Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven

Rebecca Harding Davis wrote “Life in the Iron Mills” in the mid-nineteenth century in part to raise awareness about working conditions in industrial mills. With the goal of presenting the reality of the mills’ environment and the lives of the mill workers, Davis employs vivid and concrete descriptions of the mills, the workers’ homes, and the workers themselves. Yet her story’s realism is not objective; Davis has a reformer’s agenda, and her word-pictures are colored accordingly. One theme that receives a particularly negative shading in the story is big business and the money associated with it. Davis uses this negative portrayal of money to emphasize the damage that the single-minded pursuit of wealth works upon the humanity of those

The author uses a seemingly endless cycle of poverty to emphasize the cage in which the characters are trapped. As Lizabeth muses over her childhood, she recalls the daily cycle of how “each morning our mother and father trudged wearily down the dirt road and around the bend, she to her domestic job, he to his daily unsuccessful quest for work.” (1). Every morning began the same way, passed the same way, and ended the same way. Lizabeth feels trapped, forced to go through the same series of events for what seems to be the rest of her life, with the same people, in the same place. When the author pairs this with the “dusty” setting of the town and the time placement of the Great Depression, it creates an effect of hopelessness for the first part of the story. This is only furthered by Lizabeth continually returning to the idea that “Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped.” (1). Lizabeth opens the story by first giving a description of her hometown as “dusty”, remembering the poverty and hopelessness. She then continues by referring to the cage of not having enough money, and the cycle that it put them through, and ends by alluding to her future being limited to her poverty.

The daily life of a miner was far from perfect. The way the papers and other means of propaganda had portrayed getting rich quick, but it was far from easy. All the equipment that was needed to start out as a miner was for the most part outrageous. The earning wages from gold was” sixteen dollars an ounce” pg.8. Even so, the work was backbreaking. There was swarms of minors trying to get rich quick. To many miners that traveled to get a piece of the precious metal they where resorted to taking land from previous land owner just to get ahead in the Gold Rush. Not to mention that the living conditions where also outrageous. The “rentals of hotels and other business structures, whether of boards or of canvas, reached even dizzier heights than did commodity prices” pg.8. This spaces where set prices at 3,000 dollars a month or 40,000 dollars for a year, there was also other prices around the area of San Francisco. And in some cases miners where resorted to living in a room filled to the brim with other miners. This lead to very poor conditions for any one to live in. But nothing was better then being rich in a few months or

Nancy Rourke is one of the most renowned De’ VIA, or Deaf View/Image Art, artist. The point of this kind of art is to express how the deaf person feels, which could involve expression of their lives being oppressed or forced into and oral program. Nancy had a love for art for most of her life, but did not express her feelings about her past until 2010, when she joined the movement.

Starkfield’s desolate and snowy environment unveils the difficulty of everyday life under harsh conditions in an outdated society. **EXAMPLE** In the novel, the crops of Ethan Frome’s farm in Starkfield barely paid for his wife’s medical expenses and after years of working he did not even save enough for a single train ticket to leave the town. Both of his parents eventually lost their lives due to poor health from the bitter climate. The lack of transportation and modern healthcare in the already undesirable surroundings of Starkfield caused numerous burdens and obstacles in Ethan’s life. During the time in which the novel takes place, factory and farm labor often consisted of unreliable, hazardous machines in unpleasant working conditions. The economically disadvantaged worked for hours through physically demanding situations to make ends meet, often resulting in the deterioration of their health. Without modern conveniences in healthcare and safety offered by a prospering town, taking responsibility for a family stands as a challenge for the working

Kathy Conlan is an expert in understanding the weird and wonderful world of marine creatures that live deep under the Arctic ice. She specializes in marine benthic biology and amphipod systematics. Kathy studies how human and natural changes affect marine life in the Arctic and Antarctic, the effects of pollution on marine life as well as global warming. She is past chief officer for Life Sciences in the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and is a judge for SCAR’s Martha T. Muse Prize for Science and policy in Antarctica, represents Canada for the Canadian Committee on Antarctic Research, taught at Huntsman Marine Science Centre and Students On Ice, mentors university students and gives speaches and “Show and tells” at the museum.

