DARPA Grand Challenge

It happened when I was taking a photo of the purple sky and two stretching lakes across the Bonney Pass in the Teton Mountains. I suddenly knew that this wonderful place had transformed me into a better person and a more confident woman. It took some courage to get to that place. Many months before, I had some fear and reluctance when submitting a lengthy application for a counsellor job at the Teton Valley Ranch Camp in Dubois, Wyoming. My stomach had that sinking feeling that I would be…

months, doing training hikes, planning flights, and reserving campsites, but that first view really made everything that went into the trip worth it. Things like that really can’t be captured in a picture. No matter how stunning a photograph of the Grand Canyon is, it’s nothing compared to standing on the edge of a hundred foot drop and just taking in the hugeness of one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Even my little eleven-year-old brain could understand the immensity of what I was…

Herodotus and Sima Qian are known as two of the greatest historians of their time. In comparing each of their writings several different roles that women were meant to fill become clear. Although these vastly different cultures had limited contact, women in Greece and China were very similar during this time period. Each writer gives distinct evidence of women fulfilling, or denying the roles placed upon them as wives, mothers, daughters, oracles, soldiers, commanders, gifts, property, and…

I could write about all the challenges I have faced rather it 's starting a new life here not speaking a word of english, or growing up in a poor country, going through tribal discrimination in my country and being persecuted for being of the tribe that i am m or i could even talk about hiding out in while machine gun are being discharged right outside my home during the war when I was a kid. Although all those memories and challenges that i have faced are forever with me and part…

Journeys through life come in many different forms, yet they all include the same basic progressive steps. They evolve from a dream, to reality, to the inevitable consequences, much like Edna Pontellier. Kate Chopin, in her book The Awakening, utilizes various metaphors of birds to symbolize Edna on her journey, revealing the theme that freedom comes with a price. Chopin opens the book with the description of a caged bird, setting up the metaphor from the start. She describes the bird as a bird…

happiness of their families. Edna and Lucy did not fulfill these expectations. As a mother, Edna was supposed to stay home to look after their home and children. Edna, however, “was not a mother-woman. The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy…

what the kids needed was support and guidance. This challenge was overcome by the aforementioned excellent performances of Michael Kamtman and Leah Roy as their various adult characters. Their accomplished acting experiences proved useful as they shifted between characters with ease through changes in mannerisms and ways of speaking, an example of which I previously mentioned. Other parts of the production team also had to help surpass this challenge, such as the costume designer who had to…

surroundings. The setting of Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening affects Edna through the location, social norms and time period. The location of “The Awakening” takes place on the Grand Isle off the coast of Louisiana, which is very important to the main character Mrs. Pontellier. Of course, like a majority of islands, the Grand Isle is surrounded by an ocean. Prior to the events of the story, Edna was not an efficient swimmer. However, on page 27 she pushes herself to swim out into the Gulf of…

Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement once said, “It’s the action, that is important. It may not be in your power, it may not be your time. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. [. . .] You may never know what results come from your actions. But if you do nothing, you have no result.” The novel, The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, was published in 1899, during the time when the Industrial Revolution and the feminist movement were beginning to…

Despite living in a modern world, social convictions are still present in some countries, especially one that limit women from doing certain things that men can do. '' The Awakening'' by Kate Chopin, set in the Victorian Era tells the story of Edna Pontellier as she breaks away from social norms and pursues her own ambitions which ultimately lead to her death. Furthermore, Edna's death illustrates her rebellion as a form of self-expression. Edna's need for having affairs…