Time travel

10 years I was unable to travel outside the United Staes. However, the opportunity to travel with other DACA (Deferral Action for Childhood Arrival) students to Mexico City was open to me, during this one week out I was allowed to join the Mexican government conferences on how to help youth. This educational experience led me to realize that there are many individuals that are interested in traveling and learning other cultures, the links that are formed when one travels with other are…

In the book “Nothing to Declare; Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone” by Mary Morris mention “travel shaped by a traveler’s gender” as a man vs as a female alone. On Page 10 explained it was not easy for the woman to travel alone. “If you are attacked while walking down this road, you have no place to go. For the first time, I walked that quarter mile at night alone. Every shadow, every sound, made me turn. I behaved like a hunted thing. It is not easy to move through the world alone,…

adrenaline fuels my excitement. Anticipation seeps into me as I think about the places I’ll go and people I’ll meet. That’s why I yearn to travel, for the excitement I feel every single time. Don’t get me wrong, I love my small hometown in Iowa, but let’s be honest, it can get a bit dull. Whenever the opportunity to travel is offered, I jump on it because, “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.¨-Unknown While traveling I get many chances to try the local cuisine. Trying…

Although travel has become so commonplace nowadays, travel out of leisure has always meant an unattainable luxury to me. For many reasons including finances it was not as accessible to me as it may be for others. Since I was a child I have been travelling out of necessity rather than for a vacation. At the age of six I left my home country along with my family and entered Europe as a refugee. We sought asylum in Italy and France until we finally settled in Germany. Although Germany provided a…

power. "To Build a Fire" takes place in Yukon, on an extremely cold and grey winter day. An unnamed man travels alone, except with an unwilling dog, to the camp at Henderson Creek with his friends, "the boys". Travelling on such a cold day does not worry the man at all though, because he is "without imagination" (100). The dog, on the other hand, knows by its instincts that it is too cold to travel. As they walk, the man encounters plenty of trouble, including the struggle to…

Authors have many variations to highlight the themes in their stories. In the story “A Sound of Thunder” writer Ray Bradbury talks about a guy named Eckles who travels back in time to kill a dinosaur, but things don’t end up going as planned. He shows how the slightest things can change time if directions aren’t followed thoroughly. Bradbury connects everything tactically and supports the theme by using characters, settings and the sound of thunder. The characters play a huge role in describing…

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” an unnamed man and his husky riskily travel through the Yukon area in bitter, cold temperatures with the hope of reaching a camp (and his friends) by the evening. The man faces the consequences of frostbite in the process of traveling in such harsh conditions. He builds a few fires to keep warm, and to battle freezing off his fingers and toes, but soon his own conscience drives him crazy. When it becomes impossible for the man to construct a fire with his…

Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" are both very well written pieces of science fiction that both focus on scientific technology and how it's affect the main characters' lives. Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" is about a young man named Eckels goes back in time and has to deal with the harsh consequences of his pusillanimous mistake. In Scurzynski's "Nethergrave", the main character, Jeremy, picks a virtual world over his entire life where he feels humiliated, awkward, and relinquished. I think…

Butler’s science fiction novel, Kindred, the protagonist, Dana, is involuntarily wrestling with the urge to not conform to the ways of the antebellum Southern culture she has been forced into due to a time traveling sensation. Her psychology unknowingly embraces her ancestor’s patterns of behavior in this time instead of maintaining a surface-level imitation she intended to keep since her first encounter with this phenomenon. This uncontrollable submersion into slave-holding Maryland commands…

he would take me on a few trips back in time, the insight and vision that I will see will be like no other. Me being a Western Civilization professor I found the opportunity to travel through time to be very beneficial to myself and my colleagues. This journey will provide myself with enough knowledge to understand the thoughts of even the earliest civilizations. Although this trip was restricted to about half of a day, I found that I had only sufficient time to visit a handful of the places.…