The House of the Rising Sun

American Dream in the context of The Great Gatsby Undecided Sun Seo Jeon 20140880 The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, which proposes that opportunity is given to everyone according to their ability or achievement regardless of their social class, and that anything, such as rising from rags to riches, is possible with enough hard work and tenacity. This interplay between idealism and materialism is at once contradictory and complementary, because…

my birds and that benefited me as much as it did them. Along with caring I slowly started to train my birds turning their fear into curiosity. Teaching them tricks taught me patience and self-control. As of today no matter what is going on in the house sadness, happiness the birds always provide us with positive mental energy. “Until one has loved an animal a part of one 's soul remains unawakened.” by Anatole France is quote that many pet owners can relate too, caring for an animal uncovers…

Spider Scare It was a cool late summer morning, everything was quite except for my dad’s chainsaw slicing through a downed tree. My father and I usually cut a load of wood each weekend to be prepared for the winter. We went over to my grandmother’s house in Crockett, VA, which we have for the past three weekends. With experiencing this, I have learned that life is valuable and it can be taken away in a heartbeat. The night before I had went to one of my high school’s football games with my…

A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry about a close-knit family trying to reach each of their own goals in life. The family consists of Lena Younger (Mama), her children Beneatha and Walter Lee Younger, Walter’s wife Ruth, and their son, Travis. They all live in a run down apartment in the South Side of Chicago. Mama gets an insurance check of $10,000 upon her husband’s death. Each family member has an idea of what to do with the money once they finally get it. Walter Lee wants to…

ACT FIVE The next morning, bodied flags in the wind. Salem sleeps, restlessly, out of fear and resentment for the autocratic court. Only one door in the town hangs ajar; Reverend Parris’s house, absent of at this early hour even of Reverend Parris himself, who in cowardice remains at the court. Enter Danforth to find Reverend Parris sitting upon the high court. DANFORTH: Still hear Mr. Parris? Gesturing to the door. I’d have thought you’d gone home by now, or are you still petrified of the…

the Back Yard by GAF (Great Aunt Fluff) 5/28/2014 I have this great big house! There are four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The wooden floors are so shiny. They even glow like a delicate light in the dark. The house is quite pretty, I must say so myself. I work very hard to keep it up. It’s very colorful and cozy inside and out. There is a patio on the roof and a swimming pool in the back…

The reason why the Earth is at danger is because of the greenhouse effect which then leads to global warming. This is the process by which the atmosphere traps some of the Sun 's energy, warming the Earth enough to support life. Greenhouse gases are increasing the effect of global warming. These gases include carbon dioxide made by fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Over the past 200 years the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased, this was caused by burning large…

For example, the story says “In the country along the Gulf Coast, in summer, the period of time between the setting of the sun and total black night is full of sweet mysteries and has the effect of making the world with all its traffic stop dead still” (Walter 172). With this information the reader now knows the time and place of the story. The writer beings to introduce…

water is 34 degrees Fahrenheit, and yet it is still a liquid. This is because the water is warming, not cooling. The water in the artic is doing the same thing because of climate change. Climate change is what happens when the thermal energy from the sun enters the Earth 's atmosphere faster than it can leave, or vice versa. People has caused the Earth 's climate to rise, but with some effort, we can slow, stop, and even reverse these changes by living cleaner and greener. Climate change is…

decade that they’re following the worst case scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”(par 2). A scenario of the environmental changes are the rising seas. Rising seas is such an important global wide problem that many ignore. Major cities like New York and Miami among others worldwide will be affected by the flooding of the rising seas. There is two problems, one people don’t due anything to go green and help the environment. Second, people continue to pollute Earth by not…