Mother Nature

Throughout the history of mankind, technological evolution has increased drastically, subsequently drawing people away from the simple aspects of nature. During Richard Louv’s passage, he highlights the various ways in which people are connected to modern day technology, and the negative effects it plays on society. Nature is a beautiful part of life that we, as people, often take for granted because we don’t take the time to truly appreciate it. Richard Louv is able to convey the importance of mother nature, and the lasting negative impacts that technology has made on mankind. Throughout Louv’s passage, he uses many rhetorical strategies, to convey the present-day relationship among humans and nature. Throughout the history of mankind, people have slowly started to grow away from the simple aspects of mother nature, directly caused by the increase of technological evolution. Due to our current technological evolution, most of our simple interactions with mother nature occur, “within an automobile looking out” (Line 21). Other times, we don’t even take the time to appreciate nature in the car because we’re focused on our, “multimedia entertainment products” (Line 26), which often come standard with any new vehicle you purchase. Why would we let our…

successfully fully covers the big picture. In the series “Nature is Speaking”, various actors narrate specific things in nature. The one in particular I chose is “Mother Nature” narrated by actress Julia Roberts, compared to others, this episode focused more on nature as whole. The episode connects to ethos, logos, and pathos in multiple…

Mother Nature most of the time is beautiful, sweet, and loving, but sometimes brushes with mother nature could leave you not functional at all or could be even fatal, this is a lesson I had to learn the hard way. Ever since I was little, I have been thrilled by the beauty of nature and the sea that we had in the city where I lived. I would have never thought that nature would harm me in any way. However, due to my constant foolishness and recklessness, I always found myself in deep trouble.…

The Mysterious Being! The first chapter of “The Scarlet Letter” sets in motion the rest of the story in a few aspects including; the setting, an imagined world, and hidden in the text, is Mother Nature. Something that one may overlook throughout simple daily life is the gift, protection, and unforgiveable powers of nature. However, when the society of man dishes out a harsh, unwanted fate to someone while turning their back in disappointment, such as the Puritan Society did to Hester Prynne,…

The Power of Mother Nature According to the experts at the World Health Organization, “Global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by the year 2020” (para 1). For anyone who is familiar with cancer, it is the uncontrollable mutated cell growth that can either be malignant (bad) or benign (no effect), but also know how hard cancer is to treat. Since cancer rates are predicted to increase dramatically within the next ten years, how on earth are oncologists and scientists going to…

the street and, of course, comment on their beauty. Women in the Dominican Republic have had political rights since 1941 and sexual discrimination is prohibited by law. However, women still have not shared equal economic and social status. The Dominican “hiss” is a unique culture trait that is related to Machismo. Women walking down the streets of the Dominican Republic often hear hisses from the men. This is an accepted part of the Dominican culture and is simply a man commenting on a…

A question asked about The Seventh Man is whether or not the narrator should forgive himself for not being able to save his beloved childhood friend K. However, this remains clear that forgiveness toward himself is in the best opinion of the narrator. Forgiveness of one’s self-contributes to “full moral repair” and is a “[duty] to self (157, Nancy Sherman).” In the story, The Seventh Man, the narrator (also known as the seventh man) feels a great deal of survivor guilt associated with the fact…

In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, loneliness is a key theme. There comes a point in the novel where Dr. Frankenstein has to make a decision: to either make his creature an equal woman companion or to refuse his protégé and face the dire consequences. At this point, Frankenstein is knowledgeable that his creation is the murderer of his brother (and indirectly caused the execution of his family friend Justine). He sees just exactly the problems that his creation has caused and how much…

through out the poems, Oliver automatically applies the idea of “transcendence and union with nature” that humans have. She starts embracing her journey in life in the first poem titled “Red Bird”. Oliver starts to embrace the world, when she says in “Red Bird” that she is “grateful\ that red bird comes all winter \firing up the landscape\ as nothing else can do” (1). Oliver is like the red bird which is “returning to the land of the living”. “Returning to the land of the living” is a…

The presence of nature is strong in this poem, but the meaning can also be perceived in various ways. The nature present in the poem can allude to the events of daily life. Nature contains major resources that are worn away by humans, just like humans can tear down other humans. The theme of the poem is pain and grieving. One tree grieves for the health of the other. Overall, the mood remains the same and the poem maintains a grieving mood, and vivid imagery. The poem alludes to real life…