Essays Tagged: "wilderness"

.... Classifying fire regimes and defining their topographic controls in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Pages 299-307 in Proceedings--Eleventh conference on fire and forest meteorology... Ice Age events? Do long term climate characteristics vary spatially across the wilderness? Significance of Proposed Research Wildfires have tremendous economic impacts due to costs... 10:213-220. Habeck, J. R. Fire ecology investigations in Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. 1972. Unpublished USDA Forest Service Report, on file Regional Office, Missoula, MT...

... Chronicles, the old fashioned lifestyle is attempted to be recreated and like Wilder's theatrical work, uses conformity pressures that eventually leads to resident unhappiness..., and her individual desires and emotions were governed by society pressures. By Wilder providing a sense of universality and similarity between all of the characters... restriction is displayed through the literary works of Robert D. Putnam, Thornton Wilder, and Andrew Ross. In Bowling Alone, Putnam places factual stress on the...

... Willard of the same play (Papajewski 169).         To say the least, Thornton Wilder is most conclusively a person who efficiently combined life affairs and milestones... by the critics.         'Although over-age when America entered World War II, Wilder sought military assignment...and served in Air Force Intelligence in the United... in perhaps one of the greatest paradoxical plays ever written.         Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on the twenty-seventh of April in...

... horse named Bessie. Everyday, one of the Crowell brothers delivers the newspaper. Wilder deeply expounds on the ideas of pessimism through the everyday actions of... itself in the attitudes of the dead toward life on earth. Thornton Wilder exemplifies pessimism in "Our Town" through the everyday actions of the characters... Hemisphere, The Earth, The Solar System, The Universe, The Mind of God" (Wilder 768). This shows how diminutive Jane Crofut really is and how unimportant...

... become emotionally involved in imaginary events and will forget the surrounding theatre. Wilder makes no effort to convince the audience that the events of the... main acts, each of which focus upon a different aspect of life. Wilder portrays the importance of the small, often unnoticed things in life throughout... with, yet the dramatic styles used to present them are not realistic. Wilder firstly presents the moral dilemma of not appreciating life as a dilemma...

... Owens The Reflective Lone Ranger In Louis Owens' essay "An American Indian Wilderness" the author projects a self-reflective and, in the end, pessimistic persona... should take this very seriously and stop ourselves from expanding our "American Wilderness" farther and farther, pushing nature more and more away from us. Owens... that humans used to have with nature, before the Europeans "introduced the wilderness" to America. As Owens' tone turns darker, he realizes that he too...

... go, telling her "it might make [me] discontented with Grover's Corners." (Wilder p31) Not only does this illustrate the fact that the characters are... typifies the townspeople's reaction to the social ills of the town. Wilder has represented these ills in the character of Simon Stimson. When Mrs... anyone in the town is "aware of social injustice and industrial inequality." (Wilder: p35) Mr. Webb assures him they are, and the man demands to...

..., in Canada, there has always been great tension between civilization and the wilderness. Regrettably, humans are constantly invading the homes of animals. In addition, whenever... what they cannot control; and sadly, this is often nature or the wilderness. This is demonstrated near the beginning of the book, "Never Cry Wolf... factor is that, given the opportunity, we blame our problems on the wilderness without any evidence to support it. It is simply done to mask...

... Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the motif of civilization versus the wilderness. In the story the town of Boston and its surrounding forest represent...) identity to her lover, Dimmesdale while in the protective seclusion of the wilderness. Pearl, who is a primary symbol of truth in the story inadvertently... considers taking away her God-given child. Quite the contrary is the wilderness which seems to be the scene of resolution rather than conflict. In...

... Save Our History, have fought to restore and preserve historical landmarks. The Wilder Mansion has stood predominantly in the Elmhurst community since 1868. The mansion... that southern architecture during the 1800’s was primarily French inspired. The Wilder Mansion was built in 1868 and is an example of the Richardsonian... appearance. They grieve over the fact that they used to hover over Wilder Park and flaunt the solid coat of white on their wooden surface...

... heard was nothing but silence. It was confusing to be in the wilderness and have a lack of sound. Soon the subtle, unique sounds individually... soft tune chants that there is not a reason to fear the wilderness because life will continue perpetuating no matter what happens in my life... perfume of the earth has such a sweet and welcoming fragrance. The wilderness has its own scent that simply can not be compared to any...

... of the value of resources for human use rather than to preserve wilderness. His idea of conservation meant "...the greatest good to the greatest number... in favor of the placement of these wind turbines. In his opinion, wilderness was created by humans. He believes that preserving nature is not only... there to see them..." In my opinion, Cronon does not care about wilderness because he believes it was human creation and that they can do...

... citizens of Grover's Corners, an imaginary location in New Hampshire which Wilder uses to represent the average American small town. Through witnessing the everyday... concerns. Rather than using esoteric and foreign concepts to communicate his ideas, Wilder more effectively speaks to us in a language that we all understand...: the daily events that repeat themselves over and over throughout our lives. Wilder also recognizes that there is a higher value to these repetitious actions...

... only from catastrophic suffering" page 38, [like someone who has passed away]. Wilders play defies most conventional theatrical genres. It is neither a comedy nor... time in the world, but we are ALL on borrowed time. Yet, Wilders methods of presenting these values on the stage are anything but ordinary...

... fuel management professionals to reduce the threat of wildfire within their residential wilderness without burning it down or forever altering the aesthetics. BackgroundOur 10,000... intermingle with undeveloped wild land or vegetative fuels” (NIFC, 2000). A residential wilderness inhabited by homes and lives where the vegetation is overgrown and flammable... surface fires as they enter previously burned areas has been observed in wilderness and park areas that have active fire management programs (NIFC, 2000). “Mechanical...

... I admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the play Our Town by Thorton Wilder. The entire story allows you to enter the world of Grover's...

... an irreplaceable gift, one to be treasured and relished every moment. Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer prize winning play Our Town makes a strong reference to... than bright," she says to Wally as he crams for a test. (Wilder 14) And when Emily tries explaining to her mother that she is...

... audience aware of the role of women in the play Our Town." Wilder makes the audience aware of the role of women in the play...

.... Miriam Peskowitz illustrates that identities can be bounded in her essay Moses? Wilderness Tabernacle. Ownership of the self defines itself in one word: perception. Not...

... this occurs by Perry?s conflict with man, himself, and the Vietnamese wilderness.         Perry?s whole ordeal in ?Nam? is mainly focused around the ?firefights...