Slash Essays

  • Effects Of Slash And Burn

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    Topic: Slash and Burn Source 1: http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/project/projects_in_depth/wwf_on_the_ground_in_madagascar/the_problem__slash_and_burn_agriculture/ According to the WWF, the practice of slash and burn annually destroys thousands of hectares of Earth’s forests. When the ground is burned and there is no longer vegetation, farmers cannot use it for farming any more because of the lack of nutrients. Slash and burn is done in places with very little protection or civilization

  • A Speculation on Why Female Fans Read Slash Fanfiction (and Enjoy It)

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    prominent parts of fanfiction culture is shipping or more specifically slash shipping. Shipping is the act of supporting two or more characters, personalities, or real people in a romantic relation-“ship” regardless of whether the relationship exists in real life or not; for example, “Bill Clinton/Hilary Clinton,” “Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky,” and “Bill Clinton/Michelle Obama/Monica Lewinsky” are all “ships”. Similarly, slash shipping is the act of shipping two characters, personalities, or real

  • My Appetite For Destruction Of Guns N Roses Sparknotes

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    My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses, Steven Adler’s autobiography written with Lawrence J. Spagnola, recounts Adler’s life including how Guns N’ Roses started, and his seemingly endless battle with substance abuse. Steven Adler, born Michael Coletti after his father, declared at the young age of eleven that he was “going to be a famous rockstar!” and he was indeed successful, seeing as he was the original drummer in the notorious band, Guns N’ Roses. Guns N’ Roses was inducted

  • Strong Island Film Analysis

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    The main point of this documentary is a strong one. Strong Island is a documentary describing the effects of a crime going without justice to a family that had no other option but to move on. The documentary goes into the lives of the family of William Ford’s family and friends before and after his murder. In 1992 A 24-year-old man named William Ford Jr. was murdered in cold blood by Mark Reilly with a .22 long rifle in the back of a body shop garage. Strong Island is a film documenting the life

  • Essay On Mayans And Aztecs

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    started around 5000 B.C. Mayans used the method of slash but the Aztecs used chinampas. Mayans had different farming technique like slash, burn, terracing and composting. The methods used by the farmers dependent on the land. Also they had animal husbandry, they made their own fertilizer, fished, had household gardens, and finally practiced swidden agriculture. Mayans are known for the controversial farming methods known as “slash and burn”. First in slash-and-burn is to cut down the trees and shrubs in

  • Re-Imagining For Representation: Fanfiction And Queer Youth

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    intersectional community of experience. The presence of women, both heterosexual and queer, in a shared space has generated a sense of community for the authors of “Yearning Void and Infinite Potential”. Within their paper, they explain that, “For us, slash fandom has become a place where a young urban dyke shares erotic space with a straight married mom in the American heartland, and where women whose identity markers suggest they would find few points of agreement have forged erotic, emotion and political

  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Fanfiction

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    Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Fanfiction Buffy The Vampire Slayer has broken many barriers in its seven-year stint, creating new genres and enabling innovation in a previously barren area of television. The largest leap the show has taken though, has been in the way it has embraced its fandom, creating a symbiotic relationship between Buffy the show and Buffy the fanfiction. Not only does Buffy fanfiction seize upon unexplored areas and inconsistencies inherent in the text, these forays are often

  • Factors of Forest Fires

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    Long before fire was used by humans, forest fire was initially play an importantly role in maintaining the ecology of the world. The factors of forest fires can be divided into two types, which are natural forest fires and human-induced forest fires. Usually human-induced fires are detected earlier than natural forest fires, which might have burn for hours long before the arrival of firefighters. Thus, natural forest fires cause a greater harm to forest in term of area burnt than human-induced forest

  • Forest Fires

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    they start? When do they start? What happens after the fire? Well Forest fires in other words wild land fires, is exactly that, a forest on fire; everything in that forest is on fire. They start many different ways, human carelessness, nature, and slash and burn farming. They can start at any time, but the summer time is when they usually begin because of all the sun heat. The aftermath of a forest fire is different as well, damaged property, plants and animals killed, and the air is polluted and

  • Alabama Agriculture: Growing for You and Me

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    agricultural crops” (Mitchell, 2007). Agriculture in Alabama is mainly cotton and peanuts in the past they grew cattle corn and cotton. The Native Americans started Alabama off with slash-and-burn agriculture, in which they cut and burned forests to make room for their fields of corn, beans, and squash. As the Indians used slash and burn to make room for crops when the Americans came to Alabama they learned this type of agriculture and started growing cotton. This led to several events that dramatically

