...hadn’t been on it in five years. She also told me, that when she did walk the trail, that it was wonderful. She continued to tell me that there was a student body who kept it really nice. The other lady I ask about the trail told me that she hadn’t walked it in four years and that when she did walk it, she thought it was amazing. This lady also told me about upward bound and where I could find the trail. I found out that Pam Smith started the trail. Pam Smith is a biology teacher at MCC and she started the trail for her students. The location of the trail was not where I would have thought it to be. However, one of the ladies I ask about the trail told me where it was at. She said to walk out of the LRC building, go up the stairs and keep walking till you see a sign that says Nature Trail and has an arrow pointing to the right. The sign points in the wrong direction. You have to walk about ten minutes before you even see the trail. There are only two signs showing you were the trails at. So you have to look really hard for the Trail. The conditions and safety of the trail was not pleasant. When I walked the trail, there were tree limbs, pot holes, and unsafe...
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...describe her first encounter with a water bug. Dillard recounts her experience from a couple of summers ago as she was walking down the edge of an island. She felt amused when frogs would jump out of the water and splash back in. It took her some time to carefully recognize and distinguish the types of frogs that came in and out of the bank. Though many frogs were around her, Dillard couldn’t help but notice a small green frog, half in and half out of the water, staying in place. She stepped closer to the frog as it sat still and noticed it was a very small frog with wide, dull eyes. But once she looked up at him, the frog’s skin began to crumple and sag, his spirit vanishing from his eyes. His skin became so thin that his skull seemed to have...
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...joined the band. In chapter 13, Bud found his grandpa and all the band members after he made it to Grand Calloway Station in Grand Rapids. Bud would not know about his grandfather and know what a restaurant was like if he would have hopped the train with Bugs. Also, in chapter 14, Bud went to his first restaurant with the band members, and before that, Steady Eddie gave him a recorder to practice, when he plays with the band. Bud would have never gone to the Sweat Pea and wouldn’t know how to play the saxophone without the band members. To conclude, if Bud would have hopped the train, he wouldn’t know how a restaurant taste like or how to play an instrument....
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...A inventor is a person who creates things for a hobby (“Dictionary”). Imagine walking through a city with no shoes or shoes that were too small. The shoe that grows is a shoe that has velcro and buttons that you can adjust so when you outgrow the first size you can make it bigger or smaller so you can have a shoe that fits your foot properly (Neje). Kenton Lee the inventor of the shoe that grows set up a donation site so you can donate money to help them make the shoes or you could hand deliver them to kids who are in need of the shoes. By wearing the shoe that grows kids fight diseases, they keep their feet from being torn up, and kids can wear their shoes longer. Kids can fight more diseases because when you walk around with no shoes for a long period of time you could end up getting soil- borne diseases and it all could have been prevented by wearing shoes (Hogan). When you are wearing shoes you can prevent yourself from getting things in your feet like splinters and keeping your feet away from bugs that could harm you. You could get diseases from bugs and by wearing shoes you can better prevent yourself from getting bugs in your feet....
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...A couple of summers ago I was walking along the edge of the island to see what I could see in the water, and mainly to scare frogs. Frogs have an inelegant way of taking off from invisible positions on the bank just ahead of your feet, in dire panic, emitting a froggy “Yike!” and splashing into the water. Incredibly, this amused me, and, incredibly, it amuses me still. As I walked along the grassy edge of the island, I got better and better at seeing frogs both in and out of the water. I learned to recognize, slowing down, the difference in texture of the light reflected from mud bank, water, grass, or frog. Frogs were flying all around me. At the end of the island I noticed a small green frog. He was exactly half in and half out of the water, looking like a schematic diagram of an amphibian, and he didn’t jump. He didn’t jump; I crept closer. At last I knelt on the island’s winter killed grass, lost, dumbstruck, staring at the frog in the creek just four feet away. He was a very small frog with wide, dull eyes. And just as I looked at him, he slowly crumpled and began to sag. The spirit vanished from his eyes as if snuffed. His skin emptied and drooped; his very skull seemed to collapse and settle like a kicked tent. He was shrinking before my eyes like a deflating football. I watched the taut, glistening skin on his shoulders ruck, and rumple, and fall. Soon, part of his skin, formless as a pricked balloon, lay in floating folds like bright scum on top of the...
