Bark Essays

  • Abel Meeropol's Strange Fruit

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    You’re walking down a beautiful southern country road on a lazy Sunday afternoon. The cool breeze lightly kisses your skin as it combats the heat from the blazing sun. You happen upon a tree that seems to be a perfect spot for an afternoon nap, or for a young couple to carve their initials into to mark their love forever. This tree has an enormous amount of positive potential, but instead of seeing these wondrously human sites you see an example of the darkest side of humanity. Green leaves now

  • A Talking Dog: A Short Story

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    in that morning and started barking. Instead of hearing barks, he heard "come on and wake up you lazy bum it's time for school" At first he couldn't believe what had just happened. After wiping his eyes and making sure he wasn't dreaming, he said to his dog Comet "it's Saturday, I'm sleeping in." Comet responded with "In that case get up you lazy bum and play outside with me" Max thought this was the coolest thing ever. "When my dog barks, I hear with his words exactly what he's saying" This

  • Top 3 Surviving Items in an Unknown Planet

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    According to Karen Webb, temporary Prime Minister of Canada, a group of grade sevens will be going to an unknown planet that has never been inhabited by humans before. Their goal is to survive. The only things they know are, the climate is steady and similar to California's climate, the planet has oxygen, and they will travel via space ship. The grade seven's got to take three things of a list of thirty-two things to take with them. This essay will prove to you that taking water, young trees, and

  • Hedgehog's Good Deed: A Short Story

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    Hedgehog's Good Deeds Page Mr. Owl quickly flapped his wings to calm down the chattering animals. Smoothing his feathers, he pointed one wing to the board behind him where it said,“MAKING A DIFFERENCE.” Page “Summer break is just a few weeks away, but I’m not through with this class yet," hooted Mr. Owl. "This weekend, you must do three good deeds.On Monday, I want you to come back, and tell me what you did and how that helped make a difference. Now, class dismissed, and enjoy your weekend.” Page

  • War Ground: A Short Story

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    I could hear JP talking in the background telling me something but I didn't hear “Ow,” I screamed as I fell right into a thorn bush and we were about five minutes into the hike then I heard JP say, “I was trying to yell at you that you were about to walk into one of these annoying thorn bushes”. I was pretty happy that no thorns were stuck on me after we checked. I was wondering if I could stay alive for This field group. Soon we got into what I like to call, “war ground” because it looks

  • Strychnine Essay

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    Strychnine Strychnine is a naturally occurring drug that exists as a colorless, odorless, bitter, and highly toxic crystalline alkaloid used in killing small vertebrates such as rodents, birds, and other pests. Barks and seeds from climbing shrubs and trees from the genus Strychnos contain the potent alkaloid, and the distribution of the plants occurs widely distributed in warm climates across Africa, Asia, and America. The Strychnos nux-vomica and Strychnos ignatii plants found in Australia and

  • Bent Tree Circle Apartments, Inc.: A Case Study

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    This claim arises out of an incident that occurred on October 29, 2015, at 13630 Bent Tree Circle, Centreville, VA 20120. The insured, Carlos Morales Portillo, was hired by Bent Tree Circle Apartments, Inc. (hereinafter “Bent Tree”) to help remodel and bring their condo units up to code. Specifically, insured was tasked with increasing the strength of the ceiling joists. In order to so, insured was using pieces of plywood to make boxes around the joists for more support. Since the sprinkler system

  • Koala Monologue

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    I have lived here all my life, and I need to see the world. These Eucalyptus leaves aren’t tasting like they used too. Is there a drought? That can’t be, the river was the highest it has ever been the last time I checked! I need to go see if it really is, and I sure hope it’s not. “Oh no,” I couldn’t stand to see the river like this. Other koalas were coming in to see the river, just like I had done. “This can’t be happening,” another koala to my left said. “What does this mean?” I didn’t know

  • Mountain Pine Beetle

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    The Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic has become a major problem for North America in the last decade. While only the size of a grain of rice, the MPB has caused massive forest destruction in British Columbia as well as many parts of the United States. According to British Columbia’s government website (2012) “The B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations estimates that the mountain pine beetle has now killed a cumulative total of 710 million cubic meters of timber since the current

  • Feminism: Our Bite Is Worse Than Our Bark

    630 Words  | 2 Pages

    Feminism: Our Bite is worse than Our Bark Travel back in time to where women have no rights and imagine how they would feel seeing all the things women are now capable of. How did society view women at the turn of the century? Women at the turn of the century with reference to “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “ A New England Nun”: treatment of women at the turn of century, societies view of women at the turn of the century, defeating the patriarchal society at the turn of the century. The essay covers

