...is believed to have been the “forbidden fruit” described in the Bible. Despite this long standing history, apples did not always grow naturally in New England. While the first apples are thought to have grown on the lower slopes of Tian Shan, a mountain range separating Kazakhstan and Krygystan, they also grew wild in Central and Southwest Asia, China, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Greece. Through conquest and exploration, apples were spread when Romans conquered England and when Spaniards brought them to Mexico and South America. It wasn’t until the mid 1600’s that the Pilgrims cultivated them in Massachusetts. It is believed that John Endecott, an early governor, was the first to bring an apple tree to North America, and the first orchard was planted on Beacon Hill by a clergyman named William Blaxton. It is Blaxton who is credited for growing the first named apple, the Yellow Sweeting. Once apples were established in New England, they played an active role in everyday life. As a fruit which was easily stored through the winter, as well as being very beneficial to settlers’ health, apples were a main staple in early settlers’ diets. Despite the fact that apples were not initially from North America, and have been growing disease-free for centuries in their native habitats, the early settlers found that the long, hot summers and cold winters of New England grew apples unlike anywhere else in the world. New England apples are known not only for their unique blend of tart and...
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...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 food company does not have to farm the land them selves. While these similarities between apples and oranges are many in number, there is also a vast quantity of differences to explore. These fruits are as similar as they are different. While the apple is crisp and light tasting, the orange is composed of small individual pockets of what seems to be a large taste. An orange has more of a...
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...* Case Study 1: Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate CompanyThis assignment is due for online students by midnight on Sunday of Week 3 and for on-ground students before Week 4’s class meeting. Submit your assignment to the course shell.Read the Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company case study found in Chapter 2 of the textbook. Then, answer the questions below. Each response should be one (1) paragraph in length submitted in MS Word and the submission is not to exceed two (2) pages.Write a one to two (1-2) page paper that addresses: * What investigation will you do with regard to the physical infrastructure of the orchards, orchard shacks, and the cold storage building? * Make a list of business goals for Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company. What are some constraints that will affect these goals? * Make a list of technical goals for Harriet’s Fruit and Chocolate Company. What tradeoffs might you need to make to meet these goals? * Will a wireless solution support the low delay that will be needed to meet the needs of the applications? Defend your answer. * What security concerns should you bring up as you design the network upgrade?The format of the paper is to be as follows: * Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format. * Type the question followed by your answer to the question. * In addition to the one to two (1-2) pages required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain...
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...CRSC 2 Interview Name of site: Lanzones Orchard History: The site is called “Lanzones Orchard” because all the trees planted in the land are Lanzones approximately 70 years ago, but years after, storms and typhoons had hit the place and killed some of the Lanzones trees. Therefore, they replace it with new fruit trees such as Durian, Rambutan, Mango, Jack fruit, Camias, and more. Land: The topography is flat and the total area of the land is 3000m2 . The land is also located near a creek and the elevation is 15.7m. There is a good soil drainage system in the land. Pre-harvest agreement and duration/harvesting/marketing: The UPLB staff is not in charge of the harvesting of fruits but instead, they have formed an agreement (Pacquiao system) which they give a number of people or volunteers permission to harvest the fruits and sell and distribute it to any market. Those volunteers will get the profit for selling as long as they give maintenance to the growing trees. This means that the volunteers are also in charge of applying any fertilizers, pesticides, and etc. One reason that this is called Pacquiao system because they have to get the fruits first before others does. Stealing usually happens among the volunteers. Maintenance: UPLB has been provided with equipment and tools used in the field which means that they won’t need to hire men or rent equipment from others. In a year, the agreement is held twice and maintenance is done once. If they have no...
