A Journey of Thousand Miles Essay

"The street was silent long and empty, with only his shadow moving like a shadow of a hawk in mid country." This constructs the mood to be sadder: for the reason that it shows the town is empty. "In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time." To emphasize, ten years is a long time for not seeing anyone. The people do not get-up-and-go outside: since they are consumed by indoor technology. No company gets…

In life, we will sooner or later be thrown a curveball. Some of us will miss by a mile, some of us will miss just barely, and some of us will get a hit. There is one commonality: unexpected circumstances remind us to expect the unexpected out of life. Typically, a rising PSA is the first sign, coming well before any clinical signs or symptoms. In my mind, however, undergoing a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) check was about as bad as anything I could imagine. That PSA anxiety hammers away at…

society, nature’s indifference to mankind, who we can count on, the dangers of pride and greed, and the importance of loyalty, courage, and faith. Just as Beowulf went through life and learned many important lessons from his experiences we also journey through our lives learning from all our experiences. One of the things from Beowulf that is still relevant in today’s world are the qualities we look for in a hero. We want someone who has a strong will. Someone who looks out for the greater…

Many Americans were moving west in order to find land, or to try and find gold. In 1802, California was colonized by the United States and the California gold rush of 1849 soon followed bringing thousands of people with it. By 1900 and 1910, there was a huge increase in population on the west coast of California by over sixty percent. The population in California more than doubled again by 1930. The canal was necessary to supply the goods from the…

Kameron Morris Survey of Late U.S. History March 28, 2017 Charles Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902 in Detroit, Michigan. Charles first became famous when he completed a non-stop trip from New York to Paris, France by himself. Charles’s life was in the spotlight for most his life after that. However, this fame not only bought Charles a lot positive publicity, but also a lot of negative publicity as well. This fame strongly influenced his life and the American’s response to individualistic…

Edward Said, literary theorist and cultural critic, described exile as strangely compelling to think about but thrilling to experience. “The Poisonwood Bible,” by Barbara Kingsolver, is a novel that illuminates the alienating and enriching concept of exile. Leah Price, second oldest daughter of Nathan Price and Orleanna Price, from a young age of 14 learned the frustrating, bewitching and nullifying abstraction of exile, and continued to learn in her aging years. Leah Price exiles herself from…

Life in the Towns, Including London, in 16th Century England Life in 16th century England was not the best, but not all of it was bad. Life was very hard whether you live in the country, in the towns, or even in the famous city of London. People did not like to travel, because the roads were rough and nearly everything was made at home, or on the farm. Disease was one of the other major factors for a rough life in this time period. Another factor that affected life during the Elizabethan period…

I fling myself on the bed, finally able to relax. I have not just faced certain death from a wild African beast or crazed Ndebele tribesman, I have just finished dinner. It is 9pm, I have retired to my rondavel, to another lonely night after a luscious dinner of roast kudu, in a rich brown gravy accompanied by three vegetables from the farm garden. Desert was steamed golden syrup pudding and custard. The food was great, the meal atmosphere, for me, as always, a little tense. I am over…

The public bike-sharing system is deemed to be a green, sustainable and emission-free transport mode. As an alternative transport of automobile, public bike-sharing systems are estimated that more than five thousands public bike trips cover 200,000 km per day, which reduce the equivalent of 37,000 kg of carbon dioxide emissions(Shaheen et al., 2010).Its effects on environmental and social will encourage citizens to take part in this environmental action in order…

America is great, of that most of us can agree. Our nation is physically huge, spanning thousands of miles in each direction and taking up a sizeable chunk of North America. It is also great in the sense that (as the song goes) it is the land of the free and the home of the brave, and after all, what doesn’t scream ‘great’ about the American Dream? Mark Twain, in his groundbreaking masterpiece, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (published in 1884), writes about a young boy named Huck Finn who…