Summer

In Lisa Wingate’s the Summer Kitchen, an unexpected partnership between forty-eight-year-old SandraKaye Darden and twelve-year-old Cass Blue forms. SandraKaye certainly never expects to find hope in the little pink house left behind by her uncle Poppy on Blue Sky Hill. With her adopted son, Jake, missing thousands of miles away, Poppy’s murder, and her family life disintegrating in the comfortable suburban home that once was welcoming, Sandra feels as if her world is falling apart. Meanwhile,…

when it is oriented toward the sun, it’s summer. When the Northern Hemisphere is oriented away from the sun, the sun’s rays do not hit as direct so this part of Earth cools; thus creating winter. Although the reasoning for the occurrence of these seasonal opposites are the same (tilting of the Earth), availability of activities and food during each season are not.…

The NBA Summer League is a summer destination, where players come to improve and work on their skills from their rookie season or look to make a name for themselves in hopes of joining a NBA roster. When it comes to Philadelphia 76ers forward Christian Wood, the latter of the two statements can be applied to him. Wood is with the Sixers for a second straight summer league, after the team signed him as an undrafted free agent out of UNLV last summer. He is an athletic and lanky big man, who…

“Endless Summer” Rhetorical Analysis In the short story, “Endless Summer” by Rick Bragg he explains how the season of summer, favored by children, is “truncated” by those who “do not know how sweet it is to feel the mud mush between their toes”. In Calhoun County, Alabama the boy in the story is said to be wasting time playing in the mud but the way he sees it kids now are the ones wasting their summers away. Kids now already are deprived of their whole summer by having to start school in…

If given the opportunity to serve as a Summer Resident Assistant, I will combine my love of Georgetown University, knowledge of Washington, DC and my experiences in summer residential life to empower Gewirz Residents to make the most of their summer in DC. By providing housing in a secure and supportive environment, Georgetown empowers people from around the world to pursue educational opportunities inside and outside of the classroom in one of the world’s most important cities. As an…

Composer's use their distinctive voices to explore their ideas about humanity, revealing the unvarnished truths of idealism and change. In Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, considered ground-breaking for its distinctive use of Australian colloquial language and idiom, along with its unique depiction of Australian working class characters and experiences, highlights the dangers of excessive idealism and the failure to accept change and the rigors of time. While Omar Musa’s “Capital…

Driving in the winter and driving in the summer are definitely different ways of driving but they do share some similarities. You could probably already list a few differences off the bat. In the paragraphs that follow you’ll learn what driving in these two seasons do and don’t have in common. When driving in these two seasons you will either come across accidents, see one occur, or be in one yourself. Car accidents happen all year round; nearly every minute a car crashes worldwide.…

The summer that she turned twelve was normal until Patty’s home in Jenkinsville, Arkansas quickly turns into holding ground for German prisoners of war during World War II. Patty soon meets Anton, a fugitive and realizes that not every Nazi is as bad as people think. She hides him and puts everything on the line for a young man that she just met. As time goes by, the two to fall in love and they finally get to understand the risks people take to protect someone they love. “Summer Of My German…

I am writing to apply to the Director of Summer Session Initiatives position at Georgia Institute of Technology. This opportunity is appealing and I believe that my professional experience, education, and training make me a competitive candidate. I recently earned my doctorate in Educational Leadership from Clemson University, where my research focused on parent and family engagement practices in pre-collegiate summer programs. My qualifications are outlined below: I have nearly 10 years…

Mountains are an important symbol throughout The Woman Warrior; therefore, I chose a Chinese painting called Summer Mountains. Mountains can symbolize obstacles, progression, loneliness, and isolation. In Summer Mountains, there are various mountains of different sizes; similarly, to how mountains take on different meanings throughout The Woman Warrior. For example, mountains first appear in the novel when Kingston’s mother mentions the Gold Mountains. The Gold Mountains refers specifically to…