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...“Lemon Orchard” is a short story written by Alex La Guma, a South-African author, in the year 1962. The setting of this short story is in South Africa along two long, regular rows of trees, in a season of late winter, meaning it’s still a bit chilly in the air. It is late at night and there’s a big moon in the sky, it’s also a bit cloudy. It is probably set in the year that this story was written, while the big segregation in South Africa was still going on. The characters in “Lemon Orchard” is of a group of men, four of them mentioned in this story and their captive ‘colored’ man. There is the man with the small cycle lantern, a man who is the leader of the group carrying a loaded shotgun. All of the men in the party are warmly dressed, while there captive is the only one not wearing any thick clothes. This man is wearing trousers and a raincoat pulled over his pyjamas as if it was put on in a hurry. The action in this story is of these men walking through the night with their captive who they took because ‘colored’, probably referring to a man with a nationality of maybe Asian, South American etc. It is a racist way of calling a man, concerning his skin color. It doesn’t say exactly what happens to this man, but it kind of hints out that these men are here to beat this guy up, probably to his death, just because he has a different skin color. Also because he is an educated man who is a teacher. This is because in that time the people believed that men with darker skin...
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...So many people become impatient when it comes to growing up and maturing. Masaru Emoto once said, “If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” This quote is especially apparent in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God as Hurston uses symbolism to express Janie’s life experiences. Multiple uses of symbols can be found in this story such as the pear tree to follow in Janie’s journey of self awakening. Many symbols focus on aspects of Janie’s identity including the pear tree which is brought to attention throughout the novel. The pair tree in her backyard starts out as representing safety and comfort to Janie. Once she is lying underneath the tree, “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom” (Hurston 11). In Janie’s eyes, this interaction of the bees and the blossoms of the tree give a harmonistic moment in nature although the reader is able to interpret such as being a symbol of love given neither bee nor blossom hurt each other. Later in the novel, Janie says “Ah done lived Granma’s way, now I means to live mine” (Hurston 114); she makes it known she too sees the bees and blossoms representing love and marriage only after going through two failed marriages which do not have the same meaningful characteristics as the blossoms do. Throughout the rest of the story...
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...The first passage in the book Braiding Sweetgrass that stood out to me was within the first chapter. Kimmerer talked about how the scientific community remains baffled at how pecan trees appear to talk with one another. Pecan trees act as a collective unit and produce mast fruiting all at once. It is not just a few groves that yield a harvest, it is groves all over the state in an all or nothing display. While there a several theories that attempt to explain this phenomenon, researchers are unaware of what causes the mast fruiting. This passage stood out to me in particular since Kimmerer compared pecan trees to a family that looks out for one another. The trees communicate to one another to decide when the time was right to produce the pecans. If one tree fruits alone out of season, it will be easy for it to become picked off by hungry animals and the chances of the tree surviving become slim. The pecan trees teach the lesson of the importance of communication and sticking together as one. When groups of individuals are able to clearly communicate common goals, the group is able to remain in unity and thrive. The message of creating a common goal and standing together through difficult and positive times is something I will use to inform my role as a counselor. As a counselor, I believe it is my role to communicate, create common goals, and to remain with my future clients no matter their presenting issue. Providing the metaphor of the pecan trees may help explain...
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...The poem opens with an offering: “Glory be to God for dappled things.” In the next five lines, Hopkins elaborates with examples of what things he means to include under this rubric of “dappled.” He includes the mottled white and blue colors of the sky, the “brinded” (brindled or streaked) hide of a cow, and the patches of contrasting color on a trout. The chestnuts offer a slightly more complex image: When they fall they open to reveal the meaty interior normally concealed by the hard shell; they are compared to the coals in a fire, black on the outside and glowing within. The wings of finches are multicolored, as is a patchwork of farmland in which sections look different according to whether they are planted and green, fallow, or freshly plowed. The final example is of the “trades” and activities of man, with their rich diversity of materials and equipment. Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; And here come two more hyphenated words, along with two more examples of "dappled things." The first example is "Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls." This is probably the trickiest image in the poem, partly because we're not nearly as familiar with chestnuts as 19th-century English people would have been. "Chestnut-falls" is not too hard to imagine. It refers to chestnuts that have fallen off the chestnut tree. This hyphenated word points to the specific chestnuts that have fallen from the tree. But "Fresh-firecoal" requires some background on nuts, a field we at Shmoop like...
