The Walk

it the same thing: a “walk-off.” Unknown as recently as the 1970s and 1980s, the term “walk-off” for a game-ending hit has become as comfortable a part of the baseball lexicon as “balls” and “strikes.” And it’s spreading. The term’s first published citation was in July 1988, according to William Safire, who was The New York Times’s longtime language maven and who wrote about it a decade ago. The Gannett News Service wrote: “In Dennis Eckersley’s colorful vocabulary, a walk-off piece is a home…

Think Before You Eat Chocolate “At 6 a.m., 10-year-old Emmanuel wakes and readies himself for a day of labor in the cocoa fields. Along the way, he watches as other kids walk in the opposite direction - toward school. He reaches the fields at sunrise and uses his machete to slice ripe cocoa pods from the tree. Later, he carries the cocoa pods he’s harvested from the field, hacks them open and gathers the beans, which will later be used to make chocolate.” Kids in Ghana have to wake up every day…

esplanades, and best of all the Lowell Riverwalk. The Riverwalk is located right near the bridge going from North campus to East Campus, I walk past the walkway almost every day and never really thought much about the view all that much. Going on a nature walk was a very interesting. I’ve never really been a nature kind of guy, but I still discovered new things from my walk. Each time a tour of nature is taken a new discovery is made. These new discoveries are made because people are actually…

“Walk-to-Dine” is a program that focuses on maintaining resident’s highest level of endurance, strength, and overall well-being. There are several studies that have been performed over this subject that conclude that this program is beneficial. The strategy is to give the residents who cannot walk to the dining room independently, the chance to do so with help from the staff. The program not only allows for a natural dining experience for the resident, but it also provides a form of regular…

The Sudan: A Long Walk to Water The Sudan is a North African country sharing borders with the Red Sea, Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, has been the concern of the world due to its civil war, the lost boys, and the many people who have lost their homes since its independence from British and Egyptian rule in 1956. The countless conflicts have caused millions of Sudaneses to died and fled the country in hopes of surviving, so one day, they can…

This is a story called “A Long Walk to Water”. A realistic fiction story and a story about hope By Linda Sue Park. The theme hope relates to Nya because she's needs to keep hope when she walks every day 3 times a day to water. It relates to Salva because he has to finding hope in finding his family and getting away from the war. One of the main characters in this story is Nya. Nya relates to my theme “hope” because she was to walk miles to get dirty water three times a day back and forth just…

The Slut Walk formed a two-part event holding a march and a public assembly bringing light to the objectification of women. The marching portion of the Slut Walk event was a walk around the campus to promote the issue that is sexual harassment, consent, and “slut” shaming. The public assembly held at the UNLV Amphitheater shed light on issues regarding sexual harassment, sexual abuse, women resources, and sex education. The two-part event touched on issues discussed in the readings, The Cult of…

bus to walk home. Our bus stop was in the cul-de-sac at the beginning of the neighborhood and we all lived either right in the middle or in the far back. It was a three-day weekend so we were all trying to figure what to do. Our choices were to either go fishing off the docks in the back of the neighborhood or go swimming from our small bit of sandy, muddy beach that has murky water coming up on it. I lived off the Lake Pontchartrain at the time. My house was the first stop on our daily walk.…

walking with Doug and Tom who she had met along the way. She then felt the need to travel alone so she made of an excuse to stay back and separate herself from the others. Later that night, she caught back up with them. The next day she started to walk the trail alone. Cheryl came across her first large obstacle of snow but she managed to make it through using her ice ax. She hadn’t thought about how dangerous the snow would actually be and that made her consider how dangerous the…

In the short story “The Guest,” and the novel Walk Two Moons, they both have a very similar theme, “Don’t judge a man by his appearance.” Both themes were developed through our character thoughts, actions, or words. First in Walk Two Moons, the theme was found in Salamanca Hiddle’s thoughts. I know this because on page 21,and paragraph 5 it said, ” First their is that name: Cadaver. You know what cadaver means? Actually I did not. It means dead body.” More evidence that supports the theme is…