"Los Angeles Notebook" Reflection Essay On October 25, 2003, the cedar fire (cause of the Santa Ana winds) spread over 30 miles in less than 17 hours burning 5,000 acres per hour. By the time, it was over it consumed 418 miles, 2,232 homes and killed 14 people including a firefighter. It's true that things are only temporary, but the effects of the Santa Ana winds will always affect the people and the environment in such a negative and perturbable way, that along with living in the Los Angeles area as a resident you agree in accepting the consequence of the winds. The expectation of this essay is to explain how Didion's use of literary devices like the selection of detail, syntax, and imagery aid in portraying her view of the Santa Ana winds.…
Walking with the wind is an autobiography about civil rights activist John Lewis. This book takes the reader through his life and shows how the civil rights era was through his eyes. It goes into great detail over the struggles he was faced with and overcame throughout this difficult time. It also allows the reader to get a sense of what it was like living through such a tough period in time. John Lewis was born February 21, 1940.…
Introduction: In “The Way to Rainy Mountain” N. Scott Momaday discusses his personal as well as cultural background, as he takes a trip to visit Rainy Mountain after his grandmother has passed away. Momaday’s grandmother, Aho, was one of the last living members of the Kiowa tribe to recall the way of life that the Kiowa lived. Therefore, as Momaday roams around Rainy Mountain he must rely on all the stories his grandmother told him in order to keep the Kiowa history alive. One story told how the tribe came to be through a hollow log, meanwhile another told how the tribe died out because of the lack of buffalo.…
Ray Bradbury brings us back to a time when we all were full of creative potential and explores how summer was an important aspect of childhood. In Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, there is a significant assortment of literary terms used to emphasize an overall magical and mysterious atmosphere. Bradbury commences the passage with many rhetorical devices to characterize the beginnings of summer and describe how this day is so important to a young child, bright with creative vision. The author personifies the town in the morning in a state of “ease in bed” to show how the town is quite desolate at the crack of dawn, free of commotion. The wind is also given humanly characteristics with it having a “proper touch” to show that it was gentle and relaxed.…
“It’s All Greek to Me” In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein alludes to the story of Prometheus as they are both creators that go against God, that only lead to their own destruction. In the story of the wise Prometheus, he was the creator of mankind and taught them art. In Frankenstein, Victor was the creator of a monster when it says on page 51, “Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticality. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.” When fire was taken away from the humans Prometheus made, Prometheus went against Zeus to bring the fire back to mankind.…
The main character, Okonokwo, loses his first crop to a drought. Then, later in the novel, the rains wash away his and most of the other villager’s harvests. In the same respect; the good weather brings life and abundance. In the lives of this tribe; the goddess, Ani, plays an important role.…
Nothing Is Ever As It Seems “Why do you look so much older than everyone else's parents?” That was the question that I was always asking my parents. My mom, Bernadette and my dad, Michael are about 30 years older than the average parents of kids my age. One day, I got home from elementary school, and my mom decided to finally answer my question. “Chastity, you know how you always ask why we look older?…
I carried my bags to the front door so that they were very well visible. I had two totes, one velvet textured and green like fresh grass; and the other bright red and made of cloth. They weren't very big totes, but I managed to pack what I needed. I waited on the rest of my family for about half an hour. The excitement was building up inside, I was kinda getting flustered with my family for rushing me and then taking their precious time.…
Hello! My name is Rain. I’m not like a lot of girls in the sense that I am every single one of them in one, regardless of that though I still manage to get it to work for me and it helps me make a lot of friends. Anyways, I’ve got an odd job. I work in my house making goofy vlogs that sum up my day, help out others, or just tell some wacky story and sometimes skits, if I’m feeling super ambitious and full of energy, I’ll post a video of me singing.…
Stepping out of my truck, I pound my right foot on the shaking, sandy, dusty, ground. I take a positive look on the main thing that made me drive over here in the first place, the blasting, whistling tornado. The tornado was exceptionally tall, and thick, reminding me of a nuclear mushroom cloud. The tornado literally reached up into the stormy clouds.…
Revised Essay Matias Miranda 10/17/26 For many people, different environments make them feel certain ways. In the essay Once More to the Lake by E.B White the lake holds a special place in the narrator’s heart because he spent summers there with his father. Nostalgia arises as the narrator and his son perform the same tasks the narrator did with his father: fishing in the lake, seeing a dragonfly, and talking with waitresses. He notices that a lot of the area around this lake has changed significantly, like the roads, pathways, people, and buildings.…
I decided to write my myth on the creation of rain. While it may be simple and a basic concept, those were exactly the types of topics that the Native Americans tried to explain with their myths. As well, my myth incorporates all of the criteria that one must meet. By definition, a creation (or origin) myth is, “the accounts of the ways in which these supernatural agents formed the Earth and peopled it” (Carneiro). While in my myth the Earth already exists, the purpose of it is to explain how precipitation, particularly rain, came to be.…
Emily Dickinson’s poem, “The Sky is low--the Clouds are mean” is a lyrical poem that depicts nature through a non-traditional perspective. While nature in poetry is often portrayed as being beautiful, peaceful, and essentially flawless, in this poem Dickinson intends for the audience to view nature from a different perspective. The entirety of the poem follows with a sad, dull tone while describing nature on a cold, windy, and cloudy day. Dickinson is careful to emulate aspects of a cloudy day to the facets of human life including snowflakes, the wind, and Mother Nature herself. The personification utilized in Emily Dickinson’s…
A Winter’s Tale Bags, suitcases and clothes were all scattered around the house. We were all trying to get ready for the upcoming trip and we were so unprepared. Us kids, we’re just stuffing shirts, pants, socks and whatever we needed and mom and dad were ready a day before, but we were not, sadly. Zipping up the last of suitcases, we headed to Burlington coat factory for ski pants and coats. We made payment on the clothing and went back home.…
Ode to the West Wind is an ode written by P.B Shelley in 1819. It’s an ode about the west wind. The wind is personified both as Destroyer and preserver(93). It’s seen as a big force of nature that destroys the unhealthy and the decaying in order to make a way for the new. The personification of the wind as an enchanter is a typical characteristic of Shelley’s poetry.…