Mother Nature

the Mark Twain Landing. Thinking back, I remembered the mind-altering experience that opened my brain up to a critical virtue to life, patience. I could not have learned the prize of patience without the form of a stronger bond between my father, nature, and I. Based on my experience, patience is a key in life. My father and I arrived in the hunting parking lot at the crack of dawn. Opaqueness occupied my eyes. We got out of my father’s pickup truck and gathered our…

aggressive tone. The tone is achieved by detailing the brutal actions of the speaker: she “drop[s] the mother [woodchuck]” which “flip-flopped in the air and fell” and count “another baby next…one-two-three” with pleasure as if playing an interesting game. This is especially true when the speaker uses the “.22” gun to…

of the hardships that Strayed faced and then beauty of her journey on the PCT. Reading about her many obstacles in life, I felt very sad for this lost woman and seeing it visualized on screen made it even more of a reality. Between the death of her mother, divorcing her husband, and her drug addiction, Strayed was lost in life and needed to find herself. This is when she decided to set out for the Pacific Crest Trail.…

To Build A Fire is the story of man venturing out into the cold unknown Yukon territory. While separated from his group of friends the character deals with a slew of problems created by personal choice and the effects of nature itself. The character struggles with battling the elements, choices are made and consequences follow soon after. The George Becker definition of naturalism for this study / analysis of To Build a fire will be used. This definition states naturalism overturns the…

Wordsworth combines nature and human interaction to paint a vivid picture through the speaker in the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. The speaker is lonely and is wandering in a world that is bare and high over the hills and valleys. He all over a sudden comes across golden daffodils that blow his mind away through what he describes as the best that he has ever seen in his life. The daffodils are life like and the dance moves and cohesion with different parts of Mother Nature only makes them…

Imperialism and Big-Game Hunting in Ride Haggard’s ‘She’”, evaluates the role of human evolution and imperialism throughout time. Most importantly, Sinha argues the importance of manhood’s representation through animals, the natural world, and Mother Nature. Although masculinity is compared to ‘“the other one’” (Sinha, 29) in both the essay and the original text, She; without a female presence, the power of human evolution and imperialism would not exist. The author is able to show femininity in…

glaciers to disappear, destroying wild animal’s habitat, and numerous fires. There are many things we can do and collaborate to keep these parks healthy. We can’t fight with mother nature but we can surely stop harming the parks when visited. Our help is needed and we should be forced to help, these parks give us the beauty of nature and lets us enjoy its view. Therefore, it is time to take actions and help with what we can. So, one day we can say that these parks look different but not because…

as drugs and violence that happen every day in the inner-city. However, as Wilma Rudolph claims, anyone can escape the brutal inner-city life, they just need the discipline and will to do so. Ancient philosopher, Hzun Tzu, wrote in his text, “Man’s Nature is Evil,” that everyone…

The American 1950s. A time of change and revolt. Psychiatric methods were far different and more archaic than today’s treatment measures. Solutions were often violent or manipulative, sometimes led by medication and drugs. Ken Kesey, an American author in the’50s, was, around this same time, paid to test the drug LSD in a government-sponsored experiment. Concurrently, Kesey worked the night shift on a mental ward in Oregon. While working on the ward, Kesey began to speculate that the patients…

As a Colorado native, I spent much time in the mountains, hiking, skiing, camping, and I've developed an admiration for nature. Of my family, I’m the most skilled at spotting wildlife, from brown bears in the neighborhood, tadpoles in ponds, monk seals on beaches (when my mother was convinced it was a rock), to eagles on trees, I've always paid attention to the creatures around me. Eventually in freshman year I began to seriously study the sciences, and the capabilities of applying them. For a…