Lone Pine

As we go through his famous odes we understand how his world was revolving around his lone self, its fears, desires and wishes. We also understand the way he handled sadness and pain and wished to escape repeatedly. The paper is an attempt to observe the structure and lexis of his odes and understand a connection between his style and theme…

The Fascinatingly Lone Survivor A rush of adrenaline enters your body, making the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Shivers run down and through out your whole body as those first few pictures appear on the screen. Every bit of attention is dragged from within realizing its all real life, and not another fiction movie. Thus, making it that much more exciting. The build up of emotions for our military personnel, The Loan Survivor instills deep down while your sitting on the tip of that…

Ernest Hemingway’s Young Goodman Brown is an omniscient third person narrative following the diminishing of personal faith and the enlightenment of the evils behind those who deemed “good” around Goodman Brown. But what if it isn’t a dream and in fact more of realization of what the world truly consist of: sin. Brown was gives the example of a perfect Christian: from his teachings of catechism as a boy to his marriage to his beloved wife, Faith. He embarks on this journey to complete an unknown…

Malicious A twisted tree trunk protrudes out of the silt like earth, covered in crude knots and lanky dead branches; the trunk hovers over the small stretch of land it sits upon. The rough, callous bark of the foreboding tree a dark hazel splattered with sections of sunken grooves. A shadow casts upon the intruding tree, darkening the bottom section of the once splendid trunk to a sinister shade of black. The upper top half on the trunk splintered, as if its own structure and size had betrayed…

story The Inheritor, it is not described as well or with as many substantial details for the reader to properly immerse oneself into the scenario. For example, the sentence, “They were on the only high land for miles around, a peaked hill known as Lone Pine because it had one tree on it.” (Roberts, par-2), does not provide the reader with a lucid vision of the scene, and is quite bland. Furthermore, the setting of Side Bet creates a much more compelling story. The notion of being stranded on an…

but unfortunately failed two times before moving to Texas in 1926. Despite being put down and discouraged by geologists, Joiner was sure of the possibility of the oil deposits east of the Dallas area. In 1930 he began drilling using a very flimsy pine rig and worn out, battered tools. Out of his three well sites, two were unfortunately unsuccessful which made his associates and himself deeper in debt. However, on their third well site…

Stanley Donwood’s Get Out Before Saturday is a painting with several subtle symbols referencing, in my interpretation, a post-apocalyptic landscape. In this paper, I will be investigating and attempting to prove that Donwood’s inspiration for the piece stems from humankind’s deterioration of the planet through our ideological shortcomings in regards to both the environment, and global politics. Furthermore, I will be addressing my belief that Donwood intends to issue a warning through the…

stated that, “ A full 37% of men said they had had some form of homosexual experience at some point in their lives” (Metsel). This was a huge shock to the whole nation. It was said that “Overnight, millions of American men realized that they were not lone freaks for doing what they did,” (Metsel). Before this publication, Gays were thought to be…

Throughout the war, Jeanne watches her father struggle to navigate life within the confines of Manzanar, an internment camp for Japanese-Americans that was constructed following the attacks on Pearl Harbor. After months of separation following his incarceration in North Dakota, Papa’s reunification with his family is marred by his development of alcoholism and the resulting episodes of violence, which inevitably strains his relationship with his family. Years later, as Jeanne reflects on her…

creatures live in a radioactive location, they have had to adapt to the conditions around them. Animal adaptations are common in animals who need to survive in conditions that they are not usual to. “Wolves, usually pack hunters, have begun to seek out lone ranging. One wolf attacked a crew who went into the Chernobyl zone injuring seven people. Spiders in Chernobyl do not make normal webs. A normal spider web is well strung and most prey cannot get through them. Chernobyl spiders weave webs…