Pine Barrens

Across North America, the use of guns and firearms were very controversial and still are till this day. Many Canadian politicians and citizens have looked down on the United States their gun control laws. On December 6th, 1989, an eye-opening tragedy for occurred. Twenty-five year old Marc Lepine walked into the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, murdered 13 female engineering students, a woman staff member and killed himself. The massacre left the victims’ family in devastation and…

stereotypical “Plains Indian”, which I come to think of as a member of the Lakota, Nakota, or Dakota. Images could be shown in class to show students the “stereotype” versus an actual Native resident of South Dakota. The scenes with Russell Means, a native of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and John Trudell, a native of the Santee Dakota, show an interesting perspective into how the extreme poverty and corrupt politics still factor into daily South Dakota Native American life today (Diamond,…

tales of this mythical beast that stalks the Pine Barrens and terrorizes local residents. For example the devil would chase people out of their homes and killed others. People moved many times. Legend has it that in 1735, a Pines resident known as Mother Leeds found herself pregnant for the 13th time, but this time to a demon called “The Jersey Devil.” In the 18th and 19th centuries the Jersey devil was spotted sporadically throughout the Pine Barrens region. The most infamous of these…

1. What is Born Lucky all about? On the surface, it's a story about a young psychic who has to go and try to help find kids who have disappeared in the Pine Barrens. But beneath that is a story of a young man trying to come to terms with a gift he didn't ask for and that can have real, physical consequences for him. It's about JD conquering fear. 2. What is it that draws you to the horror, thriller, sci-fi and paranormal genres? I like writing about regular people in extraordinary situations…

Piers Gorge Rapids offers kayaking and class IV-V rafting opportunities as well as hiking trails, and is always worth the trip. If the wild isn’t your thing, plenty of other outdoor activities are available right in town including downhill Skiing at Pine Mountain, golfing at Timberstone or the Farmer’s Market every Saturday. The best-kept secret in Iron Mountain is Millie Hill. Millie Hill was home to the Millie Mine, which operated from 1881 to 1936. Approximately a half a million tons of…

An Ecosystem includes all living things like (animals,plants,etc) in a given area, interacting with each other. That can also can include non -living environments like (weather, earth, sun, soil,climate,atmosphere). In Alberta the Canadian Shield takes 1% of Alberta. It is in the north of Alberta. So its nowhere near Calgary. The Canadian Shield has climate changes. Winter are about six to eight months long. The Shield has very short summers. In…

Sartre made the movement popular by defining what Existentialism meant; he wrote various works centered on his views alone. The more these works were read, the more the smiles of those with a fulfilled life faded away. Sartre is perhaps the most well-known, as well as one of the few who accepted being called an "existentialist". Being and Nothingness is his most important work, and his novel Nausea helped to popularize the movement. It may have been the relatable feeling of losing interest in…

leaving the settlers with a plentiful supply of water for the rough times to come. When you travel inland from the New Jersey shore, your will soon reach a region of salt marshes, bogs, and forests of scrub pine, oak, and cedar. This is the Pinelands, sometimes known as the Pine Barrens. With all these trees around meant that the explorers had plenty of wood and supplies to build shelters and, again, survive the harsh times ahead of them. New Jersey is a state located in the Moist…

curses her unlucky thirteenth son by saying let this one be the devil and later forgets about the curse. When the baby was born it transformed and killed its parents and many of its siblings and is thought to now reside in the Southern New Jersey Pine Barrens forest. Men have used different types of folklore like oral tradition, song or writing to pass down stories and history for future generations to learn from. Because myths and legends shape ideas, define experiences…

nature. This insinuates that the land looks untouched and natural, until the fences break the facade and show sign of human contamination. Lastly, the speaker references the sky to the long breaks between paragraphs. This hints to how the sky looks barren due to no skyscrapers or mountains, and that it is an empty sight to bear. These are just some of the things that are wrong with the prairies, according to the…