Crashing

At a young and tender age of 19 year old boy had his life going for him until, everything went crashing. The boy's name is Edmond Dantes from the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond is a sailor aboard the Pharaon. He is the first mate and everyone on board likes him, but one person who is jealous of Dantes, Danglars. After the Pharaon had arrived, Morrel the owner of the Pharaon made Dantes captain of the ship. Dantes is overwhelmed and thanks him. Later Danglers frames…

Short Story Analysis of A Goodman is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor uses conflict in A Goodman is Hard to Find to demonstrate the tendency of people to change beliefs when faced with adversity through the actions of the grandmother. Originally, the grandmother believed herself to be a good woman with strong beliefs but as the story progressed, her ideals shifted. O'Connor portrayed this mainly at the end of the story when the family encountered the Misfit. The Misfit, a recently escaped prisoner…

It’s the time of my birthday again, and my family has been slowly, but surely leaving the poverty behind. Thanks to Mr. Roosevelt implementing The New Deal and it’s second coming that recently has just come. The confidence of the nation had never had better hopes for the country's rising. Jobs had opened up even more, and even my brother Samuel found a job. The second coming, people called The Second Deal, which implemented non competitive work, such as building of post offices, parks, bridges,…

“BAM!” I went crashing down the hill the cold gust in my face. All I saw was white all over my face, I tried to stop myself but it was too slippery. I finally stopped and looked up my family was laughing. I started laughing myself think how funny I looked. I went sledding with my family during winter and we bought a new snowboard I was really looking forward to ride it. My family and I went sledding that day and I was really excited to ride it! When we all got there me and my brother raced up…

“Aly we’re in Alabama, almost to Dauphin Island.” My dad mentioned as he was driving. “Yay!” I shouted as he drove on, “I can already smell the salt in the ocean it’s like I can taste it! I can see the waves and hear them crashing against each other!” 15 minutes later my dad said “We’re here!” When we got in our beach house we waited for our friends to get there and we walked straight to the beach because it was right across the street. We got to the beach and laid down our stuff I laid down on…

As an artist the main reason why I drew this symbolic art, is to explain the true meaning and depths of the main character, “Bud”. As to set the tone of imagery, of the art piece I present to you I had to go in a deeper meaning to show the true aspect. When drew a depiction of hell I used it to represent Bud’s struggle. As you notice in the far left there is a castle, which represents the journey that Bud is going through. As the little kid in bottom right is a symbol of Bud, you can see that he…

Conquest and exploration had affected certain parts of the world in both positive and negative ways. In the Middle East when the Muslim Empire was just starting to expand, Muslim armies defeated the Byzantine forces and then “In the 711, Muslim forces crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and conquered Spain” (Esler 39). This had a positive effect on them because it allowed them to spread the Islam and Muslim civilization. There are also the Aztec/Mexica people who were a part of the Triple Alliance…

couldn’t last on his own, Canessa waded into the river following Parrado. They were now both surrounded by water made angry by the howling winds; their numbed feet balanced on the uneven rocks, a game of jenga waiting to fall. Unsteady breaths and crashing waves were the only sound; the two men too engulfed in the arctic pool to talk, only shared anxious looks and…

I was able to watch the complete Nova video, “What are Animals Thinking”. The three most interesting and informative parts of this video are the rat experiment, infrasonic sound and house –hunting bees’ ability to find new homes. The free rats in this video actually showed empathy towards the trapped rats. At the University of Chicago Mrs. Mason showed two different test the first two rats in a box one was trapped in a tube the other was free. The free rat figured out how to open the…

The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in “A Costly Treasure” by describing the figurative language. She is describing it to let you know what she is seeing. The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in A Costly Treasure for example, the passage stated that a rock “looked like someone’s petrified brain.” This is figurative language because a rock can’t actually be a petrified brain. This is also figurative language because the author was…