The Cradle Will Rock

‘It is true she is but half the size of your thumb,’ said the woman. ‘We must call her Thumbelina.’ ‘She must have a cradle to sleep in,’ said the man. ‘Would not half the shell of a walnut keep her very cosy?’ So a nut was taken from the store cupboard, and carefully opened and the inside removed. ‘See how beautiful it rocks,’ said the woman. ‘I know she will like it,’ and they began to fill the bottom of it with purple violet leaves for a mattress. ‘She shall have a…

Virtually no one likes to think of their cradle, their safe haven, to be rocking above an abyss. That's where the monsters are, ready to snatch you up and swallow you into eternal darkness. That darkness, however, is the difference between living and not living, and the cradle, as Vladimir Nabokov depicts it, "is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness" (303). In his essay "Perfect Past", Nabokov crafts a beautifully poetic account of what it means to exist as a human in…

earth and turned over the soil. The farmer had to keep the blade of the plow in the ground and had to be careful not to hit any large rocks, stumps or roots. Next, a harrow, a large rake-like object with rows of teeth, was pulled over the soil to break up the lumps and smooth out the ground. The farmer then sowed the seeds. Farmers used to use sickles, scythes or cradle scythes to cut the crop down once they had fully grown. This task was often the most tiresome and time consuming. However, by…

hundred-fifteen degrees. (Chest of Books) Graniteville is underlain by Slate Schist, and Phyllite. “Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock created from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation” (WikiPedia). There are also several glacial moraines, a glacial moraine is a accumulations of dirt and rocks that have fallen onto the glacier surface or have been pushed along by the glacier as it moves. (Glacier Landforms). The…

the basin are 35 different frog species which fall into the two categories, burrowing frogs – frogs that have the ability to store water and take refuge underground in the dry times – and non-burrowing frogs – frogs that are able to survive under rocks, bark or leaves during floods. Varieties of plant species also make home to the Basin, including many types of wildflowers and green algae and…

The warm blankets on the bed just had been washed and put into the dryer. As they came out I can feel the warmness from the blanket. I lay there happily closing my eyes and listing to the rain softly hitting the floor and the window outside. As I wake up slowly I get dressed and go outside. I can’t wait to go outside because we are at our beach house in Hawaii. The beach house is located right where you can take two steps and feel the warm sand on your feet. As I go outside with my umbrella…

Moreover, in his attempt to establish the validity of his claims, Grube focuses attention on the Umayyad Great Mosque of Damascus as a typical example of hidden architecture, in contrast to the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as an exception to the hiddenness of the Islamic mosque. But is the Great Umayyad Mosque a typical Islamic mosque while the Aqsa Mosque is an exception? Again, is it the case that the Islamic people borrowed their architectural structures from non-Islamic and pre-Islamic cultures?…

this subdivision. Often these designs are not decipherable due to their personal nature. These works tell stories within spiritual and shamanistic realms. These forms of work can be seen in quill work, tipi and shield heraldry, and shield warriors in rock art to name a…

Back in medieval times, there were great battles and many moments of violence and warfare, along with torture and plenty of weapons and armor to go around. Life in the medieval time period would have been rough. Going day to day, working and wondering if this is the day you home and castle get taken over. Many people would work just average jobs. Working the average man’s job at a shop selling trinkets. Life in the medieval time period was a fearful one, with threats of conquest by other…

languages spoken were Sumerian and Akkadian, spoken by the people of Sumer and Akkad. The climate changed many times: somedays it would be sunny, while other days it would be cold. Since it was home to the earliest civilizations, it got the nickname “The Cradle of Civilization.” Sumer, Uruk, and Akkad were probably the most known cities in the Fertile Crescent. Sumer was in fact the southernmost city of all of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians called themselves the “black-headed people.” The…