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She was gasping for air but the ashes and black smoke burned her throat. She heard people yelling “Get down! You can get air” but she was focused on getting out of the smoldering building. When she exits she struggles to see, the soot and smoke are burning her eyes. When she finally gets them open she can’t believe what she sees. Fire has been used for years for many purposes, to burn trash, to rid of unwanted trees and brush, to clear land, or just for the average bonfire and s’mores. Most…

McDonald’s vs. Subway: Food, Money and Charity Fast food restaurants are everywhere. They are convenient and sometimes less expensive than regular restaurants. But, is that all they are good for and is it just about food? For the purpose of this paper, McDonald’s and Subway have been chosen to compare and contrast the differences from food to their social contributions. Both restaurants are part of the fast food industry but sell very different products. They have different backgrounds but have…

Someone has just broke into your house and they are armed, are you? Personally I would like to be armed in this situation so I could protect myself. This is one of the reasons that make me feel that guns are good. Guns can be used in many ways but I have chosen three. They are good because we can use them for entertainment, hunting, and protection. These are all very good reasons of why guns are good and why you should own one. Some people think guns should be banned completely but hopefully…

The Nez Percé were one of the most numerous and powerful Native American tribes originating from the Columbia River Plateau region, or modern-day Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana. This region consisted of warm summers and cold, snowy winters. The Nez Percé lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving with the food supply, fishing, hunting, or gathering wild plants for food. Fish, specifically salmon, was a staple. They practiced traditional religion based on Animism, which integrated their…

We have all known an ‘Emily Grierson’ at one point or another in our lives. We have all known someone who seems to think they are too important or too good to even be seen with someone that they think is a lesser to them. Someone who would rather sit alone, than make conversation with anyone they think will hurt their image. The ‘Emily Grierson’s’ in our world think that their human worth is defined by their status. We have words to describe people who think and act this way; arrogant, snob,…

In William Faulkner 's fictional short story, "A Rose for Emily" he illustrates Emily Grierson’s struggle to find her own identity in the judgmental society surrounding her. As the story continues, the generations become more modern. The encroaching subjective society tries to overcome Emily’s traditionalist manner, but Emily’s behavior conveys how she surpasses the new generation, and continued her tradition as though she did before. Faulkner’s use of a first person-plural narration potrays…

Walker while talking about the Wasichu or a person of western culture who destroys nature and doesn’t care for the environment states “you can see the men who did this were crazy… They just killed and killed because they liked to do that- black elk speaks” (Walker 663). The Wasichu were so wasteful and never killed to survive they killed for pleasure which lead to the needless death of thousands of buffalo. This is just one example of a pointless waste of natural world this thinking started…

She came from Montana where there are more elk than people to California where all the glitz and glamor came from. She struggled with fitting in but eventually nestled into the new West Coast high school hierarchy. She had to help her parents a lot with working at the apartment complex all while…

van Stralen, H., & Iken, A. M. (2013). The Coveted Monument. Psyart, 4. After I have read and reread the short stories listed in the Complete section of this week, I find that A Rose for Emily intrigues me the most. I think it is probably due to the way the story is narrated. I like the way it is framed in a first-person point of view but also relies on the feelings of many. In the nearly 90 years since William Faulkner produced A Rose for Emily, many writers, scholars and critics have…

More specifically, the Santa Fe traders, including Gregg himself, used horse, mules and oxen to draw wagons, with a change from horses to oxen coming in 1829 when Major Bennet Riley introduced the armed guard alongside the traders in order to protect the supply wagons. The military escorts slowed the progress of the wagon train as they had to wait for the escorts at the Council Grove (Figure 2). Although it seemed to help to psychologically to give a sense of security, it was the offices in…