Camp Rock

My “personal odyssey” occurred relatively recently, this past summer while I was at a sleepaway camp in New Hampshire. The last year you are eligible to come, the summer before your sophomore year, you stay in a cabin off the main camp called Cabin 12, which holds great significance due to the fact that you’re the oldest on campus, and closer to a counselor then a camper. Being engaged, on time to activities, and having extreme enthusiasm to an almost unbearable point. I was exposed to a concept…

Sudan is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Constant war is always going on, and to be a child in the mix is very horrifying. It’s very hard and scary to try to be a leader knowing you could die at any given moment. In the book, A Long Walk to Water, two different stories with two main characters, Salva and Nya. Both stories take place in Sudan. While war is happening, surviving is far more important than anything else. In Linda Sue Park's’ novel, you’ll keep wanting to read more…

Through the use of Shane it is made apparent that the collapse of even one person’s hierarchy can lead to the downfall of the camp and it can even cause a ripple effect which can damage others hierarchies. It is also apparent that Shane’s want of remaining as leader aided in the downfall of the camp. If Maslow’s hierarchy were tracked through the whole series the times where things go wrong would most of the time be when someone’s hierarchy is either collapsed…

Symbolic Analysis: Don Lee Camp and Retreat Center Introduction When a place transforms from a location you visit into an institution, the symbolic frame plays a large part in that transformation. Over the last 50 years, Don Lee Camp and Retreat Center developed from a rustic summer camp center utilized 7 to 8 weeks a year into a year-round destination where school children learn about marine life, pastors enjoy family time, community members enjoy Sunday dinner, and thousands of children and…

I am a passionate student currently enrolled in the Recreation Program at Western Washington University with a support area in communication. The past couple years have changed my perspectives on where I see myself in the future since starting this major. I am currently looking for a career that works with youth and outdoor recreation. When I think about the skills that I have acquired throughout my life they all seem to lead me in this particular direction. Outdoor recreation is more than just…

The filled out sign-up form lay flat on the table in front me. I asked Jorge about when to give the form to Mr. Puma, the head coach of the camp. Telling me to go as soon as possible, I went upstairs during lunch, joined by him, to deliver the form. However, we saw Mr. Puma teaching a class and I didn’t want to interrupt, so we went back to the cafeteria. There was an extra bit of responsibility…

Maybe my parents just wanted to get rid of me for a week, but I created some of my best memories at Camp Edwards. The camp itself is a paradise for kids of almost any age. Across the seemingly endless campground, there are tons of exciting activities that campers can participate in, such as sailing and archery. Camp Edwards sits right beside a huge lake, making the entire camp feel separate from the rest of the world, a utopia of sorts. Across the vast water to the right sat a lonely island that…

A man and his big native husky named Pepper are passing through the Klondike Yukon.The man and the dog are traveling in the Yukon to get back to camp. On the way there the man builds a fire every few feet, they travel back to camp. The man faces a few obstacles, but he still manages to try and make his way back to camp.Jack London created a story called ‘’To Built a Fire’’ he made the story about a man and his husky passing through the Yukon to get back to camp.The setting in To Build A Fire has…

desert with a sleeping bag, although Ray offered them Peruvian ponchos for an additional $250. After this experience, participants ate a large buffet breakfast before entering the sweat lodge. A site owner reported she learned after the event that participants went two days without water before entering the lodge. ("James Arthur Ray - Sweat Lodge Deaths." |. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2015.) Even after this incident in 2009, con men using peyote sacrament for the wrong reasons still goes on today.…

a Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal. I still remember the nights in the refugee camp when we slept without eating anything because there was simply nothing to eat. Our family, like most others in the refugee camp, relied on aids provided by different humanitarian agencies. We also relied on the kindness of local people who would sometimes give us clothes. The clothes may have been used, but to us, it was more than we could have hoped for. As a kid growing up in a refugee camp, I was told that I…