...The woods can be spooky at times, but once you get to your destination, it is well worth all the heartache. I agree with the blog writer's stance on this subject that when you first enter the woods you feel vulnerable to all the dangers around you. Page 2 of the blog declares, "It's uncomfortable at first, as if you are naked, and completely out of your normal element." I feel as if this is very accurate description of what the woods feel like at first. Moreover, I don't necessarily agree with everything Bryson says. For example, Bryson describes the woods as "quiet and eery"; this is not always true because there are a multitude of animals that make noises and the sound of rushing water is often very loud. Nevertheless, after you find...
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...In a style of almost the same all of his book “ A Walk in the Woods, Bryson’s research enabled him to include many stories about Australia explorers who suffered extreme, not having needed or wanted things, as well as detail about its valuable things from nature culture, and process of people making, selling, and buying things. Bill Bryson describes his travels throughout Australia, his conversations with people in all walks of life about the history, geography, unusual plants and animals of the country interested. His writings are twisted together with repeating humorous themes, especially in the chapter of crossing Australia that he make constant reference to drinking of urine to survive. Three parts: • INTO THE OUTBACK • CIVILIZED AUSTRALIA...
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...National Park Service: Friend or Foe? When picturing any of the United States National Parks, beautiful scenery immediately comes to mind, towering trees, animals living in the wild, and untouched nature as far as the eye can see. Among the greatest landscapes in our country are found on the Appalachian Trail, across fourteen different states hosting groups of mountains including the Smokies, Cumberland’s, and many more reaching up to about 6,700 feet. This Appalachian Trail covers around 2,000 miles of land, much of it is under supervision of the U.S. National Park Service, who is also in authority of 191 million more acres of our countries forests. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson refers to the Forest Service as “truly an extraordinary...
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...Professor Johnson Eng101-67 10 October 2015 You Can’t Go Home Again In Bill Bryson’s, A Walk in the Woods, he states, “Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception.” The time and distance a person spends away from home allows for a change of perception, a change of mind about how the world is and how you may fit into it. Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods is a book that shows the struggles that one needs to go through in order to better themselves. John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, embarks on a journey to discover who he is again. In the novels, the men take on different aspects of America...
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...article written by James Wood and Alex Guth, which explained the details about the “East Africa’s Rift Valley: A complex Rift System.” According to the article, the East African Rift System is one of the most majestic and the geologic wonders of the world. Wood and Guth, (05-2013) Introduction: The old of the earth is ongoing debate, which has been debatable for over centuries, and I don’t think this debate will end until Christ return. In Wood and Guth’s article “East Africa’s Great Rift Valley” they have discuss the complicity of the Rift system that keep on to advance and play out in East Africa. In this case, they have an effort to link this complicated series of geologic wonders to the evolution of man. Brief overview and main point of the article: The article talks about the East Africa’s Rift System. The author’s Wood and Guth main reasons for conducting this article as I can see in this article itself is that, they talk about the general geology of the Rift System and stresses on the developments that comprises their geologic formation. This article gave detailed explanation of the Rifts, but at the same time recorded that precise apparatus of the Rift pattern has been continues debated between geologist’ and geophysicist. The strength of the article: I belief the strength of the article consist of the complexity and the details of the author’s beliefs of how the rift were shaped. Wood and Guth, gave vivid...
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...The town was always quiet until one day shook the whole town. Lodge Peak a place where not much happened and only a few people knew where it was, the gloomy and reserved town constantly had bizarre occurrences in their woods. As a child you are always told to never enter the woods alone or at night. Lodge Peak, a town filled with history but also a dark past that would soon come out for everyone to know. Sister, went missing in the woods she began to wonder how and why. Jamie always recalled the stories she was told about the woods. She thought they were fake and just old folktales people would use to scare children. But ever since Maria, Jamie’s sister, she began to wonder if the stories were real. Jamie wakes up and grabs her phone and calls...
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...attending to Secrets of Wood class. First, I felt sorry for my friend for going to the Forest Science Exhibition Hall. I thought it was a place I would just read about the explanation of the plants. However, the Forest Science Exhibition Hall was like a park, where we could look around and sit on benches provided for us. There were even some people who have been taking a nap on those benches. The weather was so good and the trees were so green, it was really beautiful and a lot to see. There were a lot of families and children who came to look around this place. So it felt like I just came to walk around in a beautiful scenery. The place was pretty big than I thought. There were some buildings inside and there were a lot of trees and flowers to look around in outside. First I began walking around outside. It was nice to walk around and look through the trees in between spring and summer weather. All the flowers bloomed and the trees were green enough. There was a sign in front of the plants, which showed the names of each trees and flowers in both English and in Korean. It was interesting to read all those names because I realized that there were so many kinds of plants existing. It is said that in Forest Science Exhibition Hall there are about more than 2000 of types of species planted. After looking around outside the Forest Science Exhibition Hall, I went inside this one building. There were several desks that were all made out of different woods. They all looked different...
