The Pale

Pale yellow-green grass hills rolled for miles in front of me. A massive ten thousand foot red rocked mountain met these hills, then instantly towered above them. As I took a sip of water, I eyed the summit and felt a little cooler on the hot summer morning. Already heating up I needed to remind myself to conserve water. My journey had just started. Cruising through the empty hills a massive crater came into view. As I the edge of the crater a lake formed by snow melt rested at the bottom;…

The Many Reactions to War The characters of “The Return of the Soldier” and “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” waver from wanting to acknowledge the war and its effects to wanting to erase all traces of the war. Within both novellas there are characters who want the war to go on so that it can run its course, and there are characters who just want the war to end so that their loved ones might be safe. With the war being so prevalent in everyone’s daily lives, there is also the feeling of needing to…

players do not wear protective gear because the chances of getting hit with the ball are low. Mr. Embry’s did not assume a higher risk when he decided to retrieve the ball. Ms. Weiss, the instructor, told Mr. Mitchell that he should alert his playing partners that he had a shanking problem so they should remain behind him while he was hitting the ball. Also, Mitchell did not inform the group that he intended to hit a second ball from a tee box. These rules are there to prevent players from…

David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel, The Pale King, was pieced together by his publisher, Michael Pietsche, following his suicide back in 2008. Set in an IRS office in the Midwest, the novel’s theme builds upon the concept of boredom. According to Wallace’s understanding of the human condition, Americans are dying from boredom because of a monotonous day-to-day life filled with meaningless rules and regulations. He expands on that idea noting that dullness seems to be an impediment for…

modern humans explore their internal environment to learn more about oneself. Exploration builds wisdom. In a book that I read – 'Pale Blue Dot' by Carl Sagan – the author expresses how Space research has helped humanity realize the insignificance of international quarrels and disputes. His writings convey the idea that from the space, the earth is nothing but a pale blue dot, taking up only about a pixel width. From further away, it is not even visible. There is no sign of humans when Earth is…

In the movie Pan's Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro uses many significant scenes to highlight the important themes and ideas portrayed throughout the film. The scene i will be analysing is the pale man scene. Del Toro uses many film techniques to help highlight the important themes and ideas such as rebellion and disobedience, power and control and choices. Del Toro uses film techniques such as mid shots,diegetic sound, mise en scene and non diegetic sound. An important film technique…

Racheal A. Krasner Professor Garfield Beckford CHEM 1211 L 25 September 2015 Lab Report Concerning Acid-Base Titrations The purpose of this experiment was to recognize the procedures for conducting acid-base titrations. Each acid-base titration used one solution to analyze another; it also involved the use of an indicator, which denoted the endpoint of the titration. The indicator used was phenolphthalein; it produced a pink hue when the titrations reached their endpoints – between pH 8 and pH…

In 1850 a boy named Palé who was a Brazilian soccer player was immigrating to the United States. He was not excelled in school just had the average knowledge. He loved playing soccer in Brazil but knew that in America Fútbol was not the same. He had moved in and met Bobby and Vonté. They taught Palé how to play american football and he enjoyed it just as much as soccer. The boys played almost everyday at lunch during school and after school. One day Palé was thinking about how most sports had…

am I? Taking care not to step on any of the corpses, he walked across the war-torn hell-scape. His deathly pale skin contrasted with the bloodied and scorched grassland, and, unlike the butchered bodies scattered around him, he was completely naked. “I found a live one over here!" Turning toward the voice, he saw, at a distance, two knights in golden…

Russian did not allow the, to cross-examine the miscreants. The second attack moved by Chaim Nachman Bialik to write a famous poem, In the City of Slaughter, which resonated among the Jewish intelligentsia. More importantly, the Zionists (Usshishin) and Revisionist’s (Jabotinsky) and Territorialist (Zangwell) were highly offended at the cavalier treatment of this activity. Galicia After the Third Partition (1795) of the Lithuanian-Polish Empire, Austria annexed most of Lesser Poland,…