Literature Review
The history of Muden began with the Voortrekkers who started with dense bush and uninhabited land. Cattle and wheat were farmed in the area and in 1915 ostriches were introduced. 1917 hectares of orange trees and to irrigate these crops canal systems were put in place. The settlers observed that not enough rain was being supplied to the crops and the area was semi-arid. These fruit trees eventually stopped bearing and the Winter’s brought frost with it so planting sugar cane was not ideal.(Harty 2013)
Muden has encountered devastating storms. In the early 1960’s hail destroyed the orange trees for seven continuous years. (Harty 2013) In 2012, over New Year’s Eve, large volumes of water from a hail storm anomaly made the Mooi River swell. The site of Muden was affected by the storm. Crops were ‘severely damaged’ (Midlands Storm Havoc 2012) and the high winds destroyed the peach trees by breaking the branches. Hail stones cause indentations in the peaches and the wind causes the fruit to fall off the trees and to land on the floor. The impact will cause the peach to ...
Throughout time the local tribe built and developed a home for themselves and by 1975 crops were developed. The constant issue to survive from passing diseased became in issue.
Throughout the novel, one of the most apparent transformations is the one that the natural earth goes through. As Robert enters the war, we are introduced to a horrifying side of the earth; mud. "The mud. There are no good similes. Mud must be a Flemish word. Mud was invented here. Mudland might have been its name. The ground is the colour of steel. Over most of the plain there isn't a trace of topsoil: only sand and clay"4. The obsessive description of the mud clearly shows how the nurturing earth has b...
covers the area, causing people, animals, and structures to practically disintegrate. Even years afterwards people were still dying and having
...s. These lands were “usually in less desirable locations and discouraged any successful transition to agriculture”.24
Sahlins in his scholarship “Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities” attempted to explain culture using past events and that historians should do the same. He also attempted to show that culture is not static but always changing and developing. Sahlins used the culture of Hawaii and shows how interaction with Europe (specifically Britain) changed and helped develop their culture. Shalin’s argued that Hawaiian’s response to Captain Cook’s arrival on their territory, such as treating him as a God and offering their women as sexual objects and other factors leading up to Cook’s murder was part of Hawaiian culture.
advantage of the rich black soil for farming. Corn was their main source of food,
The land directly surrounding the settlement was usually flooded during the times of high water. In addition to this stretch, there were about eight hundred and fifty acres of heavily timbered forest lands on the island an...
Archaeologists commonly offer differing hypotheses for the origins of food production. Various theoretical approaches have attempted to identify the circumstances that caused people to shift to deliberate cultivation and do...
Over the course of history, art has been used for many different purposes. It has been used to relay a message to the illiterate and show off the face of an emperor. Presently, art has no other purpose except to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Back in the days of ancient Greece and Crete, that was not the case. The Minoans were a people who lived on an island near one of the oldest and most well-documented civilizations of the Western world. While they may have been advanced for their time, much of what we now know about their culture has come from examining their art. In the Minoan culture, different forms of artwork held different religious and political meaning.
Living in Bangladesh, we have seen quite disastrous mudslides from the past few years. Mudslide is also called a landslide or a land slip. It is a downward mass movement of earth or rock on unstable slopes, including many forms resulting from differences in rock structure, coherence of material involved, degree of slope, amount of included water, extent of natural or artificial undercutting at the base of the slope, relative rate of movement, and relative quantity of material involved. There are numerous facts that can cause a mudslide and there are also numerous effects that it can cause us.
... is damaged it cannot be easily recovered due to the now rock hard surface that doesn’t absorb rain and water easily.
The conditions of river valleys favored farming in these and other such river valleys. Floodwater spread silt across the valley renewing the soil and keeping it fertile. Animals that drank from the river were also a source of food. The river also supplied the people with a regular source of drinking water and the means of transportation. However rivers also posed challenges. Farmers had to control flooding and channel waters to the fields. Early farmers built dikes, dug canals and also made irrigation ditches. Such projects required leadership and a well-organized government.
The first people that started to depend on farming for food were in Israel and Jordan in about 80000 B.C.. Farming became popular because people no longer had to rely on just searching for food to get their food. In about 3000 B.C. Countries such as Egypt and Mesopotamia started to develop large scale irrigation systems and oxen drawn plows. In about 500 B.C. the Romans started to realize that the soil needed certain nutrients in order to bare plants. They also realized that if they left the soil for a year with no plants, these important nutrients would replenish. So they started to leave half of a field fallow (unplanted). They then discovered that they could use legumes, or pulses to restore these vital nutrients, such as nitrogen, to the soil and this started the process known as rotating crops. They would plant half the field one year with a legume...
Lambert, Tim. A Brief History of Farming. Local history. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov 2013.
greens, and corn around the area. The corn grew up like a forest! I can remember