Near death experiences can be nerve racking. My father, grandpa, and I were enjoying a beautiful day of fishing on Merritt Lake near Valentine Nebraska. We were just barely able to squeeze in this last three day fishing trip before fall set in. We did not think any situation could ruin this perfect sunny and 75 degree day. The expression “When thunder roars go indoors” never sank in until it actually happened. My dad guessed that we would have a difficult time finding a parking spot when we crept
For my essay I chose to write about The Fog Warning by Winslow Homer. I chose this piece not only because of how much this piece is referenced in the education of art but also while I was looking around for a topic to write about I came across it and it was so captivating. The way everything is placed within allows the eyes to wander as though you discovered something new every time you look at it. This piece is world renowned for its ability of capturing some of the great themes of human and nature
Moreover, within a span of few pages we find the mention of a large array of animals and birds and Sita is noted to share a strange bond with them. She is carefree, and hardly shudders at the thought of taming the snakes. Her spontaneous handling of the serpentine creature is noted in the lines, “She had no quarrel with the snakes. They kept down the rats and the frogs.” The narrator’s hint at the importance of the ecological food chain in the lines cannot be overlooked. We find the narrator referring
Tommy Buttaccio HIS 505 Short Essay Of Migrants and Mobility: Thoughts on the Mediterraneans In her book Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900 Julia Clancy-Smith takes the reader to the Mediterranean during what Clancy- Smith calls an age of migration. She states that this migration that we see in the mediteranian is the bedrock of civilization and that it drives history. Interestingly in her work, instead of looking to Greece or turkey to examine the
Blankenship, an affable but poor boy whom twain later identified as the representation for the character Huckleberry Finn. There were local diversions as well fishing, picnicking, and swimming. A boy might swim or canoe to and explore Glasscock Island, in the middle of the Mississippi River, or he might visit the labyrinthine McDowell’s Cave, about two miles south of town. The first site evidently became Jackson’s Island in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; the second became McDougal’s Cave in The Adventures