The Wayside

for their master, and themselves, drives them. While the Confucian ideology can be found throughout the Chushingura, and the samurai, culture, it is a picked over ideology. Important parts that put a “human touch” to Confucianism were put to the wayside. For example the ren, a virtue that looks at humanity and kindness, the civil service exam to make sure those in power are competent, and the more intellectual side of Confucian thought, were ignored.…

majority of my high school career I always preferred to go unnoticed. My preference to be unremarkable and embody everything average resulted in missed opportunities. Relationships, academic achievements, and extracurricular activities was put on the wayside in fear of failure and mediocrity. However, I do not look at the past to meditate on what could have been, instead I look to measure my growth and relish in the now. Regret leads to anguish over unchangeable actions and distracts me from the…

the prime of his life, where everything seemed to be beautiful, natural, and ideal. Stanza four marks the shift from a reminiscent tone to a dismal tone. He realizes how life is becoming less and less free, and how there isn’t time to “rest on a wayside bench” or “study a bird on a branch.” He becomes obsessed with the inevitability of death, referring to it as “cliffs of mortality” and stepping “off the sharp lip into space.” Collins seems to be aware of where his life is headed and is feeling…

spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau, and theatricals in the barn at "Hillside" (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside"). Like her character, "Jo March" in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy. "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, "and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences ..." For…

A Reconciled Love Just like most kids my story of how reading has impacted my life started when I was very young. A memory of my childhood was my parents laying my sister Ashley and I down every night to read us a bible story. I was always an adventurous kid, so for me story time was just another adventure. I have always enjoyed reading like my mom; however, I would prefer to be outside with a ball in my hand like my dad. Regardless of how hard I resisted, my mom would insist that I come…

Topic 1: Detailed History of Ceramic Analysis in the Maya Lowlands Many influences from around North American archaeology apparently influenced the methods used by researchers when reviewing the historical trajectory of ceramic analysis in the Maya area. To follow this path, an examination of the earliest explorers in the Maya area is necessary. During the time of the first Mesoamerican explorers, such as Catherwood, Maudslay, and Maler, the Southwestern archaeologists have already created a…

Snoop Dogg is an american rapper his conceived named is Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. he is a performer, and on-screen character. He is notable as a rapper in West Coast hip jump music, and is one of Dr. Dre's most renowned proteges. His music profession began in 1992 in which he was found by Dr. Dre. He was on a few tracks on Dre's first collection The Chronic and on the subject of the motion picture Deep Cover. Snoops guardians nicknamed him "Snoopy" as a tyke since he took after snoopy however…

Growing up on a ranch changes people; not only physically but down in your soul. This lifestyle teaches you to appreciate the little things in life. When you don’t come from much and you work hard for what you have it makes you look at the world in a different light. This was the case for the main character in “Ranch Girl” by Maile Meloy; life on the ranch shaped her. The circumstances of her life have made her staunch, melancholy, and apathetic. First of all, loyalty is a must in a ranching…

not impose limitations based on the need to access certain facilities or materials. Students will hopefully graduate their universities, and library budgets may unfortunately necessitate that previously offered databases and resources fall by the wayside, but the basic skills taught by library instructors should be adaptable despite the change of…

There are many symbolisms in Lord of the Flies. Today I will tell you the three most important: Piggy (and his glasses), The Conch and Clothing. I will list the events in the story in which the symbol plays an important part and its importance to the book. Piggy and (and his glasses), it’s a simple symbol. They are intended to look though and looking= vision, vision= sight= a metaphor for knowledge. Piggy knows things the other boys don't, like how to use the conch, and the necessity for laws…