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...quality time. A weekend camping is a great way for a family to bond. Leave the video games, computers and the televisions at home. Instead, take a walk or a hike with the family. Sit around the fire at night and have smores. Tell stories and play games. If you don’t know any games, make them up. My family likes to play the Alphabet game. We start with the letter “A” and “I am going camping and I am taking “apples”. The next person has the letter “B”; “I am going camping and I am taking a bicycle and apples….and so on through the entire alphabet. Even as adults, my daughters enjoy playing this game. Most campgrounds have organized family programs to participate in. At the Ohio State Parks, there are programs such as family movie night, bug races, organized nature hikes, archery and even kids crafts. They also offer things such as putt- putt golf courses, rental bikes, basketball courts and volleyball. Some of the campgrounds even have their own lake which offers private camp beach and canoeing programs. Some parks even offer programs such as “Junior Naturalist” and “Junior Ranger”. These programs introduce children into a deeper understanding of nature. Family movie night consists of a G or PG rated movie. These movies are enjoyable for the entire family. Usually, popcorn and drinks...
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...Winter Haven, Florida | Lake Region High School class of 2015 graduates Melvin Vigo and Jamilette Toress De La Cruz both graduated with high honors created a kindness campaign which is rapidly gaining the support from the Winter Haven community. It all started about a week ago when Melvin was giving the task to create a project that will manage to make others happy. Vigo later on that day reached out to Toress explaining her about the project, instantly, they came up with the idea of creating The Love Bug Project. Their mission is to make this worldwide so it will inspire people to do every day acts of kindness. Spread love! Both creators stated “We want to bring this to the next level and it all starts right here with the support of our community,...
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...Kafka reveals how modernity removes ownership of self by setting up Gregor’s life before he turned into a bug: “He sits with us at the table and reads the paper quietly or studies times tables” (Kafka 16). Just to support his family, Gregor had to prepare for work, thus losing out on any time he could have spent on himself. However, when Gregor turns into a bug, his family imprisons him: “stamping his feet, began to drive Gregor back into his room by brandishing the walking stick and the paper” (Kafka 23). Gregor is forced back into the room immediately after escaping its confines. Previously, Gregor’s family was cheering him on to escape his locked room (Kafka 20). However, when Gregor does escape his room, his family does not see him as human (Kafka 22). Rather, Gregor is forcefully removed from the family, and no member would acknowledge him (Kafka 23). It is interesting; however, that Gregor is dehumanized by his family after he turns into a bug (Elimelekh...
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...mill, surrounded by the forest. The movie shows two worlds; the real world and the fairy tale world of a little girl, Ofelia. The music in this movie is mesmerizing, as it comes around mainly when Ofelia is present and has to do a task assigned to her that the book reveals that is given to her by the faun, known as Pan. Ofelia is the developing character, because the movie surrounds her in the world of fantasy. Ofelia is traveling with her mother, to go live with her stepfather, when the car has to stop. Ofelia gets out of the car and wanders off, when she come across a stone and picks it up. The stone is a piece of the stone statue, and then Ofelia places it in the statue and a bug appears. The bug later appears in the mother’s room, and reveals that she is a fairy, and there is a close-up of the bug crawling out of the statue. This scene revealed the importance of the fairy as well as the part she plays in the movie. The Captain is a stock character, because he is portrayed as being mean, even to Ofelia. The only reason Ofelia is there at the mill is to be with her mother, who is pregnant with Ofelia’s brother. In one scene, you can see the Captain’s hand on Carmen’s belly, which is an indirective/subjective point of view. In another scene, there is the Captain with his men questioning an old man and his son about what they are doing out in the woods, which is a good example of arrangement of people and objects. Another type of character in this movie is Pan, the faun, which...
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...Melina Hernandez English 101, 39339 20 September 2015 Fall, A.K.A, the Best Season Imagine waking up and walking outside and hearing the crunch of leaves beneath your feet and smelling the crisp fresh and cool air. Fall makes me so happy and I am anxious for it to come every single year. Everything during fall is absolutely wonderful, I love it! Some of the best times that I have had in my life, oddly occurred during the fall season; and I sometimes wonder if that may be part of the reason(s) that I cherish it so much. Fall is such a beautiful and blissful season; it is the best season of the year. Fall is so wonderful mainly because of the beautiful scenery it displays. Here in Arizona, the summers are very hot and dry, and it almost feels dreadful at times; but the fall here is absolutely beautiful. You can start to notice the transition into fall around mid- September because the mornings are sort of wet from the precipitation and you can feel the cool air gently fan across your whole entire body. Not only that, but later in September, the leaves start to turn into the beautiful array of sunburst orange, medallion yellow and cherry red, and when the leaves start to fall onto the cold hard ground, you can feel and hear the crunch of the leaves beneath your feet. The cool air is so crisp and refreshing; you can feel the slight wind of the cool air tingle your cheeks lightly. The weather is not to cold and not too warm, it is just the perfect measure of both. It is lovely. Not...
