You know that moment, that oh so wonderful moment, when someone takes the time to put pen to paper and write something that perfectly pairs words to your emotions and psychological state of mind? Much like a juvenile game of match the word with the picture, that we all greatly enjoyed playing in kindergarten. And you think to yourself, this person gets me, they understand what it is like to live with these thoughts, bucking around like a bull in a china shop. What a feeling it is to truly feel appreciated. That is precisely how I felt when reading Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, understood and not sequestered in my own sense of panic, worry, doubt, anxiousness, and the ability to become utterly distracted by everything under the sun as soon as…
Watershed Journal #2: Re-Inhabiting Taddle Creek For this week's reading journal, I read Re-Inhabiting Taddle Creek by Eduardo Sousa. This is an amazing piece of literature that describes the history of the Taddle Creek, the benefits of sustainable water usage, and the essential act of becoming and staying in tune with our specific watersheds. Ms. Sousa is highly passionate about all three of these topics and uses a high degree of persuasive language and vivid imagery to attract the reader towards her point of view. The author feels compelled to address these topics as they are important to sustainable water usage (which is the moral responsibility of every citizen on earth).…
At 5:30 AM, the young, naive, Jenny Drpich is all dressed up finally ready to leave her home and head to her job for the first time. On her way, she grabbed a copy of West Australian newspaper, a leftover of cinnamon bun from last night and a freshly brewed cup of Long Black Arabica. The placidness of her home is unwieldy; the constant sound of the dead air seems remind her of pure elation of her little farmhouse in upper Swan Valley. These reminiscing values seem to ponder in her mind as she heads out of the driveway. It was a heinous drive from her house to the suburb.…
Flossie Fuller Carothers Branchcomb was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Benjamin and Susan Fuller. As a child she didn’t experience many effects of living in the Jim Crow south due to a very protective father who often shielded her and her sibling from that. It wasn’t until her adult years that she began to notice the magnitude of the Jim Crow south. This new revelation pushed her to join the movement of African American people fighting for equal rights and opportunities for the people of their race.…
1. Mooallem, Jon. Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story about Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. New York: Penguin, 2013. Print. 2.…
The light blue colored area represents the lower section of the Birds Nest. Enhanced recovery wells were added into the Google Earth Pro model to give an idea of how many Class II wells are injecting in the Birds Nest for disposal or enhance recovery. The blue colored dots in Figure 4 represent the enhance recovery wells. Enhance recovery wells inject produced water to help increase the production oil and gas. The produce water results from these wells were not selected because the injected water will not stay in the aquifer or formations permanently.…
In "On the Waterfront" the pigeons symbolize Terry Malloy, and the choices he made all through the film. A pigeon's regular drive is to fly, yet these pigeons have been prepared not to. Despite the fact that he's a durable previous boxer, his unbalanced look after these birds is confirmation of an exceptional bond between them. The symbolism of him really inside the pen himself, obvious when he tends the birds, proposes this bond too. Malloy is a visionary, a mind boggling and delicate man.…
Based off the reviews of In the Belly of the Green Bird, I chose to read this historical account book. In the Belly of the Green Bird was written by Nir Rosen, who is a political journalist for the United States. The book is written as a personal account of what the writer was seeing in 2003 Iraq. While I was reading the historical account of Iraq, I was able to understand what was truly happening in the region. I was also able to understand why Iraqis view Americans the way they do.…
Oppression is when a group of people whether its ethnicity, gender, or social groups is wrongfully treated and denied rights. People who are oppressed see themselves as unequal to other people who are favored by society. These favored people can include cis gender folks, wealthy groups, religious groups, and males. Additionally, people who face oppression receive negative responses from others which can include violence, prejudice, and even lack of employment and educational opportunities. Legal rights are sometimes broken and forgiven when outside groups attack the oppressed.…
“Goose Pond” “Goose Pond”, written by Thomas Williams seemingly is a novel about the tranquil rural life but intricately portrays the mind and state of a fifty-eight year old man who has just lost his wife. Having natural and peaceful aspects, the story itself is not about the simple rural life in the woods. It depicts how Robert Hurley began to deal and come to terms with his sudden loneliness and realization of his eventual death. Including both the realistic cruelty of life alone and the expectation readers would have from a novel—such like a Norman Rockwell painting; he keeps the readers indulged in the mind and heart of the lonesome Robert Hurley.…
The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a literary work full of symbolism that adds meaning to the story and to the characters. Throughout the story Edna Pontieller expresses her progress, in The Awakening, as a new woman by using the symbolism of the caged birds, art and music, houses, and the sea. From the very beginning of the story, the caged birds play a main role in symbolizing Edna’s entrapment. In the book the parrots kept repeating ““ Allez vous-en!…
I was dancing in the snow. Frosty and Olaf were playing tag. Santa was playing fetch with Rudolph, and the other reindeer were getting jealous. They plotted to kill Rudolph. I noticed this and decided to try to stop them.…
The idea of simple living was both widely promoted and discouraged from the arrival of the earliest Puritan colonists in 1630 to the extensive industrial growth of the middle 1800s. Many groups and societies aimed to resurrect the simple life and promote it among the masses. Yet each of these revivals were either stopped or drastically slowed down by the American majority’s desire for wealth. A small percentage of Americans consistently lived interpretations of the simple life but they were frequently viewed as outsiders.…
New lifestyle, activities, religion, relationship, house and food C. Maggie, flat character 1. Life with her mom on the pasture, Background 2. Activities, religion, relationships, house and food II. Heirlooms, Heritage A.…
I was walking down the cold Maine streets. It was freezing outside down by the iced waters in Northern Maine. All the sudden I saw a big pile of snow start to move I got a little closer and started to hear this little bit of crying. I reached into the cold snow and pulled up a little,tiny,freezing, puppy. I couldn’t believe my eyes.…