Campsite

"It was the most amazing trip I've done in my life, without taking a single aircraft and just without leaving an area of some square blocks," says Axel Delttoni, author of this chronicle on the Vipassana meditation course. For 10 days in silence says, you learn to clear the mind of all resentments, anxieties and doubts that prevent appreciate the gift of life. It was eight years ago when I first heard the word Vipassana, and without knowing the meaning thought life could mean healthy. Change…

Many years ago, my family went on a hike along some old, inactive, railroad tracks. As the youngest, I was too small to keep up, so I was resigned to staying back at the campsite with mom. Being left out of the grand family adventures was a disappointment I had become accustomed to over the span of my short life. While they were off on their adventure, and I was bound to the camp, they came across an antique railroad hammer. My dad thought it was interesting and decided to carry it back to…

Everybody has that friend that ends up dragging everyone along when they’re dead set on something, for me that person was my best friend Lexy. The summer after my senior year was when Lexy and I decided to make a list, well she decided to make a list. It was like a bucket list, and we wrote down all the things we wanted to do together that summer before we started college. We were finally graduated from high school and excited to finally be adults and have some freedom. It’s the friends you have…

With the fear of incarceration and dangerous punishment, Iriola is left alone at the campsite. She could hear, “the army man’s boots stamped dirty imprints on the floor,” as he approached Iriola at a vulnerable state (Wood 6). However, on this hunt for Kelemo, Iriola is presented with an escape route and a road to what she believes could…

up and know what it’s like to have to make your own fire pit, shop wood, keep a fire going, and cooking your food over a fire, and keep up with signs of dehydration in myself and others. I can pitch a tent and know some of the basics of keeping a campsite safe. I’ve gone camping countless times and went to summer camp almost every year growing up. This semester, I am also taking a field ecology course that should sharpen my outdoor…

enough of her time be spent there, even during summer break when weeks could be spent with her grandparents in Michigan. The office at the top of the hill had red trim along its green wooden paneled walls, it is where grandmother worked booking campsites. Her family didn’t call it the office, though, they referred to it as the candy store, for it always had a well-stocked candy selection. She was able to buy candy with the change collected in the blue metal tin that set on top of the shelf. In…

Gold, legends are made about it, especially the legend of El Dorado in which massive riches slathered the city. The Gold Rush of 1849 is also a notable for the vast migration to gain fortunes in a land of golden dreams. While these legendary stories did not garner vast fortunes for its explorers, gold will always create mystery and allure while the pragmatists—or realists—mining for gold maintain a respect for the land not simply a source for wealth. For instance, Witwatersrand Basin located in…

After the freeways ended Violet drove for miles and miles down narrow windy roads, surrounded on either side by towering trees. High overhead squirrels jumped from branch to branch dashing after each other. At last she arrived at her campsite. Because it was the middle of the week and the weather was starting to cool, she was the only person in the whole place. She quickly set up camp and headed off into the woods for a hike. She was looking for one place in particular, not one…

In Propaganda Under a Dictatorship, Aldous Huxley explains how the advancements of technology along with an increase of psychological studies have created a pathway that allows forms of mind control to be easier than ever. Huxley looks at Hitler to analyze how a dictator during the introduction of mass communication through technology managed to successfully control the minds of over eighty million people and strip them of any intellectual thought. Through replicating parts of the Church…

“The Things They Carried”- People are inclined to display a confident image of themselves because they fear that if they do not, others will see them as weak. Device Concrete Detail Commentary Personification of intangibles to represent the true burdens of war “They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could…