An Autumn Afternoon

Restoring Faith in Life through Nature Looking beyond the surface and finding meaning in life is important in all aspects of our lifestyle. The poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, written by Wallace Stevens, digs deep into colder weather and shows the beauty that is found during winter time and how it relates to everyday human life. In each stanza a different perspective and action is reported from one of the thirteen black birds. Like a traditional haiku, Steven’s relates to…

Caleb’s Spring Break Caleb marked another day on the calendar before sleeping and counted the remaining days to his trip. Right after 15 days, over the spring weekend break from school, he was going to his Grandpa’s farm as his parents would be away on a trip to Paris. He closes his eyes and tries sleeping as he wants the days pass quickly. This seemed like a dream come true for him. He smiled as he sees his house disappearing from his sight. As a young boy, he felt that a trip to the…

symbolizes their ever-growing maturity. At the start, they try to tease Boo and get a glimpse of the infamous Boo Radley. As much as they try they never seem to be able to see him. At the end of the novel Jem and scout are on their way back home from the autumn festival. They are almost home when they are attacked. Jem ends up unconscious and scout tangled up in her outfit, she lay still listening to the struggling, then someone hitting the ground. She watches as a man she has never seen before…

envisioning the area the way it was described in the book with this road running so close to the pond was difficult. Instead of dwelling on that fact, though, I decided to head down the Pond Path and depart toward the famous house. In the hope that my afternoon would be a quiet, peaceful one, I pressed “play” on an instrumental playlist. Soft guitar chords echoed through my eardrums as I took in the scenery. Through…

Everything a person encounters influences them in some way. Frank Norris, the author of McTeague, was continuously influenced throughout his life by works of other authors and people around him. Norris’ childhood life, college professors, the Sarah Collins murder, and the theory of Social Darwinism all influenced his works. Norris’ studies as a child contributed to his knowledge and inspiration for his many works. As a child Norris studied painting for two years at Academie Julian in Paris.…

The answers I seek could only be found nowhere but at the inn, and thither, ere long, I returned. The host himself brought my breakfast into the parlour: I requested him to shut the door and sit down: I had some questions to ask him. But when he complied, I scarcely knew how to begin; such horror had I of the possible answers. And yet the spectacle of desolation I had just left prepared me in a measure for a tale of misery. The host was respectable-looking, elderly aged man. ‘You know…

hashbrowns, and toast. I got sharp cheddar cheese on the eggs and hashbrowns because, to put it simple, I love cheese. The whole meal was delicious and we all couldn’t finish our massive amounts of food. We paid and walked out into the cool, crisp, autumn air, called an Uber and left to go sightseeing. I had started raining lightly as we drove downtown, we used Uber's to get everywhere there, Brian’s friend Smiley didn’t have a spare car so we used Ubers. We went to the Space and Aeronautics…

full swing, traffic heavy, cars honking, and children playing. The harsh rays of the afternoon sun impale my shut eyelids and I awake suddenly, every thought in high definition. My eyes take in every ray of light and I see the colors of brown and red, flood the park’s grass. I stretch, reaching my arms forward, breathing in the polluted, yet crisp autumn air of New York and without a doubt I know it’s the afternoon. Memories flood my mind from the night before. “Chug! Chuuug! Chuuuug!” ……

3. The Micro-economic Conditions (Suppliers) Now that we explore the process of Party-state interventions in outdoor leisure in macroeconomic perspective, it is time for us to investigate how outdoor leisure is provided by microeconomic level and practiced or consumed by urban Chinese. This section firstly demonstrates diversified types of outdoor leisure organizations nationwide, and then it specifically demonstrates the similarities and differences of outdoor leisure practices among three…

Justice Served or Not Served Clink… was the sound of a can hitting the pavement when 15-year-old Phoebe Prince was walking from school to her home apartment. Phoebe, her mother, and four siblings moved to the US in autumn of 2009. She attended school at South Hadley High School when her life was turned upside down. Phoebe was bullied in school as well as social media, such as Facebook. The two groups of girls bullied her because she went out with two boys that they happened to know. For three…