On Overgrown Paths

razed. Thursday, June 15, 1939, 3:30 pm The first recorded fatality at the CNR crossing by Deyett 's. John Pappila, a local and well known in the small Foley Finnish community hadn 't heard the train and the train operators didn 't see him for the overgrown trees covering the crossing. On hitting his car, Mr. Pappila was thrown out of his car and killed on impact on some of the many rocks. The jury for the accident prudently recommended the removing of the trees and installing stop signs. Actual…

Life is a special journey that human beings must have to go through. In this journey, human will see many beautiful things, go through many precious moments, and most importantly, they will have to make many decisions, which they can not guess where they will go or what they will get with that decision. Life is a difficult journey that is hard to explain. However, Robert Frost, a famous American poet, wrote two poems, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”, to describe this life…

The Victorian rest cure, an (identification of a disease or problem, or its cause) explain in detail to upper class, white, Victorian women who were believed to be suffering from "panic/very strong emotion", or "(serious physical or emotional harm) related to an unsuccessful role (change to make better/related to changing something)" tried to put in them a "childlike submission to masculine authority" (Ammons 35). Charlotte Perkins Gilman, herself a victim of the Victorian rest cure, uses within…

The making and absorption of carbon dioxide by the environment happen naturally on earth. However, the recent extremely high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be blamed on human activity (EPA 9). In the UK alone, they produced 655 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2005 (Gill, Smith, and Wilkinson 3). This fact is especially staggering when you realize that because it is gas, it takes a lot more of it to make a ton than something like wood or iron would. The countries of the world…

Foreword : I have always loved the beauty of Poetry, how words alone can grip the mind and stimulate the soul. Poetry is a feeling, like the tears of happiness or sorrow that we don't speak of. It's the cries of a breaking heart and the songs of love that we keep locked away. Within these pages lay just some of the hopes, trials and tribulations that have made me who I am. So take a deep breath if you dare, And settle into your favorite chair. Of my plights and dreams, have…

HQDA detailers received complaints from commanders concerning placements, quality for Training and Combat Development Directorates at Fort Rucker. They wanted CGSC graduates. I found it interesting that they chose a passed-over Major to solve that problem. And DA told me this was my only promotion opportunity, but by now, I realized that what they said was not what they meant. But the options were scarce, and I was within three years of retirement. Enterprise, Alabama was a low-cost area,…

HQDA detailers received complaints from commanders concerning placements, quality for Training and Combat Development Directorates at Fort Rucker. They wanted CGSC graduates. I found it interesting that they chose a passed-over Major to solve that problem. And DA told me this was my only promotion opportunity, but by now, I realized that what they said was not what they meant. But the options were scarce, and I was within three years of retirement. Enterprise, Alabama was a low-cost area,…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…