Autumn

planned. On the plane ride moving from Maui to Florida to attend Eckerd College I became very sick. For the next 4 weeks I spent most of my time on my grandparents couch and in the hospital when I was supposed to be starting my college career at Eckerd. Autumn term is the first month of freshman year which I had completely missed out on due to being sick. It is a three week class freshmen are required to take that acts as an orientation to help students adjust to the college lifestyle. I was…

Pegasus constellation lies in the northern hemisphere. It is one of the largest constellations in the sky. It was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. The constellation was named after Pegasus, the winged horse in Greek mythology.The constellation is known for the Great Square of Pegasus, a familiar asterism in the northern sky, as well as for a number of bright stars and deep sky objects, among them Messier 15 (NGC 7078, Cumulo de Pegaso), Stephan’s Quintet of…

and showered while their clothes were being disinfected by Zyklon-B gas. Soon after, they entered the gateway marked ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (“Labor will set you free”). After a corruption scandal happened, the camp administration was reorganized in Autumn 1943. Situations in subcamps were often worse than situations in the main camps. In August 1944, the camp population reached 105,168. Throughout history, the prison population of Auschwitz changed the composition significantly. The prisoner…

Paragraph 1: Naming For the Flowering Dogwood, the Latin name is “Cornus florida”. “Cornus” derives from the word “cornu”, which today translates into a “horn”. Cornus refers to the hard wood the tree has. While “florida” stems from the Latin word “flos”, which is understood as “flower” or “flowery”. The common name for Cornus florida is Flowering Dogwood. “Flowering” comes from showy spring flowers the tree displays, while “dogwood” was most likely named after it was believed that early…

the year of 2000, my mother gave birth to an “oops baby”. That baby was me. On that chilly, autumn morning, my biological father left my mother and I at the hospital. From there on out, we went through the motions of your average everyday family, but my conception of a “family” was a bit distorted. As time went on, my mother fell for an environmental law…

Many different animals develop different strategic foraging behaviours to survive the winter months. The black-capped chickadees (Parus atricapillus) are a songbird that can be observed throughout North America and remain year round even during the cold winters (Templeton, Greene, & Davis, 2005, 1935). During the winter the chickadees form an average flock size of about six to eight, but this number can vary (Templeton, Greene, & Davis, 2005, 1935). In the flock there is a social hierarchy and…

In my critical approach to Edna St. Vincent Millay “Gods World” will be a formalist literary analysis. In the poem, her point of view shows just how distressed the writer was in her life. Unlike every day individuals who struggle with life on life terms does not have an outlet to vent their frustration? Her conversation with God is intrinsic to the reader’s thoughts of consciousness. She allows the readers to explore ways of coping in the midst of their challenges or struggles. Millay makes…

hemisphere to be illuminated in daylight. Therefore, in the northern hemisphere, it is winter and in the southern hemisphere, it is summer. If Earth is north of the sun, then the tilt causes indirect sunlight to hit the southern hemisphere, causing autumn. The indirect sunlight will also…

As I open the soft, yellow curtains and walk into my room, the strong scent of sweaty clothes and stale food overwhelm me. There are filthy sports clothes piled up in the corner. Dirty socks, muddy cleats and wrinkled blazers are strewn across the floor. Leftover chips, half-emptied coke cans and empty candy packs lie on top of one of the desks. The smell of everything combined is haunting and terrible. A laptop is left open on the bed, showing a YouTube video. The sound of the movie video roars…

everything on earth including the human body were created by the 4 elements fire, water, air, and earth. The human body linked the 4 humours into the 4 qualities and seasons. The 4 qualities were hot, dry, cold, and wet the four seasons were summer, autumn, winter, and spring. According to Galen, “good-humor” consisted of sanguine, melancholic, phlegmatic, and choleric. An imbalance of these 4 humours it would cause disease and affect the personality and behavior of a person also known as…