The Cornfield

Their repertoire of sounds range from uttering a liquid, rambling medley of soft caws, coos, clicks and rattles and rusty gate sounds. They may not be classified as songbirds, but they are every bit as interesting. Sleek black in color with inquisitive eyes, a loping gait and an intelligence level that far outreaches that of their lighter colored winged bretheren, the crow is a bird well worthy of our respect and admiration. Nearly every bird watching guide describes the American Crow as one of…

All alone except for Inchun, Sookan needed hurtle up and down a hill, then dash across a cornfield in the pouring rain bare footed with the stalks jabbing into my feet, just to meet a raging river with only railroad beams attaching the two sides " A grownup would just be able to make it from one tie to the next. If we made one false move, we would…

he First Battle to be fought on the North side Also known as the confederate side, has taken place and has had a bloody loss of over 22,000 casualties with more to count. Not only has this battle been named, Battle of Antietam, it is also called Battle of Sharpsburg. The two men chosen to lead the armies were General Robert E. Lee head of the Confederate army and General McClellan leading the Union. It began with Lee looking to make Maryland a Southern state. He also wanted to make a big blow to…

attacking it. They had a long fight before the bear left. They gave Old Yeller a bath after his heroic fight. Then they all went to bed. (chapters 7-9) Every night the coons would steal the corn. Travis and Old Yeller had to sleep out in the cornfield. Then the skunks started eating the watermelons. A new man came to the farm. He said Old Yeller was his dog. He let Arlis keep him after a lot of begging and a dinner. Before he left he told Travis about the Hydrophobia Plague. Travis was…

Spending the majority of my life encompassed by vast cornfields and predominantly-white neighbors, sightings of various ethnic groups outside of the sociology textbook are a rarity. Being both American by nationality and Chinese ethnically, I recognize that understanding an individual’s culture is an essential…

Expressing myself and what goes on in my head has always been a struggle for me. I grew up without a voice; not knowing what to say or how to say it. So I drew. I drew horses, I drew smiling suns with sunglasses, I drew bows in girls’ hair, I drew lions eating zebras while monkeys laughed at them, I drew whatever came to my mind. When I drew, I wanted to speak about my drawings, I would turn to my friends or my teachers and explain to them what was happening in my creation. Drawing spoke for me…

People grieve in different ways, when they have been hit with a tragedy. The novel, “The Lovely Bones,” by Alice Sebold, teaches us this similar lesson. By seeing the characters go through denial, anger, and acceptance, the author shows us how the Salmon family comes to accept the death of their daughter and no longer allow her passing to tear the family apart. All of the characters in the book “The Lovely Bones” experience denial in one way or another. Abigail Salmon, Susie’s mother feels…

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass uses contrast, parallelism, imagery, allusions, and details to enhance the wickedness of slavery. He recalled all of his experiences in the mid-1800s as an educated man trapped in slavery. His journey guided him to become one of the most influential writers during the period of slavery. He was an extremely important slave because he was one of the few slaves that was highly educated and was aware of the unfair situation that he…

“A Worn Path” is about a grandmother, named Phoenix, who needs to go into town, called Natchez, to get medicine for her grandson. The path that she has to take has many obstacles to overcome. Even with the obstacles that lie ahead of the journey, she still goes. Phoenix age is emphasized with the descriptive details that are given by the narrator. Some of the obstacles that she had to overcome are dense forest, walking over hills, wild animals, thorny bushes, barbed wire fences, and winter…

2017. This was the beginning of my biggest trip around the U.S., the Midwest specifically. I headed to Oxford, OH, for a hockey camp on the Miami University campus. The drive there was probably the most boring drive of all time. Cornfield, after cornfield, after cornfield, then a soybean field, then more corn fields. Conversation was sparse, only talking in an actual conversation once we stopped for lunch and met up with some friends. Once we got there, it was time to say goodbye to technology…