We Didn't Start the Fire

The Edible South Paper vs We Didn’t Start the Fire In the book The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris, she explains a story about Southern foods including the hardship of Whites, African Americans and Native Americans. She splits the book into three parts, Part I explains the food history, Part II examines the New South’s diet and lives and lastly Part III highlights food in the civil movement. Ferris believes there is two kinds of people that are affected in the South being landowner’s wealthy…

Our relationship with the natural world has been demonstrated in many of the works that we have studied throughout this course. It has been represented with danger, emotions and instinct. To begin, In Stephan Cranes, The Open Boat, the men are stranded at sea with no one to help except for their abilities as humans, who have no power to defeat the natural world. From the beginning of the short story the tone of the men showed despair and helplessness. At first the men attempted to use their…

wondering the same thing. Well let me tell you, I did a couple of research myself to find out. We all know firefighters have a busy day, they put out fire, and we think that’s it. But little do we know there is more. For example I bet you didn’t know they did other activities, cleaning, calls for service, not even their shift time! We think of a firefighter and I’m guessing the first thing you think is red, fire, truck, but you don’t know anything else. That’s exactly why I’m about to tell you…

Lord of the Flies (Symbolism) Symbolism is present in the books we read. Symbolism develops the plot of a story and creates depth and detail to the characters. Books include symbolism that is significant to the story and pushes the story further. For example in the book, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the main characters all symbolize a trait. Piggy, one of the main characters, represents intelligence and obedience. Jack, another main character, suggests the character of savagery.…

leadership but instead, the little kids play without a purpose in simple ways. Even though all the boys took on a role of some kind, they really didn’t have the skills to be successful. That’s while the fire they wanted to use to signal for help went out after burning out of control. The situation with the boys role as leaders and that the fact that they didn’t have the skill to be a leader started conflict between…

everyone lost their jobs. A little later, my Papa arrived home and went to talk to my mama alone. I overheard them arguing about how we need that money because the farm’s business is slowing down. I was upstairs reading…

Man underestimates nature. Nature has no remorse. We face the everyday struggles that nature brings us, however, we learned to overcome these struggles because we are accustomed to them. These day to day struggles are no longer a problem for us, except when nature really challenges us. At times the environment may seem under an individual's control, but it never is. There are certain situations and forces beyond our control, showing us nature is powerful and cannot be defeated. As much as one…

novel, a group of schoolboys are flown out of a war zone and eventually crash into an isolated island. In the first few nights, the boys work together and focus on their teamwork and try their best to keep a signal fire going to get rescued. But as time goes by, a few of the boys start to turn “savage” and overtake any sort of logic and reasoning… All teamwork seems to disappear and nobody seems to want to help anyone but themselves… William Golding compares this to society and demonstrates…

british costume house. I start walking to the door and British soldiers stop me. It felt like my feet were turning into ice and my hands were numb. I tried and tried but I couldn't get thru them. So I started shouting at them ¨Let me in, let me in.¨ All the sudden I look around me and I see colonist starting to surround me. I told them what happen and they were not happy. I knew inside my heart that it wasn't the soldiers fault it was an order from the king himself. My heart starts to pound…

It was so beautiful we painted it matte black and it had smoke stacks on it then my mom got the bright idea to put pink camo duct tapers and on the bumper so it looked even better. I had fallen in love. We really wanted to paint it matte black and paint white ghost flames on it or…