Dune

Access by vehicle is possible along a bumpy and unpaved track, it ends on a beach with sand dunes, and has camping ground for you and your family to rough it for a few days. The park has much to do for all sorts of people if you feel like taking a day trip to see the beautiful scenery and go bird watching to hiking and camping, roughing it for…

In the short story "A&P" by John Updike, the protagonist, Sammy, quits his job at the end of the story. It is clear that life will not be easy for him after this. Although it is never an appropriate idea to suddenly quit a job, Sammy’s boredom with his job, his disinclination for his manager, and his attempt to impress the girls he felt were wronged, are feasible reasons behind his ultimate decision to quit his job. Throughout the story, there are countless instances described that could lead…

Leslie Marmon Silko is a Laguna Pueblo writer who was born on March 5, 1948 in New Mexico. Inspite of the fact that she as published many works, such as Alamanac of the Dead (1991) and Gardens in the Dunes (2000), the main work that made her famous (ide valami szofisztikáltabb kellene xd ) was her first novel, the Ceremony (1977). Growing up on the edge of the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, her earliest experiences were between culture and traditions. Most of her works focus on the alienation of…

twenty high-frequency words. Shenandoah was asked to read from list A. She read fourteen words correctly: and, the, pretty, had, after, let, there, little, did, what, them, one, like, yes. She attempted to read four words, but read them incorrectly: dune/down, hurry/here, may/am, come/cold/could. She did not attempt to read where, over. Her score was 14/20 which puts her in the sixth stanine for fall. Running…

Plum Island Trip First of all, I decided to do this project because it included a trip to an island. My first thought was warm weather, the sun, the beach, and the ocean, but unfortunately we did this trip in a cold, dark and windy day. We spent most of our day at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, which is located along the northeast coast of Massachusetts. This refuge has it's history, it was established in 1941 for several reasons, which they are: to provide feeding, resting, and…

Entry 1 I'm on my way to petrified forest national park. While im there im going to go geocaching, backpacking, and horseback riding. I’m also going to visit Painted Desert Inn and Rainbow Forest Museum. I hope i'll get to visit the Agate house and Newspaper Rock. Entry 2 I’ve just arrived and i'm very excited. I'm ready to start my adventure but I can't because it's 3:00 am. But i can’t sleep i'm too excited. We’re going to go to our first stop at 8:30 am. So i only have to wait 5 hours and…

and not know what was going on in the world around me. After getting over that initial difficulty however, I began to feel comfortable with the lake and the trees that surrounded me just as Saint-Exupéry began to feel comfortable waiting on his sand dune. I found myself becoming more and more attuned with nature and began to look within my heart at my inner self as a form of reflection. I discovered that without my phone, I could learn more about myself and “by renunciation I discovered a hidden…

Friendship is a large part of many people’s life. It can bring you some of the best times of your life and lots of fun. Although it may seem all rainbows and butterflies, it can also bring many hardships. John Knowles focuses his novel on the friendship of two boys, Gene and Finny. Gene flashes back into his time in Devon to understand his friendship with Finny and reconcile with it. Gene and Finny are a prime example of how friendships are always cheerful. The theme of friendship is…

Click. The man wedges his fingers underneath the latch of the chess then begins to raise the lid. A hinge begins to squeak when a ray of golden light reaches the man’s eyes. A pile of riches sits before him. He looks up at the horizon carved by sand dunes and promptly closes and latches the box. The man grunts as he lifts the weighted chest and stumbles to the three-foot-deep hole where it had been uncovered minutes ago. He carefully places the treasure chest in then proceeds to fill in the rest…

In the little Dutch Village of Aamersvoort, a kid by the name of Piet Mondrian was born on March seventh, 1872. Piet was the second child of four, with two brothers and one sister. As an Artist himself, bringing home the money off of his amateur art, Piet's dad, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Sr., saw that his child had a natural talent for drawing and painting and could give him lessons. His Uncle, Fritz Mondrian, was also an a fantastic painter and was self trained. Since he was a respectable…