Sentences with phrase «cotton fields»

I've never seen cotton fields in person and they are beautiful.

Families living near conventional cotton fields are exposed to the drifting chemicals.

She said, as a child, she had the choice in the little town, Wetumpka, Alabama, outside of Montgomery, of either working in a hot cotton field of working in a wealthy home.

Here's what the anchor said that set off a viral backlash in the first place: «I want us to be super-careful when we use the language «hard worker,» because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like.»

Keynote speaker Emmitt Jolly, a schistosomiasis researcher, noted that he was the son of a preacher and janitor, and worked in Alabama cotton fields for 2 years as a young man, but was still able to become a professor at Case Western Reserve University here.

The worst salt - affected region is the Aral Sea basin of central Asia, where huge areas of former cotton fields have been abandoned to salt.

In the southern USA, arsenic - containing pesticides were once heavily used on cotton fields that today may grown organic brown rice — so even your «healthy» choices may not be so great for you.

We are comparing apples and oranges here — and cotton pesticides, eroded soil from cotton fields, emissions from logging trucks, oil spills, hazardous wastes from refineries and petrochemical and plastics plants.

Harold Brasington carved the 1.25 - mile oval out of an old cotton field in 1949 — legend has it that the track's characteristic egg - shaped layout was chosen in order to avoid disturbing landowner Sherman Ramsey's minnow pond.

In the 1960s the Soviet government diverted water from two tributaries of the Aral, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, to irrigate cotton fields.

This beautiful Cotton Field Crop Canvas Wall Art by Julia Purinton brings charm and beauty to your space.

In the «Thicket» series, Sayre conjures the ambiguous beauty of cotton fields through acrylic stalks and constellations of cotton buds.

Nasher's NorthPark Center — built in 1965 on a 97 - acre cotton field — was the largest enclosed shopping center in the world for many years.

By the time Elsea and her five siblings were teenagers, the country roads and old cotton fields around their home had come alive with 18 - wheelers shuttling instruments and stamped metal among the car plants and 160 parts suppliers that had sprouted up across the state.

Set deep in the Georgia cotton fields (southern snow), Toomer's series of vignettes takes the reader on a tour of the souls of black folk and white folk.

Today the vast flat expanse of the delta cotton fields looks much the same as then.

This all changed in the 1950s, when a Soviet irrigation project diverted river water to rice and cotton fields miles away.

«In other parts of the U.S., this species has devastated cotton production and in many areas, especially in Georgia, it was not uncommon to see cotton fields literally mowed down to prevent this weed from producing seed,» Hager said.

While most research projects last from three to five years, scientists with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture recently published a study that covered a 29 - year period to find the benefits of cover crops on no - till cotton fields.

In 2009, researchers in Arizona tested transgenic pink bollworm moths, which threaten cotton fields.

Here in South Africa we normally only find cotton fields in the Free State, which is a few hours drive from where we stay so making them is a much better option and yours look so realistic.

In the summer its reminds me of the true definition of a blossoming cotton field.

(wearing: Gap legging jeans, Hunter wellies in navy, Banana Republic Boyfriend shirt layered over a Splendid v - neck long - sleeve tee, Wilster Cotton Field Anorak, Stella & Dot earrings, Makr Canvas Farm Rucksak, Ergo Baby Carrier in Chocolate)

I would've much rather seen Django Unchained — a film replete with snowy mountains and blood - soaked cotton fields — in this format.

It's quite a sweeping story, as well; one that starts in the 1920s cotton fields of the Jim - Crow South and ends with the election of our 44th President, Barack Obama.

Certainly Sal's brief dalliance with Alice Braga's Mexican piccaninny in the Californian cotton fields seems just too abrupt here.

But this story, framed by eerily endless cotton fields, didn't need the embellishment.

Then he is sold to Epps (Fassbender), a harsh boss who sends him into cotton fields and angrily suspects that Solomon is more educated than he admits.

Just down Money Road out of Greenwood, past several miles of flat cotton fields and the believed gravesite of the great bluesman Robert Johnson, sits the old store where Chicago teenager Emmitt Till allegedly flirted with a white woman shopkeeper and was then abducted from his nearby uncle's house, murdered and thrown into the Tallahatchie River by some white men.

«A Stone's Throw» opens with a close - up of a silhouetted cotton boll, and then widening to an entire cotton field in full bloom.

In the summer of 1955, Rose Lee Carter dreams of life beyond her Mississippi cotton fields.

Coimbatore, the second largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is known for its industrial activity, extensive textile mills and surrounding cotton fields.

Wonderful sea views stretch out, the famous island owned by the Onassis family, Scorpios, sits in the bay and olive groves and cotton fields pass you by as you drive.

This motel is set in the heart of the Wee Waa cotton fields.

Over 15 % of H&M's cotton comes from «sustainable» sources — 10.8 % of that from organic cotton fields.

In 1830 Georgia businessman Roswell King passed by the land that is now Roswell, Georgia, and saw the potential for building a cotton mill close to the nearby cotton fields.

A new pesticide which some scientists have likened to DDT will not be registered in the United States for use on cotton fields, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday.

I have never lived in the south, but do remember seeing cotton fields in Arizona and gigantic bales when I lived there.

Beautiful cotton field!

«Thicket» series, Sayre conjures the ambiguous beauty of cotton fields through acrylic stalks and constellations of cotton buds.

China's standard for acceptable inorganic arsenic level in rice is 200 ppb which means almost all rice would be satisfactory, i.e. excluding old cotton fields.

Long drives back to Charleston past the hayfields and cotton fields of South Carolina backroads.

Born in Cuthbert, Ga., self - taught artist Winfred Rembert's tooled leather paintings capture his memories of strife in the 1950s South — toiling in cotton fields and working on a chain gang — along with more joyous aspects of African American family life and community bonds under segregation.

It's certainly a lot closer to driving the change Victoria's Secret claims it wants to see, instead of what it's doing now which is maintaining the structure that actually keeps people poor — and kids slaving away in cotton fields.

The sad truth is that for some kids there, labour in the cotton fields is their best alternative; their families can't really afford to feed them, let alone to send them to school.

Located on former cotton fields, the company's Huntsville, Alabama, plant now employs more than 1,400 people and churns out about 3,000 engines a day.

Bloomberg yesterday featured an utterly heartbreaking story about child labour in the cotton fields of Burkina Faso.

Desperately - poor farmers in Burkina Faso, it turns out, have been using their children (and the children of relatives and neighbours) in their cotton fields.

This is not the first time that aid from abroad has rankled the human - rights groups that campaign against forced labour in the cotton fields.