Dugout

Laura Ingalls biography Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867 into the poor, but loving Ingalls family. She grew up in a wonderful home full of chores, tons and tons of work and hardships, but also values and memories that she would one day write about. Her parents mentored her through all of the hardships and the ways of pioneering life and she excelled in her studies. Later on, she became a teacher and married Almanzo Wilder, who was nearly 10 years older than her. Through her life and…

On July 28, 1914, the world was changed forever when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting stage for the First world war. A relatively new form of warfare, known as trench warfare, would arise and cause one of the most brutal stalemates in history. Trench warfare was an inefficient way to fight World War One. Even though it’s main purpose was to defend soldiers, it caused outrageous amounts of casualties due to stalemates and scarred the landscape forever. Trench warfare is a form of…

The windigo figure is one from First Nation mythology which represents the utmost crime against nature and the madness takes over a human should they become one of these monsters. Windigos come from oral stories Native people shared to teach children about the boundary they must not cross for it is a sign of loss of humanity. To become a windigo, a person must consume human flesh, or resort to cannibalism, and slowly a change would take place which would drastically alter a human’s physical and…

In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness an important message can be inferred from the narrator: we all need to be on guard against our own id, and against those who have already given into id. Conrad shows this through light and dark images. The novella starts on a boat with a few men on it, huddled around a man named Marlow in a wise-like position, waiting to tell a story to the group. The narrator is one of the men on the boat, who is listening to the story. The narrator realizes that Marlow has…

Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 chronicles Britain’s moral struggle concerning World War I from before the outbreak of the war to after the armistice on November 11th, 1918. Though World War I—also the Great War—is often portrayed in media as one that was celebrated by all, To End All Wars brings to light a sizable anti-war movement thriving in Britain while telling the story of the soldiers who fought on the Western Front. Hochschild focuses on the…

Baseball, our national pastime, is one of the most popular sports in the United States and around the world. Because of its popularity, many children and adults participate through organized games and even in common, backyard games as a family activity. Every year, according to The American Academy of Pediatrics,” An estimated 8.6 million children ages 6 to 17 participate annually in an organized and recreational baseball” (“Baseball and Softball”). With the astonishing amount of people that…

Paul about three feet away from me. His image was blurry with the smoke in the air. My leg at this point was throbbing in pain. “I’m sorry to inform you sir, but due to your infection, we must amputate your leg.” I think back to Paul and I in the dugout. How he said I was shot about four inches above my knee. I remember telling paul “if they amputated my leg, I’ll put an end to it.” Three weeks ago I thought I was strong enough to get through the war with all of my body parts. My thoughts were…

The Yurok tribe lived in the northwest cone of what today is California. Some of its people lived in villages along 45 miles of the Lower Klamath River. The tribe was one of three tribes – Karok, Tolowa, and Yurok. Yurok territory also ran along the Pacific Coast from Little River in the north, to Trinidad Bay in the south, in addition on the tribe’s inland territory along the Klamath River. Today the land would be in the northern part of Humboldt County and continue north though much of what is…

When one considers events from 1607-1865 in what eventually would become the United States of America, such development can be correlated to a college recruitment game of softball. It’s Saturday morning, and the star pitcher of her high school’s softball team is riding a bus with other players from the state that made it pass round one of a college recruitment game. It’s a long journey across the country to the college where they all have to fight for a position on the college team. She…

It’s in the bottom of the seventh; your team is down by one, bases loaded. Your team is in the meat of the lineup, and you're up next. As you step out of the dugout, you take a deep breath, and you can smell the fresh popcorn and grilled burgers. You can feel the tension from both teams, each earnestly wanting to take the win home. You’re slowly making your way up to the plate, and you're hearing the faint cheers from the fans. But the voices that stand out the most to you are those of your…