Ground squirrel

My eyelids peeled open ever so slightly and never in my life had the view been so profound. Lying in bed, reality looked like a Hollywood movie and everything around me was clear and in sight. Without getting up, my neck snapped to the right. Outside in the distance, I could hear a young boy walking the sidewalks, rock music blasting in his ears, waking me from my slumber. Yet, it was only 4 am and I was fully awake. I go to throw the blanket off my unnaturally warm body and find myself…

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” This quote by President Herbert Hoover perfectly summarizes the consequences of war. Hoover knew exactly how war could obliterate everything in its path. After World War I, Hoover served as head of the American Relief Foundation, which fed war torn Europe (Weissman). An unfortunate staple in civilization, war, hurts almost every aspect of society. War causes a lot of harm to its partakers, however the group that receives the…

Prologue “Come on, we are almost there,” I said scared. The rustling of leaves got louder as the soldiers closed in. We heard shouts of soldiers, many running to follow commands, and then, screams. “It’s bugged!” The officer yelled. The rustling got louder and the screams of pain shook the trees. Thousands of birds flew into the sky at once, casting a dark shadow above us. We ducked into a small hole behind an oak tree and covered ourselves with leaves. The forest settled into a peaceful…

trot. At Medal Finals last year, I heard my horse lose a shoe mid-course. Given that he has hoof issues with special shoes, I made a split second decision to come to a halt and hop off to grab the shoe before I forgot where he lost it. I slid to the ground, timer still running, and hopped around idiotically on one leg pointing to my foot to try to convey the shoe was gone. Nobody understood and I looked hysterical. I know I did what was best for my horse, but being mocked for doing the chicken…

Hemisphere including deserts, plains and mountains. There are 24 different species of rattlesnake, and its average lifespan lasts anywhere from 10 to 20 years. A rattlesnake’s diet usually consists of lizards and small rodents including mice, rats, squirrels or rabbits. It measures around 5 to 6 feet long and approximately 5 pounds and often takes several years to mature. Natural predators of rattlesnakes include crows, coyotes, skunks, raccoons, roadrunners, king snakes and more. Taxonomy …

Religion is brought onto a society by that society. Not everyone believes in the same religion because everyone finds different aspects of life “most important to them.” “Religion is a function of human life that grounds and propels us into the world based on that which is most important to us.” (HOW DO I CITE THIS?) Religion whether or not you believe in a God is something that makes us better people because it helps us strive for excellence. Something can become one’s religion when it is…

needed to hurry up and get to the stand. When we get to the stand, I start to climb up the freezing cold metal rungs of the ladder. When I got to the top of the stand I remember thinking it was so high up, but it was only about 13 feet above the ground. My brother handed me the gun, which was really cold and really heavy. The…

When I pulled up to the lot, I saw vast canyons out in the distance. The colors danced over the rocky terrain, orange, blue and purple. The sun soaked sand was hot and dry. I stepped out of the car, seeing the heat of the mountains before, as though it was a giant grill. I went to the trunk to unload my things. The sweltering heat made it nearly impossible to even walk to my destination of Mesa Verde. As I staggered to the National Park, I took in the beauty of the mountainous landscape. I…

all by myself in the woods with one there but myself. It got really boring so I started playing on my phone. Then I heard something running through the leaves, then I thought to myself what if it’s a deer, but I’m looking around then I see it is a squirrel. I was mad that I thought it was a deer, so I go back to playing on my phone age then I look at the time it’s only 6:30pm it doesn’t get dark until close to 8:00pm I still have an hour and thirty minutes until dark. So an hour goes by an d…

to sleep. The forest, full of trees and bushes with a clearing in the middle that we cleared out months before to have a chance to shoot a deer. The ground had been solid from the glistening snow that had fallen about a week ago. Bang!, we heard something moving around on the roof, It hopped off to a nearby branch overhead, it was only a squirrel looking for some acorns. There was a faint noise to my right that my cousin did not hear so I nudged him and quietly told him about it. As the noise…