Sweet Land

Garden Sweet Farm is located about two miles North of Old Town Fort Collins, Colorado. To get there from where I live, I drove North on Shield street. To the left and near the Larimer County Sheriff Fire Rescue Cache had a little pound with a fanatic view for me to look at when I drove there every morning. At the first sight of sunlight, the pound had some fog just a little bit above the water with the perfect views of the mountains in its background. Amy Kafka is the owner of the Garden Sweet…

according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted.” The story represents Naturalism in the beginning with the land. Farmers depend on nature to keep their land fertilized and moist, to grow crops. Dry land, though, happens in real life and nature. Marie and Emil getting shot by Frank also seems Naturalistic. Therefore, Cather views Naturalistic as the bad things in life. Romantic; “characterized…

characters. George and Lennie, the main characters of the book, fit perfectly in the theme, because from the very beginning the pair have wanted to own a farm yet deep down George knows it’s impossible and ends up never succeeding in buying/owning land for them. George tells Candy, “...I think I knowed we’d never do her” (Steinbeck 94). In the quote George is explaining to Candy about the situation with the farm him, Candy, and Lennie were going to try to buy. The book explicitly shows these…

Ever wonder how such a bitter bean as cocoa can become such a sweet savory food as chocolate? There's a darker story behind how they get this food that is still sadly happening to this day in the Ivory Coast. From child labor, dying animals, and people just doing nothing to stop this. The negatives far outweigh the positives in chocolate production in the Ivory Coast. Chocolate as we all know and love it, is a sweet food that had originally been a bitter drink for the Europeans. As stated in…

Roald Dahl a boy goes to a town he's never been before for work and he finds a bed and breakfast run by a what seems to be a sweet old lady. Dhal builds a sense of foreboding by making things sound like it's too good to be true to stay at the bed and breakfast. The land lady was brining him to his room and was having a conversation with him. Then Roald Dahl wrote what the land lady said " but the trouble is that I'm inclined to be just a teeny weeny bit choosy and particular - if you know…

come out tomorrow, And lighten the breast load of sorrows, So I may begin to feed again and give suckling to those who unlawfully borrow, O’ Home of the brave and land of the ‘Free’? My milk was not for the taking; you took advantage of me? I ache for my African man, Who like our children; he too shares my breast throughout the lands? But my soul still manages to find love the best that it can, I still cry for ‘Freedom’ for the African man. The African man couldn’t sip from the fountains back…

although he is one of the creators of the paradisiacal land. The book begins with how he takes form of a serpent, and describes the process of persuading Eve. Finally, the sin having been committed, the focus shifts to Adam and Eve turning against each other as they await the judgment of God. Some other books in the epic will also be referenced in this essay. While paradisiacal landscapes are defined as untouched, isolated, beautiful and pure land for both texts, they bear juxtaposing symbolic…

Food is central to human life; to think of food is to think of sustenance. It maintains individuals as a live being, for without it our body would no longer to perform the processes necessary for survival. The word ‘food’ itself conjures platonic images due to the fact that it is essential. The term cuisine, however, provides a much more intimate stance on food. When one thinks of food as it relates to cuisine, the train of thought naturally digresses to the food associated with countries, and…

reader the opposite of what they would expect. One example would be “Dulce et Decorum Est”, or “It is sweet and right in Latin. Owens uses this title to make the reader believe that the poem is about something “sweet and right”, but instead the poem is mainly about the gruesome death of a soldier dying during World War 1. This impacts the reader and protests war because people dying is not sweet and right. In “War is Kind”, the author also uses irony in his title to protest war. Crane states…

Here I am today singing songs about the south-land;because I miss 'ole' 'bamy once again.Years ago I left my home state of Alabama,where the skies are so blue and I moved to the not so great state of Montana. Many people questioned me on why I moved to Montana, and my response back is because in that moment I felt like I needed a change, but in the end I think I made the wrong choice to move away from Alabama. But soon I will be back to sweet home Alabama,oh,Lord, I'm coming home to you. Back…