Vine

Short Story 1 The street took in an old man. A man with a beard like vines that crept down his face with no particular intention of it's whereabouts. This man had a tired face, full of wrinkles like cracks in buildings, they didn't belong but looked normal. Dark bushy eyebrows and short hair, he looked like a marine that was growing a beard and far to old for the service. Eyes gray like clouds covering a blue sky. The man walked in a fast pace as if he was a white rabbit with somewhere to be,…

“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is a bitter story about the conflicts between love and pride. When Brother says, “pride is… a seed that bears two vines, life and death,” he means that it's what caused Doodle to have a chance at a normal life but die trying to get there. When Brother finally succeeds in teaching Doodle how to walk, there is an sudden connection between the two, “He stood alone for a few seconds...I grabbed him in my arms and hugged him, our laughter pealing through the swamp,”…

According to “Custer Died for Your Sins,’ by Vine Deloria, an anthropologist may do more harm than good in Native American research when the anthropologist hosts workshops, which inform young Indian community members of what the anthropologist believes to be the issues as well as the solutions to the issues of challenges facing the community, rather than allowing Indians to organically administer their own solutions to modern day obstacles, develop their own leaders, and determine how their…

“If a child is to keep alive his/her inborne sense of wonder,.,s/he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him/her the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.” -Rachel Carson This quote spoke to me in a very different manner that it’d rather speak to you too. What I found meaningful from this quote is that what she is trying to say is, the adult is nature itself. Once I read this, I right away thought of the book “The Boy and the Tree”.…

Cognitive reappraisal is a technique in which individuals reevaluate a situation to determine whether their psychological resources meet the demands of the situation. The idea of cognitive reappraisal comes from the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat (Blascovich, 2008). With this model, Seery (2011) states that individuals who perceive a situation as challenging believe their psychological resources meet or exceed those required to complete the task. Conversely, threat is…

“I did not know that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” Pride hides many things, bad and good. Pride kills, destroys, and harms many. Pride can lead to both life and death, Pride can be dangerous. In the Scarlet Ibis, the brother used his own pride against Doodles life, which led up to his death. Pride can lead to both life and death. When Doodle was born he had something over his head which caused him to be slow with everything he…

and “ripen.” This lends to Wilbur’s heady descriptions of the blackberries, the most important symbols in the poem. The imagery is rich, going so far as to even describe the berries as “savagely sweet,” and writes extensively on the wild tangles and vines of the blackberry bushes. Wilbur describes this cluster of blackberry bushes vividly, commenting on the “brambled” light, the “chalky white flowers, with blooms of five.” It is my belief that Wilbur is using these wild blackberries as a…

sassafras tree is the only tree mentioned that seems to not be present in Europe; Brereton describes this tree as “a tree of high price and profit.” This tree was likely the most profitable of all the above mentioned trees as it could be used for medicinal purposes, such as curing scurvy, and would likely have been useful in Europe and the New World. Fruits were also listed in some detail as they were encountered on the mainland and also on the Elizabeth Islands. Strawberries seemed to be the…

beautifully blossoming furze and broom, while the other in vines and olive-trees. To the person who is not familiar with the value of each, both hillsides in bloom might appear equally beautiful. Yet, who knows the value of wine and that of olive oil cannot feel the mere flowery bushes to be as beautiful as the lavish vines and olive-trees. Consequently, he cannot admire the owner of a hillside covered in furze and broom as much as the owner of vine and olive-trees. Apparently, the mechanism of…

It has been shown that having a customized electronic medical records (EMR) template with a component specifically created to prompt the PCP to assess BMI increased the occurrence of screening children for obesity in the healthcare setting (Vine et al, 2013). PCPs need to be made aware of the obesity data and trained on what medications and lifestyle changes are specific to children and…