The processes that formed the area are amazing to think about how a once ancient sea bed became one of the nation’s top tourist spots. The inland sea that left a deposit after deposit of sandstone and shale. Then an intrusive magma that made its way through the crust, only to cool and become granite and pegmatites. This magma changed the existing rocks making schists and quartzite. After the inland sea receded erosion dominated the area eroding many layers of rock that had been deposited.…
Home. Home is not a fruit of materialism; Home is a place which not only provides and sustains one's lifestyle, but one which he can return to everyday filled with contentment and satisfaction. Lars Eigner began Dumpster diving a year before the eviction of a "home", has found a fondness, a fulfillment, a justice in Dumpster diving. Frankly, Eigner has no physical "home", but nonetheless he has a life, one which he pleasures himself, and in this life he finds true tranquility intertwined with prosperity. Eighner's experience in both worlds of living, upon which to criticize and reflect allows him to decisively teach to the audience of true necessity, employ multiple povs unjustified haves and have-nots, and the profound intuition it lends…
In the essay On Dumpster Diving, Lars Feighner sheds his opinion on college students based on his experience “scavenging” through college dumpsters. Feighner communicates the unawareness of the students due to their careleness, ignorance, and wastefulness. Undeniably Feighner without the thoughtless students, would have a more difficult time in sustaining his life. College students are careless, with their waste, due to this Divers such as feighner are able to meet needs of survival.…
How would life be when people finally open their eyes and stop living in denial and accepting the truth. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, there are three prisoners that have been imprisoned in a cave for their whole life. They’ve only seen the same wall this whole time and their only source of light would is a fire which is behind them which creates shadows. At one point a prisoner is able to free himself from the chains, when he goes out he realizes that everything he’s been seeing on the walls of the cave are different once outside. He learns what is real and what isn’t and goes back to tell the other prisoners everything he’s learned and seen.…
Ellis Island was in New York harbor on the east coast, while Angel Island was on the west coast in the San Francisco Bay. The islands were where immigrants went when they came from their home lands. People from Asia went to Angel island and people from Europe went to Ellis island. From coast to coast, the island’s treated people differently, some better than others. They would have to pass certain tests to be able to stay here.…
The Fortunate Isles were a group islands that were taken over, or what could be said as “Europeanized”, by colonists from France and Portugal. These islands, which included the Azores, Madeira, and Canary Islands, were introduced to features native to Europe that affected its environment and population greatly. European explorers traveled the world, searching for new trade options, when they came across the Fortunate Isles. The colonists believed they had stumbled across free land, which just so happened to be rich in fertile soil for many types of crops. They wanted to make a profit of the islands, and decided to bring over aspects from their homeland, with no regard for the natives of the islands, the Guanches.…
This gives us perspective of how long it takes glaciers to move and melt. It took 25,000 years for one sheet of ice to move across the state of…
Analysis of Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving” “On Dumpster Diving” is an essay written by Lars Eighner, detailing the art and proper protocol of dumpster diving, or as Eighner prefers it to be called, scavenging. Eighner gathers the wisdom he has learned from living on the streets in this essay, writing in a straightforward and descriptive style. He touches on many different points: wastefulness, the everyday living conditions of the homeless, and the value of materialistic objects. Eighner strives to educate readers while destigmatizing dumpster diving as a whole.…
Mounds can be found throughout the Midwestern part of the United States. Almost every mound was man made by the early Native Americans mound builders. The history of the mound builders can date back thousands of years. Many wonder why they built the mounds and what were there purpose to these people. History of the ancient mound builders along with their religious beliefs can help get an idea of the purpose the mounds.…
Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave reveal differences and similarities on their outlook on government and solutions to rid their prospective states of certain problems. These solutions focus on freeing oneself from conforming to societal norms in favor of seeking “enlightenment” and awareness. The aforementioned great minds of their times both argue variations of the same views on human existence and an individual 's role in their respective societies. At their core, these two political philosophies urge humanity to threaten the safety of the status quo; they push man to dare to be skeptics, dare to climb out of the depths of their limited perspectives, dare to question what is true reality…
When the boys arrive on the island it is beautiful similar to the Garden of Eden. Golding describes the island as "a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees" (Golding, 9). This is very similar the Bibles description of how “God planted all kinds of beautiful trees that grow there and produce good fruit" (Genesis 2.9). Both appear to be a paradise.…
Many parents are working hard each day to provide the best for their children. As one grows older, one learns to appreciate their parent 's hard work, more and more each day. But not all choose to follow in the footsteps of their parents. In the poem "Digging" by Seamus Heaney, the speaker has chosen the path of a writer instead of following in the footsteps of his potato farming father and peat harvester grandfather, however, the speaker nostalgically dotes on their experience and craftsmanship for their trade throughout the poem. The speaker himself, may actually be the author, as he "grew up on a small farm...…
The Soil Argument After watching the movie and reading the article, I was surprised to find that the basic principles discussed in each were similar. I found that both were a call to attention to raise awareness to what humans have done to the earth, and so both provided possible steps we could take to attempt to repair the damage we have done. They both also compared dirt to the living, and the article used clever comparisons of the human body and the microorganisms inside it to the soil and the microorganisms inside that. In addition, they also both mentioned information about humans and how we are affected by changes in the soil, which have a major impact on our environment, what we eat, etc.…
Easter Island is actually the Rapa Nui island. We call it Easter Island because it was discovered on Easter weekend. Many years ago the Polynesian tribe settled there. It used to be a nice beautiful island with lots of trees and animals. Then around 320 AD the Polynesians settled there and it changed.…
Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean about 2,400 miles southwest of the Continental United States, Hawaii is the state that is not part of the North American continent. Composed of many islands, cover about 6,459 square miles, Hawaii is ranked as the 47th largest of the 50 states of America. It’s also known as one of the most famous tourist place of the U.S. There are total of eight main islands: Hawaii, Maui, Kahoolawe, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau. Covered by the total area of 4,038 square miles, Hawaii is the largest habitable main island.…