Raft

Beginning in the slopes of Yount Peak in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming, Yellowstone River meanders downstream some 670 miles into the Missouri and then, eventually, into the Atlantic Ocean at the Gulf of Mexico. The river runs out of the Yellowstone National Park, flowing through Montana, heading eastward into North Dakota, where it eventually joins the Missouri River. The natural flowing, undammed, and untamed Yellowstone, travels a course that cuts through steep-walled canyons, fertile farm…

River was Ancient Egypt's highway. There were no semi-trucks, no Amazon Prime 1-day shipping offers. There was only water. There was also no bridges. Around 4,000 B.C., the Ancient Egyptians first lashed bundles of papyrus stalks together to make rafts. Later, craftsmen learned to build ships using local acacia wood. Some of these boats could carry cargo up to 500 tons. Without the nile, Egypt and most of the other countries around it could not have been able to flourish. With the nile they…

This book is called “Hatchet”, by Gary Paulsen. Brian’s mom gave him the hatchet to use it in the Canadian woods with his dad, because they are divorced. The unfortunate thing that happened to Brian occurred when he was flying to his dad. Brian’s parents are divorced. Brian knew that his mother was meeting another man, but he didn’t tell his father. Brian spent his time with his mother, so he got on the plane to his father. On the plane, the pilot taught Brian how to fly. After a few minutes,…

In the story “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” the narrator has a change in mind about how he feels about his parents’ lack of education. The narrator used to feel like you needed an education to be a credible person. At the beginning of the story the author feels like is parents are uneducated and say the most ridiculous things, and eventually he becomes so embarrassed he wouldn’t even want to be seen with his father. However, by the end of the story he realizes that his parents don’t need an…

he pointed to something over 100 feet away. “Okay, let’s see if I can swim.” I teased We all started swimming toward the Saturn, a round raft with a ring around the middle. Suddenly, I wasn’t slower than everybody else. I was actually faster than a couple of people. After about five minutes of strong swimming later, we reached the Saturn. It was unlike any raft I had ever seen before. There was a ring around it that was parallel to the water with handles for you to pull yourself up with.…

and I lost sight of my father and sister. They had gotten ahead of us somehow, passing multiple people in rafts on the way. We had just rounded a corner, my knuckles practically white from holding onto the grips so long and hard. I heard the sound of rushing water. It was too close. I turned back and saw the people behind us riding on the crest of the wave. They were too close. I felt our raft slowly tip over, back over front, like the kind of unfair chaos that only ever seems to occur while in…

While Huck and Jim are on the raft with the Duke and the Dauphin, they experience some new types of cruelty they had not seen before. They show Huck the new world of theft, manipulation, and conart. However, Huck proves to be an empathetic person because when the Duke and Dauphin are…

perspective of Jim because he has such a different view on life than Huckleberry Finn does. Jim is also more mature than Huck considering that he is just a boy and Jim is a man. Huckleberry Finn and his companion, Jim, travel down the river in their raft, which always seems like a safe haven for the two. Even though Jim is older and wiser, there are many things he cannot do because of his runaway status, that Huck can. Huck could rejoin society at any point in this story, considering he was a…

his kingdom. Imagine being caught in one of those scenes in a movie where people on a fishing boat are stuck out in the middle of a storm while trying to haul in the biggest fish on the planet. Now imagine that you're on your handmade wooden raft and you just *issd off the god of the sea. Welcome to Odysseus’s struggles as he tries to get back to Ithaca. Most of the time in…

many gods, he cheated on his wife, he was cocky, and a murderer. Odysseus was hated by the gods; it was pretty clear to me when that they hated him because of the constant obstacles place in front of him. While leaving Calypso’s island, “his raft is destroyed in a storm and is thrown to the shores of the Phaeacians(P.51)”. After blinding the polyphemus, Odysseus tells him “ That if any one asks who did this it was the brave warrior Odysseus(P.84)”. Well, then his father Zeus destroys his…