Blizzard

1. On Wednesday, January 3, 2011 in Arkansas there was a blizzard that had cut the power, and if you tried to go outside you couldn 't, because the snow was blocking the doors. I was playing a game on the tv ,and then all of a sudden the power had cut off. I had got mad ,because I had just passed this really hard part, and I didn 't save the game yet. And I knew that I would have to redo that part again. About a week later power came back on, and I had to go back to school. And even though had…

With The Dawn “Wake up!” He sounds desperate, he thinks. He is desperate, he realizes. Funny. He hadn’t thought he would care. It takes a while for Lucas to open his eyes, and when he does, there is the dim shape of his once-brother kneeling beside him. Lucas closes his eyes again briefly, reaching upwards with stiff limbs to press the frozen heels of his palms into his eye sockets. “Thank fuck, you unconscionable bastard,” muttered Reg, leaning back on his heels, and when Lucas…

A traditional definition of a family is defined as a group made up of 2 or more people stitched together with love for one another that is usually taken for granted in modern times. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night Wiesel tells his firsthand account of how he had to live for both himself and for his father the nightmare in the concentration camps . This proved to have both benefits and consequences. Seeing his father every day gave him a reason to keep going. Once Wiesel’s father dies, Elie…

purposefully motivate himself to endure the struggles knowing that he has someone to share the hardships with. Despite being “half-blinded by flying snow and jostled by gusts of wind” (76), they proceed through it with hope at finding shelter from the blizzard. They are able to rely on the other for some direction which allows them to have a reason to continue and accomplish the task at hand, even the momentary ones of finding refuge from the cold. Relatively soon they begin to take in the trail…

Matt Pickford Ms. Brown 11th Lit 15 December 2016 N. Scott Momaday Navarro Scott Mammedaty, was born February 27, 1934, in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up relatively close to the Navajo and San Carlos Apache communities. Growing up in Arizona enabled Momaday to participate in his father’s Kiowa traditions and some of the Southwest including: Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo traditions. Throughout Momaday 's writing his use of myths and legends from his culture (Kiowa) and his traditions, beliefs,…

Questions/Reflections: How will Eliezer's foot hold up when they are leaving the camp? Will the Russians going to come in time before the people of the camp leave? Chapter 6 Summary: The prisoners are forced to run many miles in one night during a blizzard and those who cannot keep running are shot. They stop in a small village where Eliezer and his father keep each other awake to avoid death. Rabbi comes into the shack where Eliezer and his father are and asks where his son is but once the…

In the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore, a large granite peak was dedicated in 1925 to be sculpted into a monument. That monument today is one of the most visited monuments in the United States. Mount Rushmore is a staple of the United States. On it, it has the faces of four of the most important Presidents of the United States. According to the Sculptor Gutzon Borglum “The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification…

What Challenges Did Explorers and Colonists Face in What Became North America from the 1580’s Until the 1630’s? Caleb McKinney Kris Erskine HIST 154 8/14/14 Explorers are the astronauts of old. They took a step onto an unknown world, risking their lives in the name of glory, freedom, and wealth. They found new lands, met new people, lost lives, and gained enormous wealth. Their courage gave people new opportunities and opened up the world for those that otherwise…

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was way more than just a battle. The events that led up to the battle may be more important than the battle itself. In 1874, gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota. Let it be known that in 1851 the Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed and it protected the Black Hills from white settlement and miners. The Black Hills was considered holy land by the Sioux Indians. The government offered to buy the Black Hills from the Sioux but they refused to sell. Then…

Briann Johnson History T R 11:00 November 12, 2014 The Great Depression The Great Depression was most definitely the one of the darkest times for the economy in the U.S. The stock market crash of 1929 caused this economic downturn. When the stock market plummeted, consumer spending majorly dropped. Companies were making less and less profit, the only options were either closing down or laying off employees in hopes of being able to bring themselves out of this low spot . In 1933, the peak of…