The Cornfield

Nia Byaombe S.A.C.R.E.D: Story About Creating Ray’s End of Devastation The third chapter of the The Sacred Quest by Lawrence Cunningham and John Kelsey indicates the significance of the sacred hierophanies, specifically focusing on sacred media. These types of vehicles include “sacred persons, objects, time, and space.” (Cunningham & Kelsey, The Sacred Quest, p. 39). The film Field of Dreams accurately demonstrates the numerous hierophanies mentioned in the book. The main character, Ray…

Daughters of Twilight (Outskirts Press, 2013). The events in Daughters of Twilight occur in a sleepy Midwestern city of Waterloo, Iowa, which is thrown into national spotlight when a massive and mysterious black pyramid-like structure sprouts up in a cornfield after an earthquake. The quiet city is cast into…

Lost The time was 1956, in the United States of America. The U.S. army was fighting an enemy force that came from Europe in the state of Iowa. They were on a mission to take out Europe's camps. Bang! The sound of gunfire in the distance. Jack stood, holding his wood grained rifle in his hand ready to fire at any moment. Nate and George were on either side of him with the rest of the soldiers behind them. Jack's blue eyes reflect the setting sun, with his flowing hair dancing in the wind. Jack…

to attempt to persuade her readers that the farmer’s warlike actions are to be condemned. She goes on to explain that the “results probably gratified the farmers,” meaning that they were happy with their use of the poison to remove pest from the cornfields. This situational irony, that the farmer’s enjoyed the killings and deaths,…

So who is to blame for young adults who still live with their parents? I believe parents should teach their children to become more independent. I have always been a very independent individual, and this next step I’m making in my life shows me that. I’m traveling to a place I’ve never been before. I am trusting my instincts and faith that this will be the right choice for me. Where? The south, a place we all hear about. Alabama, a location where there's an abundance of generosity. Beautiful…

Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos, portrayed the adventurous yet boring summer of a boy, Jack, whose plans for summer are ravaged when he gets grounded for making some highly immature choices. But, getting “grounded for life also brought many adventures, mysteries, understandings, and experiences of a lifetime. Jack made some pretty bad decisions in a short amount of time. First, he gets one warning after another. Later, he disobeyed his mom and cut down the rest of the field anyway, and he…

I have never felt as though I have been exposed too much diversity where I grew up, but now that I live in Terre Haute, I can see it more. I grew up in the smallest town one can think of. Cornfields after cornfields. It was so small if fact that I never seemed to see anyone who was much different from me. Our school system is made up of predominately white people, and it still does not seem to be changing. Growing up, I saw people who were like me every day. I guess I just was not looking hard…

the Cherokee villages. In Cherokee villages, there was an wall to keep intruders out of their territory. There were over 100 villages in the Cherokee nation, they were all connected by the great cherokee path. Cherokee villages had several large cornfields, to feed plants they stay next to bodies of water. Cherokee’s would have summer and winter houses to adjust to the seasons. 30 - 60 homes as well as 1 council house, would live there year round. Cherokees worked very hard and had an very…

Sookan has changed throughout the book, but I believe what she has the most growth in is she has become more courageous.Sookan had it hard as a child, but she learned how to deal with it without making a fit or tantrum. She started out in the book not needing to be courageous,but when captain Narita made her go to Japanese school she needed to be very courageous. The first day of school it was hard therefore when the second day came along she did not want to go she said “I felt like…

In a recent New York Times article, It’s Not Just About the Tacos, author Lawrence Downes aims to expose the roots of anti-immigration policy that has been a huge focus of the 2016 presidential campaign. It is no secret that Donald Trump has developed a zero-tolerance policy for undocumented migration into the United States, going as far as proposing the “building of a wall” to prevent the influx of our neighbors to the south. Trump’s relentless immigrant-expulsion plan has sparked great…