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Women as Objects in From Wonso Pond It is a common occurrence in proletarian literature to present the body as an object. Most of the time the body of the laborer is taken advantage of by the work they do. Men sell their liberties when they enter the working world. When it comes to women, the body is often turned into a commodity in the form of prostitution or is seen as a sex object for male domination. However, in From Wonso Pond Kang Kyŏngae presents women as bodies, but takes it a step…

Absent from ‘The World of Pond Stories’ by Dr. Stewart Bitkoff are politically-polarizing statements that these days pass for mainstream discussion and describe the plethora media sound bytes that seemingly inundate my day to day life. In other words, reading these stories was a refreshing reprieve from the endless cycle of jingoistic and sensationalistic rhetoric. To further elaborate, I found at the heart of each story an open-ended reflection oftentimes, at least in my initial reading, an…

(62)Fire and Ice. Haines pond. A large pond, two acres. Saturday, April 14, 1962, opening day of trout fishing season. I was running. Hard! Running as fast as I'd ever ran. Yet, I made no apparent progress. The sound of my pounding feet was a muted, far away thump, thump, thump, thump, thump...soggy snow splashing, mud flying. My pounding heart pumped so violently the blood in my head made a swishing noise. Ice cold pellets of early spring corn snow hit my face. My heart was a small, fast…

Stonehouse pond was observed to be igneous rock, with evidence of batholith, an igneous specific type of intrusion that spans for miles at a time. This is evident in figure 8. Various minerals and a grainy texture were also observed. Because of this, and identification of minerals such as quartz, as observed in figure 6, and orthoclase, in figure 9, this rock was concluded to be the igneous rock, granite. Granite forms when magma under the Earth slowly crystallizes. Igneous rock forms when…

Throughout the novel Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, Nat compares Kit to a bird in several occasions. Kit used to be like a tropical bird, but ever since she moved to Connecticut, she is changing into a dull-feathered sparrow. Although Kit may have turned into a sparrow, she still has some green feathers of a tropical bird. While Kit sees Puritans as plain and boring, Nat and other Connecticutians think Kit stands out too much. When Kit first arrives at Wethersfield, she…

Holly Pond is a small rural farming community located in Cullman County in the heart of North Alabama. According to the U.S. Census Bureau the town of Holly Pond was incorporated in 1906 and has a population of 800. The only major industry in the township is Jet Pep Petroleum Inc. In 2014, the median household income of Holly Pond residents was $30,125. Holly Pond households made slightly more than ($30,087). However, 25.3% of Holly Pond residents live in poverty. The average age of a Holly…

The movie On Golden Pond demonstrates the peaceful and tranquil life of the owners of a lake house in New England. The long-married owners, Norman and Ethel, are retired and are seeking to continue their long-lived summer traditions of fishing, board games, and fellowship. Norman is portrayed as a grumpy seventy-year-old European American with a fear and anxiety of death, which he manages through morbid humor. Ethel is shown as an optimistic sixty-year-old European American with a lively…

school bus through Miami-Dade until we got to the vistas at Walden Pond. Walden Pond was a place located on county line road. The county line split Dade and Broward County from each other. The vistas at Walden Pond were surrounded by lakes and a very noisy highway. A barbershop and a corner store was right down the street, as well as the supermarket Winn-Dixie. Home to many people of different ethnicities and backgrounds, Walden Pond provided the cheapest and most convenient lifestyle. Sporting…

people, everything simply means anything. To a few Jasper County men, their teenage years spent on the hot and dusty road that lead to Clear Water pond was everything to them. Looking back on Jasper County, it is clear that time does really have a way of changing everything. From the untouched pine thicket that grew for hundreds of years, to the clear water pond that formed several years after the gravel pit was abandoned, and now the newly congested concrete jungle that people call Fork Shire…

The Sydney Tar Ponds were a hazardous waste site on the Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. During the early 1900s, steel production began at this location and carried on for over 80 years. Throughout this duration of time, at least 700 000 tonnes of toxic by-products were produced due to smelting and steel production processes. Some of the by-products produced were total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs), benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene, xylene (BTEX), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons…