Pond

a changed boy. I agree with Edwin’s statement because through different practices and acceptance of our own mistakes, we can achieve change. People are able to release some anger by practicing some form of therapy. Edwin took Cole to a freezing pond so that he can experience one of the processes of healing.…

The Columbian Exchange was one of the first encounters in which continents from both sides of the Atlantic were exposed to each other. This experience brought about new trade, but it also wrought havoc on the Native population of the Americas. The Columbian Exchange is named so because the leader of the expedition during which this event occurred was an Italian named Christopher Columbus. Columbus’ men landed and immediately saw the Natives, according to Columbus’ journal. In his journal, he…

great, great grandfather snail. Using a Whisper-ma Phone the Once-ler would share information about what happened to the Lorax. In a very strange and unusual voice the Once-ler spoke of the time many, many years ago when the grass was green, the pond was clear and the clouds were clean. It was his first time seeing the…

In 1960, the wolves who had covered most of the United States found themselves hunted; a hunt that would last until the 1960’s when they would be put on the endangered species list after their populations plummeted. The species of Gray wolf that was most common in the U.S. was almost hunted to extinction because complaints from ranchers and farmers that the wolf was a mindless, selfish, gutless killing machine. However, it is obvious through careful studying and monitoring that the wolves are a…

Never Give Up What if you were forced out by rebels and had to leave your own family behind? A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, is a realistic fiction novel. This story is a dual narrative. In the first storyline, Nya is a eleven year old girl, who is in the Nuer tribe, she lives in South Sudan. She must fetch water two times every day. In the second storyline, Salva, who is also an eleven year old boy, part of the Dinka tribe, and lives in South Sudan. Salva is forced to leave South…

In this paper, I will address Singer’s argument on his belief that we are morally required to donate money to charity to save people from poverty related deaths. Many people die every day due to poverty and their deaths go unnoticed; their lives could be saved with a small donation from people who can afford to do so. Singer proposes a valid argument as well as a sound one, and therefore we ought to trust his conclusion on donating money to save people from poverty related deaths. I will break…

idea of the value of simplicity and its exceptional greatness. It was a shallow afternoon and the sun was hanging deeply in the sky, and because of my blissful ignorance, I wandered off into a place where peacefulness was a foundation of life. Walden Pond was the name, and a generous breeze devoured my body as night fell. I then, stumbled upon a man with an empowering presence. He introduced himself as Henry David Thoreau, a writer, a philosopher and better known as naturalist. Everything about…

around the rotting trees, she made her way to the pond and sat down on one of them. I sat close beside her and waited for her to speak. After a while she shook her head and said: “I’m sho’ glad your grandpa never had to see none of this. He dearly loved these here old trees. Him and me, we used to come down here early mornin’s or just ‘fore the sun was ‘bout set and just sit and talk. He used to call this place him thinkin’ spot and he called that old pond there Caroline, after me.””I also liked…

far away in their minds. She wept into the center of the ring of stones, and water filled the center. The water would fill their bodies and fuel the beings emotions, and fuel the life, the spirit, of them. The pond had been created and with the stone and water created, she folded the pond into a sphere, and took away all but one stone. She sent the stones far into the nothingness but just close enough, to give…

run. Just about every other step I was taking I was tripping on a rock, each one hurting my ankles a little more every time. I reached the end of the woods trail to run more of the golf course. Passing the pond, I noticed some of the cute little ducks swimming around. A little ways after the pond came another path into the woods. Rocks were causing me to twist my ankle multiple times, but that didn’t stop me, mainly because we weren’t even halfway done with the race. I took a sharp turn shortly…