The Hills Have Eyes

fascinates both locals and out-of-towners. The most spectacular colors this side of heaven are on display for leaf peepers pleasure. From flaming-red maples and crimson sumacs to red sweet gums and golden hickories, incredible colors blanket Tennessee hills, highways and byways. While you may prefer driving to view the lovely leaves, alternate vehicles such as bicycles, helicopters, boats, hot air balloons and trains are available. Hiking and horse trails and are located in state parks.…

According to Niccolo Machiavelli, “Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but a few have the gift of penetration.” This quote conveys that humans have the propensity1 to see things only on a surface level. They fail to utilize the skill of ‘penetration’, as Machiavelli mentions, and see what is beyond appearances and understand what things truly mean and represent. When it comes to evaluating the world, people often glance over the truth in order to see…

Nigerian women. In this dynamic, Ujunwa is below Edward due to her feeble attempts to stop Edward’s interrogation. Instead, she should have expressed to Edwards where her boundaries were laid. In addition, the female protagonist allows herself to be ogled by Edward, even when he does not look directly in her eyes. Instead he looks lower, not giving Ujunwa respectful eye contact. Ujunwa responds to Edward’s actions through laughing “because it was funny and witty, she told herself” (pg 106).…

Looking at Bruce Springsteen's songs and what connection they have to dimensions of wellness, I decided to investigate how they can help listeners spiritual well-being. My mom told me that he references the bible in some of his songs. I looked into it and found out that some of his songs have three topics: he talks about community as a spiritual goal, he uses biblical references, and some described his music as an American version of a liberation theory. This means that instead of thinking of…

Renaissance. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Charles City, VA: Peace Hill, 2007. N. pag. Print.)There were two reasons one he didn’t think he had enough material to back his theory up. The second was he didn’t know what the priests and other people would say. (Bauer, S. Wise., and Jeff West. "37 The Revolution of Copernicus." The Story of the World, History for the Classical Child. from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Charles City, VA: Peace Hill, 2007. N. pag. Print.)He did,…

Prisons Obsolete? Through the eyes of Davis, Birk’s paintings reveal our ideologies about prison. Birk uses location, appearance, and natural setting to help focus that lens. The use of these techniques, along with others, helps enhance the reader’s ideologies of prison that focus on isolation, taking prisons for granted, and alternatives for prisons. Predominantly, Birk uses the location of the prisons in his paintings to show isolation. He paints these vast rolling hills and then inserts a…

smelled like gunpowder. “Okay, this is it.” Trey said. “Okay I want you to stand out here and watch, if someone comes within 20 yards I want you to distract them then I will slip out the back. When he starts coming towards the tent I want you to say, ‘Have a nice day!’ That will be your way of telling me to get out of there.” “Alright, hurry up so we can get out of this place.” Trey said. I walked into the tent it was dark, there were a few lit candles along the wall, in the middle was a long…

I've never been quite the athletic type. For as long i can remember, sports have never been my thing. I’d always been picked last or second to last, in PE. back then, my inner pre-teen self would “blame it on the baby weight” or that i hadn’t hit puberty yet. But deep down i knew it was it was because I had two left feet, one good eye, and butter fingers. However, this year I was determined to end my clumsiness. It was my 8th grade year, my last days in middle school. Finally, after…

person who works there would have to hook us up on this wire with would pull us up the mountain and we would just sit there. My dad was behind me and behind my dad was my brother Yash. we reach the mountain and they said there wasn’t enough room for us to go together there was on two lanes left but there was 3 of us, so Yash was very nice and let us go first. I get on the last lane. The people came and checked if we were ready, so they come around to me and said that i have to be on my belly…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; while Nick Carraway’s depiction of the valley of ashes, a desolate and bare land that connects the West Egg and New York, does not remind the audience of beauty, through the content and style of this depiction, beauty seeps from every corner of every sentence, flowing like a vibrant river across the passage. Nick’s dedication to vivid descriptions of even the bleakest of lands creates this lifelike and almost tangible image of a lost opportunity. What lost…