Islands of the Forth

The country of Honduras announced their independence from the Central American Federation in 1838. Their economy instantly began struggling to develop. It wasn't until Marco Aurelio became president that Honduras began to see improvements. The area in Honduras that benefited the most from this was the Atlantic costal region of Honduras because the people began to grow and export bananas. This use of agriculture allowed the country to begin to expand and develop. The trading led to improved ports…

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness,” ~ Aldo Leopold Spending the first fifteen years of my life back and forth between New York City and Long Island, I got to live in both, a cement jungle and a green paradise. There were differences between my suburban home and city one, but not as vast as the differences I found during/on my annual trips to my parents’ homeland, India. My family and I would drink water straight from the tap without a single worry back in the States…

Author’s Note Island of the Blue Dolphins has valuable lessons to learn and I have learned quite a bit from it, so should the readers of the book and this guide. In this book, Karana shows great character. The first thing that I learned was about having a good way of thinking. Having a “Glass half full” mindset gets you far in the real world. Working hard and having a positive attitude helps not only yourself, but those around you. The second thing I learned is that you cannot quit doing the…

Flags of our Fathers portrays the gruesome battle of Iwo Jima, an island from the Pacific Ocean that is detrimental in order for America to defeat Japan. A photograph taken of 6 soldiers raising the American flag on the top mount Suribachi becomes a symbol of this war and highlight the politics behind the efforts of war. The movie is built on a series of back and forth between what happened on Iwo Kima, and what happens back home to the flag raisers. All through this movie, the three soldiers…

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel in which the inherent desire for ultimate power is highlighted by the clashing personas of the main characters. The fact that the boys are stranded on an island with no adults, thus leading to anarchy and disorder, exacerbates primitive desires present within the boys. An analysis of the protagonist Ralph, Piggy, and the antagonist Jack will ultimately prove Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, thus shedding light upon the notion…

sky and weighs 27,000 tons, most of which is angles and plates to form and support it. Three million rivets and 1 ½ million bolts hold together the 26,000 tons of angles and plates. The Brooklyn tower drops 17 stories underground and the Staten Island tower drops 10 stories underground (Young 24). Parella 2 The most expensive project on the bridge was the $56.9 million cable spinning that holds down the 264,000-ton weight of the entire structure. There are four of these cables that each…

Paul Gauguin was a prominent figure for the French avant-garde. His career was teeming with work that was much different to the previous Impressionists. His Post-Impressionist art showed new explorations of color. These discoveries had vast reviews from art critics– mainly after his passing in May of 1903. Gauguin studied and practiced numerous techniques during his investigations. These studies consisted of Delacroix’s use and application of color, chromo-therapy, Cloisonnism, Seurat’s…

When the Charlie Hebdo attack happened, people were shocked and angered by the actions of the shooters, though, to the shooters, the acts they committed were just. In Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera, when Saraswathi bombed the bus, she did it to find justice for herself. To those who are negatively affected by it, suicide bombings and mass killings are never justifiable. People have their own idea of what is right or wrong and once a person has made up their mind, it’s hard to…

Baylee - Three Mile Island The Three Mile Island accident occurred on March 28, 1979. This was the place of a nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. This was the state with the second highest nuclear power production behind Illinois. A background on the power plant is almost necessary to understand the total effect on the nuclear tragedy that occurred. The plant was built in 1968, during the period of time called the golden age of nuclear power. During this time period the…

There are four major characters in Kafka’s story “In the Penal Colony”: the officer, the condemned man (or the prisoner), the soldier, and the explorer. All but one of the men, the explorer, has resided in the penal colony for some time. The explorer, meanwhile, is a visitor, presumably from a more civilized, progressive part of Western Europe as the ruling Commandant gives the explorer special privileges as a “Westerner”. At the end of the story, the explorer leaves the penal colony, leaving…