Sand dunes

States. The south shore of Long Island has a unique types of coast known as a barrier beach. Barrier beaches are long narrow land forms that are composed of sand and other lose sediments. These sediments are brought together by the actions of waves, currents and storm surges. Barrier beaches are subject to constant changes by the same forces. Sand is constantly eroded in one area an deposited in another. Barrier coasts are important for a number of reasons; they protect the mainland of Long Island

mainly in coastal areas on sand dunes. Pigface is a succulent plant that spreads up to 2 or more metres, flatly across the ground with thick waxy succulent leaves growing up to 100mm long and has large daisy like flowers which grow about 45mm in diameter. This plant usually has purple petals with a white or yellow centre. fruits and leaves are edible. ‘The water stored in the leaves act as storage organs enabling the plant to survive hot dry summers on coastal cliffs and sand.’ (Unique Flora of Tasmania

The Sons Of Guadalupe Don’t Eat the Bear: A Spanish adventurer named Gaspar De Portola in 1769 passed through a region what is now Santa Barbara. In the near by sand dunes he found a lake where he crossed passed with an “oso flaco”, a skinny bear. They were dying of hunger and ate the skinny bear not knowing it was poisoned. El Rincon Del Mundo: The Spanish believed that California was the place of great mystery and perhaps even paradise. Before the eighteenth century it was too far north from

right of us are beautiful mountains of sand that stretch for miles and miles. Eventually they lead straight to Lake Michigan, a journey I have only ventured on once a long, long time ago. All I remember was it being very far and getting a piggyback ride for most of it. Now this year as yet another dune day was coming to a close, it was like 7 or 8 o’clock at night, we let Ella off her leash and followed her as she headed toward Sugarloaf, the biggest dune. As she start to climb my dad joined her

enormous, flat colored areas of sand, silt, clay creating a mixture called the outwash plains. The weight of the glacier over the Michigan basin was dropping, and the Earth began to recoil, like a sponge coming back to its original shape. The Michigan landscape began to appear. Plants began to approach on the shriveled landscape. Individual plants found a suitable growing environment near each other, which created a suitable home for

Dune      This book all started with the family Atreides landing on plant Arrakis, commonly known as Dune. The planet Dune was the centre of the universe due to its immense amounts of spice. This spice is greatly needed for all planets as fuel and for raw materials. The family Atreides were asked by Emperor himself to go and mine the spice on the planet. Their greatest enemy the Harkonnen's, were also on Dune. These two families mining the precious spice on the same plant

Benjamin Bloom, an instructor and university examiner for the Board of Examinations at the University of Chicago, proposed his Mastery Learning Theory in 1976 (1). However, the idea of mastery learning was not authentic to Bloom; the origin of these concepts were found in the writings of Greek philosophers including Aristotle. Bloom’s major contribution to these principles is time as the foundation of mastery learning is the ability for the student to show they have mastered content before progressing

may come in their way, they were ready to take it head on. On the last day of summer, Skye went to the sand dunes, where Seth and Skye had their first kiss. She was hoping that Seth would meet at her dunes hoping that this would be the sign she was always hoping for. As Skye stood there for a couple of minutes, she saw someone who looked faintly as Seth, and it was. He climbed on o the sand dune and cradled Skye so tight saying “don’t ever let me go”. Within that moment, Seth knew this is what he

lot of fun. We rode all around Peg Leg in Borrego springs and in a wash. The wash was a lot of fun and at one end of the wash I climbed one of the sides and got up to the sand dune area of Peg Leg. It was beautiful. Most of the California desert is covered in bushes and I always look forward to seeing the clear smooth sand dunes. Later in the ride, I tried one of the hardest hill climbs I've ever done the hill was steep and rocky and it didn’t have a lot of run up. The top of the hill had a big rock

Science Fiction, Melodrama and Western Intersect in David Lynch’s Dune A genre is a grouping of works, in this context a grouping of films, that are somehow similar or related in content or style. Genres are not strictly uniform over a period of time and do allow for growth and adaptation of their definitive characteristics. As the film industry has developed through the past century, various genres of films have emerged and are still evolving. Aspects of genres have been redefined and intermingled