seasonal period of transition awakens, in me, a more keen awareness of my surroundings than at any other time of year. The deeper appreciation comes from knowing that the good weather days are coming to an end. The fall season conjures up all sorts of analogies in my mind. For example, football and basketball games are divided into four quarters, a dollar is divided by four quarters, the calendar year is divided into four quarters, and the human life span might also be divided into four 20 year parts, assuming that we live an average of 80 years. In all these examples, the third period precedes...
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...The Ecosystem of the Rainforest An ecosystem is a relationship among the living and non-living organisms in a designated area and the environment in which they interact with. It includes plants, trees, animals, water, and soil. The rainforest ecosystem includes a variety of species, plants, and animals. All living organisms in this ecosystem physically adapt to the rain. The climate in the rainforest is very humid due the amount of rainfall. A tropical rainforest is very hot and wet; this type of climate is hit directly by the sun because of its location near the equator. The closer you are to the equator the solar radiation there is. The average temperature reaches about 77 degrees Fahrenheit. This climates temperature remains about the same all year never dropping below 64 degrees Rain falls at about 250 cm each year. Because the sun is directly hitting the rainforest, when the sun warms the ground and sea the water evaporates into the air. Warm air vapor and cold ail vapor form eventually causing clouds to form resulting to rain. This water cycle constantly repeats itself. Rain occurs more than 90 days a year in a rainforest. The rainforest consist of mainly trees and animals, trees can reach up to 164 feet in height. Because of the climate plants such as ferns and mosses or epiphytes, receive lots of water and direct sunlight so they grow very tall. Along with the many species of plants living in the rainforest, tropical animals such as Toucans, anacondas...
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...Apples and Oranges Many of us have heard the saying, "That's like comparing apples and oranges." There is some truth to that statement. After looking at similarities and differences are not all that different of a fruit. Apples and oranges have a plethora of things in common as well as many things that differ. Apples and oranges have a great many things in common with each other. They both have the same approximate size and weight. Often both are used in juggling acts as well as used to take up space at the bottom of a Christmas stocking to make to sock look fuller of unhealthy items. In comparison they both have healthy benefits. The orange has lots of vitamins as well as the apple, although the apple does not get as much fan fair for the vitamins it does have. They have been used in the kitchen for everything from ice cream making to pie and pudding toppings and fillings. The cooking utility of these fruits are amazing, a chief can use both in a myriad of dessert dishes as well as used in the main course for added sweetening affects. They are often turned into juices and are a stable at the breakfast table. Both are considered to be a great basis off which many sauces and juice are made from: they often flavor other objects such as soda or chewing gum. Each of these delicious fruits is grown in large orchards; each orchard is planted and harvested within the same time frame. These crops are owned by a few large companies and leased out to small farming groups, so the large...
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...budget, time, and space. Application Practice Answer the following questions. Use Equation Editor to write mathematical expressions and equations. First, save this file to your hard drive by selecting Save As from the File menu. Click the white space below each question to maintain proper formatting. 1. You are planning to spend no less than $6,000 and no more than $10,000 on your landscaping project. a. Write an inequality that demonstrates how much money you will are willing to spend on the project. $6,000<_x<_$10,000 b. For the first phase of the project, imagine you want to cover the backyard with decorative rock and plant some trees. You need 30 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton costs $60 and each tree is $84, what is the maximum number of trees you can buy with a budget of $2,500? Write an inequality that illustrates the problem and solve. Express your answer as an inequality and explain how you arrived at your answer. T<_8 Assuming maximum number of trees is (x), total expenditure 2,500, equation 60(30)+84(x)=2,500 84x=2,500-1,800 X=700/84 X=8.33 8 or less c. Would five trees be a solution to the inequality in Part b? Justify your answer. Yes, it would be T<_ 8 if replaced with 5 you will get...
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...Arbol Grande, Guajiro Yo Oil on canvas 2001 180 x 200 cm/ 71 x 79 in Collection of the Artist The painting “Arbol Grande, Guajiro Yo” has a tree painted in the middle. The tree has many colorful leaves. There is a man sitting beneath the tree, who is smoking a cigar. Apparently, because of the smoking his doing, he is surrounded by a cloud of smoke. The man is wearing a hat and has a mustache on his face. Also, there are flowers on the bottom of the painting, this is the ground of the picture. The painting has many colors; for example, the leaves of the tree are green, yellow, orange, blue, and red, with an outline of black. The painting has a mixture of primary and secondary colors. The negative space of the painting has a lot of warm colors. The shapes in this painting is very organic. The whole scenery is very organic, because of the leave shapes and tree trunk shape. Also, the flowers at the bottom are organically shaped. The texture of the painting is an actual texture, very smooth as it looks. The tree trunk has gesture lines going down towards the end of the tree. There is a sense of repetition in the painting; the leaves on the tree are repeated in the same even way in each of the branches. The focal point of the painting is the tree. Last, The tree it is symmetrical, but the painting is really asymmetrical. I believe the artist is just trying to emphasize his love for the country side of Cuba...
