Fellow traveler

College can be a rough transition from high school. Most students in high school have a license and cars and are just practicing independency. This liberty is almost often ripped away from freshman and sophomores in college who most times aren’t allowed to have cars. Although they don’t necessarily need cars due to living on campus, it still derives them of the liberty of going home as one pleases. Unlike juniors and seniors with cars who are free to leave at their own discretion. Due to this,…

flee to wales with a small caravan. Externally, the Queen’s caravan must keep the boys in safety while the lords all try to kidnap them. Internally, Dame Frevisse must decide whether she is willing to put the entire convent in danger by housing the travelers, or send them away to their imminent deaths. She is fighting against her faith versus her duty. During their travels, the caravan runs into difficulties like the outcasts attacking and killing two men, curios nuns beginning to learn the true…

Vonnegut uses two types of symbolism in this specific novel including christ symbolism along with his use of regular symbolism. Like Jesus, Billy “predicted” his death. “As a time-traveler, [Billy] has seen his own death many times[.]”(141) He knew he “will die, have died, and always will die on February thirteenth, 1976.” (141) In relation to the Bible, Jesus predicted his death. “He then began to teach them that[…]he must be killed…

It was on Christmas day 1779, when James Robertson and other 300 young fellows achieved the site of Nashville following to going on overland course from East Tennessee. Three days prior, Colonel John Donelson left from stronghold Patrick Henry, driving a navy of flatboats assigning travelers and their property, bound to join the Robertson party in Middle Tennessee. The Donelson party went down the Holsten and Tennessee River and…

Fear of Flying As I walked through the terminal I feel the dread from buying the plane ticket loom on my shoulders. I wanted to turn back and run. My anxiety builds up as the line slowly creeps forwards to the beginning of the corridor. As I near, I see people getting on the plane. There is a space between the plane and the corridor. I look over the crack and I see the ground below the plane. I hear the engine roaring beneath me as I step into the opening of the plane. I am greeted by a…

1.2 Yalom’s model of existential psychotherapy Yalom believed life has arisen from random events, we are finite and we are responsible for our own destiny (Yalom, 2008), and he identified “four ultimate concerns” as the key to all human existence; death, freedom, isolation and meaningless, and stated, “The individual’s confrontation with these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential dynamic conflict” (Yalom, 1980 p. 8). Death is the central part of Yalom’s philosophy, as we are…

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hathorne is a short story that is a prime example of the stylistic criticisms of Puritanical life that Hathorne is renowned for composing. Hathorne has a connection to those of Puritan faith, as “Two of his ancestors were judges; one had persecuted Quakers, and another had served at the Salem witch trials. ” The latter judge that this quote references is his direct ancestral link, Judge Hawthorne. The spelling is different because Nathaniel Hathorne, ashamed…

where the earliest inns were homes with rooms provided for travelers. Conditions improved in 1700s England when the renaissance sparked the desire to travel. The United States saw its hotel industry created a century later. By this time they had revolutionized many firsts in the industry including private rooms with locks and doors, free soap, a trained staff, and a pitcher of water in each room. Indoor plumbing and the creation of the lobby followed shortly thereafter. The business of providing…

Song to the Plains. She was highly intelligent and wanted to cover both of the views of women and men during the Westward Expansion. Though, her book was not as “feministic” as Kingston’s book. There is a feel of pride for her country and how her fellow man has grown as time has passed into what it is now. Kingston’s book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, has more of an impact on the empathy of the reader. She takes the reader personally into her life growing up, though it…

lot of that instruction something to do. He persuaded his folks to give him a chance to pitch daily papers to travelers along the Grand Trunk Railroad line. Abusing his entrance to the news announcements print to the station office every day, Thomas started distributing his own particular little daily paper, called the Grand Trunk Herald. The breakthrough articles were a hit with travelers. This was the first of what might turn into a long string of entrepreneurial endeavors where he saw a need…