The Cornfield

Movies are a work of art and creation. They have messages to influence the viewer. A profusion of movies have messages that connect to the viewer personally. The Majestic is one that personally connected to me. The Majestic is about a man, Peter Appleton, who is convicted of taking communist action. He has a car accident, loses his memory, and then is mistaken as Luke. The events in The Majestic connects to me personally with an assortment of events that have occurred in my life. In The…

As most proficient authors are aware, the process of developing themes within a work of literature is one of the most important duties of a writer. Authors have numerous methods available to them for this task, including devices such as symbolism. Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, uses symbolism frequently throughout her novel - a tale of a teenage girl who watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her…

The big invasions of Robert .E. Lee in the North and why he invaded the North. George McClellan fought lots of big attacks against Robert .E. Lee's army by Sharpsburg Garyland , on September 1862. In the West Woods and through Miller's Cornfield, is where the Confederate counterattacked. Lee was outnumbered two to one at Gettysburg, after he heard that he split his Confederate army into two. Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, and on May 2nd he sent Thomas Stonewall Jackson to attack a lot…

1936, Jacob Moses signs with CMC listing $51,000 worth of metal in their inventory. Over the next few years CMC began acquiring numerous businesses including the acquisition of Hutchison Pipe & Waste Material Company in Fort Worth, TX. In 1947, a cornfield is bought by a Mr. Marvin Selig in Seguin, TX, and is the property in which Structural Metals, Inc. (SMI) will be constructed. By 1952, CMC was now chartering whole ships to send metal products to Asia and Europe, and in 1960 the company…

Immigration can have several meanings to different people. For one immigrant, it was a representation of a new life. Natasha Johnson immigrated to the small town of Andover, Iowa from Kiev, Ukraine. Natasha traveled to Iowa with her daughter 12 years ago (Johnson, 2015). Since the day she first stepped foot in the United States, she has continually been adjusting, learning, and overcoming challenges. Based on Natasha’s story, I concluded immigration to be a constant struggle, learning experience…

A Review of the Secret River The Secret River is a sweeping story of the founding of Australia and the moral choices that created a nation. The novel is about William Thornhill, a poor Waterman from London, who is deported together with his family to New South Wale in 1806. The novel gives a vivid description of William’s first night in the convict settlement in Sydney. The state of conflict between the Aborigines and the settlers, which is the center of novel, is introduced when an Aboriginal…

In the movie “Signs” by M. Night Shyamalan I believe the author’s message is that everything happens for a reason. And the author presents this message by faith. Graham used to be a pastor. He had 2 kids with a woman named colleen, Boa and Morgan. ”. Morgan has asthma and always making comments about the water “tasting funny” and it being “contaminated”. When his wife died in a tragic car accident with a town local who feel asleep at the wheel. His beliefs changes, he no longer believes in God…

Just Another Statistic We had just graduated, I was 18 and she was 17. Life felt great, we didn’t have much just a simple kind of love and a special bond. In our last year of High School we found out what we were going to be doing for the rest of our lives and how we were gonna work it out. We had clear what we wanted and how we were gonna work it out. Now that the time has come we are ready to start a new chapter in our lives, but we have no idea where to begin and it all seems impossible.…

Industrial farming poses dangers to our health, In Pleasures of Eating, Wendell Berry describes the importance of understanding the connection between eating and the land in order to extract pleasure from our food. When A Crop Becomes King is like Wendell Berry's article, however it focuses on corn and corn production in our food. Unlike the two articles listed above, David Barboza’s article: If You Pitch It They Will Eat It is about the advertisement part of the food industry, and how they…

standards. Due to this, auto manufacturers must use very effective advertisements in order to persuade the consumer to spend this large amount of money on their product. The “still plays with trucks” ad shows a beautiful new Chevy truck on the edge of a cornfield, with the words, “Some of us grew up playing with tractors and trucks, the lucky ones still do,” proudly displayed above the truck. General Motors, an automobile manufacturer primarily in North America, most likely had an intended…