The Day the Earth Stopped

Spain. The ministry of James is possibly the most significant for the growth of the Church in Spain. According to legend, James had preached in the towns of Saragossa and Galicia without much success. Discouraged, he began his journey home but was stopped on the road by the Virgin Mary, who was standing on a pillar, and she encouraged him to continue his task. This encounter began a Spanish tradition of respect for the image of Mary on a pillar, “Virgen del Pilar”. Her appearance gave validity…

paint until we stopped in front of a old oak tree. I looked around and my face fell. I saw Tabby was just as confused as I was. My grandpa laughed and told us to look up. Hidden up in the branches was what looked to be a tree house. I could feel the excitement come over me, but then my grandpa told us to stay where we were. I watch as he climb up into the branches of the mighty oak. All of a sudden a shower of leaves started falling from all sides of the treehouse. A second later it stopped and…

(Pataki et al., 2011). They hope to improve air quality and health. Clean water is crucial to any living organism, sometimes helping to dilute pollution (Carpenter et al., 1998). However, water runoff an issue relating to pollution, comes from the every day agriculture. The wasted soil and other contaminated materials find their way down into estuaries and ponds causing massive destruction to not only the water, but to the animals living there as well. Eutrophication, however, is the “biggest…

One day narrator dragged Doodled across the cotton field to Old Woman Swamp and set Doodle on the grass beside a tall pine . Doodle loved it so both of them went to Old Woman Swamp every day. When doodle was five years old the narrator was embarrassed about having a brother that could not walk; so the narrator sets a mission to teach Doodle to walk at Old Woman Swamp. They had been going to Old Woman Swamp day after day. The narrator picking up Doodle every time he fell. “ Every day that summer…

During those few days, Aunt grace tried to cheer not just the three of us but her kids as well up since we were all shaken by the news still. One morning Aunt Grace spoke to Niana, Ipolani and I that she recently got off the phone with Mom and explained to us that Aunt Jolyn who we call Jojo was going to fly down from Texas to stay with us at our place. A few days later she arrived and we returned back to our home and began packing. Three days later below me I saw a sea of green…

themselves the most advanced species on earth. This claim may be correct, however, it evokes the existential question of how advanced we truly are, and of even more importance, can we continue to advance? It was posed by respected scholars, such as David Attenborough and Ken Ham, that humans have now reached a point at which they can no longer evolve. How can a race be unequivocally superior while simultaneously stopping their own advancement? Or has it stopped at all? Have humans become so…

he would pay him a shilling, if he did this in less than five minutes, Ebenezer would give him a half-a-crown. He even wore nice clothes and went to church to celebrate Christmas for it was the time of year to be joyful and happy. Next, Ebenezer stopped at his nephew’s house to join him on this wonderful holiday while everyone was shocked and surprised to see him in their house. I believe that Ebenezer Scrooge changed his life based upon contact with the spirits of the past, present, and…

what the man was wearing and how he looked. This part occurs at the end of the book • Metaphor "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which…

suspense because that's what creates all the hype in the movies. In the short story August Heat the author shows suspense in different occasions in the story. “I found myself standing before a gate that led into a yard bordered by a strip of thirsty earth, where there were flowers, purple stock and scarlet geranium. Above the entrance was a board with an inscription Chas. Atkinson Monumental Mason Worker in English and Italian Marbles from the yard itself came a cheery whistle, the noise of…

While Ender Wiggin is attending Command School, he practices his leadership and strategy skills through a device called the Simulator. This device displays a virtual reality in which he can command his fleet through a series of battles against the buggers. However, Ender and his peers are unaware that each battle fought through the Simulator is an actual fight against the buggers; each life lost in war is one lost in reality. The Command School authorities keep this information from the students…