The Bean Trees, written by Barbara Kingsolver, scrutinizes southern culture, family, and the struggle of being a mother. The book centralizes on a young woman who leaves home to set off and live by herself, and eventually met with the burden of taking care of a child, who becomes known as Turtle, she picks up incidentally in the beginning of her journey. Along the way, the reader is informed of Taylor’s different characteristics through a variety of different motifs Kingsolver represents. Birds…
majoring in Natural Sciences but going towards my VMD of Animal Science to become a veterinarian. I was raised in a farming family where over 100 animals have been cared for at a certain time. The traits of taking care of 30 chickens,30 rabbits, 40 quail, 7 ducks, 9 parakeets, 2 pheasants, 2 pigs, and 5 turtles while studying at PCC isn’t an easy challenge but a challenge that kept me going despite my financial hardship during my education. Through working with these animals I have acquired an…
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the characters are so concerned with their reputations that it causes them to lie, go to the gallows, and overestimate their knowledge in the events taking place in Salem. Abigail Williams showed the importance of her reputation by lying and threatening during difficult situations. Abigail “and a group of young girls reportedly danced and practiced abominations in the woods: where the witchcraft hysteria begun.” (1) Abigail’s uncle, Parris, a powerful…
The film takes place in town Upper Darby, Rhode Island. In 1990, medics diagnose Sara's daughter, Kate, with a aggressive form of leukemia. Doctors said Kate might die and that news shocks Sara and her firefighter husband. Sara immediately resolves to commence Kate on treatment. Kate commences chemotherapy and her oncologist, Dr. Chance suggest that she might eventually need a bone marrow transplant and preferably from a cognate donor. Dr. Chance mentions that another unborn siblings could be…
state’s fauna includes native mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish. The black bear, mule deer, cottontail rabbit, pronghorn antelope, and Bighorn sheep, and coyotes typically trek the Nevada wilderness. A variety of birds such as partridge, pheasant, quail, grouse, Serin, Ortolan, and Wheateater are common to the region. On the list of Nevada’s protected list of reptiles are Gila monster and desert…
denouncement of John, he makes a point to take a last stand against Danforth as he says, “A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that Quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud- God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!” (Act III, Pages 119-120). He accuses Danforth of being just as…
blinding me. Worry and fear for the meager creature knotted in my chest. What if the feathery chick starved, or suffered from an illness? How would we care for the puny creature then? I suppose we could visit a vet, if a vet even knew how to care for a quail chick. Laughter and voices of frivolous conversation surrounded the air around us, filling the entire world around me, reminding me not to stress everything was okay. Nothing would come out of my worry the bird was going to be fine and so…
Huitzilopochtli is the god of sun and warfare and is also one of the principle deities of the Aztec religion. In Aztec mythology, the god is the offspring of the supreme earth goddess known as Coatlίcue (Britannica). The Aztecs believed that Huitzilopochtli needed “daily nourishment” in the form of human sacrifice, as the “people of the sun” were required to provide the god with blood and hearts for strength. The sacrifice was offered to the sun, or the “eagle who rises,” and burned in “the…
There are many gods and goddesses in Greek mythology, but there are only 12 major Olympian gods. Greek mythology teaches the origin and the significance of them. All of the gods and goddesses have long pasts and large effects on other people. An example would be the goddess Artemis, who is part of the major Greek mythology family. Artemis, the goddess of hunt, had a strange birth, unique morals, and many companions and enemies. Artemis had two parents named Leto and Zeus, one sibling called…
Lawson mentioned to me that he was writing a book. The name is, Inside the Computer, Lawson shared an excerpt from Chapter One “The Portal” with me. Inside the Computer follows a character named Ian Quail. The following is the opening from the upcoming novel. “Hello my name is Ian Quail, my friends call me IQ.I am a complete geek. I play tons of video games, I am an okay mechanic, and I can program.You get why peaple call me IQ right,but anyways lets get on with this story.…