Bamboo is the green material of the future, or is it? Bamboo is the largest member of the grass family. It is one of the fastest growing “woody” plants in the world. There are different types of bamboo, but on of the most used is called the giant bamboo plant. It can grow in most places in the world excluding those areas of extreme cold or extreme dryness (Bamboo Grove). It is a very useful material for many different animals such as building for humans, or eating for the pandas. It is the main food source for the pandas that live in areas of the world such as Chengdu China. Bamboo is very helpful for humans too.
Currently bamboo has a variety of uses in the world which vary massively based on location. In Asia it is used as scaffolding, and almost everything else such as food. In the United States and many European countries it is used more for a clothing material, flooring and bikes. In the bamboo bike industry the company Calfee is known for their extremely high end bikes. They claim that there bamboo frames are equally still to frames made out of carbon fiber, while still retaining the vibration dampening effect (Calfee). While Calfee makes multi thousand dollar bamboo bikes, they have a sub brand that makes cheaper bikes for third world countries. The sub brand that makes the cheaper bikes also will go into third world countries and teach the people how to make the bikes themselves. Bamboo is probably used to its full potential most in Asia. In China the large scale building projects all use bamboo for scaffolding rather than metal. This is done because of the abundance of bamboo in most regions of China (Bess). The bamboo is also eaten by the wildlife in China, such as the Pandas, and certain types of bamboo rats. Other are...
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Marigolds “Marigolds,” written by the author Eugenia W. Collier, begins with the main character, Elizabeth. The story is told in first person, being told by Elizabeth when she gets older. “Marigolds” takes place in Maryland during the Depression. The reader can tell it is the time of the Depression because in the story it says, “The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us, for the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed.” Both the setting and time in this short story are important.
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In a country where war constantly looms over the people, one of the very few boys that can read and write in the city is dragged into the boundaries of conflict. At the age of fifteen, the timid Chiko is dragged away from the comfort of his home and tricked into joining a cause he does not believe in. Overall, I really enjoyed the first few chapters. Throughout the book, I felt like the author did an amazing job with both character and plot development, wasting no time at all with “lagging” events. Unlike most historical fiction novels, Bamboo People took an opportunity to progress the plot quickly, whereas many other books of this genre take too much time describing background information. However, while the book’s plot developed well, I noticed
Multiple perspective of any kind requires a unique way of telling a story. Especially from individuals and different viewpoints on the same event. This story gives the audience seven narrators that tell each their side of the matter in the same event and all seem to contradict themselves. This is an interesting plot device from which inconsistent testimonies of the same experience can be shown and looked at. Which narrator is true, which narrator is telling a lie; it is curious to read the differences and some of the same “facts” reported by these witnesses? How can their stories are based on truth and where are the lies. Again, there is a wider range to these individual stories share. Namely who did it,
The end of child innocence is a significant part of transitioning into young adulthood. This is illustrated in “Marigolds,” a short story written by Eugenia Collier, that takes place in a small town trapped in poverty during the Great Depression. The main character Lizabeth is a fourteen-year-old girl who is playing with her brother and neighborhood friends and just being kids when she simultaneously encounters an experience that teach about compassion, which eventually helps her step into adulthood. Through Lizabeth’s childhood experience, Collier portrays that maturity is based on compassion and overcoming the innocence of childhood.
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Mythical History Green Tara has a rich mythical history. So rich, in fact, that there are two myths narrating the origins of the Bodhisattva Green Tara. In the first myth, she is depicted as a celestial being, coming forth from the tears of another Bodhisattva, Avalokiteshvara. In this myth, as Avalokiteshvara gazed upon all of the suffering in this world, he cried tears of compassion until a lake formed (Vessantara, 1994). A blue lotus emerged from the lake of tears and Avalokiteshvara cried into its center, turning it into a white full-moon disc (Vessantara, 1994).
Throughout the novel, Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the narrator- 15 year old Kambili- suffers from the restrictions that her devout father has implemented on every aspect of her life. Her every action revolves around the idea of religion and completing God’s purpose- due to her father’s piousness; however, when she visits her Aunty Ifeoma in Nssuka, she is liberated, as a clear change in Kambili is evident, brought by her time with her aunt and cousins. As a result, Kambili begins to become stronger, expressing herself and going against her father’s restrictive ways in order to form her own life. Through this, it can be seen that Kambili transforms into a stronger character througout The Purple Hibiscus, as a result of her exposure to her Aunty and cousins in Nssuka that sparked her change, shaping her to become a more independent character.
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GreenPalm (2015) states how ‘the removal of acres of rainforest threatens the rich biodiversity’ in the ‘ecosystems’. Highlighting the risks of the cutting of the oil palm trees to produce the palm oil to both the environment and also the organisms which live within the areas, as certain species in the areas of the clearing of land, mainly with the palm oil ‘exported from Indonesia and Malaysia’ according to Say-No-To-Palm-Oil (2015), face possible extinction. There is still however ways in which the production of palm oil can be sustainable to the environment, as palm oil is essential for the use by humans because of the containment of the nutrients and also with the production of foods and
Japanese Gardens The role of gardens plays a much more important role in Japan than here in the United States. This is due primarily to the fact the Japanese garden embodies native values, cultural beliefs and religious principles. Perhaps this is why there is no one prototype for the Japanese garden, just as there is no one native philosophy or aesthetic. In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving due to exposure to outside influences, mainly Chinese, that effect not only changing aesthetic tastes but also the values of patrons. In observing a Japanese garden, it is important to remember that the line between the garden and the landscape that surrounds it is not separate.
Maize also has uses beyond being used as a food source or being turned into oil. Maize’s main use is for food, but it can be used in creative ways. For example the popped kernels of maize, commonly referred to as ‘popcorn’ is seasoned and coated in different ways in order to make the ethnic foods of Vietnam and Peru. Corn is also used to create basic alternative medicines and herbal supplements using the corn silk, but this use is not often capitalized on. The starches from maize are a major source of material for products like plastics, fabrics, and adhesives. Also a by-product from the maize ‘wet milling’ process called ‘corn step liquor’ is of a major use to the biochemical industry because it is a perfect culture to grow many kinds of m...
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In 1996, Arctic Timber Engineered Woods Division, a highly mature business unit, faced a market downturn and began losing millions of dollars each month. Before becoming the President of the Engineered Woods Division, Bjorn Gustavsson had already determined that the company could not sustain its commodity business and was not aligned with the new direction devised by Peter Hammarskjöld, the CEO of Arctic Timber. According to Gustavsson, in order to prosper in a more challenging market environment, developing a specialty business was the only viable approach. The goal was to shift 50% of its commodity business into undetermined specialty by 2000. However, the Division had shifted only 10% of its business to specialty products by 1997.