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One of the perks of being a Pastor’s Kid that in my life time I had a chance to spend three years in Anchorage Alaska as my father was a Youth Pastor there. While Alaska is a part of the United States one of the interesting things about living there is due to it’s isolation from the lower 48 there is a difference of culture there that is not present in the lower 48. The people there have a much different life, and adapt their lifestyle to fit living up there. One of the things that every new…

Arrogance is a poor trait to have. Most people would claim this statement to be true. Throughout the story “To Build A Fire” by Jack London, he uses point of view, foreshadowing, and irony to display the negative consequences of arrogance. He captures the core values of those literary devices to weave a story that demonstrates and teaches said values. The literary device point of view is a large factor in the writing style and overall flow of the story. For example, the story is told from the…

Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water portrays various lives of characters intertwined by the Native American folkloric gods. Lionel Red Dog, a man turning 40 years old attempts to reconstruct his life on a better path while struggling with his identity. As a born Canadian with an Asian ethnicity, my personal reading of Lionel and Charlie’s father Portland Looking Bear highlights their struggle with identity. Although never explicitly stated, the conflicting needs of being an individual and…

Character Analysis: I Am David Escaping a prison camp, teaching himself to read Italian from a newspaper, and climbing a mountain in the middle of a blizzard when he was half starved! Do you think you could do these amazing things? Well they are all things the character David did in the novel I am David, written by Anne Holm. The character David is a very courageous boy. At one point in this intriguing novel (pg.107), he finds himself watching three Italian children playing a game they…

Artist in Greenland Dominating the landscape is a large, shimmering iceberg, which towers over a field of snow and contrasts with a vibrant blue sky. Clustered in the foreground is a painter and his team of sled dogs, who stare at the viewer from their position on the snow and give a sense of life to the otherwise desolate, but beautiful, landscape. Painted in oils by American artist Rockwell Kent in 1935 (with the addition of several figures in 1960), Artist in Greenland is a vibrant modernist…

Alex Ramos July 18, 2016 English 301 Professor T. Marchak Analysis to build fire Fire consuming species In the story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London he begins his fictional character in harsh elements of the winter cold. In these elements, the man is isolated from anyone. The man is attempting to reach a campsite miles away by a certain time. The cold condition causes spit to freeze before hitting the ground. None of the facts of nature seemed to worry the man. The man traveled with a…

The death and way of life of the iceman is still a mystery to us historian, but we have a few possible theory's of "where he was going?", "where he was coming from?", "how he died?", "why he was in the alps along the Austro-Italian border?". The iceman was going to go fight a war between two societies, including his own, fighting for land. Neither society knew the other existed until they ventured out beyond the village borders. The iceman was living in a house made of wooden logs, mud, sticks,…

Where the Red Fern Grows is a very captivating story no-matter how it is told. Because of this, those who fancy the story found different ways to share it with others. So, the movie was created as a mimic of the original book. Through this essay I will describe a few of the differences and similarities between the book and movie version of this enthralling heart squeezing story. First, in the original book, Billy won the hunting competition with his dogs. He went hunting and soon after heading…

I chose my states location based off a place I think has a lot of natural beauty and also a lot of history. I broke down the questions given to me and also added in some of my own, I answered them all individually to try and illustrate the full functionality of my conceptual state and its capitol. To give a general idea of where my state is located, it is on the west coast and is the northern part of California and also includes the southern portion of Oregon. I have included a map with the…

Ordeal by Hunger, written by George R. Stewart, expediently illustrates the extreme conditions that the Donner Party had to endure in order to survive and conquer the drastic expedition that was embedded with adversity and death. It (the novel) tells the tale of the ill-fated pioneers while simultaneously epitomizing the great lengths that some will go to, and the sacrifices some will have to make, at the mercy of survival. Stewart was an American historian, and an English Professor (among many…