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...Emeri Acosta Mrs. Aileen-Mata English 4 AP “Four Skinny Trees” by Sandra Cisneros “Four Skinny Trees”, by Sandra Cisneros is a chapter taken out of her book The House on Mango Street. The book is about a girl moving to a different house and hoe she doesn’t fit in. There she also encounters different situations that make her become a mature girl and see things in a different perspective. “Four Skinny Trees: is full of literary terms, personification which Cisneros uses to help Esperanza become stronger. First, “Four Skinny Tress” is about a girl who wishes to be strong and away from the place she is recently living. She comforts herself by imagining that the trees understand her. She see’s that tree’s having the same characteristics as her; strong and will grow anywhere no matter the circumstances. The significant thing about the trees is that they are growing in concrete. Concrete is very difficult to grow on and instead of making something grow it traps it. This is exactly how Esperanza feels due to the fact that she has moved many times in her life that she now can grow anywhere and develop new survival skills. Both the trees and Esperanza are sick of where they stand, but develop the strength and courage to keep on growing. Secondly, Esperanza says that the trees understand her; she gives personification to the trees as if they were her friends and family. She also says that she can hear them. Esperanza describes the trees as if they “grab the earth between their hairy...
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...they will be directed to do the individual works so that they can take care of anything themselves. Programs: 1. School level presentation and workshops to make them conscious about environment issues around the world. 2. Group project to learn about nature by giving specific homework on various topics. 3. Use of internet to search about nature and its problems. 4. Discussions about different topics on regular basis. 5. Electing green club council members so that they would present their activities during school functions. 6. A separate column (earth column /my earth) on a wall magazine to present their successfully completed assignments. 7. Unused lands will be used for flowering and planting the sapling of tree. 8. Separate plants to each green club members will be given for one year of which, they need to take full care of their plants. 9. Field visit such as zoo, local community forest and nurseries tri-monthly with specific theme. 10. Help all school students to discourage the use of plastic bags & plastic containers. 11. Art, essay and quiz competition related with environment (E-Quiz). 12. Encouraging guardians to become environment friendly. 13. Supply of cloth bags. 14. Assisting in making paper bags & paper related showpieces. 15. Regular competition on specific...
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...were looking forward to this trip since we had not even look before a proper rubber tree since we were born. We were also curious about how rubber tree can make so much money by collecting the latex early in the morning that we heard from our ancestors. We reached RRIM at Sungai Buloh after half an hour. When we arrived, we started to bring out our cameras to take photograph of the rubber tree. We even knew the background of RRIM and clones of rubber tree from the person in charge. Henry Wicham had collected 9 rubber seeds and brought to Malaysia. Mr. Tan Chian Yian was the first rubber planter who managed to plant rubber trees commercially in Melaka. Since then rubber trees were planted at many areas till today. Later on, the staff demonstrated how to produce a best clone rubber tree which had high quality of timber and lots of latex and thus increase income. This process can improve the growth rate and is tappable in 4 years after planting. Although the process of cloning of the tree was complicated, it can give lots of advantage. After seeing how to produce a best rubber tree, Mr. Azman showed us how to tap a rubber tree by using a tool called Jebung. He taught us that the Jebung was used to shear off a thin layer of rubber tree’s bark. The latex will then drip into a bucket that were tied along the tree trunk. Many of our classmates were eagerly trying to tap the rubber tree because this may be a life time experience. Some of them found it easy but some of...
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...Michele Graham Biology 102 The Overall Impact of Massive Rainforest Deforestation Tropical rainforests are an invaluable resource to wildlife and humanity. The level of biodiversity is unlike anywhere else in the world. A plethora of unknown species of plants and animals thrive in tropical rainforests, and many of them may offer medicinal benefits to humans; however, with the rapid deforestation of these areas, the Earth is losing some of the most precious resources. Logging, agriculture, and cattle-ranching are the main forces that drive deforestation and heavily contribute to the resulting environmental issues. By developing sustainable methods of forest usage and eliminating excess deforestation efforts, the Earth’s tropical rainforests can continue to hold the treasures of wildlife. Forests make up thirty percent of the Earth’s land surface. Wildlife is abundant and plant life is so diverse that many species are still unknown. With forests areas the size of Panama being wiped away each year, in one hundred years the world’s rainforests could completely vanish (National Geographic). Countless trees are cut down every year by the logging industry, which supplies the world with paper and wood products. Its effects extend beyond the loss of trees. For example, several indigenous tribes of Papua, New Guinea have lost huge portions of their land to government-backed logging operations (Shearman, Phil, and Jane Bryan). For tribal peoples who subsist on the land, it is a major...