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...Janie Killicks/Stark/Woods: A Hero or A Failure? In Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the most prevalent imagery consistent throughout the whole novel is of nature, both beautiful and powerful. Nature’s temperament gradually shifts from an innocent ideal into a destructive force in synchronization with Janie’s life. Janie’s wish is to be in a loving marriage, represented by the pear tree and blossoms; however, once she finally achieves this desire, the hopeful nature she had once longed for gradates into a damaging monster that ultimately kills Tea Cake and consequently, her dream. Though Kubitschek believes that her quest for the pear tree is obtained through her marriage to Tea Cake, the violent hurricane reveals Janie’s ultimate failure in attaining the one thing she wanted the most. The change in nature that occurs once Janie believes that she has achieved her fantasy of a blossoming marriage represents an epiphany, a coming of age moment in which Janie’s childhood dreams are realized as unrealistic and naïve, as the true, destructive disposition of nature is unleashed. The most driving force in Janie’s early teenage years is the need for attainment of the ideal marriage filled with love and equality, which she was introduced to by a pear tree in full blossom filled with sexual images such as “dust-bearing bees sink[ing] into the sanctum of a bloom” (Hurston 11). She became obsessed with the spring and “attempts to harmonize her daily life with her ideal image...
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...Due to her independence, public speaking skills, and humanitarian qualities Janie Mae Crawford is an Aquarius. Her character arc of learning to love being alone fits into the claim that an Aquarius has to be alone at times to get their thoughts straight. Janie’s public speaking skills also place her under this sign since she is known as a “ born orator” (58) among the community. The humanitarian aspect of her personality comes out when she detests men harassing an abused mule “ They oughta be shamed uh theyselves! Teasin’ that poor brute beast lak they is!” (56). A combination of these characteristics make Janie an Aquarius. Jody Starks plays the role of Janie’s husband and the town mayor who is assertive and authoritative, with a bad...
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... Initially founded as a ladies footwear brand, CHARLES & KEITH has since grown to include bags and accessories including belts, sunglasses, bracelets and tech accessories to their product line-up. Its brand of fast fashion and contemporary wear has garnered the brand an international following. The brand has achieved international success with their expansion plans since venturing into Indonesia in 1998. With more than 60 stores in China to-date, the brand has more than 350 stores worldwide. Milestones for the brand include opening their doors at Japan’s Harajuku district and Macau’s The Venetian in 2013. On its home ground, the brand celebrated the opening of their concept stop along the prominent stretch of luxury shopping along Orchard Road, at Takashimaya Ngee Ann City. The brand currently has presence in prominent shopping districts in Tokyo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Cairo, Dubai – to name a few. The brand launched its first e-store and was the first ladies footwear and accessories retailer to launch an online shop in Singapore. The brand remains committed to Corporate Social Responsibility, supporting Humanitarian Causes, Human Excellence and Environmental Initiatives. Collaborations with international charities through the years include World Vision, Meat Free Monday and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality (UNWOMEN) and Breast Cancer Foundation. Charles and Keith had several fund raising for women relating aid. This shoes that Charles and Keith probably wants...
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...“The Cask of Amontillado” told by = رواها insult = إهانة Cask = برميل Wine = نبيذ He led him = قاده series of chambers beneath his palazzo = سلسلة من الغرف تحت قصره the infamous = الشائنة / سيئ السمعة underground chamber = غرفة تحت الأرض chains = قيده بالسلاسل to seal him in = لحبسه subgenre = نوع فرعي tale = حكاية / اشاعة / اقصوصة Dungeons = أبراج محصنة Catacombs = سراديب موتى Corpses = جثث Poe perfected = بو أتقن هذا النوع Concentrate = تركيز Soul = روح often representing extremely neurotic = غالبا ماتمثل العصبية للغاية abnormal, personalities = غير طبيعي / شخصي advocate of art for art’s sake = يدافع عن الفن لأجل الفن unlike his contemporary = يخالفه المعاصر moral allegories = رموز اخلاقية tropes = استعارة dark imagery = صور الظلام violent revenge = الانتقام العنيف buried alive = الوأد / الدفن حي into other elements, including= في العناصر الأخرى , بما في ذلك revenge = انتقام / ثأر wine-cellar = قبو النبيذ medieval = القرون الوسطى torture chamber = غرف التعذيب instead of = بدلا من a repository = مستودع for wealthy wine collectors = لهواة جمع النبيذ الغنية torches = المشاعل sputter = تفرقع بدل من أن تكون زاهية مشرقة nitre = نترات الصوديوم Claustrophobic = خانق Macabre = مروع Aristocrat = نبيل / مؤيد للارستقراطية Crumbling = تهدم Antiquated = قديم مهجور buried from sight = مدفونة عن الأنظار No one "cuts" (attacks) me with impunity = لا أحد يقاطعني أو يهاجمني ويفلت من العقاب REVENGE = الانتقام هو الموضوع الرئيسي The Unrepentant...
