Grass

I was woken up by the hysteric sound of my mother yelling that had pierced through the silent night then closely followed by the sound of boots that shock the floor that had filled the silent night with the constant yelling that was rapidly approaching as the silence descended into complete chaos. It was the night I lost it all my faith, strength, feelings of emotion and compassion had all vanished into anguish. I had little to no time to react as the I jumped out of bed I was immediately put…

between the hours of 8am-5pm it is not uncommon to see the mowers out on the quad or another section of the campus. Personally, I suffer from severe seasonal allergies brought on by things such as pollen and grass. Weekly on my way to class as I pass the people mowing the lawns, I get the grass blowing around on me, irritating my allergies. Class becomes bothersome as my eyes become watery and itchy I can hardly maintain focus. Something as small as lawn mowing is developing into…

Jet Jet, written by Tony Hoagland, uses imagery, diction, and allusion to convey his joyance in being young. By using these literary devices he is able to describe his craving for being young again. In Hoagland's first stanza it says “Sometimes i wish i were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel…” which automatically shows that he misses his youth. That also sets up a care free tone with a hint of regret. Hoagland also has a lot of parts in the poem where he was enjoying living in…

that of graham crackers, and Coda entwined their fingers more tightly together. Hers were slender, flecked with paint, his calloused at the tips after years of dancing upon strings. “They’re beautiful.” “Are they,” Coda would reply, studying the grass before them, and he would pretend that he didn’t see her guilt, pretend that he didn’t mind missing the things Palette found…

morning of my last soccer game of the season. I still haven't made my first goal yet so I was determined to that day. As I got out of my car walked through the grass to get to my team and start stretching to prepare for our last game, the smell of wet grass hit me in the face. My soccer cleats began to get wet and sink into the wet muddy grass as I walked. " Hey! Good morning Navarro" My coach John said. He called me by my last name instead of my first name. " Good morning coach!" I said as I…

With that, I understood empathy not through the abstractions written in dictionary definitions, but rather through the smell of freshly mowed grass, my sister's wide grin and dirty cleats, and my own beating heart. Adulthood, I came to the conclusion, was not defined by a paycheck, birth year, or the ability to legally buy alcohol drinks. Rather, it came with the realization that the one can view…

with rotten shingles scattered atop the roof. Rarely wanting her grass mowed, the Tightwad waited for her small, half acre lawn to grow over eight inches tall and extremely thick, making it a pain to cut. Also, even though she did not have money to fix her house or have her lawn mowed regularly, she somehow managed to buy lawn gnomes and wind chimes, displaying over one hundred ornaments throughout her yard. Combining the thick grass and the abundance of obstacles to cut around, it took me two…

climate. Rainfall is not seen much, averaging only about 150 mm per year, falling in summer. Producers: The producers of the Simpson Desert *Strzelecki Dunefields* is limited to drought- resistant shrubs and grasses for example, "zygochloa paradoxa" grass that holds the dunes together, spinifex, and other grasses of side slopes and desert floor between the dunes. The Channel Country section lies to the northeast of the desert,…

Walt Whitman song of myself is Whitman is going through a physical or mental change because he’s talking about how he “ I celebrate myself, and sing myself” and he’s not depressed or sad about something because once we get out a sadness we go out and we party to show were not that person anymore. He start being more observant to and aware of his senses when he says “The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves” and the touching of “A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms” and…

enclosure for bulls. B. An exercise area for baseball pitchers. Now I am not completely sure what similarities a couple of people warming up and a couple of 900 hundred pound bulls have. But Mr. Pettit has created a new definition. A ring in thick grass where x amount of bicyclists go head to head where the last one vertical is the victor. To me this seems a more appropriate definition. Every year we do this. Pettit says go around the campus then head to the football field. Every year…