Swamp

pride can lead to the destruction or happiness of a person is revealed through the use of metaphors. Firstly, the theme pride can produce two contradictory outcomes is portrayed by metaphors. For example, Doodle and Brother are sitting at Old Woman Swamp, when Brother tells Doodle he will teach him how to walk. Doodle is convinced he will never walk because he was born with a disease that limited his ability to grow and everyone says he cannot, but Brother forces Doodle to learn only because he…

to his time. As a young man Beowulf took on two of his greatest battles, within the period of a couple weeks. He traveled to Denmark to battle with a legendary monster, Grendel, who has been terrorizing the Danes for years. Then moves on to rid the swamps of Grendel's mother, a terrifying work of evil. As Beowulf ages his final battle is to go up against a dragon, sleeping around a glorious treasure. Like the other battles Beowulf makes himself a legend. Strength, intelligence and courage; all…

of city, he convinced a guard, that was told to not let anyone pass, let Booth across. He met up with John Herold and the two retrieved weapons from Mary Surratt’s house and visited Samuel Mudd who set Booth’s broken leg. Booth then hid out in a swamp for five days with other Confederate sympathizers until it was safe to cross the Potomac…

2. What was life like for Iowa soldiers--black and white-- in the Civil War? Iowa soldiers in the Civil War did not spend much time in actual combat. The article “Life of a Civil War Soldier” states that, on average, one day out of 30 was spent in combat. The rest of a soldier’s time, as stated in the Soldier Life video, was spent drilling with either a small group of men or the entire battalion, completing manual labor they were previously assigned to, or diverting their attention to some sort…

Phoenix Jackson, the main character in A Worn Path by Eudora Welty (1940), was an elderly woman with more determination than someone half her age. She is a woman living up to her first name! She is on a mission, and she will not allow anything to stand in her way. In this short story, we see a similarity between the mythological bird, the phoenix, and Phoenix Jackson. Throughout multiple obstacles in Phoenix’s passageway to her destination, her strength, resistance, and spirit persisted beyond…

According to Scot Danforth in Becoming a Great Inclusive Educator, inclusive education is the process of integrating students with disabilities into a general education classroom comprised of students without disabilities. Danforth highlights that inclusive education is increasing at immense speeds. Data from the Individuals with Disabilities Act illustrates that “by 2011, over 61% of all students with disabilities were highly included” (Danforth, 2014, p. 5) within school systems. Although…

Kate Chopin was an influential, controversial, and brilliant writer that in this modern day has relatively been forgotten. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1851 to French-Creole descendant Eliza Faris and Irish immigrant Thomas O’Flaherty. It was during her early childhood that she gained her inspiration for writing from her great-grandmother Victoria Verdon Charleville. Chopin also experienced a lot of death during her childhood, her great-grandmother and half brother dying when she was…

worried. “The end closed in around him” (beers 65) Anger and rage can contribute to death, this affects the mood because if Hector never killed Achilles good friend he would still be alive, one act changed everything. The main setting in Gilgamesh was a swamp. This sets a background from where the monster comes from. The mood is dark and worried because they didn 't know what to expect in the forest. “The two friends moved slowly toward the forest gate” (beers 49) this show that they were…

The movie Beasts of a Southern Wild, directed by American filmmaker, composer and animator Benh Zeitlin, takes place in a forgotten bayou town called the Bathtub. Hushpuppy, a naïve six year old, lives with Wink, her hotheaded drunkard father in a rusty shack. When Wink develops a mysterious disease and Mother Nature goes haywire, making ice caps melt and an enormous storm, Hushpuppy thinks that the two are related in some way. Hushpuppy’s world comes crashing down around her as large archaic…

protagonist of the story, which can be seen throughout the epic when he is battling the many monsters to save the people. The haven vs wilderness archetype can be seen throughout the epic as well. In the epic, Herot is viewed as the haven, while the swamps and caverns were seen as the wilderness. The haven is safe, but there are many dangers in the wilderness. In addition to studying the many general archetypes, we also studied the hero’s journey. We studied the hero’s journey by completing an…