The hot, arid air burned into my soul as millions of needles pricked my delicate skin. Beads of sweat coursed down my face as I turned towards the window facing the barren desert surrounding me. My family and I were on an ever sought vacation to the Grand Canyon, yet we had to drive from New York to Arizona and I radiated impatience throughout the journey. Walls of heat shrouded me as I gasped for air, yet my efforts were fruitless, swallowing nothing but fire. As my lungs collapsed, I looked out
My eyes swung open as the car shook. I glanced out the window and noticed that we were in a desert at night. It seemed as if our family was in the middle of nowhere. A brief moment later, I noticed a group of lights emerge on the horizon. I waited impatiently as we approached it. My excitement rose as it got closer and closer to us. I then saw one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen. It was a crowded area with casinos, shopping malls, and hotels everywhere. Each individual building lit
After working in the field on a scorching summer day I was as thirsty and hot as a lizard in the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, without water for nine years and nine months and nine days and being beaten down by scaring heat from the merciless sun. The idea of water seemed foreign to me because there were none around then. Suddenly, I saw a shiny, metallic water fountain and my body urged me in the direction of the water fountain. When I took a drink of water, my parched mouth felt
We were in the middle of the desert, basically having no sense of direction whatsoever. Riding down the coastline of a twenty-mile island off the coast of Venezuela. Not knowing where to go was an issue but my brother, Ben, and I were on the ATV zooming through the desert seeing various attractions throughout the trip. Watching animals run everywhere, experiencing the views of little beaches with huge waves it was like a dream come true. One morning my dad and I woke up in our hotel room watching
word answers won’t be accepted and you will receive zero points for them. In regards to the terms that need to be looked up in a dictionary, use the definition that best matches the story.) Desert Dance by Marta K. Taylor, pgs. 100-101 Meaning 1. She was in a sort of daze watching the night sky in the desert and listening to the sounds. She was very much enjoying herself. 2. *Paragon- A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality. *Silhouette The dark shape and outline
initial experiences with reading, specifically his attachment to the reading. Rodriguez’s anecdote functions as an encourager of stubborn minds trying to read and displaying its potential to change their life for the better. Rodriguez uses a very descriptive style that may be too verbose for children but compliments the verbosity with enough explanation of his purpose for his message to be known or ascertained. “The Gramercy Gym” Edward Hoagland, in the passage “The Gramercy Gym” (1985) from his
within their work of art, set in nineteenth century New Mexico. Willa Cather and Georgia O’Keeffe were best known as an author and an artist in the nineteenth century. Willa Cather had a long memorable career writing novels, short stories, poems, and essay, and contributing to any newspapers, editor, and journals as writer. She travels at length to gather material for her narrative and characters, and was recognizable with and respect by many other popular writers in the nineteenth century. In one of
The Personality of Othello Othello’s speech to Brabantio and the Duke in Act 1, Scene 3 is of major importance in describing Othello’s personality. This long speech, found in lines 149 to 196, shows Othello for the first time as a person with depth and less as a soldier. This speech is important to the book as a whole because it is a testimony to the strength of the love between Othello and Desdemona, which will later play a major role in the plot. It is also one of the first times that
through helping others understand and not fear his country due to ignorance. Habib was born in Afghanistan in 1941 and had studied in Afghanistan, the United States, and Russia. He holds a Ph.D. in literature and has written many poems, stories, and essays. He taught at Kabul University in Afghanistan until his retirement. His home country had been engulfed by wars for a large portion of his lifetime. The poem is structured in a way that the negative and positive descriptions alternate and link in
Official Descriptive Essay: Long Distance Relationship “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, he’s out cold!” I gazed at the bright lights up in the arena as I lay there on the mat from how I went to potentially ending my opponent’s 49-0 record to being on the receiving end of an uppercut that would open a 2 inch scar on the top of my brow. Blood flowed from the open wound acting as a door for my missed opportunities to be known. Thunderously, the fans were chanting my name, my personal training team had told