Paddle

In one of the most often inhospitable environments, with 98% of the land covered in ice, winds ranging from 8 kilometers an hour to 64 kilometers an hour, fluctuating climates that potentially reach incredibly cold temperatures down to -89 degrees Celsius, continuous daylight during summer, and storms that arrive rapidly in which potentially cause incredibly contrasting weather patterns within relatively short distances, lives the Emperor Penguin. Consequently, the Emperor Penguin has many…

Shared Pain, Reluctant Heroes With a 50 foot extension cord tied to his waist and the other end tied to the back of a truck, Robbie struggled to rappel down a 60+ foot sheer abyss towards the glacial waters of Lake Kachess hidden below the towering alpines, risking his life and his family’s future to rescue a stranger; the father of a teenaged daughter and her mother, whom Robbie, my son, and his wife, Kara, had come across only minutes ago. I was immediately thrown back to this perilous August…

Richard Parker; however, he is additionally mindful that there is an entire host of perils holding up to destroy him. Pi 's imagination and genius (he covers himself with wet garments to shield his skin from the sun and fabricates a pontoon from paddles and lifejackets to keep him at a sheltered separation from both the tiger and sharks) empower him to remain physically safe. Pi recollects how the delicate orangutan used to hold him when he was a kid, picking at his hair to sharpen her maternal…

Freedom can mean many things to many people, freedom to me means being liberated from what once held one in bondage. Although, freedom according to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary gives a concise definition which states: “Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the other power of another: independence. Nevertheless, Martin Luther king Jr. is a well-known activist who fought for the freedom for African Americans. Also know for the March and his I have a dream speech. He wrote a letter…

My bird blue was not just my pet, but also he was my best friend that I even considered him as my son. On new years eve I went to a pet store having in mind that I was going to buy a dog because since I was a kid I always like dogs, but unfortunately I never got one because of the space that I was living; it was small. As I went inside the pet store, there were noises of all different kind of animals including cats, dogs, rabbits and birds. At first I noticed some cute chihuahuas and other…

Violent Video Games The sound of a gun echoes throughout the room as he pulls on the trigger. A woman has been shot through the chest, and she crumpled to the floor. The man that shot her felt no remorse, luckily he only pulled the trigger of an XBOX controller. and no-one really got hurt. Those who enjoy video games can be subjected to an uneducated stereotype, which is violent games contribute to violence in society. This assumption is ultimately proven false by many on-going studies,…

The sculpture I’ve picked depicts a woman swimming (debatable) as she holds an ibex or gazelle shaped dish, and it is almost as long as a hairbrush. It nests in a glass case with other pieces of the ibex motif just a few turns away from the Hatshepsut statuary room. The purpose of this essay is to detail the statuette’s properties, hopefully finding how the properties display specific qualities of Egypt in its eighteenth dynasty. I chose this item because I couldn’t help but make the connection…

Hurricane Katrina? The novel Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, tells a story about Abdulranman Zeitoun, who makes the decision to ride out Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun abandons his family in order to stay in New Orleans to protect his land and business. As Zeitoun paddles around New Orleans in his canoe, he experiences a widespread of corruption. Through law enforcement, Camp Greyhound, and the FEMA, “Zeitoun” examines corruption in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The law enforcement’s lack of…

The Life of a Depression Era Baby (an interpretive essay on the life of Nancy Zabriskie) After my grandfather died unexpectedly, my family sat around the table mourning his death. You know what you do when you sit around the table? You talk and you eat. Because of this, I was very overweight at birth when I was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1931. They could barely find my neck! After this, my mother swore to never get that heavy again. Unfortunately, she lost too much weight. My brother,…

The paper begins by setting the context of Montreal where the Play it Fair program started. Montreal is the second largest metropolitan city in Canada. Based on the latest Statistics Canada survey, there are about 3 824 221 people in the Greater Montreal area. It is one of the most diverse cities in Canada comprising 30% of the population born outside the country and 26 % part of the visible minority. The city of Montreal hosts 75% of Quebec immigrants. 53.6% speak French as their mother tongue,…