In open court

"Have patience" declares Dale everyday as we work on the farm. One time we had a calf stuck, and we had to get it up and pull it out. It was on Christmas morning and we had to do it before we started Christmas. I did not have much experience pulling calves but I had to assist anyway. I had no idea that pulling a calf would be so difficult. One time before Christmas morning we were out checking the cows when suddenly we spotted a cow that was having trouble trying to have a calf. So we went…

Fredric Reamer (2007) defines an open adoption as “an adoption where at least one biological parent and their child’s adoptive parents have contact with each other, share some identifying information with each other, and the child, when old enough, knows that contact exists.” Through this definition, there can be many different types of open adoption. Some open adoptions include the birth parent as a prominent role in the child’s life. Other open adoptions limit the contact between birth parent…

documentary. Produced by Garry Mcnab, Lost at Sea follows Ross Chapman a young and daring fisherman swept into an unfortunate ordeal after falling from his boat. Infatuated with fishing from a young age, Ross Chapman often fished alone on a small tinny in open waters. He is portrayed as courageous, brave and extremely lucky within the documentary, and the viewers are positioned to see him as Australia’s luckiest man. The documentary begins with a…

Journal five- Stephen Crane “The Open Boat” Four men are in a lifeboat, lost at sea, off the coast of Florida. The oiler and the correspondent are taking turns paddling with the oars they have. They eventually see a lighthouse. As they try to get closer to the lighthouse, they use the captain’s jacket to make a sail. It works until the wind dies down. Eventually they get closer to the land but they are amazed that nobody sees them. They try to paddle towards the land but the waves are too…

“Shadow Divers” by Robert Kurson is an adventurous depiction of a group of amateur deep sea divers who discover a U-boat, a World War 2 era German submarine, sunken in the deep waters off the coast of New Jersey. The sea divers eventually find out that there are no official records listing a sunken sub at that location and later set out to determine the lost identity of the mysterious U-boat. Kurston focuses on the two main divers who obsessed over the U-boat, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler,…

But about midway through the 2001 season she entered the Pacific Life Open. Though she did win that event Serena did not enter that event again for until 2015 because of how the crowd acted. They believed that the williams sisters where fixing that match by not playing against each other so that Serena would be more rested…

Australia's rugby women’s team has a chance to showcase to the world their prowess as they battle it out with rivals New Zealand in the Women's Rugby League World Cup 2017 on Saturday. The high stakes game will be played at the Suncorp Stadium in Australia on December 2, 2017. Saturday's game will be second successive final between the two teams. The Jillaroos, as Australian women’s team is known, has played against the New Zealand's Kiwi Ferns in the finals in a record four times. They are the…

If you have ever met an open source enthusiast, you’ve probably heard their reasons behind why they believe it is the best and only way of the Internet. It is undeniable just how many benefits open source software offers, but the most controversial question today is do those benefits outweigh the negatives? If you are unaware of what open source is, here is a quick summary that those of us who aren’t technically inclined can understand; it’s free to use, you can customize it, security…

of what Mrs. Mallard is doing alone in her room symbolizes freedom. When she goes to her room, presumably to grieve, she is actually realizing her future. The narrator speaks of her looking out of an open window at patches of blue skies (426). The window is being used as a representative of the open opportunities in which she will now experience. The text also mentions tree tops, birds twittering, and the smell of a coming rain storm, indicating that this is taking place during the springtime…

The battle of the Century Time and time again we see man enter the boxing ring with nature. In most cases nature will triumphantly overcome and destroy man, however, there are situations where man miraculously overcomes nature. In “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane, four men attempt to find land after their ship has sunken. These men are on a boat that barely fits them, with an ocean that has no end, no food, and no way of finding land. As the great Rocky Balboa once said “Its not about how…