In Bloom

He traveled through the American West and Mexico, which inspired some of his short fiction. While living in England in 1897, he began a common-law marriage with Cora Taylor, a hotel proprietor from Jacksonville, Florida (Bloom 12). Scandals caused them to move to Greece where Crane reported on the Greco-Turkish War in 1897. They returned to England when the war ended. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Crane traveled to Cuba as a reporter and then to Puerto…

The search for self-identity is a topic expressed in many novels from the Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, the character of Janie Crawford from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is a character who progresses through three marriages with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Vergible Woods (also referred to as Tea Cake) throughout her life. Like all major events, Janie’s experiences in all three of her marriages allowed her to gather small components of her own identity. The final…

When Sakura (cherry blossom trees) starts to bloom, the Japanese’s hearts start to throb with joy. As a symbol of a new beginning, Sakura can be easily found in the streets when the cold of the winter starts to thaw. The Japanese celebrate the beginning of the spring through a festival called: Hanami, which means “watching blossoms” in Japanese language. During the festival, people sit underneath the cherry blossoms and watch the exquisite beauty of cherry blossoms with their families and…

The great lakes have experienced a rise in the number of harmful Alga blooms (NOAA, n.d.). Quagga and zebra increase the amount of sunlight penetrating at the bottom of the lake which promotes this growth (NOAA, n.d.). Cladophora is responsible for one particular alga bloom which grows at the bottom of the lake (NOAA, n.d.). Large piles of Cladophora can be found washed up on the shores of beaches after it dies (NOAA, n.d.). Harmful bacteria are trapped within these piles which can harm humans…

he Bluest Eye and The Color Purple, compare and contrast what the movie and book is about, how they are the same but different.the movie and book are both pretty equal with its status of being similar but somehow there are little details that are different. In this essay it will be about the main differences and similarities of both of them. There are at least 15 differences that you might not have noticed, it could be important detail too. You might want to know these important things that go…

has a root system that can extend downward over 8 feet into the deep, rich prairie soil. The grass is a perennial grass and sends out strong rhizomes, which helps connect the soil into a strong sod. Big bluestem, can also be known as turkey foot. It blooms during the summer months and it seeds well into the fall. Other common grasses found on the tallgrass prairie include little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) and buffalograss…

the soul to rational balance each part of the soul must not meddle in the interworking of the other, but should align within themselves. When these parts of the soul synchronize within themselves, only then can the soul unify into a just individual (Bloom…

The Flower That Never Got to Bloom In the texts, “Called Out”, by Barbara Kingsolver, “EmmMarris: In Defense of Everglade Pythons”, by Andrew C. Revkin, and the short article “Sea Stars”, by Barbara Hurd”, we gain a greater understanding of how similar we are to nature in terms of adaptability, persistence, and resilience. In “Called Out”, Kingsolver, talks about how flowers have to adapt to it’s new environment, the desert. In “Defense of Everglade Pythons”, Marris, informs us about Pythons…

Ocean Pollution: A Manmade Crisis In modern society, people do not give a second thought to what is going on in the environment or the changes occurring around them. Many people live with the notion of “out of sight, out of mind” but how much longer can that kind of thinking go on before it is too late? Ocean pollution has been a problem since the Roman times. Which means it has been going on for roughly 2,000 years. 2,000 years of polluting the seas, endangering the marine life, and even…

Throughout the course of my short seventeen years, I have grown and learned many things. I grew up in a small rural town called Elk Creek. There are no strangers in Elk Creek; people sleep with their doors unlocked and their windows open. Everyone who has grown up in a small town can agree that friendship and community become a second nature trait. Although I have copious amounts of love and respect for where I grew up; I believe that I do not belong there. Elk Creek is a scenic vista with…