In the story “Goin’ Fishin’,” by Chris Crutcher, is about a boy who lost his family due to a boat accident. The boy, Lionel Serbousek, demonstrated realistic feelings towards death through a variety of emotions. The trail of emotions are represented in the story with the stages of grief by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. The 5 stages of grief are denial, bargaining, depression, anger, and acceptance. Chris Crutcher displays all the stages of grief for the reader through including information about the stages and Lionel’s emotions about his loss.…
Fresh Bait is a short story written by Sherryl Clark. It is aimed at teenagers going into adult hood and doesn’t necessary lean towards any particular gender. Sherryl is an author based on writing children’s books since 1996 and now mostly writes short stories and personal essays, as well as poems for adult readers. (Sherryl Clark, 2014) Sherryl now has more than 50 published books, with Fresh Bait being published in 2007.…
People who come into one another's life can influence one another. They can change one another for the better or possibly the worst. In the short story “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”, by W. D. Wetherell, the narrator believes he has found the girl of his dreams. The narrator realizes soon enough that the girl of his dreams altered his life, possibly forever. With literary devices in the beginning, middle, and end of the story, Wetherell verifies the theme that people should not change for someone else because others are not always as the seem.…
California’s San Joaquin River was a source of life. It helped provide food for thousands and was a home for many, but the Bureau of Reclamation took it all away when they ordered the construction of the Friant Dam. The Dam wasn’t created to destroy life, but to give life. It helped southern Californians get the water they needed by diverting the river into an aqueduct and sending it south. But what many didn’t predict was the mass die off of many fish that once lived in the San Joaquin.…
Damnation: The Removal of Dams Project Name: Institution Affiliation: Date: Damnation This documentary focuses on the eco-system and targets the environmentally conscious public. The movie debates in regards to the United States of America (USA) as a Dam Nation and how the existence of more than 75,000 dams in USA has a negative impact on water consumption and the fish species.…
Charles Clover addresses the serious issue of overfishing and the impacting is having around various oceans around the world. Clover argues that the current fishing practices and illegal fishing along with the use of high tech equipments, are reducing fish stocks significantly, for larger quantities of fish are being taken out of the ocean at a rate that is impossible for fish stocks to recover in number and survive. He analyzes the situation showing how the fish crisis is affecting today and will eventually worsen in the near future, having fatal social, ecological and economic repercussions. In terms of the social aspects, the outcome of declining fish in oceans is devastating for communities and individuals that are dependent on sea produce.…
In her book Living Downstream, Sandra Steingraber blends her narrative writing style with scientific research and data to provide an accessible account of the cancer epidemic in the United States and its link to the environment. It is Steingraber’s belief that it is essential for human beings to not only question, but also understand how a lifetime of incremental exposures to chemicals like DDT, PCBs, and atrazine increase an individual’s risks of developing cancer at some point in their life. Throughout the course of the book Steingraber balances her personal experience growing up in rural Tazwell County Illinois, her diagnosis with bladder cancer in her early twenties, and how her environmental exposure to certain industrial and agricultural…
Studies show that the United States of America has become the country with the highest crime rate throughout the world. In many instances in our country, wealthy criminals or those that commit crimes who belong to the upper class society tend to be overlooked or exempt from being punished for their crimes. However, this isn’t the case for the poorer end of the spectrum, when it comes to those less fortunate the criminal justice system tend to deem them as less adequate and their punishments usually end with jail or imprisonment. In Jeffrey Reiman’s The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison, he argues that the best way to understand the policies that are correlated with our criminal justice system, we must look at the Pyrrhic Defeat Model.…
David Pattenaude Professor Kiefer ENGWR 300 6 September 2016 Summary of "Self-Definitions" William T. Vollmann, in the first section titled “Self-Definitions” of his book Poor People, through a series of interviews, research, and self-examination attempts to define the concept of poverty and what makes people poor. In the introduction of the book, the author states that he is looking for the “similarities and differences in the experiences of being poor" (Vollmann 2). He admits that while other writers have experienced poverty he, himself, has not. Vollmann is found in every chapter asking those he interviews why they believe they are in their situation and whether or not they believe they are poor.…
Poverty World Wide. In the beginning of the 1800s Most people living in poverty were orphans, widows, or too old or sick to work. The rich and wealthy would give the poor food and supplies called an outdoor relief, this really helped the poor. The towns were required to take care of the poor, so the police would sometimes let them sleep in the stations.…
The short story “The Secret Goldfish” is written by David Means. In his short story he teaches his readers that an impossible predicament can be overcome in favor of a fresh start. In the short story the author uses symbolism to connect the mother’s adulthood with her childhood. David Means uses the goldfish as a parallel to the marriage of the parents. The theme of this short story is that life can give a person many obstacles but if the person does not give up then they can live a better future.…
Do you ever wonder how much times have changed? How everyone seems to be too busy in their day-to-day activities. They don’t seem to have time for much else? In Rick Bass’s “The Fish Story”, the evaluation of the character’s thoughts demonstrates how the narrator of the story covets the good ole days when he was a young boy and questions himself wondering why everything has changed now and simplicity seems to be gone now that he is an adult.…
Canada is a country that has been constructed by its natural resources; and it is Canada’s natural resources that continue to have a great deal of influence on the economy, political system, and social interests. Resource management in Canada has long been viewed as merely a technical exercise performed by the state, when in fact resource management had been central to the creation and maintenance of the state since the beginning. Resources are aspects of the natural environment that we as human’s value and from which produce goods and services. It is what human’s value and their abilities that determine the environment society will use and benefited from. Resources and the environment are critically connected and both continually changing…
In the article of “Money: The Real Truth about Money” (2005), Gregg Easterbrook expands the idea about how money cannot buy happiness. He explains how money is not a major source of happiness as it was ranked the 14th when surveys were made. Moreover, he explains the effect of money on people chasing after it. Easterbrook explains about his experience in mid 50s about how wealth and non-wealth did not have much importance. Gregg Easterbrook is an American writer.…
Give a man a fish, he eats for the night, teach a man how to fish and he eats forever. Earth is home to 7.4 billion people -- of those 7.4 billion people more than 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day (UNDP). More than 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day; or in other words, extreme poverty (UNDP). Poverty is a worldwide hurdle that nobody has yet to knockdown. Poverty, Inc. is a film that shows the untold impacts of foreign aid; moreover, how America, NGO’s (non-governmental organization) and the United Nations are hindering/crippling those they provide aid for; such as, clothes, food, etc.…