A View From Mount Ritter, By Joseph T. O ' Conner

The beginning of this chapter mainly demonstrates the idea of shame towards one's response to change. By using a regretful tone, O'Brien is able to convey the reader to believe that he feels shame and embarrassment towards his actions that are revealed later in the chapter.

In June of 1968 O’Brien was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, a war he didn’t believe in. In his personal battle the war becomes his nemesis. This enemy causes him to crack and to suffer much turmoil. “The emotions went from outrage to terror to bewilderment to guilt to sorrow and then back again to outrage. I felt a sickness inside me. Real disease” (O’Brien 780). In these few short sentences you can feel the mood of the story which is fear, despair, anger, anguish, and bewilderment.

It was the day after my sister's Quinceanera, and all my family was here. They were leaving back to their homes Monday morning, so keep in mind it is Sunday. All of our parents were talking outside and saw that us kids didn’t really have anything to do, so they decide to take us to a river that was 5 minutes away from my aunt's ranch. We packed up all our food and stuff and went right away.

The Appalachian plateau is the smallest and northern most region in Georgia as well as being home to many superb physical features. Its abundance of natural beauty attracts visitors far and wide to the peach state. It showcases many natural attractions including, infamous Lookout Mountain, Sand Mountain, Cloudland Canyon State Park, Pigeon Mountain, and many more throughout the area stretching from Alabama to New York. The expanse has many natural resources consisting mostly of sedimentary rock-limestone, sandstone, and shale. It also contains resources such as ironstone and is the only known source of coal in Georgia. The Plateau is of great economic significance due to the many coalfields

For my place narrative assignment, I chose to focus on a place that I not only visit frequently, but truly appreciate: Mount Douglas. This is a place I value not only for its beauty, but for the calmness it allows me to experience as a result of being part of nature. As it turns out, this has been the location of many important histories, dating back hundreds of years, and is still making history today. This history is significant both ecologically, and culturally, and is something I have enjoyed learning about. Through researching this place, and its surrounding area I have come to learn its importance branches far greater than its importance to me.

when it was my little brothers birthday party, but it was also the day of my

While getting soaked by the hailing rain, a tree gets struck by lightning, almost crushing him while it fell near him. Shivering through the night, he started to realize it was the worst night of his life and how his experience made him think about his future. O'Connor states, “ I hope to graduate and attend community college in northern California, near the mountains, before transferring to a four-year school.” (13). O'Connor's feelings about his education and future has clearly turned around after his rough journey, making him a new person who’s thinking about attending

Mount Zion, Washington, located just north of Rock Island, where the rain was soft, the fog was thick, and, if you were lucky enough to live near one of its many orchards, the air was rich with the perfume of apple blossoms. Known as the Liminal Capitol of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Zion earned itself a reputation for various hauntings, UFO sightings, disappearances, and a plethora unexplained events. It eventually became a novelty town, every shop catering to tourists, however, I do believe that under the lively rural exterior, something dark is lurking in the massive forest surrounding the town. Fortunately, I do not, nor have I ever lived in Mount Zion, Washington.

It was December 26th when I was fixing to leave for Gulf Shores, Alabama with my boyfriend T.J. and his family. We originally were supposed to leave until December 27th, but they decided they wanted to leave a day early and stop in Nashville for the night. I had to be at his house at eight-thirty to get all of my things loaded up, because they were wanting to leave at nine.

On the morning of May 18, 1980, the United States of America experienced its deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in history. Briefly succeeding a magnitude 5.1 earthquake, an enormous slab of Mount St. Helens northern flank collapsed in a massive debris avalanche. This landslide was the largest to transpire on Earth in recorded history and caused the volcanoes magma system to depressurize. With the cap of the mountain removed, superheated gases and rock fragments blasted through the side of the mountain (USDA, 2005). The lateral blast accelerated at speeds of 480 km per hour and reached temperatures of 350 °C, creating an immense area of leveled and scorched forestry. Surges of water from melting snow and glaciers capping

So, true it does show that disaster is impulsive no matter what we try to do. Also, the eruption of Mt. Helens did give many individuals data about what transpires before and during eruptions. The amazing part to me was the lump on the side of the volcano that was fulling up with lava. Additionally, these natural landmarks (volcanoes) are astonishing but we must be very cautious about them.

Especially if it’s an action that we don’t like for someone to make when your around them or just in general. Most of the time when someone tells you something that you don’t like you just forget about it and move one. With actions, it’s a lot harder to forget about them and move on, because it takes much more time to forget about it. Another, thing that we should learn is that actions sometimes mean more to some people than words can. Do to that some people have been tell so many things and then that person does the opposite of what they just

Today is the day! I get to visit the Rocky Mountains. I have never seen the Rocky Mountains. Also, I am going on their 100th anniversary. The Rocky Mountains have been there for over 300 million years. In 2015, Rocky Mountain National Park was the third most visited national park with over 4.1 million visitors. I have to get there early because it will be packed. The temperature can drop up to 20 degrees on top of the mountains, so I better bring a jacket.

New Hampshire is one of the smalest states. It also have the smallest ocean coast of any state. Eighteen miles of coast from one boarder of New Hampshire. Not everything in New Hampshire is little though. Mount Washington is in New Hampshire. Mount Washington is the biggest mountain in the Northeast United States. On top of the mountain, the weather is very bad. The wind is often very strong. Once the wind on Mount Washington was measured to be 213 miles per hour. New Hampshire has many other mountains. On one of the mountains, is a rock formation called "The Old Man in the Mountain." The rocks looked like the profile of a persons face. The formation fell apart in

It was around thanks giving and I had drawn a picture of my mom with a baby in her belly. I kept begging my mom for a baby sister for five months straight eight days before Christmas mom said she had a surprise. I honestly was nervous And really excited about the surprise my mom and dad said they had for my brother and sisters and I .Finally my parents told us that we were going to have another brother or sister I was very happy.