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...Barbara Myers Dr. Hohehleitner ENG 3014 November 7, 2014 Annotated Bibliography Abate, Michelle Ann. Tomboys: A Literary And Cultural History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 4 Nov. 2014. In chapter 2 of this book, the author “discusses how Little Woman chronicles the civil war that is raging within its gender-bending female character over her participation in tomboyism.” The author discusses Alcott’s journals and her participation in the Civil War. Abate discusses how the Civil War is a metaphor for Jo March’s experiences in the novel, Little Women. Foote, Stephanie. "Resentful Little Women: Gender And Class Feeling In Louisa May Alcott." College Literature 32.1 (2005): 63-85. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 2 Nov. 2014. In this article, Foote examines class and gender in the novel Little Women. The first section in the article discusses anger and resentment. Details how the girls in the novel deal with gender, anger, and repression. The home is a safeguard for the March girls. The second section discusses the gender roles learned at home and the March girls going out into the world. The failures and successes, and how the roles in the family set their roles in society. Foote writes how Jo’s ambiguousness for society made it harder for her to become accepted in society, and as Meg’s love of the social graces gave her an open door for her future. Amy’s domestic life choices make her the first sister to...
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...Sometimes, the greatest literary masters emerge from the most difficult circumstances. That proved to be the case for Louisa May Alcott, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29th, 1832. She was raised by mother Abigail May Alcott and father Amos Bronson Alcott, a nineteenth century Transcendentalist reformer and educator (Price). Together, Alcott’s parents maintained a bustling household during her childhood, as she was the second of four daughters: Anna, Elizabeth, and Abba (Meyers). Alcott’s large family, as well as her father’s various esteemed connections, played one of the most significant roles in shaping her beliefs and values. She received most of her childhood education from either her father or his well known Transcendentalist friends. Some of the most prominent examples include Henry Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Strickland). Emerson even let her use his extensive library for reading and studying. Since Transcendentalism played such a prominent part in her life growing up, Louisa May Alcott’s poetry and other literary works directly reflect the Transcendentalist influence she received early on. From their home state of Pennsylvania, the Alcott’s later relocated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1838, where Alcott’s father tried to establish an experimental school. Setbacks forced the family to abandon the school and move once more in 1840 to Concord, Massachusetts (Cheney). Her father explored his unconventional ideas...
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...Gilliam Armstrong exemplifies how women must defy traditional feminine expectations through perseverance and ambition in order to thrive outside the private sphere, in her film of Louisa May Alcott’s Bildungsroman Little Women. Mrs. “Marmee” March, matriarch of the impoverished March family during the Civil War era, cares for her four daughters while her husband is away at war. She is idealized as the perfect woman, able to bear children and running a proper household. Mr. March’s absence highlights the rest of his family’s ability to care for each other without male dependency. Second-oldest sister Jo disregards the stereotypical feminine role of house confinement. She instead focuses on pursuing her dream of becoming an author, characterized as a masculine occupation. She writes for her own pleasure, therefore representing a typical obstinate, rebellious teenager in the modern world. Ideals of female domesticity are depicted as the norm during the Civil War Era. Jo nonetheless proves a girl’s worth extends past the realm of her home. Armstrong emphasizes Jo as a fervent heroine archetype, contrasting her individualistic dreams with the typical feminine identities of her sisters. She is juxtaposed with her shy, celestial sister Beth, the “damsel in distress”. Beth strives to please her family and solely has one passion of playing the piano, highlighting music as a significant motif. Music is enjoyed in the feminine private sphere, contrasting Jo’s writing in the masculine public...
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