Enchanted

I could tell she hadn’t had an enchanted life. She smelled funny and her hair was unkempt. Her Clothing? Mismatched. Alanah, a fifth-grader with special needs was my charge in a leadership program called “Little River Buddies”. Not exactly the “match” I had envisioned and I could tell she hadn’t been dreaming about me either. She was uncommunicative and appeared helpless. I felt ineffective but I was determined to succeed. By our third meeting, Alanah finally opened up to me. She told me all…

The constellation I chose is called Canis Major. This constellation is one of Orion's hunting dogs. I chose this constellation because I feel that it has the most interesting origin myth. Canis Major was discovered by Ptolemy in the second century. Another fact about the constellation is that its brightest star is called Sirius. Sirius is the dog's nose. Canis Major can be seen in the season of winter in the Northern Henisphere. Here is Canis Major's origin myth. In Greek mythology,…

novel, the dwarves, Gandalf, and Bilbo plan to go on an adventure. When they are planning, the dwarves start to sing a little song. “Far over the misty mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must ere break of day, To seek the pale of enchanted gold.” The dwarves are singing about their newly planed adventure to the misty mountains.…

beach is a land of memories. When I was younger, my sister and I would embark on our mermaid missions with our rightful mermaid names: Azure Waverider and Lunarias. Hand in hand, we’d dive into the indigo depths, hunting for the lost conch or the enchanted red rock to try to please our angry father, Poseidon, who would surely make a wicked storm, if we didn’t complete our quest.…

At this point in the novel, Gatsby has finally reunited with Daisy after five years. Gatsby shows both Daisy and Nick around his mansion, noting Daisy’s reactions to his mansion. Later, a reporter comes to Gatsby’s house, whereupon Nick digresses and shares Gatsby’s background. As Nick describes Gatsby’s humble beginnings, he relies on comparison and biblical allusions to establish a theme of deceit and disillusionment that endures throughout the rest of the novel. Although Gatsby was born into…

Yosemite When I was seven, my family and I entered the enchanted forest known as Yosemite for a campout. It seemed as trees decided to invade the barren Earth. As I stepped out of the car, the smell of sticky, brown sap running down a maple tree smashed my face like an arrow pinning its target to a barrier. The sap threatened to suffocate me with it’s sulfurous smell. The next few days flew by as fast as a falcon catching its prey. Until we were going to play in the river. “Whoohoo!” I…

reader meets at the beginning of the novel. One such event alters Jay Gatsby's persona is when Nick and Gatsby have a conversation in Gatsby's car. “Then came the war, old sport. It was a relief, I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. I accepted a commission at first lieutenant when it began. In the Argonne Forest i took two…

in the palace of King Florestan ⅩⅠⅤ the christening of the baby Princess Aurora is celebrated by guests from all over the magical kingdom. Six fairy godmothers to the princess are in attendance: the Fairy of the Crystal Fountain, The Fairy of the Enchanted Garden, the Fairy of the Woodland Glades, the Fairy of the Songbirds, the Fairy of the Golden Vine and the Lilac Fairy, each bearing gifts and happy to bestow their blessing on the lovely child. Suddenly the festivities are disturbed by the…

to get a message to her and died alone. With the message was the key to the family heirloom, as well as as the key to father's small study. Using the information that Amalee gathered from her father, as well as the family heirloom, which was an enchanted shuriken, Amalee set off from the small cottage to whichever town came next. It just so happened that this town was Matun.…

In the article "The Great Gatsby From Backlands to Badlands: Behind the Facade of the American Dream", Christie Blair and Kate Kingsbury explain the hypocritical ideas and themes that F. Scott Fitzgerald made millions on. Fitzgerald focuses heavily on "rapid movement and growth" which is later contrasted "by sluggishness and greyness that seems to overwhelm the landscape and those within it". The girls believe that Fitzgerald compared the growth of "fantastic farms" to the places like "grotesque…