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...(Walks in with handcuffs and tugs as if the person walking her in is holding too tight.) “Officer I can sit down myself.” The officer asked me my name and day of birth,” Tiana Smith ,June 15, 2000.” The officer then asked me about the murder and I said. “Well (Gasp) the murder, I didn't really expect it well because everything was going fine that summer you know warm air, no school, hanging with friends and the big family trip. Yes-sir-ree just Me, Mama Daddy, my little sister, Krissy, and my stupid annoying brother, Charles. Well we were just camping out at lake Houstan, and I was trying to set up my tent but then my dumb brother has to come over and knock it down. Its really made me mad because on the car ride over there he kept bothering me. So later that night around 6 or 7, Charles and daddy went out to the woods because daddy loved hunting and he was teaching Charles how to shoot a gun and Krissy and I just stayed back and help mama cook dinner, but once daddy and charles came back daddy was madder than ever....
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...The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost: Memorandum Stanza 1 1. Two roads diverged[1] in a yellow wood, Line explanation: The speaker is describing a fork in the road. The 'yellow wood' suggests it is autumn season. 2. And sorry I could not travel both 3. And be one traveler, long I stood Line explanation: The speaker wants take both roads at once, but realizing that it is impossible, he decides to choose one. 4. And looked down one as far as I could 5. To where it bent in the undergrowth[2]; Line explanation: He is thinking hard about his choice. He stares at the one road, to see where it goes but he cannot see past the first bend because it bends in to the undergrowth. Summary of Stanza 1: On the road of life, the speaker arrives at a point where he must decide which of two equally attractive (or equally frightening) choices is the better one. He examines one choice as best he can, but the future (undergrowth) prevents him from seeing where it leads. [pic] Stanza 2 6. Then took the other, as just as fair[3], 7. And having perhaps the better claim[4] 8. Because it was grassy and wanted wear[5], Line explanation: He looks at the other road and thinks it would be better because it hasn’t been walked on/used very much. 9. Though as for that the passing there 10. Had worn them really about the same, Line explanation: He changes his mind and says that both roads look the same. Summary of Stanza 2: The speaker selects the road that...
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...museum I didn’t know what to expect. And when I walked in I was like, “Wow.” There were a lot of art sculptures hanging from the ceiling of the museum. It was really cool to walk into. There weren’t too many sculptures hanging that you would bump into one. When I walked up to one of the sculptures I was thinking to myself, “How can incorporate these sculptures in to my doorway for my doorway project?” I looked closer at the sculptor and noticed a woven material was contacting all the pieces together. Then I thought well maybe we can use the twine and maybe braid it and use it for our doorway. We are available to use wood, twine, and burlap. We can make shapes with the wood, such as triangles, and squares, and maybe weave twine around it to make it seem a little more interesting. We can also use the burlap if we want to make a solid piece. It could resemble strength or shade. Then I was thinking what if we used a few pieces to hang from the ceiling. Then we would be using our whole site. We can braid and weave the twine and maybe use some wood as a decorative piece to hang from the ceiling. I think after seeing the Priscilla Sage: 50 years of sculpting Museum it really gave me some new ideas I could put toward mine and my team’s doorway. We want our doorway not to be just something you walk through, but a passage way that has people remember it, and makes you think about it. Our door way is going to be the best. And no one will be able to beat...
