Islands of the Forth

children, started with the citizens possessing complete innocence, which is a common association authors use when discussing children, as evident when the children, Jack Merridew, Ralph and Simon, encounter a wild pig on their exhibition through the island and are unable to bring themselves to killing the pig when they had the pig trapped with a knife held up as they realized the “enormity the downward stroke would be”; however, this all changed when they made their first kill (31). Once they…

when I was able to take the trainer test. The specific day was Thursday July, 24th. It started off as a very dreary day. The afternoon was hot and muggy, and then the skies began to darken. We were all seated at the Clyde and Seymour “Take Pirate Island” show when the skies opened up. After the show, we were scheduled to do our trainer test in the Blue Horizons show pool, but before the rain had even stopped coming down they cancelled the show. We still had about half an hour before we could do…

INTRODUCTION The naval battle of Valcour Island took place on Lake Champlain in the fall of 1776. The battle was fought between Benedict Arnold’s small fleet against Sir Guy Carleton’s superior British naval force. After gaining British naval superiority on the Lake Champlain, Carleton halted the British invasion and returned to Canada. Carleton himself cited in a letter to Lord Germain on October 14, 1776, “The season is so far advanced…whether any thing further can be done this year” as a…

"The Odyssey" is an epic tale by a famous Greek poet, Homer. After being away from his kingdom in Troy for twenty years due to war, Odysseus and his crew started to make their journey back home. Unfortunately, they ran into some trouble along the way. Little did he know, his kingdom had been taken over by gentleman called suitors. While he spent years with other women on his journey back to the kingdom, his wife, Penelope, was holding off marrying anyone else because she had faith he was still…

On Cartoon Network, the smashing hit cartoon show Total Drama Island is a parody cartoon version of the reality show named Survivor. On the cartoon show, there are twenty-two teenagers that are trapped on a camp site called Camp Wananakwa, which is a rundown island. While the teenagers are there, they must learn to survive vigorous challenges, which are insanely dangerous every week, to win a quarter of a million dollars and be safe from elimination. There are two teams which are the Killer Bass…

Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from Rod Serling’s television anthology The Twilight Zone, and the episode “Once Bitten” from the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants, it is clearly demonstrated that the circulation of unverified ideas can bring forth great…

within Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, “The Lady of Shallot”. This level of ambiguity is emphasized within the text through the Lady’s lack of agency, causing the events of the poem to be enacted on her rather than through her own devise. Kinkaid pushes forth the idea that the text removes the Lady’s ability to make decisions as a means of making her fate predetermined and “deemphasizing the image of a personality” to use her as a conduit for the plot of the poem to encircle (n.p.). The question…

that every hero must go through to begin their journey. According to Greek mythology, Odysseus is called to Troy to fight alongside Menelaus in retrieving Queen Helen back from the love-struck Paris. This Call propels his separation from his home island, Ithaca, and beautiful wife Penelope for 20 years. Odysseus doesn’t really want to depart and go to war, but he knows that he needs to help an ally in need. To start his journey, Odysseus must pass through the Threshold which is the Ithacan boat…

Revolutions, usually seen as a clash of ideas, spawn with an simple yet complex ideology with an even more in depth leader. The revolutions at the time of great liberal movements in Europe had such trends. Historically, one may look upon France following the Seven Years War as an example. The tired out peasantry sought reform amongst an aristocratic government. With the deaths of many and passing France amongst diverse leaders, one came to power, Napoleon. Napoleon was a French general who held…

theme still had a huge message that still sends shock waves into the modern era. Huckleberry Finn, known as ‘Huck’ for most of the narrative, runs away from the abuses brought on by his drunkard father. He fakes his own death to leave to Jackson’s Island and those in the town believe the murder was committed by Jim, a slave who was running for his freedom like Huck was. The…