Seasons Essay

through a Traumatic Event Often times, the mental development, loss of innocence, and discovering of identity in children is a gradual process. Traumatic events in one’s life may cause early maturation of these processes in young children. In “Doe Season”, David Michael Kaplan uses third person limited point of view through Andy to manifest the idea that death is an impressionable tragedy on young innocent children still discovering their identity. Kaplan’s use of this point of view allows the…

I was excited for baseball season because it is my favorite time of the year. I had worked hard with a few people during the off season. Spending a lot of my time at the Veterans Hall in Colome getting ready for baseball season was a very fun for me. I will describe many things including, what led up to baseball season, what the best part of baseball season was, and what happened at the end. Leading up to baseball season I was doing a lot of lifting and hitting as often as I could. Most of the…

In Jean Hatzfeld’s Machete Season, he interviewed perpetrators from the Rwandan genocide, where the Hutus tried to exterminate the Tutsis. The Tutsis were the minority and had always been higher in social class compared to the Hutus. The Hutus were not fond of this. The Rwandan genocide was one of the most unorganized genocides where instead of designated killing squads like the Einsatzgruppen in the holocaust, it was all of the Tutsi’s neighbors that were coming to kill them. Although, every…

Season of Migration to the North is a novel written by the novelist Tayeb Salih. The unnamed narrator tells a story about a man named Mustafa Sa’eed. There are some reasonable and confused issues and reasons that why the narrator is so interested about Mustafa. Especially, the relationship between narrator and Mustafa Sa’eed what is worth to explore deeper. “In the Season of Migration to the North, the unnamed narrator and Mustafa Sa’eed are possibly the same person, if not physically, then…

your tom-boy phase soon enough sweetie" is something millions of little girls around the world are fed up with hearing from adults trying to determine their identity for them. In writer David Michael Kaplan's award-winning fiction short story "Doe Season," a girl named Andy struggling with just that in the 1980's finds herself grappling with the two worlds of man and womanhood while on a hunting trip with her father, fathers friend Charlie, and Charlie's son Mac. Some children and adults alike…

and inhospitable environment. In order to co-exist with the nature, individuals may have to surrender their identity as well as luxuries, to develop protection against the relentlessness of the Australian outback. In The Drover’s Wife and In a Dry Season, Lawson explores the meaningful connections or a source of conflict that exist between the relationship of individuals and nature, through the loss and strength demonstrated…

Audiences want to be kept on their toes and left puzzled and amused by what they do not know, and science fiction fans in particular seek out universal truths in extraordinary circumstances. Stranger Things ends each episode, and the season, with a cliffhanger that leaves the viewers begging for the next installment. This is the perfect formula for a Netflix original series as it encourages binge watching. The length of the series is also a testament to its producerly qualities. Fans…

“Boarding School Seasons”: Struggling to Live in a Structure Without a Home. By Brenda Child. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. In Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, Brenda Child works through letters written by Ojibwe students and parents, a perfect primary source, to best observe the perspectives of Native American families who endured the harsh conditions of boarding schools. Focusing on the Flandreau School in South Dakota and the Lawrence, Kansas Haskell…

Changing Seasons: Progression of Life Changes from Ages 2-16 Urie Bronfenbrenner’s five systems of development create a guideline for mental progression within a lifetime. All five systems include describing the elements of your surroundings. In addition, my mother is a stubborn, strong-willed, and an outspoken person. My maternal great-grandparents are descendants of Irish immigrants. My father was raised by immigrants native to Panama and Italy in my grandmother’s home country of Panama.…

The 1947 Atlantic hurricane season was the first Atlantic hurricane season to have tropical storms named by the United States Air Force. The season officially began on June 16, 1947, and ended on November 1, 1947. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. However, the first tropical cyclone developed on June 13, while the final system was absorbed by a cold front on December 1. There were 10 tropical storms; 5 of them…