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...Amazon Deforestation: NASA Images Show The Great Rainforest Disappearing Deforestation is defined as the state of being clear of trees. When applying this to the rainforests of the world, it is devastating to know that nothing has seriously been done to protect the remaining areas of rainforests. Although there are non-profit organizations trying to protect the land, money and greed always conquer what is right. In Brazil, mechanized agriculture is being used rather than small farms and the making of roads that are cut through the forest for faster commute has been more important than the fact that we are losing this precious land. Experts estimate that we are losing 137 plants, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equals to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists. In all areas of the world this is a huge issue that has not had a great outcome. Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners. The loss of animal habitats is a huge concern to researchers in the Brazil forests....
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...ASSIGNMENT 10 PROJECT WORK a) Project for primary classroom THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST UNITOVERVIEW This primary unit takes across curricular approach involving language arts, math, science, and social studies. Art, music and movement education activities are also used to develop the concepts in this unit. Students will learn about the rainforest through a variety of activities to complete both on-line and in downloadable format for use in the classroom. In addition there is a resource bank of print and non-print resources included. Each lesson develops a particular focus and may take one class or several classes to complete. Extending activities are also provided as well as assessment and evaluation tools and templates. Foundational Objectives: Knowledge ! Students will increase their knowledge about the rainforest. Skills and habits * Learn about and practice the skills and strategies of effective listeners, speakers, readers, writers and representers. * Speak and write to express thoughts, information, feelings and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences. * Read and view a range of grade-level appropriate oral, print, and other media texts in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. * Assess personal and group strengths...
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...Background of Study We wanted to find out whether paper charcoal could be an alternative for regular charcoal so that less trees will be cut down for the purpose of making charcoal. We also hope to prove that paper charcoal is better than charcoal in terms of: a. Speed b. Reliability c. Reusability d. Value for money Statement of problem: This study aims of comparing paper charcoal composed of newspaper against commercial charcoal made of wood. Specifically: 1. Which type of charcoal has the best speed? 2. Which type of charcoal is the more trusted in cooking? 3. Can each type of charcoal be used more than once? 4. Which one is worth your money? Hypothesis: Paper charcoal will prevail over the regular charcoal in the four categories of comparison Definition of terms: 1. wood: a material obtained from trees, is used to make charcoal and other paper products. 2. Charcoal: a flammable material made from bark of trees, used for heating in some areas of the world. 3. Commercial Charcoal: Charcoal sold in stores and markets, usually comes in chunks or briquettes 4. Paper: a material also obtained from trees, used to write, print, wrap, etc., made from the bark of tress and bleached. Significance of study: 1. Environment- the study aims to prove that paper charcoal is better, thus reducing the number of trees cut down. 2. Community- the study benefits the community because if proven right, people start to buy or make paper charcoal and doing either is cheaper than buying regular charcoal...
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...RP #6 After Apple-Picking Robert Frost’s “After Apple Picking”, is a rather complex poem where motifs or sleep and death are used to characterize the speaker. The speaker of this poem is an old man, who has picked apples for a large portion of his life. He is exhausted due to the manual labor is life has contained, and he identifies death with sleep, as he begins to get ready for death. In the first two lines of the poem, a religious overtone is presented, “My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree, toward heaven still” (1-2). This may make the reader think of the biblical story of Jacob’s ladder, in which he dreams on a ladder that the angels climb up to heaven. This shows how the speaker is ready for death, and ready for the afterlife. Later on in the poem we learn of the setting of the poem as the speaker tells us, “Essence of winter sleep is on the night, the scent of apples: I am drowsing off” (7-8). It is nighttime, and the speaker is very tired, as he begins to drowse off into the night. Either it is winter, or winter is approaching, which would lead to the end of apple picking season. Through the next few lines he describes how he is looking at his apple trees through a piece of ice, saying, “looking through a pane of glass, I skimmed this morning for the drinking trough, and held against the world of hoary grass. It melted, and I let if fall and break” (10-13). He is using ice to show how winter is changing the way he perceives things, and how winter...
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...In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. In looser senses, the taller palms, the tree ferns, bananas and bamboos are also trees. Trees tend to be long-lived, some reaching several thousand years old. The tallest known tree, a coast redwood named Hyperion, stands 115.6 m (379 ft) high. Trees have been in existence on the Earth for 370 million years. Trees are not a taxonomic group but include a variety of plant species that have independently evolved a woody trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another. For most trees it is surrounded by a layer of bark which serves as a protective barrier. Below the ground, the roots branch and spread out widely; they serve to anchor the tree and extract moisture and nutrients from the soil. Above ground, the branches divide into smaller branches and shoots. The shoots typically bear leaves, which capture light energy and convert it into sugars by photosynthesis, providing the food for the tree's growth and development. Flowers and fruit...
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