Birch

Poets Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost and Gwen Harwood explore various contrasting poetic techniques in depicting ideas towards the reader. Heaney and Frost portray the idea of becoming overloaded with the concerns of life through contrasting imagery of childhood and nature. Harwood and Heaney look into the idea of the atrocities of war, by Harwood using different techniques of the contrasting understandings of frogs and Heaney’s depiction of people in battle. While continued contrast is seen in…

The clouds broke, and light began to shine through the large, curtainless, loft-style windows flanking a four-hundred-square-foot apartment containing only a bed, a faded purple sofa, a birch-coloured dinner table, and a single chair. Hand-me-downs would be the explanation to friends regarding the eclectic range of furniture. The truth was that they were obtained for free through a series of favours to strangers. I sat down and opened a laptop bought off of Craigslist. The operating system was…

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We left the quansa early the next morning before the sun was up to avoid any scouts that might have been sent out to find us. We made a travois, a type of sled constructed between a framework of two poles, to bring back all the things the women wanted from the quansa. It was a lot. Dragging the travois made the trip back home longer and more dangerous from the scratches left behind from the poles. Onida and Mother walked behind sweeping the dirt with a branch to hide the drag marks. Each night,…

headaches, pain, fever, and inflammation. It can also decrease the risk of a heart attack, strokes, and chest pain. It works by blocking a certain natural substance in the body to reduce pain. Esther Inglis-Arkell says “It was derived from willow and birch bark, and works by blocking a certain enzyme. Cyclooxygenase-2 is basically an alarm bell, ordering out the troops. It manufactures a chemical called prostaglandin,…

In sociologist Daniel Bell landmark 1973 book, The Coming of Post-industrial Society, foretold America’s transition from a labor-intensive economy that produced consumer goods into a society based on knowledge that provided services. Attaining success would require advanced and creative ways; no longer manual, assembly-line work could achieve success. Since then, Politicians seem to agree and stress that it is education that holds the key to this nation’s future. Nearly everyone agrees that…

child self didn’t have that sound of nervousness it was, “the only thing that would sometimes break the illusion…” White also writes about the diner where nothing had changed either, except, “…more Coca-Cola and not so much Moxie and root beer and birch beer and sarsaparilla.” (White, 4-5) The images of these differences connected White back to the present, keeping him out of the past. The use of repetition and imagery both explain the theme of the…

Most children require a decent and nurturing role model, otherwise they cannot see the optimistic qualities of life nor form lasting relationships with anyone. In Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth, Harper Evelyn Birch or Great-Uncle “Baby Harper” befittingly serves this niche as the role model for the protagonist, Linda Hammerick. Throughout the text, there is evidence of their sincere bond such as Linda confiding and finding solace in him which is significant because comparatively speaking,…

To Be Selfless, Rather Than Selfish There comes a time in a girl’s life where she gets so hurt by men, that she is afraid to love again. I would like to thank my Abuelo for teaching me that even though you may be devastated, your family will forever love you. November Fifteenth, Two-Thousand Fifteen, will be one year since my Grandfather went to heaven. Every day it gets harder and harder because of the choices I made and the regrets I have. I chose to be selfish, rather than selfless. For…

you haven 't a clock, or you have a clock but it 's broken. Indeed, the ticking of a clock arm had ended long ago. All I hear now are the footsteps behind me, the sound of a young man moping filthy floors that could never shine. They are made of old birch wood, rough and rotten from the spills of science. Much of the furniture are worn out. It 's been seven years since I last appeared in the center of civilization. My son and I are not welcomed in the village. They believe us to be Satanists…