ASSIGNMENT 1 205L: Close Reading‚ Good Writing By Aly Verbaan Student # 31201792 Backdrop addresses cowboy By MARGARET ATWOOD Starspangled cowboy sauntering out of the almost- silly West‚ on your face a porcelain grin‚ tugging a papier-mâché cactus on wheels behind you with a string‚ you are innocent as a bathtub full of bullets. Your righteous eyes‚ your laconic trigger-fingers people the streets with villains: as you move‚ the air in front of you blossoms with targets
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unoccupied land space continues to escalate. Using the experiences gained from this class‚ along with a combination of wilderness ethics‚ and outside research‚ I will develop my own definition of wilderness. After generating this definition‚ I will confront the problem (maybe use conundrum) of balancing the needs of everyone with the finite amount of land available. The Wilderness Writing seminar enabled students to experience many educational and awesome things such as hiking on Grandfather Mountain
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Americans to preserve wilderness and to sustain human prosperity. As American population grows‚ and its needs and expectations put greater pressure on the environment. As the industry continued to develop this was destroying its natural resources’. Farmers were draining the nutrients from the soil‚ miner’s workers were destroying the topsoil‚ which was causing the soil to wear away‚ forests were decreasing‚ wildlife was becoming extinct‚ and rivers‚ lakes and air was be polluted all of this was destroying
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The Colorado River Threats to river and delta: Water flow is decreasing. This water serves 30 million people in seven U.S. states and Mexico‚ with 70 percent of its water siphoned off to irrigate 3.5 million acres of cropland. Possible actions between the United States and Mexico could significantly reduce the flow of water into the delta‚ increase its salinity‚ and alter the natural vegetation. Drought has lowered water levels in upstream reservoirs‚ eliminating the occasional floods the delta
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In "A Wilderness Station" the character of Annie Herron is presented through a series of letters and memoirs. These documents tell us some of the events surrounding the death of her husband‚ Simon. These letters and memoirs are written by different people in Annie’s life‚ such as George Herron (Simon’s brother)‚ Reverend McBain‚ James Mullen‚ Christena Mullen and by Annie herself. In a memoir published in the Carstairs Argus newspaper Fiftieth Anniversary Edition‚ George Herron wrote his version
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Cowboys‚ criminals and visionaries: from ’can ’ to ’should ’ in entrepreneurship Colin G. Benjamin Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and Neil E. Béchervaise The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Abstract From pirates and warlords to accountants and corporate raiders‚ successful business practice has always incorporated a degree of volatility Business leaders have too frequently neglected social responsibility in their pursuit of expanded reach‚ market advantage and‚ ultimately
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SURVIVING IN THE WILDERNESS The risk taken when adventuring in the wilderness can be a fatal one if one is unprepared and lacking some basic tools and knowledge. There are three basic points when dealing with wilderness survival. The first being food then shelter then warmth. This paper is going to give details and insight into each of the three points. Food‚ as anyone would know‚ is vital to survival. Whenever planning to take an adventure‚ always pack enough food
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a cost of $850.00 to build. 3) A team is a group of people who have complementary skills that is committed to a common purpose‚ goal‚ or approach in which they hold each other accountable. While learning and understanding crowdsourcing the word crowd to me does not meet the definition of a team. While in the video the group did seem to be working toward the same goal of providing information to the public of Japan‚ is there accountability for faulty equipment or bad information? This is where the
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The Wilderness Idea In this statement from Wallace Stegner’s‚ "The Wilderness Idea"‚ there are three assertions. These assertions are: 1) No wilderness remains and the environment we live in is man-controlled‚ 2) Technology forces us to live a ’termite-life’ without a moment of reflection and rest‚ 3) We are a society like ’Brave New World’ that does not care for or have any need for the environment but instead relies on technology. These assertions are completely false and
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and fish.” Was the norm of the Colorado River. As years went by and population rose demand for the “plentiful” fresh water rose as well. Gluttony took over western states such as Los Angeles‚ San Diego‚ Phoenix‚ and other fast growing cities. Oblivious to how wrong the decision to drain Colorado river’s limited resources is for such ridiculous justifications. It didn’t dawn on the people and still doesn’t. Missing all the signs Nature is suffering. The mighty Colorado River is getting drained and
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