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...Lucifer’s Spoils (Chinese version in English) One sunny day Wong and his wife Ling were planning on going camping. Wong brought his nephew, Chow, and his niece, Ming. They were all excited to share this experience together. As they arrived at the woods they unloaded the car. “We should hurry, for we only have so much sunlight left,” said Wong. They hiked for three miles paying close attention to the GPS. They found where they wanted to set up camp at for the night. Wong went out to gather wood for a fire, Ling and the kids stayed and set up camp, As time passed, Wong started to get a bad vibe about the woods. Ming screamed when she walked into a spider web. Thirteen giant spiders slowly walked toward her. Wong arrived in a hurry. He grabbed one of his sticks and fought them off. After he defeated the spiders, he checked on Ming to see if she was okay. Neither of them had seen spiders of such size. As it was getting dark outside, Wong tried to carry on the night eating, joking, and telling stories around the fire. Wong was dead silent because he still had a bad feeling about these woods. He told his family he would be back and that he had to use the restroom. He then went roaming around the woods and thought he saw a flash of movement ahead of him. Wong tripped and fell over something, about 50 yards away from camp. He looked around and discovered it was an old cemetery with a skeleton. It was half way buried with its finger pointing behind him. So he turned around...
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...“Miles to go before I sleep” Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, is a few lines describing a man’s horse ride through the woods, but it speaks to everyone who reads it about major questions concerning their lives. In Stanley Burnshaw’s Biography, “Robert Frost”, he said, “In the great short lyrics of New Hampshire (1923) and West-Running Brook (1928)—such as “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and the title poem of the latter book—a bleak outlook on life persuasively emerges from the combination of dramatic tension and nature imagery freighted with ambiguity”. Frost was a powerful poet who used metaphors and imagery in his writings; for that reason most of his written work is discussed at the academic level and his work can often be...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story of Young Goodman Brown is a story of an impressionable and curious young man who ventured into the forest in Salem, Massachusetts to witness the witches Sabbath. Brown leaves his young bride Faith against her wishes to go on this journey, feeling some guilt as he walked away from her, “Poor little Faith!” thought he, for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand!” (Hawthorne 606). Once in the forest Brown meets the Devil. As Brown and the Devil continue their walk through the woods the Devil tells him stories of his own Father and Grandfather walking this same dark path that Young Goodman Brown has taken. “Good goodman Brown! I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans; that’s no trifle to say” (Hawthorne 607). Goodman Brown enters the woods and has many ghostly and confusing experiences that changed his life forever. Brown wasn’t sure when he awoke in the woods if his experience was a dream or if it really happened however; the events that he witnessed changed his life forever. “Be it so if you will. But alas! It was a dream of evil omen for the young goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream”. (Hawthorne 614). Michael Tritt wrote his interpretation of the Hawthorne’s story, “Young Goodman Brown” and The Psychology of Projection. Tritt brings the idea that Brown has an underlying...
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...Task 1. The grandmother lives out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red Riding Hood enters the wood, a wolf meets her. Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he is, and is not afraid of him. The wolf thinks to himself, “What a tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful, she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.” So he walks for a short time by the side of Little Red Riding Hood, and then he says, “see Little Red Riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here, why do you not look round. I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. You walk gravely along as if you are going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.” Task 2 It was a beautiful day that morning. I sat on a bench waiting for the bus, when an elder couple sad down and asked me where I was going. To find love, I said. They seemed surprised, and asked me where I was going to find love. Apartment 77, that’s where my love is. I think they could feel how energetic I was. The elder women looked down at my shoes and said my shoelaces was not tied, I didn´t care. I was too nervous. Perhaps my expectations were too high, I was scared that she didn´t love me like I loved her. Then the elder man asked me why I loved her, i answered that she was the only person who always was listening to my crazy ideas, and always supported me. She is the most beautiful...
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...likely to be accurate. In “Young Goodman Brown”, the main character, Goodman Brown, experiences a life changing revelation at the beginning of this short story. The experience is a walk through the woods, something that he states his father and father’s father embarked on. This particular journey shapes his life and changes him forever. What is particularly peculiar about this journey is that it goes through the woods at night. And during this time period if you were caught in the woods at night you were considered a Satan worshiper, doing the Devil’s brood, or practicing witchcraft, which meant all the same things during this era. We know Young Goodman Brown is a Puritan based on his belief system, so this experience isn’t one he is looking forward to, but he knows he has to do it. Kind of like getting a shot, you know you have to do it, and it’s good for you, but you are hesitant about doing it. So along the journey he meets with a man that looks similar to him, but older. The man is kind of dark and shady, and he carries a staff that looks like a serpent. So the symbolism there represents that this man is the Devil. Throughout the duration of his journey, Goodman Brown sees townspeople in the woods, and the man that resembles the Devil talk to several of them. Knowing that being out in the woods at night associates you with Satan worshiping, he starts to wonder if all the townsfolk are two faced, Puritans by day, and Satan worshipers by night. The uncertainty is the revelation...
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