Gull

Force of Change by Alexis Rockman created in 2017 depicts the junction of the Niagara River, the Erie Canal, and Lake Erie particularly near Buffalo, New York. The painting displays the utter beauty of the Great Lakes, all the while exploring the dangerous forces that threaten them. The piece is one of a series done by Alexis Rockman called “Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle” currently displayed in the Grand Rapids Art Museum from January 27 to April 29. Through the use of several different…

“Sometimes nothing is the scariest thing of all,” (Hahn, 152). Nothingness plays a significant role in the lives of Ali and her cousin Emma, while they are staying at Gull Cottage in Maine, a place where their mothers visited every summer when they were children. While in Maine, Ali and Emma meet an impudent individual who goes by the name of Sissy, who is determined to make the girls’ stay not one to forget. In Deep And Dark And Dangerous, the novel written by Mary Downing Hahn, the girls…

The tricksters gull their victims by using “fancy alchemical terms” (Beaurline 204) and thus succeed in their plot to make as much money out of their victims as possible. On the other hand it always needs a counterpart to the trickster, which is someone who believe these…

As food stockpiles began to run low in the fall of 1941, anything around the city that was edible began to disappear. The city's emaciated denizens caused the population of pigeons, gulls, crows, and rats to disappear; others chose to devour the rotting maggoty carcasses of horses or other animals that were laying in the streets (Hastings 168; Reid 183; “Siege of”). In a like manner household pets-including Pavlov's dogs-were also not…

Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel published in 1992 contain a collection of the best of his writings for The New Yorker dating back to the 1940s. The four books include McSorely’s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould’s Secret. The books are still renowned to this day for their precise and respectful observations and portraits of eccentrics on the outskirt of New York’s social scene. One of these characters was Joe Gould, a penniless and unemployable man…

(Smithsonian Natural Museum of Hihttp://ocean.si.edu/gulf-oil-spill) In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig, which was owned by the British Petroleum Co., blew up and spilled more than 200 million gallons of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The leakage from the rig lasted about 87 days, which made it the biggest oil spill in American history. The Gulf coastlines the American states of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and a bit of Alabama. The oil spill affected many things, it took the lives of many…

Frustrated by her life, her marriage, and her position in society, as she feels like a beautiful caged animal in her husband’s palace, and a society utterly determined by men in general, Desdemona envies Bianca, her friend, in every way because she sees her as a woman of freedom and independence. Bianca, the prostitute is basically the “new woman” Desdemona desperately wishes to become. Aching for freedom, excitement and control, Desdemona, who defines herself as “the daughter of a Senator;”…

Wetland loss is a vast problem in coastal Louisiana. From 1932 to 2010, approximately 4900 km2 of wetlands have disappeared from the Louisiana coast, mainly from erosion and, subsidence, and sediment depletion from the construction of levees, dams, and canals. The depletion of the barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico will allow for uninterrupted coastal erosion. With sea level rise expected to be a catalyst for coastal erosion throughout the 21st century, future land loss is projected to be…

It is an undeniable aspect of human nature to wonder at – and even dream of possessing – the life styles of the fabulously rich. In his “WINTER DREAMS” F. Scott Fitzgerald, an outsider to that class and a wonderer himself, reminds us to be careful for what we wish. All is not necessarily what it seems behind those golden portals. Dexter Green, Fitzgerald’s dreamer, by name and talent – unlike his more famous and mysterious brother in fiction, Jay Gatsby – is certainly dexterous at working…

Many advertisements in these countries promote light skin, and according to Anne Larracas, almost every beauty product in the Phillipines contains something that makes the skin lighter. “We're bombarded with advertisements like that every day. Every beauty product in the Philippines has a lightening aspect. Even lipstick promises to make dark upper lips more pink.” (“The Beauty Industry Promotes Unrealistic Beauty Standards”). A stereotype such as this can make people in Asian countries of…