Abstract
This paper provides an in-depth discussion on the use of landscape description in two novels: "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. It focuses on the symbolic use of landscape, the position of man in the natural world and the effect that Darwin's theory had on the attitude towards nature and the effect that this had on Victorian writers. It shows how both Hardy and Emily Bronte found inspiration in their native landscape; Hardy from Dorset and Emily Bronte from the Yorkshire moors and how both novelists based their landscape descriptions either partially or wholly on their native region.

From the Paper
"Hardy features prominently as one of our great visualizers; he is a landscape novelist, and his descriptive passages are central to his fiction. He brings poetic techniques to his fiction, and writes using symbols and images. In Hardy, the sense of time and place is very strong. George Sampson points out that the landscape descriptions in Hardy's novels take on more significance than do his characters: "The most impressive character in his novels is not a person, but a place" Indeed, nature is frequently personified and given individuality in Hardy's novels. Trees have "inquisitive eyes" , the river speaks as though it were human: "the river says, - "why do ye trouble me with your looks"" , and the "rhubarb and cabbage plants slept" ."

Tags:yorkshire, dorset, darwin, victorian, writers

Abstract
This paper reviews the history of the cosmetic enterprise, Lush. Lush began in England in the Poole, Dorset area in 1978 and built its early revenue structure on a mail order business model. As Cosmetics to Go the company was shut down in 1994 only to restart under the Lush Cosmetics brand shortly thereafter (Lush, 2006). The paper further discusses how while not completely abandoning its mail order business model, Lush Cosmetics primarily relied on a traditional retail structure with outlets in Poole, England. Lush Cosmetics currently operates in excess of 370 stores world-wide with operations in the UK, Canada, Australia, across continental Europe.

Tags:cosmetics, industry, lush