BackTrack

The water droplets roll down my forehead as I lay in my bed looking at the water damaged ceiling. At twelve years old I slept in a one window attic in a tattered bed, under a leaky roof. I do not have any family nor friends to speak of and no real optimism for the future. School was my only outlet yet it was also beginning to be the root of my humiliation and embarrassment. Leaving school today with tears in my eyes and my teacher’s voice ringing in my head all I could ponder was this can’t be…

Over seventy years into the post-1945 world, and the lingering effects of the Cold War continue to shape global society to this day. When analyzing post-World War II history, historians recognize three key themes that emerged throughout the era: political ideologies and the paradoxes of their implementation; the growth of nation-states, nationalism, supranationalism, and internationalism; and tensions between individual rights and societal claims. Though each theme listed is solidified as a…

were in the vicinity of something irreducibly nonhuman, something significantly Other than yourself Wilderness is made of that as well. What conveyed each of us to spots where such recollections got to be conceivable is totally a social innovation. Backtrack 250 year in European and American history, and you don't discover about such a large number of individuals meandering around remote corners of the planet searching for what today we would call "the wild experience." As late as the eighteenth…

Fager 1 Life is one big adventure and it is a fun ride throughout the whole thing, but sometimes we don’t have the time to talk about all of the details. I want you to know that I have always been a more shut-in on the ideas of sharing a lot of things about myself. So I feel that I should give you some idea of what it was like when I was growing up. Me and my father were soft-spoken towards each other so there are still things that I want to know about my father, therefore I feel that I may be…

of Jane Eyre, physically she is everything like the book, but personality wise she is weak, controlled, and subservient. In the movie, Jane Eyre can no longer be characterized as a stepping stone towards independent woman and feminism, but as a backtrack to woman characters who are only worried about finding…

Your Name here TOPIC: Rules of Happy Life GENERAL PURPOSE: To increase the knowledge of the audience SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To Inform the audience with the rules of a happy life. THESIS/ Central Idea: Introduction I. (Attention Getter) Rules are very important to achieve anything in our life. By following some rules we can easily get our desired goals. Happiness is very important goal for everyone. There are certain rules which should be followed by us to achieve a happy life. II. (Relevancy…

did not give up. Throughout the years, I have improved substantially and I do not know if I could have done that without Donna’s encouragement. Anytime I became frustrated about a new technique or pattern, she would talk me through it and help me backtrack my mistakes. Ultimately, I realized that knitting resembles sports or other hobbies; it is something that takes determination to succeed. If I had determination when I was dancing or playing basketball, they could have become remarkable…

Before the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 the U.S. had no liability on oil spills. The problem was still reoccurring even though over 10,000 oil spills were occurring every year around the country. It wasn’t until the major Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska that it was shown that there was no protocol or organization to immediately and effectively clean up the large spill. In the Conference report for the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, it is stated that there was a great increase on the liability of oil…

stories about crime and gunshots (never at any time was the word black used, although oddly enough I did assume that was the case). As I drove that night I asked myself, would I make the turn down Gardere or go all the way around to Bluebonnet and backtrack to the casino. Would I listen to the stories and fears that my parents had implanted in me or would I recognize white fear when I felt it and challenge these notions of whiteness being revealed in class? As I got to the Gardere light, I…

Observing the displayed works of art within the Herb Ritts photography gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Massachusetts, one might take notice of inkjet-based printed photograph of a dark lonely night over a barren sandy landscape in New Mexico saturated in blue. This is because in the bottom center of the picture, there is a coiled and illuminated “hose-like” boalum lamp which is large and up-close, and this provides such a sharp visual contrast to everything in the environment…