The Edenshaw Family is just one of the many famous carving families found on the Northwest Coast. The Edenshaw family is from the Haida Gwaii Nation. Albert Edward Edenshaw (1810-1854) was the first Chief Edenshaw of the Dadens after his family moved to Kung in 1853, he built a big house with two ornately carved frontal posts that resembled bears. He was commissioned to build a totem pole for a chief thereby launching his career in carving (citation). Following tradition, Albert Edward Edenshaw chose his nephew Charles Edenshaw to carry his mantle not only as chief but also artistically (citation).…
Alright. I'm just going to address the elephant in the room. The Packers lost Aaron Rodgers today -- possibly, for the remainder of the season -- and it just so happens a 29 year-old unsigned free-agent, who threw 16 TD's to 4 INT's last year is still looking for a team to play on. Also, he grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Loved watching the Packers as a child and idolized Brett Favre. Packer fans and Ted Thompson: let's sign Colin Kaepernick to the…
The game went on and it was now bottom of the 9th inning. The game had gone on two extra innings and the score was still tied 7-7. Finally, Emerson Williams was up to bat. The bases were loaded and she needed a hit to score. No matter if it was a base hit or a home run.…
Per Reporter: Elbert (aka E.J.), Braiden's mom (Christine) wrote a note given the bus driver (Runyan) specific instruction to dropped the children off at Wesson Truck Stop. Runyan stopped at the Wesson Truck Store at the door number Christine wrote on the note. Christine's car was parked there. An unknown man comes to door the door with no shirt on putting on his pants.…
Long ago, in a small town called Crowel Corners, there was a little boy named Weston Tucker. Weston was a very shy, curious, considerate, but courteous person. His kinfolk were well-known throughout the state of Texas, but living on the edge with the bills. His mother, Missy, was a tailor, sewing and making clothes for who knows how many people. His father, Warren, was a professional in the rodeo.…
Abstract: In “Into the Electronic Millennium”, Sven Birkerts lays down his central arguments that the introduction of electronic communications are fundamentally changing-and will continue to change-the way that the world works. He focuses on explaining how the assumptions behind reading printed text and electronic text are different, and the visible symptoms in our society. By looking at 3 examples of literary figures as they interact with and utilize the electronic word, he provides acute analysis of different effects that electronic communications are different than print. Birkerts only explains what he sees to be the changes and looks towards the future to hypothesize about other possible effects, without specifically suggesting any changes to be made.…
It was a cold winter night on that special day Tonya and Timothy had another baby. Kaitlen Brents was born on February twenty-second of two thousand and one. Her parents Tonya and Timothy. Kaitlen has five siblings. One of them is her twin.…
To be sick in America means a variety of different things. A patient can have problems that range in symptoms but they all have one commonality, the person is in pain. Doctors are there to help find a way to subside the difficulties if they persist of get rid of the stressor as fast as possible. Lia Lee was a sufferer of epilepsy and the doctors chose to help her with a quick cocktail of prescribed medications.…
Charles J. Epstein was a highly regarded geneticist who made tremendous contributions to the medical field during his lifetime. He was born on September 3, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jacob C. Epstein and Frieda Epstein, Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. During his high school years at Central High School, he excelled at academics and enjoyed track and field, and played the cello. After completing high school he went on to Harvard College where he graduated summa cum laude and received a chemistry degree. He married his girlfriend and fellow Harvard student, Lois Barth, despite being warned to wait until after they had both completed medical school.…
During the Labor Day week of 1932, an imaginative boy in the small town of Waukegan, Illinois left his uncle’s funeral in an attempt to escape the disquiets and mystery of death. In search of life and meaning, the young boy discovered a carnival tent, and within it, a man who would change his life, and consequentially, the lives of thousands of others. The boy found just what he needed: an instruction to “live forever”, that would greatly affect his future and inspire him to become the revolutionary writer that people know of today. Hand in hand, the elusive magician Mr. Electrico, led little Ray Bradbury into a tent, to teach him about magic, mystery, and life. Along with the carnival phenomenon, Ray Bradbury experienced many other events…
Poets’ work shape their careers and are almost always influenced by their backgrounds or experiences that changed their lives. During high school, E.E. Cummings was educated in what was thought to be “the last generation to be educated in precisely this manner” (Docherty) of a “sound classical education” that resulted in him adopting many poetic strategies. E.E. Cummings then attended Harvard University where he was introduce to the avant-garde writers of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. These two writers influenced Cummings in such a huge way that Cummings himself became an avant-garde writer too by experimenting with different techniques and grammar in his poetry. In his two poems “Spring is like a perhaps hand” and “maggie and milly and molly and may”, he experiments with very unique grammar and formatting.…
Within passing time, an illness swept through a nation, not a simple, easily curable illness, but a blood fever, deadly and discriminated upon. Survivors were rare, and most times, had been thought lowly of, with the possibility of their loved ones turning against them. After going through the challenges, those remaining were left with unusual markings on their bodies, making it known of the events that they went through. Among those who got through the blood fever, there was Adelina Amouteru, with something that made her unique. She and a few others contain peculiar powers, with abilities that could make others shudder in fear.…
You think you understand the fucking real, man? Try this shit on for size: “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” Ecclesiastes BOOM.…
In these articles describe the conflicts between work life and home life in parents and children. In Penny Parker’s “Double Daddy” she shows the point of view from a father. In Sue Shellenbarger’s “Diary of a Mad Blender” she shows the point of view from a mother. Finally in Cora Daniels’s “The Child’s View of Working Parents” she shows the point of view of the children of those who work. These articles show what adults think about their work and home lives.…
Brain on Fire In her memoir, Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan undergoes psychosis, seizures, and hallucinations. She describes her condition as “an existence in purgatory between the real world and a cloudy fictitious realm made up of hallucinations and paranoia” (p. 41). Doctors, her family, and she herself are unaware of what is causing these symptoms and what should be done to treat them, but they are determined to get her back to the intelligent, vibrant woman she was before. Under this condition, Cahalan was no longer in control of herself; what her body was going do next was unpredictable.…