Dust

it actually hit me. Thick. Dark. Massive. Hurling straight towards me like a huge sea of black dust. Winds exceeding any scale. Plants being ripped up from the ground. Me in a thin blue dress with a dirty apron, hair in a messy bun. Trembling. In two feet was my drafty farm house with the thinnest walls in creation to protect me. Of course I was completely oblivious about what was going to happen. The Dust Bowl. It was here in full force. Hungry for destruction. The date,late September of 1934.…

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest” (2). So declares Nick, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s desire for idealized love is the “it” that preys on him. The “foul dust in the wake of his dreams” leads him to believe that he can only attain Daisy through money and status. Despite his low class origin, he makes it his mission to become rich and…

with helping Charles dig up the grave Miss Habersham later put herself into danger a second time by standing guard outside the prison to protect Lucas who wasn’t even inside the building anymore. The third improbable friendship in Intruder in the Dust was that of Charles Mallison and Aleck Sander. Much like Miss Habersham and Molly Beauchamp, the two boys were born a few months apart and were raised on the same property. Charles included Alec Sander in everything he did from hunting rabbits in…

Racial issues in Intruder in the Dust must be abolished “in house” for there to be long lasting, meaningful change with southern injustice and inequalities. A pyramid can resemble society, with local people and government on the bottom, and federal government and workers at the top. In order for change in society to be effective the change has to start at the base, where there are the most people, all fighting for a common cause. When societal changes are forced from the top of the pyramid it…

History has been written through the lenses of powerful white men. In most accounts the information gained and written is from a biased outlook with a great deal of speculation, and often altered from its true form. As author Kelly states in his book Race Rebels, too many scholars distort and omit the private side of African Americans’ social and cultural history (Kelly). Westerners had a common notion that Africans who were enslaved lost all their cultural ties and tradition due to the…

compared to other fossil fuels, and the fuel source is readily available. However, many people are more hesitant when it comes to nuclear, from seeing it as a temporary fix, to a horrible idea that should never happen. In this article ‘Left in the Dust: Uranium’s Legacy and Victims of Mill Tailings Exposure in Monticello, Utah,” by Stephanie Malin and Peggy Petrzelka, they explored some of the reasons that many are apprehensive towards the development of nuclear energy, specifically with the…

allusion to a common mathematical fractal set: the Cantor Dust, in which there are sets of repeated line segments, each one in a smaller scale compared to the previous one but remaining identical in appearance to the original. A poem called “The Cantor Dust” by Rodrigo Siqueira follows the structure of the Cantor Dust, following the patterns of the fractal set, the words set apart in fragmented sentences mimicking the line segments of the Cantor Dust set, progressively getting smaller with each…

Children of Dust by Ali Eteraz allows every reader a very intimate understanding of one Pakistani man’s upbringing under the veil of Islam. He provides a unique perspective when telling the story of growing up in a Muslim family that fundamentally believed Allah to be a prodigious leader of Islam. Even though his adolescent years were spent growing up in the “Bible Belt” of the United States, retained his identity; believing he had been given a great responsibility years before he was even born.…

nothing to hold the sod it together so it starting getting in the air. Therefore starting dust storms. Witch started to get worse. As more land was ripped up more sand got into the air. Therefore the weather pattern consisted of a lot of sandstorms. This went on for awhile until people realized what is going on. But until that happened people planned on dust bowls. While in the west now there may be no more dust storms but storms that blow through now are very…

The meaning of the golden dust is sickness, like the golden dust, sickness spreads and slowly kills you. Sickness will never go away and will just keep coming back. Sickness may seem harmless at first just like the flu but when you become deathly ill you will have no idea why. This shows how that sickness is just like the golden dust. First of all, the meaning of the golden dust is sickness, it symbolizes it just like sickness can spread from person to person or animal to animal. It spreads…