Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott Essay

The first plane Copland describes is what he named, the “sensuous plane.” (Copland, 7) On this plane, a listener is only experiencing the music for the enjoyment of listening to it. They are not thinking about a meaning to the music or the notes that are being played. In this beginning

Dr. Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains is a clear example of a selfless man. Dr. Paul Farmer has made it his mission to dedicate his life to helping the poor and desolate. His morals are sound in that he does not view sick people as objects or untouchables, but as humans deserving of care, compassion and fair and proper treatment, no matter their ability to pay. Dr. Farmer makes sacrifices and advocates for the poor throughout his journey, showing the rest of the world how one man can make a difference.

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Did you know that every hero that has ever existed has followed the Hero's Journey in some way? The Hero's Journey is a path that consists of separate steps that every hero engages in. It has 3 main parts-the "Departure," the "Initiation," and the "Return"-which are broken down into smaller sub-parts. In ancient mythology, Atalanta is a young lady who as a baby, was left on a mountaintop to die. She then was raised by a she-bear and grew into a young lady who became daring and quick. However, the story of Atalanta only partially follows the hero's journey.

She is telling her readers to use their imaginations and be able to think past what is going on in the world. When Wheatley uses the words “ethereal space”, it makes the readers think of an unearthly place that allows them to “mark” or mock “the systems of revolving worlds” which allows them to shun the systems that goes on in their world such as slavery and be able to think of other ways of living such as not being enslaved.

When Stephen visits Sachi’s garden for the first time, he finds that “There were no trees, flowers, or water, only a landscape made of sand, stones, rocks, and some pale green moss . . . Sachi had created mountains from arranged rocks, surrounded by gravel and elongated stones flowing down like a rocky stream leading to a lake or the sea” (40). Unlike Matsu’s very green and tree-filled garden, Sachi’s garden is very dry, and simplistic, yet has a peculiarly admirable feeling when one is able to see the subtle details. Although it is very different from a typical garden, its components harmonize to create a new and beautiful pattern. At first, Stephen is overwhelmed by the unfamiliar concept of a dry landscape, but after taking it in, he says it is beautiful. This garden is has a fresh taste to it, leaving Stephen to decide the effect it has on him, whether it be positive or negative. When creating the garden, Sachi insisted that it should not have flowers. However, eventually, “between two large rocks grew a neat cluster of blooming flowers, startlingly beautiful, a splash of blue-purple . . . thriving among the muted, gray stones.” The way that the bright colors contrast against the dull gray shows that something unfamiliar and novel can appear beautiful in its own way. Since Sachi’s garden is filled with pebbles and stones, the dainty flowers stand out comely, and to

According to National Geographic, 40% of the Earth today is farmland—soil being manipulated to feed the 7.6 billion human beings on this world. We have taken over this world like ants swarming to a piece of rotting fruit, without much thought to the organisms that have been on Earth long before us. Our lives may be easier in that we do not have to forge for our food or water anymore, but with the stress of today’s world, was the tradeoff worth the natural land? Willa Cather’s novel, O Pioneers! brings attention to the way we choose to use the land, whether it is in our best interests, the land’s, or both. The characters in O Pioneers! demonstrate how in order to maintain a successful relationship with the land we live on, it is necessary to be able to both adapt to the land and mold it to fit our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

In 1893, at the 400th anniversary of the appearance of Columbus in the Americas celebrated in Chicago , Frederick Jackson Turner presented an academic paper entitled, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” In this essay, Turner proposes that, “The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development.” The group dynamic that Turner champions is the farmer. More directly it is white, male farmers. While the expansion of the west by white male farmers was a factor in the development of America, it is not the only explanation for this progression. Turner fails to incorporate all of the demographics present during this expansion which were essential to the evolution of America.

The introduction of the bi-plane early in the novel serves as a piece of foreshadowing for later contrasts in the text. It is used as a symbol of the growing impact humans are having on the world,

Lands End School is a preschool and childcare center that is located in San Francisco, California. It is formerly known as Cheryl Andersen-Sorensen Childcare Center. Lands End School accepts infants, toddlers, and preschools. They strive to provide an intimate, nurturing environment for the children within the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center family and surrounding

The hero's journey is a process or cycle where the hero starts and ends in a place they are familiar with, but the middle of the actual journey it set in an unfamiliar place. The hero's journey was studied and made by Joseph Campbell. He studied myths and published his own book, on the topic of the hero's journey and how other stories follow it, named Hero with a Thousand Faces. Many books are known to follow the hero's journey including Homer's The Odyssey. The Odyssey is a book about a man named Odysseus who is on his way home from the Trojan war when his ship and story takes a different course and he spends the book trying to get home while coming across different creatures/beings that occupy

The invisible paddock talked about in the first sentence is foreshadowing of the introduction of the two planes of life. Moulaf is also using symbolism. The “invisible paddock” symbolises the sky, and as later introduced the view from the sky is the second plane of life.

“Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of

In this chapter, Thomas Friedman looks at how cultures and societies will have to deal with and adapt to the changes that globalization brings to the way of doing business. It affects whole companies and individuals. He gives the perception of the world is flattening by comparing the Industrial Revolution to the IT Revolution that is happening right now. The flattening process was identified by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. Marx’s writings about capitalism state “the inexorable march of technology and capital to remove all barriers, boundaries, frictions, and restraints to global commerce (Friedman 234).”

Ibn Fadlan, in Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North, tends to view space in terms of the people who inhabit the space and divides spaces based on natural barriers. As you can see below, the most common words that Fadlan uses are river, wood, boat, crossed, and people; with river at eighteen mentions; wood at ten mentions; and boat, crossed, and people at seven mentions.