Essays Tagged: "Landscape"

Jigsaw Puzzles in the Making

magazine you could look at, or you could just go to the local J.J. Newberries and buy a 1000-piece landscape puzzle for only $5.49. The 1000-piece puzzle might be a little too much for someone who wa ...

(4 pages) 79 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

Purple Loosestrife - on the invasive qualities of purple loosestrife and the consequences

mals thriving. This unnatural silence is disturbing, the favourite flowers that used to litter this landscape are no longer visible, the water that used to ripple continuously is perfectly still. The ... e flower that has choked out all other vegetation and species. Purple loosestrife now controls this landscape.Purple loosestrife is an exotic species that was introduced to North America from Europe d ...

(12 pages) 81 0 4.3 Jun/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Galicia

of Spain, Galicia looks much like Ireland. Which attracted the Celts during their exploration. The landscape is lush and filled with pine and eucalyptus. Galicia also has some of the best beaches in ...

(6 pages) 236 3 3.8 Jun/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The kindergarten

e out the kindergarten on the horizon. The fluorescent yellow play equipment stood out in the green landscape as if it didn't belong. We had finally arrived, I got out and made my way to the door. All ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A report on how old people are discriminated against in the workplace.

Lets take a look at the landscape for older workers as it unfolds today. Baby boomers will begin to reach age 65 by 2010. Al ...

(3 pages) 264 2 3.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Symbolism of the Setting in "Hills Like White Elephants" by Hemingway

ch representing one of the choices.On one side of the station, the tracks run through a lush, green landscape full of grainfields and trees. A wide river runs lazily in the foreground of some tall mou ...

(2 pages) 237 0 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

What is the effect of Ernest Hemingway's use of the minimalist technique? Text: Ernest Hemingway - "Hills Like White Elephants"

ch representing one of the choices.On one side of the station, the tracks run through a lush, green landscape full of grain fields and trees. A wide river runs lazily in the foreground of some tall mo ...

(2 pages) 155 1 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Michelangelo - his thoughts on the classical period vs. the gothic period

views and ideas. They had to over come obstacles standing in their way, building around and in the landscape to create their sculptures buildings. Ancient Rome had a status of being all-powerful in c ... uildings were built with much more concentration on strength then beauty. Contrary to the beautiful landscape of the Classical Antiquity, Gothic style used "cramped and poorly constructed small figure ...

(2 pages) 40 0 1.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Hemingway's Juxtaposition at the junction

emingway's opening paragraph in "Hills Like White Elephants" immediately pojects his readers into a landscape that is barren and uncomfortable. It is a scene so simple, yet so the vivid, that the read ...

(2 pages) 47 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Life in the Trenches" This essay gives a description of life in the trenches in WW1 and talks about how the government prevented the public from knowing the truth about the conditions.

so unique was its use of a new tactic of digging a series of connecting trenches that carved up the landscape of the Western and Eastern fronts. This use of trenches by both the Allies and the Germans ...

(7 pages) 72 0 4.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Ancient Greek Paintings

human anatomy. The artist has drawn eyes in profile, instead of frontally, and included elements of landscape.According to literary sources, the 5th century bc produced a host of great painters. Polyg ... e known for their grace. The Hellenistic period produced such artists as Demetrius, a specialist in landscape.Unfortunately, of the painters whose names we know from ancient literature, not a single b ...

(5 pages) 111 0 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Slovak Republic

SlovakiaSlovakia is a little landscape in Middle Europe. In Slovakia lives in the neighbourhood of 5,4 million inhabitant on area ...

(1 pages) 80 1 1.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

"Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie

e, have immense imagination and engage in all forms of creativity. Their beautiful architecture and landscape show their skills in designing. Their advance technology (especially at P2C2E House) shows ...

(4 pages) 97 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Transcendentalism as an important philosophical and literary movement.

cribe. But then Thoreau's definition has a more concrete and practical approach, that nature is the landscape he can always walk into. Throughout "Walking", Thoreau speaks of "sauntering" (p.71) as wa ... oment, his reflection on an experience beings on the essays second page. He speaks of the "charming landscape which I saw this morning..."(p.7) Emerson doesn't lecture or ramble off his beliefs, he in ...

(3 pages) 47 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Short History of South Australia.

riginal life was the obligation to observe laws handed down by spirit ancestors who had created the landscape and all life during the so-called Dreamtime. Aborigines also traded goods across Australia ...

(3 pages) 60 3 2.5 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Salvador Dali's work "The Persistence of Memory".

ks was a favourite of his. It is also recognizable as a Dali because of the long perspective in the landscape.It is an uninhabited beach scene as in there is not an obvious image of a person in this w ...

(1 pages) 91 0 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Dynastic Chinese History Paintings & Ceramics.

Song paintings, and ceramics.The Neo-Confusian ideas found visual expression in art, especially in landscape, which became the most highly esteemed subject for painting. Northern Song artists studied ... ts many appearances and this passion for realistic detail was the artists form of self cultivation. Landscape became a vehicle for conveying human emotions. Landscapes display the general Chinese desi ...

(2 pages) 84 2 2.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Natives during the Fur-trade, what influences the Natives had towards the fur trade.

bout the land, they were natural hunters and they were very resourceful in terms of the climate and landscape of the fur trade. If not for the Native involvement in the Fur trade the French could have ...

(4 pages) 76 0 2.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Artists that have conveyed an Australian identity: Sidney Nolan, Brett Whiteley & Fred Williams

an identity has been examined and portrayed by many Australian artists with reference to the unique landscape and environment as well as the people that occupy it. This cultural identity has been refl ... presented in such a remarkable way. Sidney Nolan once mentioned, "I find that a desire to paint the landscape involves a wish to hear more of the stories which take place within the landscape. Stories ...

(4 pages) 62 0 3.4 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Ernest Hemingway and his significance of landscapes, from "The Complete Short Stories".

This essay was written about the significance of landscape using his "Big Two Hearted River" and "Hills Like White Elephants."The Significance of Lan ... Big Two Hearted River" and "Hills Like White Elephants."The Significance of LandscapeHemingway uses landscape to reflect his characters emotions and also as a secondary character in his stories. Two g ... The rails going in opposite directions represented both of the opposing choices.Hemingway uses the landscape once again to reflect the emotions of that moment. He describes the girl staring at the mo ...

(3 pages) 47 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway