Adirondack Mountains

Every Christmas Eve our family gathers around the coffee table in our apartment in New York City. During the day we go to see the tree at Rockefeller Center and buy chocolate candies from the Greenwood Pastry on the corner. Uncle Riley leads the way as we walk the streets until the light begins to fade between the office towers and the crippled gargoyles forever perched on the corners of the buildings that illuminate a golden age gone by. We laugh together and reminisce about the previous…

Riley perched herself on the edge of the cabin bed, absentmindedly following routine and pulling on her combat boots, thick and heavy, ready for fighting. Moonlight was seeping through the gaps in the blacked out windows; there was a gentle spring breeze making its way through the log cabin walls. She was small for her age of 14 but she had strength and speed on her side. Riley could hear the other campers singing around the campfire and the subtle smells of burnt sugar from the marshmallows…

large content, accorded with three distinctive elements raised by Cole’s essay. In the essay, mountains come up the first and indicates an important concept as “a union of the magnificent.” In the upper right center of the painting, mountains standing as sublime watch over the human presence below. The pond on the left of the painting echoes…

I got invited to go on a camping trip with some friends in the Adirondack mountains, and being 16 years old, my parents thought I was old enough to go on this trip by myself. I was so excited! I was thinking of all the fun things I could do in a place that I’ve never been too; kayaking, swimming, fishing. I got invited in January and the trip was in September, so I had a lot of time to pack and get prepared. I was going to be there for ten days so I got a new camping grade backpack. Being the…

The Mohicans were a Native American tribe that settled along the Hudson River valley near Albany, New York. Having just fought in the Beaver War they didn’t want to participate in the French and Indian War. However it is true that they participated in some of the raids and ambushes in the movie. Fort William Henry, the centerpiece of the film, was built on the south end of the lake as a stepping-stone from which to attack Fort St. Frederic and end the Indian threat. Two previous attempts to…

Introduction Environmental Pollution is one of the prevailing global issues that is creating impact on not only the quality of life but is also making the future uncertain and threatening. It is destabilizing the ecological stability of the world. Environmental pollution includes air, water, and other ecological forms of pollutions that are degrading the natural resources and environment. Based on the severity of the issue of Environmental Pollution, respective paper will briefly describe the…

Sleep is, perhaps, one of the most confounding aspects of humanity, even to this very day. There is a host of theories as to why humans require sleep, as well as a similar variety of theories as to why sleep brings dreams. Some say that they are simulations - a means originally produced by the brain to help humans prepare for particular events they have yet to encounter in reality. Others say it is to de-stress the mind, to unravel the complicated webs of data collected through our senses…