Desert Solitaire

Buried (2010) by Rodrigo Cortés is a film construct by only one scene, in the coffin buried deep down under the sand in a desert within a human Paul Conroy with limited resource. Most of the shots using a dark tone to shape a tense atmosphere, in order to increase the disturbed mood and project to the audiences. The first few capture of the shots is all about showing the narrow space inside a coffin, the unfamiliar environment, the heat and the emotional of Paul as well as how limited action…

In True West, Sam Shepard offers a different idea to the traditional American Dream that is taught in so much of our life and literature. It is a piece that features a great deal of symbolism to figuratively give meaning to its production. Examples of symbolism are discovered all over the play and one great example of symbolism could be seen in Austin, Lee’s younger brother. We see Austin wearing a “light blue sports shirt” with “clean blue jeans” and “white tennis shoes.” Clothes say a great…

'In the book, A Long Walk To Water, a sudanese boy named Salva had to overcome hundreds of deadly challenges, survive a war, walk for over one thousand miles in harsh terrain with unknown dangers, lead thousands of boys to safety, and even live in an entirely new country but no matter how hard the challenge was Salva always came through. In this essay I will talk about how Salva overcame all his challenges with his persistence, help from his his uncle, and memories of his family. Salva’s Uncle…

This is a land made mostly of desert and sand. Hence the name. Within the Deserted lands, there are several sections; the Singing Sands, the Red Desert, the Black Dunes, the Black sands of Roth, and off slightly from the coast of the Black Sands of Roth are the volcano flows, that create the black sands. The Singing Sands are the section of the desert that is known to create illusions from those who wander through it. Singing them deeper into…

Arctic tundra The Arctic Tundra is found nearly everywhere in the North. They are found mostly in the arctic. The categorization of a tundra falls between a taiga and the ice caps. The zone is controlled by the extremes in the weather. In the arctic tundra there are two seasons: winter and summer. In the summer, the sun is present almost 24 hours a day. This amount of sun only warms up the tundra to a range of about 3°C to 12°C. In the winter, the lighting conditions are flipped. For example,…

that a man should never be interrupted by love during his journey to find his destiny. Especially the love with Fatima because she's a woman of the desert and she knows that she have to wait for her man to come back from the desert to marry her. From the alchemist, he realized that his destiny had already been set and what a man and woman of the desert have to do. During this journey, Santiago had learned a lot of things about the world, learned about himself, find his love, and finally he…

I believe that everybody has a Personal Legend. Everyone want to achieve or dream of something in life. But sometimes this achievement is full of obstacles and challenges on the way. This dream or achievement can also teach us some valuable lessons throughout our journey. How we see it in the book, “ The Alchemist.” Santiago was in the search for his Personal Legend. He faced many obstacles. From working at a crystal shop to later on being beaten by some refugees from the tribal war who stole…

Most of the officers seem to be at a loss for words as to why he’s taking us to Kut, when Basra is clearly the better place to withstand a siege. I don’t know much about military strategy, but I feel like camping in the middle of the desert isn’t the best idea when we get all of our supplies from the sea. At Basra at least we could be resupplied and be evacuated if the need arose, but I suppose Townshend knows what he’s doing. Then again, after the debacle at Ctesiphon last week, I don’t…

Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), my family would ultimately trade highly urbanized southern California for the vast and barren desert of Parker, Arizona. It was only a few hours away, yet worlds apart. To give you an idea of the landscape, Major General George Patton trained his troops in the vicinity for warfare during World War II. The most extremes of the desert could be found in this region and it would become my new normal. The caveat? The Colorado River. Life on “the river” was…

A desert is an area of the world that is extremely dry. There is not much rain in the desert and officially a desert is an area that get less than 10 inches of precipitation a year. Deserts do not have to be hot, some of the world’s largest deserts are cold which are located at one of the Earth’s pole or in the cold areas of the world. The Hadley cells process is when a large scale atmospheric convection cell where air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitude, about 30 degrees north or…