Husk

I flip through the pages of a broken binder; they make a satisfying sound, like the snick of grass as you move through it. It’s the sound I imagine papyrus scrolls might make as you crinkle and unfurl them. Crammed into the binder are layers of cursive handwriting and black and white photos. In a vagary of thought, I open to a photo I’ve looked at often. It’s a stoic family that is posed rigidly in their Sunday best. Mostly, I focus on the woman that dominates the top left corner. She’s tall and…

the treatment of the workers. Overseer’s were inconsiderate and did not help out the girl’s when they got injured. According to the novel, it states, “It ain’t right for this place to suck the strength out of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks in the wind.” (113) This shows that the overseers would often overwork their workers, which led to more injuries. When the injuries became severe and the girls were frail, they abandoned them because the girls were no longer useful to them.…

It is estimated that every day we lose 150-200 species from this Earth. Of the 44,838 species that have been assessed, 16,928 are listed as endangered, meaning they are threatened with extinction. The rest of the estimated 8,700,000 species on Earth have yet to be assessed, so the number of threatened species is significantly larger than the current estimate. In the 1970s, many environmental laws were passed to curb the mass extinction of species including the Endangered Species Act of 1973 or…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Lignocellulose Lignocellulose is the major component of biomass that has been generated through various agricultural practices, forest and industry (Anwar, Gulfraz and Irshad, 2014; Collard and Blin, 2014). It can be used as primary or secondary energy source to produce biofuel (Zeller and Grass, 2007). Table 1.1 illustrates the various sources of lignocellulosic biomass from the several sector with some examples. Lignocellulosic materials consist mainly of three…

I remember the day when my mother dropped me off at the front door of my pre-school class- the welcoming teachers who were extra tender, the vibrant wall decorations, and the clueless children who were dominantly from Mexican heritage, but the image that strikes me most is of me hugging my Guatemalan mother’s leg, telling me “Todo ba estar bien mijio.”(“everything will be fine, son.” “Ba” is informal spanish for “va”) In Thompson's web article “Five Reasons Why People Code Switch”, He…

I remember the day when my mother dropped me off at the front door of my pre-school class- the welcoming teachers who were extra tender, the vibrant wall decorations, and the clueless children who were dominantly from Mexican heritage, but the image that strikes me most is of me hugging my Guatemalan mother’s leg, telling me “Todo ba estar bien mijio.” translated in English as “son, everything will be fine.” Only I knew understood my mother 's words since she spoke in Guatemalan Spanish instead…

There is no denying that the United States Constitution is a living document, that is in itself the foundation by which this country is to be governed. No matter ones position on contemporary and pressing social, economic and political issues, the Constitution is the guide and standard. Unfortunately, as a living document, it is open to interpretation by those who seek to use it to suit their purpose. For example, even preceding the 21st Century, the historical document has been used as a…

This poem has a type of association with a specific kind of connection or filter, since the word sieve infers partition by a screen, like a colander. Dickerson's choice to use the word leaden can be strange, since lead makes one associate it with rust and rot, while giving a heavy and overwhelming feel to the title; a heavy sifter may be an allegory for a broken channel. The title can be seen as something that filters something cold and obscure. The following is the paraphrasing of the poem: It…

“Oh good god, could you guys keep it down up there? I’m trying to sleep, and you nine are making it really fucking difficult.” The people above me being the six devil kings, Yahweh, Ddraig, and Albion, all trying to kill each other. In my world. Really frickin’ loudly. All this happened because I was hitting on Gabriel, Michael gets angered, somehow mistaking me for a devil, and gets his dad to start a war, which dragged in the Fallen Angels, while the two dragons were fighting each other. The…

In a time of deep unrest during Gerard Manley Hopkins’ life, a point in which he both loved, yet combated with God, he produced the poem “Carrion Comfort”. The title of said poem was not given by Hopkins, but rather by his friend Robert Bridges (Gerard Manley Hopkins). Nevertheless, the title stands as an overall outlook for the poem to come, for it provides a sense of conflicting imagery, as well as a sense of darkness. “Carrion” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is, “the decaying…