In Harm's Way

For immigrants who have come to America, the line between the desire to assimilate into American culture and wanting to preserve their own beliefs and values of their culture is a hard one to draw. In the short stories, Who’s Irish by Gish Jen, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and Children of Loneliness, the characters all struggle to accept this new culture and keep their own. The American dream is a predominant idea that immigrants aspire to achieve. All who immigrate to America desire to achieve this…

fiction is that most of her work is associated with the idea of the American Dream in one way or the other. Her story Two Kinds is an art of high aesthetic value because it is viewed as a bridge connecting two opposing mindsets as represented by Jing-Mei and her mother. There is always a hidden message in a piece of literary writing. From this particular work of literature, one can imagine the contrast in the way these two characters see the American dream from their unique…

This adds dramatic sense to the story because, he would not just be moving the deer but he would be saving the fawn. This poem allows for readers to jump into the narrators shoes and decide, if they would take the easy way out, or the hard way. Although the hard way provides way more opportunity. Throughout the poem a lot of stanzas represent and symbolize much for than what is read. One example is in stanza ten “her side was warm, her fawn lay there waiting”. This line shows an opportunity for…

One of the ancient culture from a solar system is about more then million years or even decades old. No one knows the walking delta culture because how old it is, and how far it is from our galaxy. It's more than at least more than a human life away. Its name is walking delta, one of the most rare scenes you can see, it looks like a ancient creature waking named the delta. They can choose to do anything once the soul is out of the body and mind(dead). One can choose when the right time…

The video we watched in lab, “Life and Death of a Star,” gave us incredible information regarding the life cycle of a star. There are billions of stars out there and in our galaxy, we have about four billion. Stars, which are ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful. They collide, devour each other, and explode in enormous supernovas. These “supernovas” are known to be the largest explosion in the universe. Throughout the video, we…

Cepheid Variable Stars are large and luminous yellow stars in space known to sporadically change size and temperature resulting in pulsing variations in brightness and thus, inconsistent levels of luminosity. There are two types of Cepheid Variable Stars; Type 1 Cepheids (or classical) which are high mass stars with smaller pulsating periods and Type 2 Cepheids which are lower mass stars with greater pulsation periods. All Cepheid Variable Stars, named after the first observed star of this type,…

Chapter 4 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a picture essay. It begins with religious pieces of art, mainly from the thirteenth century. It carries on with work from the 14th, 15th 16th century and so on. The images contain subjects like deceased bodies, children, life, nudity etc. The essay is bringing us through the history of art and what was considered important during those years. The next chapter is about oil paintings. As economies grew so did people’s want for materialistic objects. At…

Purpose: To use Parallax and triangulation to measure the indirect distance between two points. Hypothesis: If a long distance is measured using triangulation then it will produce an accurate measurement. Materials: 1. Protractor 2. Ruler 3. Tape measure 4. Table or desk 5. Paper 6. Pencil 7. Masking tape Procedure: 1. Gather all of your materials 2. Clear off your table or desk 3. Place an object at one end of the desk (image A). Using masking tape, label this point C. 4. From the end…

There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. Space is never ending filled with countless amounts of galaxies that we cannot even begin to understand. There are so many stars and so many lives. They have different sizes and shapes and they can turn into different things after they die based on their size and shape. The exact definition of a star is a fixed luminous point in the night sky that is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun, however, stars are much more than that. Stars…

Its span reaches from Polaris in Ursa Minor to Perseus, Auriga and the Lynx within the Milky Way. It is a pretty faint constellation that has three stars with no known planets. The major stars in the Camelopardalis constellation are, Beta Camelopardalis, which is the brightest star and is binary with a yellow G-type supergiant. CS Camelopardalis…