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...The food chain needs to be balanced. The small animals eat the bacteria and bugs, the medium sized animals eat the small animals, and the large animals eat the medium sized animals. Everything is balanced. This eating machine eats every little thing on this list. The python could eat off a species. When one species goes, the whole chain gets messed up. This abrupt change could kill an animal above it causing the small animals to overpopulate, causing them to eat more bugs. Once all the bugs are gone, the small animals die. This one change of the python could destroy the whole entire ecosystem. In source 4, paragraph 4, it states, “We must do a better job of educating people about the effects their careless actions have on ecosystems here in Florida and around the world.” Idiots are roaming the Everglades, messing with animals’ homes. These people are walking through the Everglades and breaking plants and leaving trash. The whole ecosystem corrupts. The Burmese pythons are destroying the Everglades...
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...Michael Lin English 131 10/20/10 Appropriation in Culture In the documentaries Rip! : A Remix Manifesto and Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age, intertextual conversations arose when both films discussed appropriation by citizens in a positive light. In Walking on Eggshells, the director focused on one specific area of appropriation which looked at how common appropriation had been in the past. Moreover, he argues that artists sometimes wish to share their music, thus arguing in favor of mass appropriation. In Rip!, the director expands on those ideas by arguing why copyright laws are evil by applying that concept to different fields like medicine and plants. Due to the ridiculousness of copyright laws, mass appropriation should be allowed and such an act will benefit our culture because many new works could be created. The main premise behind Walking on Eggshells is the prevalence of appropriation. Examples throughout history were used like Picasso’s paintings being similar to old African paintings. Moreover, in television, cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny referenced famous people like Mozart to entertain children. Finally, in music, Daft Punk was essentially a fusion of the works of Mozart and Beethoven. With so many instances of appropriation, it is hard to punish everyone for committing it. Moreover, artists sometimes do not care about money, and so they are willing to let their music be downloaded for free or be remixed because they care...
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...Many of the 7th graders or soon-to-be 8th graders can tell you all about the “wonderful” things that happened during that time. Aside from all the bug infestations, yellow jackets, and tents, I would say that it was an okay experience. Kayaking was, hands down, the best thing that ever happened on that trip. Though it was funny when my friend, Stephanie Okuda, got flipped over in her kayak or when another student, Johnson Wu, proclaimed that he wouldn’t flip over in his kayak and then right after slipped into the water. At night, you could hear people shrieking about finding a nest of earwigs in the corner of their tents or a trail of ants walking up along the tent flaps. Me and my partner were somehow blessed by god and were one (or only one) of the tents which weren’t infested with a hell hole of insects. Sadly, in exchange for this blessing, we had to be put with the worst tent with the worst cots which could and would fall apart any second. Everyday of this trip was just dodging yellow jackets left and right and at the same time trying to drown yourself in bug spray. Oh! Let’s not forget about the girl’s showers! BOY WAS THERE A PARTY OF MOTHS AND ANTS IN THOSE THINGS. The food served there was bad, if not worse, than the entire camp itself. The juice, no joke, had bugs swimming in it. The food was indescribable. How could you explain it other than it was just plain horrible? At least the trip back wasn’t so bad; excluding the point where it seemed...
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...In act two of The Crucible by Arthur Miller the scene starts out in The Proctor’s home. Elizabeth and John Proctor are talking to each other and the reader can tell there is tension between them. It has been seven months since John had the affair with Abigail and Elizabeth is still being cold. This bugs John because he has been trying to make things right again with his wife. Mary Warren then enters into the house saying that fourteen people have been put in jail and will be hung if they do not confess to witchcraft. John admits that he knows that Abigail and the rest of the girls are faking and Elizabeth says he must go into Salem and tell the court that he knows the truth. John hesitates because he will have to confess about the affair if...
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...there is, but there could be. There’s always the chance of one of those swine recognizing your voice.”(150) This passage reveals that there are dangers everywhere, and that the basic right of privacy is completely taken away. Their hidden surveillance is able to restrict many actions. It also foreshadows Winston’s capture because of the surveillance that was in the supposedly private room of Charrington’s: “It’s sure to be full of bugs, but who cares?”(179) as well as, “I bet that picture’s got bugs behind it.”(184) At first glance, she seems to really think they are the animal-kind of bugs. However, further in the book it is revealed that those, “bugs,” were a telescreen, and that every single word Julie and Winston said in that room was heard. Their supposedly private room ended up being constantly monitored. Almost all places in Oceania is being watched by the Party, but many characters are not even sure if their surrounding area is being watched or not. The Party is taking away the human ability to act out of free will, so their citizens become walking puppets that are made to only serve the Party instead of themselves. The absolute control over all human thought is the Party’s greatest goal, while also the most challenging. In order to stay in total power, they must control and essentially force their citizens to conform to the Party’s desires. Being able to think is a human being’s strongest ability. They are able to think for themselves and compare different subjects, as...
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