  • What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Neolithic Revolution

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    seeds. Indians farmers spent less time hunting and gathering in order to have more time for planting and harvesting. The Tehuacan people practiced slash-and-burn, which was known as milpa or swidden agriculture. The Maya people in Guatemala, Belize and Honduras developed the agriculture in the rain forest by 1200BC. Maya people also practiced the slash and burn method. By around 500BC, practicing agriculture was the primary source that food for Maya people. Besides, Maya farmers practiced raised-field

  • Porn and Prose

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    and Trubek. 63 & 71. Gopnick, Adam. “The Return of the Word.” Tribble and Trubek. 180 & 181. Kessler, Merle. “Porn: For the rest of us.” 2001. Online. Internet. 27 Mar. 2004. Available: http://dir.salon.com/people/feature/2001/12/10/slash/index.html. Noxon, Christopher. “When Harry Met Smutty.” 2003. Online. Internet. 27 Mar. 2004. Available: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/06.26.03/potter-0326.html. Tribble, Evelyn B., and Anne Trubek, eds. Writing Material:

  • Comparing Horticulture And Agriculture Along With The Slash

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    Horticulture and Agriculture along with the Slash-And-Burn Method Agriculture and horticulture have some similarities, but they also have their differences. When talking about these two terms they can sometimes be confused with one another, yet they shouldn’t based on how different they can be. The definition of horticulture is the basic practice of garden cultivation and management. The definition of agriculture is the science or practice of farming, including the cultivation of the soil for the

  • Reflective Essay: A Short Story Of Slash

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    The day was cold but Slash’s armor kept him a bit warm but he could see his own breath in his visor smudged, he checked his weapons, his hidden blade almost didn't work, his fur rustled in the wind he took out his claws like always it hurt a bit but his claws were fine then he saw the gang,the gang has been hunting for weeks he saw they were robbing someone beating him up he needs to wait and waited for the right moment then he struck his blades and claws hit two gang members his blades and claws

  • Healthy Forest Initiative: Is it really healthy?

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    As people of the twenty-first century, we are all too familiar with the frequent occurrence of wildfires in our nation’s forests. Each year millions of acres of woodlands are destroyed in brutal scorches. It has been estimated that 190 million acres of rangelands in the United States are highly susceptible to catastrophic fires (www.doi.gov/initiatives/forest.html.). About a third of these high-risk forests are located in California (www.sfgate.com). These uncontrollable blazes not only consume our

  • Comparing Santa Cruz Nomad Xe And The Trek Slash

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    which is safer the bike but the real question is which bike do you want. We will see the differences between two bikes from components, frame type, and the kicker price. The bike in question will be the Santa Cruz Nomad XE and the Trek Slash 9.8 I prefer the Trek Slash 9.8 for reasons I will explain. First the Santa Cruz Nomad XE’s Components. The components the true price raiser of a bike are the tools that help in shifting and braking. The company that

  • The Mayan Civilization Research Paper

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    1524 CE, recognized as the Post-Classic Period, the Maya Civilization commenced its declined and mysterious disappearance. This decline was the result of several environmental factors. Because of deforestation, ‘slash and burn’ agriculture, drought, and unexpected natural disasters,

  • The Johnlock Conspiracy

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    was, shockingly, discovering slash fiction. I became metacognitive of internalized sexism and homophobia. Furthermore, slash caused me to question heteronormative ideals, and see how these ideals seeped into the judgemental attitudes of my peers and others in society. There is stigmatization surrounding the idea of being a slash fangirl. They are perceived by some as creepily fixated on same sex romance. Therefore, I was reluctant in admitting I enjoyed reading slash fiction. However, I came to

  • Deforestation In Indonesia

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    Governmental: The government in Indonesia is a system where a group of people organize the state of Indonesia. The governmental causation of deforestation in Indonesia mostly includes the Swidden agriculture and slash and burn which are highly destructive to the forest. The slash and burn in Indonesia or Swidden agriculture is a method used where farmers would cut down part of the vegetation in the area and set fire it to clear areas of land to be used for farming such as palm oil. The fire used

  • Masoala National Park Case Study

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    and this is happening in and around Masoala National Park as the human population of Madagascar continues to grow (Worldometers, 2017). Poverty can also lead to anthropogenic pressures on the natural environment. Local communities will continue with slash-and-burn agriculture, illegal logging and harvesting of non-timber products as they benefit from these different forms of (illegal) resource use. Local communities in and around Masoala National Park often depend on its natural resources, either directly