  • Dog Whining Cycle Essay

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    The natural way that dogs communicate is by barking, whining, and howling. Dogs express what they want to say to humans. We also want our dogs to bark as a warning of a potential danger or protect us form harm. These forms of canine expression can become a problem when it becomes excessive. The effective solution is to let your dog understand when to bark and when to be quiet. It’s our job to teach this important thought to our dogs. The minute you notice that your dog has a barking problem then start

  • Cinchona and its Product--Quinine

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    Cinchona and its Product--Quinine The bark of cinchona produces several alkaloids. The most important alkaloid, quinine, has certain febrifuge properties. Quinine was used in the battle against malaria since the 1630's. Of 38 species of cinchona, four species have economic value for the production of quinine: C. calisaya, C. legeriana, C. officianalis and C. succirubra. Cinchona, of the family Rubiaceae, is native to the South American Andes. It thrives best on steep mountain slopes in rich

  • Herbal and Natural Medicine

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    medicine for centuries is willow bark, which contains the chemical salicin (Boon, 2009). Its origins and discovery, as well as the historical culture, have influenced its incorporation as the common pharmaceutical preparation known as aspirin. Historical writings of Hippocrates (460 BC-377 BC) refer to the use of a white powder made from the bark and leaves of willow trees for pain relief and fevers (Bellis). Native American lore also reports the chewing of willow bark and preparation of willow water

  • Edible Pine-A sticky Subject

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    The Adirondack Indians knew what they were doing when they harvested the inner bark of Eastern White Pines as a valuable food resource. Pines are naturally procured in great quantities, and are quite nutritious. Knowing what parts of the pine tree are edible and how to prepare them could very well save your life. There are many parts of the pine tree that can help you out of a hungry situation. First, I want to make sure the air is clear when I say that you can eat pine. Every species of the

  • Not a Pencil

    1537 Words  | 4 Pages

    words with the juices of leaves and wrote on a piece of bark. To do this, I first needed to find a piece of bark that was big enough to write on and light enough so that the writing would show up. After getting a few pieces of bark from the trees near my house, I began experimenting by printing on them with the leaves from a houseplant. I did this by twisting one end of the leaf and smearing it onto the bark. Once I figured out the bark that worked the best, I wrote the words “Not a pencil.” I

  • Essay On Animal Debarking

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    get rid of a dog’s bark. However, the costs outweigh the benefits. Debarking has negative side effects that are shown through post-surgery effects, cases gone wrong, and solutions other than debarking. Debarking is stressful for dogs because they are no longer able to use their first defense mechanism. Instead of the animal being able to defend itself through noise, it feels like they need to go straight to their second defense mechanism, biting. Often times when a dog barks humans tend to think

  • Night Persuasive Speech

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    Educate a puppy not to bark at night If there is something that can despair an owner and the neighbors of our community are the continuous barking of a dog. This problem leads to neighborhood complaints that tend to end in complaints and payments of fines, and in the worst case, in abandoning the dog. To solve the problem of the puppy that is constantly barking at night, it is important that you know that it has a solution, that it is not necessary to resort to abandoning the puppy or to the purchase

  • Why Do People Use Non Timber Forest Products

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    travel through with ease on trials. There will be a lodge every hundreds meters of the trial. People can take a break near the lodge to replenish some energy for further hiking. Besides those lodges, local people often set up a table with some unknown barks, branches and fungi on it. If visitors feel hungry, they even have some delicious jelly made of acorn starch. The jelly is freshly made and flavoured with soy sauce, vinegar, garlic and chilli sauce. People enjoy the jelly a lot because it tastes exactly

  • Paddling History

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    This made a change from dugouts to the use of birch bark. Birch Bark canoes started in the 1800’s in Canada. Various people such as, Native Americans, missionaries, and trappers, would use this type of canoe for travel through the North American waterways (Winkler). The bark itself would be strong enough to carry large loads that normally dugouts could not hold, as well as, be light enough to be carried across land

  • The Use of the Genus Virola as a Hallucinogen In South America

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    Warburg is one of many species of Virola used in the Amazon region as a hallucinogenic snuff. The plant differs in its pattern of usage by the indigenous people of this region. A reddish resin- like exudate is extracted from the cambial region of the bark of this slender tree and either snuffed or ingested orally. The major alkaloid constituent of this snuff appears to be 5-MeO-DMT with lesser amounts of DMT. Description The Brazilian botanist Ducke was the first to make a definitive association