The Walk

Indigenous studies and stories is essential for acknowledging and addressing historical injustices and preserving cultural diversity. In the book Medicine Walk and the short story “History of the New World" written by Richard Wagemese and Adam Garnet Jones demonstrates that Indigenous worldviews are shown throughout the text and characters. Both Medicine Walk and “History of the New World” explore several Indigenous worldviews but the most important one is hope. Hope is what drives the story to…

The wind ruffled the leaves as Edgar walked through the woods. He noted that, in comparison to the sun’s radiant heat, it was a refreshing breeze. He stopped in his tracks, stood up straight, and took in the sights and sounds and smells of the forest. Edgar was fond of his pattern of absorbing everything around him, and then focussing in on a single detail that he found interesting in that moment. Edgar felt godlike whenever he viewed his environment as a whole. He could see and feel everything…

Gramps says I’m a country girl at heart, and that is true”(Creech 1). This is saying that Gramps and Sal both agree that Sal is a country girl.In Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech , Bybanks,Kentucky is important to the character Sal because of her belongings,her memories,and the trees. Bybanks,Kentucky is important to the character Sal because of her belongings. In chapter 1 Sal supports this by saying” My Father plucked me like a weed,and took all of our belongings,that’s not true he didn’t take…

Ursula Le Guin’s story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, presents an ethical problem by creating a perfect society that is being enjoyed by many at the expense of one child. The dilemma is introduced through the existence of the child and the fact that this “it” is being tortured for the greater good. It essentially implies that the happiness of everyone else in the city of Omelas lies on the misery of one. This sort of setting raises a number of questions at the very core of morality. What…

Ursula Le Guin illustrates a hypothetical city where the happiness of an entire society depends on the eternal agony of one child. In her narration of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, she begins by describing the gathering of city people to a festival. The author maintains a rather vague depiction of the authenticity of the city, claiming that the details of their relation of technology, drugs, or sex for example to ours are simply irrelevant. The main importance that Ursula Le Guin stresses…

In “Mutability”, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and “She Walks in Beauty”, by Lord Byron, the sonnets show the simple beauty of natural humans and how complex it can be. In “She Walks in Beauty”, the woman is analyzed through contradictions from “dark” and “bright”. The sonnet emphasizes on how someone’s beauty is perfection because amongst all the darkness, she still illuminates with her purity. Byron is viewing this woman through exaggeration of unnatural beauty, but somehow her contradicting…

“Would You Walk Away from Omelas?” In this short story, the fictional society of Omelas seems nearly perfect, but something is lurking just beneath the surface. It is revealed that an innocent life must suffer for this society to exist in its “perfect” state. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, Ursula K. Le Guin uses a fictional scenario to present the controversial idea of a moral scapegoat in order to sustain a perfect society. The society of Omelas is described as being a…

steep hill and learned to belay, a crazy day. It was humid in my house so when my friend Isabella M. asked if I would go hiking with her family on Hise MTN., I obviously said yes, it would be my first time hiking. I packed a backpack and begun the walk to her house. We hopped into a car and began the drive to the mountain. I sat down and looked around another little girl and my two friend’s dads had joined us too, the girl’s name was Raegan. I looked up, that mountain was ‘as steep as a…

In Brent Staples’ “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders” he talks about the stereotype of a black mugger and how stereotypes has the potential to bring unnecessary danger into his life (Staples 4). I can definitely relate to his experience. When I drive by the mall I have to first check what I’m wearing before I go in. If I’m coming from school and I have my backpack, if I wear a large purse, or if I am in plain clothing I will not enter a store, especially if the store is locally owned. They…

KEY CHAIN FOR $2 I decided to walk a little on the Luiltan Street. It was nearly 12 am on a Friday night. The street of Luiltan was quite dark yet peaceful and secure. Earlier in that morning, my team and I just elaborated a business project with a Japanese motor company that will enhance the life of Luiltan 's citizen. The odds weren 't against us this time. A decision to accept the project was the best thing we have ever done. I could only imagine how the change was coming for the better in…