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some berries. She knew that there was a beautiful berry patch not so far from her den. On her way there, she ran into her old friends Laurie the fox and Hugo the honey badger. “Well, if it isn’t Laurie and Hugo, my dearest old friends,” she said. “I’m going to get some berries from the old berry patch down by the pond,” said Nelly. “Oh no, Nelly, you can’t go there!” exclaimed Laurie. “Yeah, the construction workers are building a park there,” said Hugo. “No, they can’t destroy our berry…

rights. “They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture” (The Pleasures Of Eating 20). Both The Pleasures Of Eating by Wendell Berry and An Animal’s Place by Michael Pollan discuss the awareness of animals and society. Berry views the connection of growing your own food and appreciating where it comes from, but also the goal of the food industry: making consumers dependant. Pollan takes a different approach, However, is…

him if he “could clean Robert’s bathroom? It’s filthy” (Barry 221). Barry takes a look at Robert’s bathroom and it “always looks perfectly fine” (Barry 221) Barry said. As the “sensitive and caring kind of guy” (Berry 221) Barry claims he is in his essay, he “cleans the bathroom” (Berry 221) and proceeds back to what he was doing before. Only to be asked again by his wife to clean the bathroom as she is looking at the walls Barry had already “Windexed” where his wife is viewing dirt he can’t see…

The issue of religion versus science has been a long ongoing debate that seem to have no end in sight.This is the major theme that runs through the essay “God, Science and Imagination,” written by Wendell Berry as it explores the different realms of the religious scholars and scientific scholars in their support of the stand that they take in regards to the existence of God, explaining the inherent faith of Christians in a supernatural being and mere imagination. Jane Goodall, “In the…

A Murder Most Foul: The Death of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer The brainchild of the brilliant John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Edward Berry, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, had many enemies. Were these enemies what ultimately lead to its untimely demise? The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is claimed by many to be the first modern digital electronic computer. Whether or not this is true; at the very least it was a precursor to ENIAC, the computer that most people who are not on the side of the…

The phrase, “the sky is the limit,” although very corny, Wendell Berry discusses the meaning and importance of limits in today’s society in his essay, “Faustian Economics”. Berry believes that too much advancement may be divergent. In Berry’s credit, limits allow us to value what society gives us but on the other hand, limitlessness allow us to grow outside the known realm of knowledge and therefore advance our society; all done by taking risks. Although I believe some of Berry’s opinions and…

to surround food. The debate may start with simply asking how can we eat healthily, but eventually, the questions drift and somehow, we are left wondering, how can we feed the world. Working together, in a way that almost tag-teams, authors Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan establish that healthy eating surrounds the consumption of plants with the intent of being an active participant in the agriculture behind the foods we eat. Although Louise Fresco doesn’t reject their claim, she argues that…

Catching Fire how even after Katniss wins the hunger games once the battle is not over yet. Night lock berries, Katniss’s wedding dress, and her bow are all substantial symbols in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire One of the most significant items in The Hunger games would be the night lock berries. These berries are one of the more influential items in the book because these specific berries are poisonous and when only Peeta…

Have you ever seen a mulberry tree with its red berries? Did you know that at one time those berries were white? The tale of the color change is a sad story about the death of two young lovers. Sit back, read, and reflect upon this tale of despair. Two of the most beautiful teens in all of Babylon were called Pyramus and Thisbe. Their houses were so close together that they shared a common wall, and it was through that wall that they fell deeply in love. They longed to marry, but their parents…

“Well i think so” affirms berry. Suddenly berry flashes back to his back yard. Its full of people and hes cooking burgers on the barbecuer. They start chanting “open the shields we need some air” “open” . All at once berry snaps out of the flashback, berry glances around the living room. It’s full of random people of all shapes, sizes, and ethnicities. Berry walks around talking to them. He is almost unaware of the gushing wound in his shoulder…