Simple machine

The modern homesteading community, is one of people seeking self-reliance and independence for a myriad of reasons through small scale independent farming and food preservation and crafting. The homesteader is more that just a famer and embodies a broad and contradictory spectrum of motives, affiliations, and material practices. (Wilbur, p.154). As Rebeca Kneale Gould states “the homesteader has converted to a new way of life in which the practice of everyday life is a chosen ‘answer’ to a…

inspired to become homesteaders and began to look for more information. The autobiographies of other homesteaders become like a sacred text with guidelines of how to live this lifestyle. “Many have well-stocked libraries of books and magazines on simple living with serve as testament to a way of living that is both practical and philosophical, not just ‘how-to’ but ‘why you should’” (Gould, 1999, p.191). She goes on to say that if one considers the autobiographies as the sacred text, then nature…

The Simple Life at Virtue Hill One of the most beautiful places to visit is the Virtue Hill in Vietnam. I grew up there, and I return year after year to seek the solitude. Virtue Hill is the name of a boarding school and means “God Place.” One of the most picturesque sites is looking up the hill from the village road. The view is spectacular with the school at the top, and the green, fertile farmland below. When I was a fourth grader, my father as a soldier was often deployed far away from home.…

In his essay, “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau discusses a number of ideas on wilderness and society, and makes several bold claims about society’s detrimental effect on the “wild.” He begins by expressing his affinity for taking long walks on which he “saunters” outdoors. Thoreau explains that not everyone is equipped with the necessary disposition for these types of journeys and says, “no wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.”…

The Necklace In my literary analysis of the Neckless the Author presents a women who was born into a life of mediocracy but longed for an existence of privilege and prestige. Mme. Loisel is described as even though pretty and charming had nothing of monetary means that made her look effluent in the eyes of upper class. In paragraphs one through four she describes her failure to measure up to what her expectations are of the rich and famous. She wishes to be adored by distinguished gentlemen…

Henry David Thoreau was a man of intelligence, brilliance, and success. He was a Harvard graduate and an educator. He was an activist against the Mexican war and slavery. People never really understood Thoreau. He was a man that seem to have difficulty getting along with others, yet he has “great qualities of intellect and character,” as his close friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne described. Thoreau was an adventurous man who wanted to find out what life is. He tries to figure this out by living a…

In “Walden” Henry David Thoreau he describes his two year experiment on living with only the bare necessities of life. One of the themes of this story is “Economy”, he describes how he lived working and spending money on only the minimum to survive, and in the process he explains how he became spiritually free in the process. A work we read in class that had many similarities to “Walden” was, “A Way to Wealth” by Benjamin Franklin, he tackles many of the same viewpoints and beliefs about the…

sloshes and plunges to the cool ground from water carriers stumbling in and out of the town’s gates. Outside of the village walls, is a simple house made of earth. Here Wang Lung sits in the cold iron cauldron for a bath. In contrast to the village, the countryside is tranquil and quiet. Dried crops crackle in the wind, and Lung hands his father some hot tea. Lung is a simple farmer, so tea is not to be wasted on any normal day, but this is no normal day. This is the day that Lung…

him lightly, he tries talking to Dwight “Please, Dwight” so that Pearl would be comforted, but Dwight just mocks Toby, showing that his children’s fright means nothing to him. This mocking “Please, Dwight,” he said, is an extremely basic structure, simple sentence piece of dialogue, buts it is so powerful that it magnifies the conflict in the scene by being so realistic. In life, mimicking often occurs in moments of argument, usually among children because it is such a low-intelligence form of…

guess this point can be taken two different ways this could be Roberts father trying to console his son to the fact that their poor and they can afford to buy him store-bought close as well as alluding to the point that their religion believes that a simple life unburdened by material wealth or goods is the most direct path to happiness and therefore eternal…