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    Eastern Woodlands Culture

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    Eastern Woodlands have a fascinating life and culture. Now you know who the Eastern Woodlands are, we can learn a bit more about them now. Food The Eastern Woodlands ate very interesting foods. They mainly ate meat, fish, crops, shellfish, and wild berries. Men would usually go hunting in the woods and fishing near the St. Lawrence and Great lake areas. Women would go gather various types of

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    The childlike indulgence of blackberry picking has the key to understanding adversity. In “Blackberry-Pickings”, a twentieth century poem by Seamus Heaney, the author conveys a deeper understanding of blackberry pickings by using similes and imagery to compare blackberry pickings to human suffering. Heaney’s use of imagery reveals the deeper meaning of the poem by creating a comparison between blackberries and humans. Humans have diverse characteristics like blackberries. We are “a glossy purple

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    Kinnell And Heaney

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    Are they newly ripe, or too overripe and soft? These poems explain how differently blackberries can be at different times throughout the season. “Blackberry Eating” compares the berries falling into the person’s mouth to works words falling from their mouths, “certain peculiar words like strengths and squinched.” On the other hand, “Blackberry-picking” compares blackberries to a thickened wine that stains

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    Alaskan Wilderness Narrative After disappearing down the snow covered trail, Alex looked at his map and recognized he was nearby the Triple Lakes Trail. Not wanting to encounter any people, Alex ventures away from the trail until he discovers a lake up ahead and begins setting up his tent and gathering some materials to start a campfire just inside the forest near the lake. Just as Alex finished putting his tent up and gathering enough sticks to keep a small fire going for a while the sun started

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    concise. The poet's use of flashback is to give context and insight of his life back at the farm. The length of the poem does not take away from the experience as the poet is able to successfully express not only a literal description of picking berries but the intensity in doing so. Although the poet portrays intense longing through varied use of figurative language he is devoid from the intricacies of style and structure on how the poem is overall presented. To be able to understand the poet's

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    Malbec is a full bodied grape variety. The grapes tend to have an inky dark colour and high in tannins, and are known as one of the six grapes allowed in the blend of red Bordeaux wines. The French plantations of Malbec are now found primarily in Cahors in Southern France. Malbec is now more famous for being the top grape of Argentina although as with many of the worlds grape varieties it originated in France. The Malbec grape has thin skins and needs a lot of heat to ripen, the terroir in many

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    Blackberry-Picking Essay

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    In lines 3-7, it describes how fresh the berries are, similar to a new born baby, if you come to think of it. It shows a timeline of the beginning to the end. He illustrates the berries as, “flesh was sweet like thickened wine,” or “a glossy purple clot,” all represent the newly freshness of the berries. “Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots,” meant that the area that they were in was a farm-like setting

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    the receiving plant no. 1 (RP 1) faced by National Cranberry Cooperative during the cranberry harvesting period, viz. 1) too much waiting period for trucks before they unload berries at the RP1 and 2) too much overtime costs. There is also a secondary problem regarding grading of process berries. Half of the berries graded top quality are actually not top quality and do not deserve extra premiums paid on the

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    before they can unload their berries; 2) The overtime costs are too high; 3) The grading process of the berries is inadequate. Question 2 Question 3 Process Flow Diagram for wet and dry cranberries Working Note: Arrival of berries- In the process fruit, first berries are arrived on receiving plant no.1. In which, average truck delivery was 75bbls. Capacity of Temporary Holdings- 27 bins are used for holding both dry and wet berries. In which, 1-24 holding bins

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