A Veil Of Water By Amy Boesky

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

In the article “What’s at the Bottom of the Ocean?” authored by Samantha Larson, it states that there is more to see on the ocean floor than meets the eye. David Gruber, the main oceanographer in the ocean exploration team, has discovered hundreds of unknown species and has even helped with breakthroughs in medical research. “The deep sea is a beautiful and foreign place, with many different creatures and geological structures,” Gruber expressed. When he was traveling underwater in the South Pacific, he witnessed tens of thousands of tiny flashlight fish swimming in 20 foot waters. He also discovered that these flashlight fish use biofluorescence to communicate with each other by absorbing blue light and turning

In the article Skin Deep written by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, they discuss and look deeper into the diverse differences in skin color. Our skin color has developed over the years to be dark enough to prevent the damaging sunlight that has been harming our skin and the nutrient folate that it carries. At the same time out skin is light enough to receive vitamin D.

James McBride can tell you firsthand about man verse racial identity. Journalizing his experience in his New York Times Bestseller novel the Color of Water simply outlined his struggles of finding who he was. His upbringing included a black father and a Jewish white mother. His background made it hard for him to understand why his home was different than others on the street. Although McBride experience shows an older outtake of racial identity, some may say this still is a problem today. Offspring feels the need to pick a race in society to succeed in the generation and it may be the step to understands them more. Notice in the subtitle of the book "A black Men tribute to his white mother" he label himself as just black as if there was a barrier between his mother and himself because the so different. Today we need to not let racial identity become a big part of our lives.

In "Woman Hollering Creek", Cleófilas the protagonist is trapped in a constricting, culturally assigned gender role due to her isolation, violent marriage, and poverty. Intertwined in allusions to women of Mexican history and folklore, making it clear that women across the centuries have suffered the same alienation and victimization, Cisneros presents a woman who struggles to prevail over romantic notions of domestic bliss by leaving her husband, thus awakening the power within her. In the story "Woman Hollering Creek", Sandra Cisneros discusses the issues of living life as a married woman through a character named Cleófilas; a character who is married to a man who abuses her physically and mentally. Cisneros reveals the way the culture puts a difference between a male and a female, men above women. The setting in Cleófilas’s new home in Seguin, Texas and her old home in Mexico, both of these settings contribute to the overall significance of the social role of women and the relationship between men and women.

Arloa Sutter’s book, The Invisible (Sutter, A. (2010). The Invisible. Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House). This book is about how as Christians it is our job to go and help the poor. Sutter tells about her own personal journey of how she go to where she is now. She tells tales of some of the people who have been in the homeless shelter. These stories are touching and at times, really emotional. Sutter calls us to go and help the homeless. She gives us tips on getting closer to God and listening to his voice. She calls us to be more like Jesus, Sutter uses a lot of scripture to back up her points in how we can be like Him.

In the book The River by Gary Paulsen they use again and again moments a lot. He uses the again and again moments well because the again and again moments actually mean something. They mean a lot and in pack to the story.

Mars has been an interesting planet to mankind for years now, and scientists have decided to take things into their own hands. They are making plans to put people on Mars to have them live there. Consequently, they would need to face many problems during the period of time preparing for the journey to mars. One of the many problems they would have to face, for example, is: How will they get food, water, or air? Well, you’re about to find out. In Jennifer L Holm’s fictional story, “Follow the Water”, she uses facts about Mars to help you imagine some of the problems characters would have to face, and how they would be able to fix them in reality.

What do you think of when picturing a swamp? In “Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver, the speaker views the swamp as challenging and difficult but gradually realizes the beauty of it as well. Using imagery and parallelism, Oliver focuses on how the speaker feels about the swamp and how that changes over time. The parallelism in this poem points out how confused the speaker felt.

First of all, she doesn't have the aunt come in until later in the story. She does this for a reason. This allows the niece and Framton to be alone in the room together and begin to converse. The niece quietly brings up a great "tragedy" which makes Framton question what exactly this tragedy was. She then proceeds to tell Framton a story, that we find out at the end is fictional, about how her aunt's husband and brothers went out shooting a year ago and got washed away by the stream they always crossed. She also told him that it was

Sky and Sea (2016) by Abby Gibson is a depiction of elements common found in the sea now in space. The medium of this piece of artwork is digital pigment print. The dimensions of the piece are approximately 1.5 ft. by 3 ft. The piece consists of a black background that depicts the vastness of space with shells and rocks as planets. The artist also depicts the waves of the sea as clouds of cosmic dust which exists in outer space, plus she uses sand found in the sea to represent stars far away in deep space. The artist is trying the say that even though space and the sea two completely different entities they have many similar characteristics.

The Secret River is written by Kate Grenville, an internationally well-known author. It’s also her most influential magnum opus. Kate Grenville said, her mother’s grandfather was a poor man from London and sentenced to be sent to Australia because of stealing timbers in the early nineteenth century. After arriving to Sidney, he thought presumingly that he finally had his own land. The thing makes Grenville curious is that the land was supposed to belong to aboriginal people but how her grandfather could make a living on this land. It’s important for her to know about if her grandfather dealt with this problem by gun or even gave the exchange to aboriginal people. Therefore, she did a lot of historical researches and wrote novel The Secret River eventually.

In his story, The Swimmer, John Cheever does a clever job engaging the reader in understanding the complexity and change in Ned Merrill’s life circumstances through his travels to various pools. It is implied that Ned was once successful and had everything. He had a wife, named Lucinda, and children. He had a beautiful home and a circle of friends. It seemed like he had it all. However, his travel through pools and time, show the reader that Ned’s life is not all that it seems. At the time that story begins, Ned is visiting at a friend’s pool and decided to swim through all of the neighborhood pools until he arrives home. Cheever uses Ned’s journey in travelling to the pools and swimming in them to symbolize his life. At first, Ned

This book “In The Belly of The River” is written by Amita Baviskar in her field research. It is a book of struggle over exploitation. It is a struggle of Bhilala tribe conflicts in Narmada Valley in Madhya Pradesh of Jhabua district in Alirajpur tehsil in Anjanbara . In Narmada Valley sardar sarovar dam project construction started in 1961 for irrigation, drinking water and power generation. 18% of the total cost of dam is given by World Bank. According to government estimates due to this project 245 village 37,000 hectare of land, 152000 people or 27000 families displaced. This book is mainly talking about environmental movement against displacement and better rehabilitation process.

In the passage “The World and Other Places” by Jeanette Winterson, the author writes about a boy transitioning into manhood. In this small passage, the man is till trying to find the piece of himself that others around him found already, or are too afraid to face. While reading, we meet a plethora of characters ranging from different backgrounds and personalities. In one specific part of the story, the narrator meets a man who has reached his own frontier, a frontier that the main character still has not faced but will like to. The man reached his own frontier by finding happiness in what he loves, as would the other two characters the narrator mentioned in the story. By finding love, not the romantic kind, happiness will come to you in any shape or form. It could come in forms hope, flying across the sky, or just by being with your dog. That is what it means to reach your own frontier, to find the love and happiness in the things that you do, without being afraid to.