They were forced into the work field and into the worst jobs. Each job was repulsive. (i.e. packing factory, meat factory, fertilizer plant). They were desperate to make ends meet and still couldn’t avoid poverty. I agree that the gift of insensibility for families like in the novel was able to dull of the pain and hatred for their lives.

For one, they had to start a new life with no money because they spent it all getting to California, and when they got to California, everybody hated them. The root of all of the this was being forced off of their land by the banks and the large landowners. This caused a snowball effect, where everything that happened in the book happened because they got kicked out of their land. They would have never gone to California, never had to sell most of their belongings, never had to work out in the blistering heat for a meager twenty cents an hour. The root of their hardships is not the Dust Bowl, or the Great Depression, because even though it might been part of the reason they had to travel to California for work, it didn’t make the bank or landowners kick the farmers off the land. They made the decisions for themselves, and they could have chosen to be sympathetic to the families, who had no jobs, and no home after being kicked off the

You may have heard Amazing Grace in church before but never really thought about the song and the meaning. Amazing Grace is probably the most common Christian hymn. It was written by John Newton after his conversion to Christianity in 1776. In 2008, Chris Tomlin put a small twist on the hymn and wrote the version of the song called My Chains Are Gone. I’m going to play the refrain that he added in for you. (30 seconds of song.) Other than that refrain, Tomlin preserved the original poetry of the song that was written so long ago by Newton. Tomlin also found the original final verse that had been changed years after Newton wrote the poem. The original final verse read, “The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, the sun forbare to shine. But God who called me here below will be forever mine.” It was later changed to “When we’ve been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun.

In Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, a lot of themes are apparent. But the one I found most noticeable was a family member’s death does not mean the end of everything. This is very apparent throughout the book especially when Sal visits her mom’s grave and Grams died of a stroke. At the beginning of the book, death is shown when Phoebe has the theory of Mrs. Cadaver killing Mr. Cadaver.

White knuckles clench the wheel at ten and two, beads of sweat line the forehead, and a unsteady foot slams the pedals as the adolescent takes the drive into adulthood. As the adolescent moves forward, she must patiently learn control and meaning similar to how one learns to drive. In Ingrid Ankerson’s “Cruising”, the use of a reminiscence, interaction with still frames, and adolescent voice reveals the adolescent’s longing to find purpose and take control as she drives into adulthood. As the poem recalls an adolescent’s cruise, the meaning becomes apparent.

As I look outside I see many things. Isee sticks, leaves, stones, bricks, and grass. Everything is different and nothing is the same so everything has it’s own unique beauty and pleasure. Everything is made different for a reason. If anything was the same or perfect than how would any of us be unique. We each have our own flaws, and each of those small flaws are what make us who we are.

A 15-year-old kid with CCD can’t get anywhere, or can he? Gaten Matarazzo, you may not know who that is until I tell you his role and his character's name, I am talking about Dustin from Stranger things. I find Gaten so inspiring because of his amazing i-can-do-it attitude and his success while being only 15 years old. Gaten is only 15 years old and he is on one of the most popular and successful Netflix shows, another amazing thing that Gaten has done and is doing is raising awareness for the disorder that he and other people have it is Cleidocranial dysostosis (CCD). Gaten is not like every other kid actor he is affected by many things- such as his young age and his CCD. CCD affects skeletal and dental abnormalities many

Flames flicker for eternity.The most deadly fire you’ll ever witness.The disaster of fire.Hello my name is Isaiah Porter, your journalist today and I’ll be reporting ‘’The Gates Of Hell’’.

Pamela Cooper-White makes an interesting claim of how people suffer and how they should recover from their pain. White claims that suffering is the “meaning that we make or attempt to make our pain.” Then for someone to fully heal, “we must make meaning in relation to our pain.” It is not an easy task to heal from pain and suffering and it takes time to heal your wounds. Sadly, some people do not recover from their wounds, and digress from their lives and society because they cannot deal with the pain. Some people do not have a form of support or no one in their lives to help them cope with their pain. Further, White claims, “we need a witness in our lives to” become aware of our experience. Without this relationship, we will never fix ourselves