Apple cider

“ You know better than that!” I hear a small voice say coming from within the tree. “I’m sorry papa but I didn’t think that that apple would fall! I just assumed it would be a nice place to lay.” Another voice whined. “Hello?” I…

Common Theme~ The two stories, “If I forgot Thee, Oh Earth” and “Silent Spring” share a common theme of people destroying earth because they are not taking care of it. 2. “If I Forgot Thee, Oh Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke “Across a quarter of a million miles of space, the glow of dying atoms was still visible, a perennial reminder of the ruinous past” (165). I believe this is meant to say that the ruinous Earth the people created will always still be visible because of the glow. The…

warm summers and mild winters, which is prior to produce apple crop (Climate Action Initiative, 2015; A Guide to BC’s Agriculture Resources, 2014). Apples are one of the most valuable edible horticulture crops in BC. BC produces 21% of apple in Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2013). About 2% of BC apples are grown in the Fraser Valley (A Guide to BC’s Agriculture Resources, 2014). Pests are one of the most serious problem in apple orchards in the Fraser Valley. To control the pests,…

"I just love the mornings,” Bilbo was thinking to himself. The night before, Bilbo had just saved the whole party from a giant spider, and they were all very thankful towards him, since if he wasn’t there, they all would’ve suffered one painful, sticky death. “Why don’t we sit down and enjoy a good morning meal, I bet most of us are sore from that spider, and there’s nothing like a good meal to make you feel better!” suggested Bilbo. The faces of the dwarves lit up, but only for a second,…

“What to write, what to write, what to write,” I thought out loud, “Short story ideas are harder than I thought!” We had commenced our short story unit in English. I was striving to come up with some ideas sitting on a stump along the primordial trail. Vines engulfed the forest in a corybantic scheme, encasing it in a velvety film of nature. Scintillating and radiant wildflowers grew along these vines, with butterflies of every discrepancy ravenously fluttering along these flowers. Deers crooned…

separates their properties from each other. The Cow in Apple Time also by Robert Frost is about an obstinate cow that breaks through a wall to escape her pasture for an apple orchard where she devours apples until she feels agony and reaches her inevitable end. Robert Frost uses multiple images of a wall and a cow as extended metaphors to develop various themes. In Mending…

How to bake an Apple Crisp “An apple a day keeps the doctors away!” The apple’s ability to detoxify that Russian doctors made irradiated children from Chernabyl eat apples. Indeed, many researchers discovered that pectin in apples can help reduce radiation levels in children’s bodies. Instead of only eat apple purely in its fruit form, I try to eat apple in different ways: Apple Cheese Danish, Apple-Cranberry Dessert, Apple Crisp, Apple pie, and Apple Pie bread. Apple Crisp is my favorite…

The apple does not fall from the tree for S. Martinelli & Company. The five generation company family owned and operated business since 1868, serves as an example of a successful and ethical small business. Over the years, the S. Martinelli & Company has grown and evolved through the years. Focusing on developing products from apple juice to sparkling cider, S. Martinelli & Company went from a small business to a national brand. Most people can agree that a little healthy competition cannot be…

Life is filled with many unexpected situations, nothing ever goes as expected which is the definition behind Thomas Hardy’s quote. The quote reads, “Nothing bears out in practice what is promises incipiently”. Thomas Hardy’s quote relates to a numerous amount of events in A Prayer For Owen Meany mostly with how John’s life starts to unravel. The way John Irving wrote the novel has a unique chronology in the way that the novel tends to skip through different parts of John’s life. A Prayer For…

Kyle Kennedy Nordsiek Honors American Literature 12 October 2015 Expectations Versus Reality in A Prayer for Owen Meany Throughout A Prayer for Owen Meany, events often do not play out as the characters originally intended or predicted. This motif – that “nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently” – is one of the most important motifs in the novel, and it is realized through several major events. Three components of the book are significant examples of this motif: Johnny’s…