Mile End

story. In my book Looking For Alaska, the voice of the story is Miles Halter. Miles is the main character, therefore, the book is told in the first person. The next letter is the “O” which means occasion. The occasion is the time and place of the story. Also, the context that prompted the writing. Everything in the look that is important happens on campus at the Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. The larger occasion is Miles going to seek his Great Perhaps at his new school. After…

Turn of the Screw focuses on the idea of what we are told and what is left unsaid. Because of this, critics have read The Turn of The Screw in two ways. The classical reading has us accept that what we read is true, the ghosts are real and the Miles’ death is as a result of their evil corruption. The alternative is that the governess is mad and that the story is a psychological investigation into the governess’ actions. In his famous essay The Ambiguities of Henry James, Edmund Wilson…

There are many issues and arguments involving speed limits some people follow it strictly and other prefer to go 10 to 15 miles over or under it to many law abiding citizen`s dismay. First of all, there's the fact that people are indeed breaking a law even if a person were to go over the limit by 1 mile per hour that is consider breaking the law in the eyes of the justice system. Second of all, the limit was placed there for a reason most likely for safety precautions in order to protect every…

the Ute chief Pe-teet-neet. By 1842 Miles and Pomona had two children. They named them William Miles and Mary Eliza. He ranged widely across the Rocky Mountains. He met this one man with the name of James Brown. They both agreed on a price of $1,950 for Fort Buenaventura. He then decided to build an enclosed fort. The fort began in 1845. They wanted it done fast. So, it was completed by the end of 1846. The fort was big…

When Victor Frankenstein created his monster, it was a great example of how someone can do something with the best intentions in mind, but get an outcome far different than what they had expected. If one thing is the same all about technology, whether it be for good or evil, it is that most of the time, their creators started out with the best intentions. Probably the best example of this is the Manhattan Project: the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote to…

hiked up Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo, I enjoyed it so much I wrote it up for California Explorer (May/June 2014). Since then I’ve wondered about the other ancient volcanic plugs that make up the nine sisters, a group that starts with Morro Rock and ends at Islay Hill in the southeast corner of San Luis Obispo. I decided to trek down to the area with the idea of exploring the other morros, or at least the ones open to exploration. Morro Rock is environmentally sensitive and closed to climbing.…

appear as black as midnight across many of the north-western states. It was recommended that people not leave their homes and they were told to wear gauze masks to keep the ash from entering their lungs. The eruption also caused about one thousand miles of roads to close (including state highways), trains to be stopped, and it forced aircraft to land. The repairs for the roads alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The eruption was then followed by an earthquake reaching a 5.2 on the…

could see, in every direction, was water.”, "Endless expanse of ocean.", "Adrift for 27 days", "At least 1,000 miles deep into Japanese controlled waters.", "They were alone in 64 million square miles of ocean." (xvii) By referring to how far are in the ocean they are, in several different ways, Hillenbrand creates a lonely and suspenseful mood because there is no one for thousands of miles to help them, they have no food or…

performance she has. An advanced computer owned by Miles Harding ( Lenny Von Dohlen), her neighbor, who lives in the apartment just right below. As Madeline starts to practice on her Cello, the computer while being left on by Miles begins to repeat the tunes that she created using electronic computer sounds that fascinated Madeline; while the computer is repeating the bass clefs without using a cello Madeline thinks that it was her neighbor Miles who was doing so. Madeline continues to play her…

project cost a total of 2 billion dollars. The first test was done on June 16, 1945 at the Los Alamos laboratory in the New Mexican desert. The gigantic explosion was flash of light and has to visible for many miles, a tremendous heat wave. The destructive force of dynamite formed that was half a mile wide that created mushroom cloud rose over 12000 meters into the sky. August 6, 1945 America dropped two nuclear bombs to Japan. The first uranium bomb…