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Rambunctious Garden Critical Book Review Emma Marris opens Rambunctious Garden by dedicating the book to her mother for sending her to Audubon Day Camp. Though her statement is unexplained, Marris seems to reference how she began to care about nature. In his A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold wrote about how direct interactions with nature can lead one to care about the land, to develop a land ethic (Leopold 223-225). Audubon Camp was how Marris developed her land ethic. Though this…

The Uncertainty of Death Death is the final destination of a person’s life and when faced with the harsh reality of death this impending idea of doom begins to alter a person’s path of thinking causing them to become more reckless. In the short story “The Pit and The Pendulum’ the author Edgar Allan Poe continuously outlines the darkness of imminent death as the narrator is faced with multiple obstacles which he must overcome in order to escape. The thought of ones life ending puts a large…

literature, specifically “The Aleph” and “The Garden of Forking Paths”, Borges attempts to explore the different ways to articulate the topic of infinite time and space by placing distinct attention to certain aspects. Though Borges develops his short stories in various ways to bring such fantastical ideas to the center, they arrive at a similar point as the incredible nature of these notions are lost because reality cannot sustain all the infinite possibilities. Through the juxtaposition of…

Throughout the first half of the semester, we have explored a number of themes and issues that pertain to literature that can best be described as “queer.” “Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself. Queer theory ‘focuses on mismatches between sex, gender and desire’". Giovanni’s room by James Baldwin, is a great example of sexual orientation, race, sex, heterosexuality, and whiteness. The author goes into great detail to show this. Toni…

The year is 2019, and America has barely survived a third world war. The background is a room with blue carpet. The walls are beige with a dark wooden boarder around the top. A long, wooden table sits in the middle of the room. At the end of the table sits President Donald Trump, turned around looking at a screen where the news portrays the current state of the nation. Enter Niccolò Machiavelli and Augustine of Hippo. Trump: [turning to Machiavelli and Augustine] Hello. Who are you? Augustine:…

In the book Inside Out and Back Again, and in the article “World of Difference Benefit Luncheon”, Ha and her family, and Gurung both show the same struggles and challenges of feeling inside out while fleeing and finding home. If they wanted to fit in with the other people, they had to risked many things, speak and learn a new language, and practice a different religion and culture, for instance, “I’m furious unable to explain… I hate, hate, hate it.” (156) After fleeing Saigon, Ha can not speak…

The story featured in this essay is “The Window” by Brian Evenson. The character is telling his friend about the obscure dream he had, or even possibly a real event that occurred that he is still trying to decipher. He is unsure if it even happened because the details are a little fuzzy and quite literally, out of this world. The character keeps distorting perspectives which does not seem to have a purpose until later, when he describes that at the point he feels an out of body experience. As in…

Love, status, and money In the two stories “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi” both show a different view of love. In the stories they show the lack of money, status, and love for their partner. These appear between both Della and Madame Loisel are similar and diverse. But love plays a big role in the two books it shows their character and what will become of them in the end. In “The Necklace” Madame Loisel is miserable with her life. The lack of money, status and the love of her…

Personal Narrative As a person, I never choose a side. I am both introverted and extroverted, both confident and insecure, both positive and negative, both impulsive and cautious. I’m a mix of everything because although I love talking to people I hate talking to strangers. Although I like crop tops I feel insecure the whole time I wear them. Although I think there is good in everyone I believe the world is a terrible place. How people view me changes drastically from person to person because…

JcPenney: A Narrative Essay on Life’s Most Embarrassing Moments The waiting room at JcPenney filled up with sunshine and magic. Everything was now lit up in a new spectacular way. The bench in front of me gave off a spectacular light that made the world seem beautiful. Everything that seemed magical to a six-year-old me still has the same effect to this day. When I was six years old, I hated the idea of shopping. The very thought of looking at clothes and other appliances for over an hour did…