George Schaller

Visit Alba in October and you'll be just in time for the local truffle festival. The streets will be packed with vendors, and the air thick with the scent of this delicious, edible fungus. Every restaurant in town will feature it's best truffle dish. Witnessing such a scene you would never guess at the relative scarcity of the truffle. Every year farmers head out in the dead of night. They take their truffle sniffing pigs or dogs and steal off to the fields. The location of a truffle crop is…

Even the greatest monument will seem miniscule,if there is no one there to presence it.Percy Shelley tries to illustrate thisin the sonnet “Ozymandias.”In the poem the emperor builds his empire and image to invoke fear in anybody in his presence.As the poem progresses the reader is made aware that the empire is nowhere near its former glory, just being another fallen empire.Because of this the reader is dependent of the narrator to relate on Ozymandias’ leaving the emporer in a vulnerability he…

Leiningen And The Ants Leiningen And The Ants is basically a man versus nature war. Leiningen realizes that the ant population is very large, but he never gets the full picture that the ants population exceeds his expectations until. He comes across a field filled with ants covering twenty square miles headed to his territory. Leiningen then understands that all of not only his people but his home will be put to waste if he does not make a move. Leiningen is warned by the…

Throughout George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the revolution of 1917 is being presented, in the form of animals. There is an obvious evolution of society from a democracy to a dictatorship. Old major had a dream where all the animals are living together, without humans suppressing them; now Snowball and Napoleon are dedicated to achieving Majors’ dream. Snowball is betrayed by Napoleon thus for ore power and control. Old Majors had a dream, where all the animals lived together and were free. In…

William Henry Harrison was the oldest president of his time and served the shortest time in office, thirty-two days. Harrison was sixty-eight when he went into office and died a month later, becoming the first president to die in office..William Henry Harrison was the ninth president, and although he was not president for long he had accomplished many things throughout his life. Before his presidency, Harrison became well known as an Indian fighter and military hero. He also served in the Senate…

The tale of a war is told by the victor, but what happens when there is no winner, and the story is told by two different nations. When the war of 1812 was fought, no country had a definite winner. Both America and Britain/Canada were able to tell the tale, but what were the differences between the two? The tale of the War of 1812 told by America focuses around America view, and often doesn’t mention other nations strifes and wars at the time, as well as skips mostly over the battles they lost.…

The Formation of a Collective Society “Totalitarianism begins with using the word “we” without every I’s permission” (Wiśhiewski). In Anthem, Ayn Rand gives a glimpse of what it is like to live in a collective society. Equality 7-2521 is unlike his brothers and is “cursed” because of those differences. Throughout the story, Equality goes on various adventures such as finding light and leaving his society along with its collective nature. The process behind creating a collective society in…

From a lot of historiography of the revolution, I choose two amazing interpretation of the revolution. One is revolutionaries or the Whigs interpretation and the second one is loyalist or Tories. The revolutionaries named during the American Revolution. Colonist called revolutions or loyalists according to which side they decided to support. Colonist those didn’t want from England are revolutionaries and loyalist were to stay with British government and think breaking away from them is not the…

What if you lived in a world without data? It might be difficult to complete certain tasks such as writing report cards. In the futuristic novel, "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, uses information and data as something very valuable for two characters- Peter and Valentine. In the novel, words and information serve as ammuntion, influence, and deception for the characters. Peter uses words and information as ammunition in his conspirary to control the world. With Val's help they can "say the…

Our first president, George Washington’s, birth took place on February 22, 1732. Washington’s original birth place was in Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Washington's birthday is strenuous to figure out because he was born twenty years before the introduction to the calendar. Americans honor Washington's day of birth the Monday before his actual birthday. When Washington was eleven his father, Augustine Washington, died leaving most of the property to George’s older brothers.…