Yarn

For the rest of the school year, nobody in Percy's class knows who Mrs. Dodds is. Percy feels like everyone is playing a trick on him. Percy's grades get worse and worse, and he can't control his anger in class. When summer approaches, he learns that he won't be invited back to Yancy Academy for his seventh grade year. While he's excited to go home and see his mom, Percy knows he's going to miss certain aspects of Yancy. He's going to miss Mr. Brunner and Grover, and the pretty countryside…

1. Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” combines elements of poetry to create a masterpiece that can be taken for granted. It discusses a man stopping by a house in the woods on a dark, cold, snowy evening, and if he should stay at the place or continue on. He quickly decides that he can’t stay, “He will not see me stopping here” (3) and later reveals, “But I have promises to keep” (14). He seems that he has many things to do, so he must continue his journey on; even though…

The novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and short story “Everyday Use” exposes visual imagery through the characters and their life towards sustaining independency. In “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” the narrator depicts the inside of Holly’s life, by reflecting on her outer appearances to that of others. On the contrary, in “Everyday Use”, the narrator generates a visual image of Dee that too depicts her physical appearance to that of others. In short story, Dee’s bright dress portrays one way of hiding…

Motion / Emotion is a collection of dark ghostly creatures, dangling limbs and lingering scenes. “Messager works across painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation, and the exhibition includes pieces from her early career up to now. Messager’s works reveal a keen interest in humanity and its fragile, emotional core.” From entering her exhibition and walking through, I feel as though each piece embraced new and different emotions. The first piece that she had on display was one…

nature, and the Salmon making their annual spawning run up the river. I stood with my nine and a half foot long rod rigged up with 12lb line and a few split shot weights. I was using a size 6 gamakatsu octopus hook rigged with a single piece of orange yarn. I was consumed in my task falling into a rhythm of drifting my bait through the hole. I felt my hook catch on something and I set the hook. Bam, I was intertwined in a one on one fight against a riverbeast. We went back and forth, it tugged…

The use of “steamboats created a transcontinental market and an agricultural empire that produced much of the nation’s timber, wheat, corn, cattle, and hogs”(268). That particular method of water transportation“ transformed St. Louis, Missouri, from a sleepy frontier village into a boomin river port. New Orleans developed even faster. By 1840, it was the wealthiest and third largest american city, having developed a thriving trade with the Caribbean island and the new Latin American republics…

In today’s world factory’s is the stepping stone and beginning point to where many of the products or technology devices that we use today are first developed. And in the 18 century British knew that they had to be a way to produce materials and products in a more effective and cost effective way. This was all because the population and lifespan were increasing and to survive they needed a better way to produce more products. So they came up with a solution; to construed large manufacturing…

alternate reality has to 'behave' just like his own reality does. Once that data is aggregated, the next challenge is to create complex and 'intelligent' systems that can process that data into information that will be completely suitable to be the yarn to the fabric of an alternate reality. The final step would be to create a delivery mechanism - a visual and cognitive system that feeds information to the neural input lines of our brain so that we feel like we are finally…

As I write the above poem, I reflect on my time at my first ADTA conference, the words of a Billie Holiday song, Why Not Take All of Me, come to mind. In this song, she speaks very candid about a man taking her heart due to a breakup and decides that it is best to take her life since one has taken the better part of her. For me, in this journey of therapy and Counseling, as an African American, one of my strongest assets is that I am a black man. As it is who I am, providing a very specific…

Industrialization refers to the development of machine production goods and new energy resources. Before the industrial revolution the period was sort of golden age, is a myth. Domestic spinners and weavers in the eighteenth century had been exploited by clothier as ruthlessly as the factories operatives were exploited by manufacturer in 1840s. After industrial revolution in Europe resources were being used on large scale for larger production during 18th and 19th century. It was boom in textile…