Essay on Adventure Trip

gave the experience my all and what I got back from it was exponential. When faxing those final forms for this trip, I did not realize the amount of teamwork that would go into this experience. The moment that my name was called to the group of Austin and Brooke, before I knew everyone’s name and before we became 90’s Grunge, I understood that teamwork would play a large part in our trip. Thinking back to that week countless examples of teamwork come to mind. Setting up camp required teamwork…

Antoine Roquentin’s feelings of “adventure” and Anny’s notion of “perfect moments” tie together throughout Nausea. Roquentin spends most of his time alone, self-analyzing, but it is through his adventure that he discovers what he has been missing. Unlike Roquentin, Anny had been chasing these “perfect moments” her whole life and by the end of the book, she feels as if she has run out of them. Anny and Roquentin’s lives seem to almost run parallel to each other, but going the opposite directions;…

the lime light. However, in most cases, changes are made in order to compress the movie. These vital changes can sometimes change the way a character is viewed and/or can change the literal flow of the book or movie. Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 adventure novel, Treasure Island, influenced and was made into a movie in 1950 by the Walt Disney Corporation. Although this movie was very similar to the novel, there were many changes that influenced the tempo of the movie. As well as how the audience…

Human or Not Step into the scene of "The Merchant of Death" with D.J. Machale and learn how the travelers try to save halla and how some of their actions made them out of this world. This brought up a debate if whether or not they were human by explaining from the people he was surrounded with, his actions, and the things that meant something to him. Entering into the scene we saw the evil traveler named Saint Dane do some weird and unsolved actions that wouldn't be classified as human. Back at…

How the Grand Canyon Came to Be In the middle of the desert lived a very curious wolf named Tico. Tico had a very good friend named Sandy. Tico and Sandy did everything together. There favorite thing to do was find bones, then hide them deep in the ground. Tico and Sandy were known to be good at finding rare and big bones. Sandy and Tico would often switch task of who was to find the bone and who was to clean the bone. When it was time to hide the bone they would agree on a hiding place, then…

The Pin by Chris Crutcher tells the story of a boy and his father who go against each other in a wrestling match. The father, a strict, disciplinary guardian who was number two wrestler at his university, fears that he will always be number two. The son, a rebellious teenager who feels like he is never good enough, hopes that his father will finally accept him for who he is. The son, Johnny, ends up winning the match, but the father is not happy with him. The father slaps Johnny, in front of…

The idea of an EMP attack or disaster is a strong concept for a film. Disaster films were once very popular, lost their appeal, but may be on the resurgence. The idea of an EMP attack is definitely relatable and relevant to today’s society. One can envision a movie that dramatizes the consequences and outcome of such an event. The outline has several strong elements that work. One is that the protagonist, Hayes, is an electrical engineer described as an alarmist. He fears this scenario and…

In 1971 an engineer at Nutting Associates by the name of Nolan Bushnell created Computer Space, the first ever commercial video game. One year later he created Pong, the first commercial video game to be widely successful. Since then, video games have erupted in popularity and evolved from incredibly simple gameplay and graphics to complex systems running near-realistic graphics. Many of these changes only became possible as the hardware they ran on became more powerful. As time progressed,…

The Hero’s Journey is a widely-used formula to understand protagonists and is the perpetual basis for most story arcs involving good vs. evil. The portrayal of the main character, as introduced, is that of an average joe. Someone that would otherwise be indiscernible in a crowd of extras. For example John Connor, Bilbo Baggins and Neo from the Matrix. The “commoner to hero” narrative is generally the basis for most hero beginnings given it creates a sense of relatability between the audience and…

Most children delight in the idea of adventure and the thrill that comes with it. Many kids take that thirst for excitement too far, as displayed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn, more commonly known by the name of Huck, is a child who takes his shot into adventure by both faking his death and running away from his abusive father. On his journey he groups together with Jim, a runaway slave, and eventually with the unaffiliated scammers known by the titles of “King” and…