Living in a small southern town in Arkansas with a population barely reaching 2,000, people would think that we live in a place like Radiator Springs like our friends from outside of town do. They think of Gurdon like a place with nothing to do for fun and nothing around. What they don’t know about us is how much pride and spirit we have as a community and the special events that we have during the year. During the fall we have things like football games and the county fair to get excited over, not only that though we also have a thing called the Forest Festival. The Forest Festival is a tradition in our small southern town of Gurdon that happens on the last Saturday of October. It’s not a big or extravagant festival but it’s something that …show more content…
Excitement filling the heart and souls of the small town civilians, people across town wake up earlier than they might have planned only for that special occasion. Living one block away from Main Street I start to see families line up across Main Street with kids dragging their parents telling them they need to get good spots in order to get the more candy than their friends. I see trucks and floats line up beside my house that will soon go down main street for all the citizens of Gurdon to see. When the clock hits nine I no longer see kids dragging their parents behind them trying to get a good spot but I see the beginning of a new experience for kids and families that just moved to the area. As soon as the police lights turn on and the high school band playing behind it I see a new story to be told, one that we will tell when we grow old. Our kids might not live in the same place that we grew up in and they might never witness the Forest Festival first hand like we did, they won’t get the memories we had. They probably won’t live in a close community like we did growing up. Although it is the same routine every year, it’s a new experience to anyone involved. As the parade comes to a conclusion, the fun has only
Wood field club is situated in Florida, Boca Raton. It is one type of resort cum club. Wood field’s resort style club has a magnificent grounds and it is located in central location in the community, which gives easy access for everyone.
Thousands of people line a shutdown to traffic, Main Street once a week throughout the season. Vendors of food, beer, clothes, and crafts, coat the edges of sidewalks as people make their way, beer in hand through the crowd as the music resonates. Restaurants and bars stretch their establishments through their doors to the street, bringing the party outside and mesmerized children take to the frozen yogurt and candy stores with their parents. This party starts at five o'clock and ends promptly at nine, giving it the name, Alive After
The air had a crisp feeling to it, the kind that just let’s you know that fall is right around the corner. Little kids were playing in the grass to one side and on the other people were beginning to lean on buildings, as all the seats under the tent were taken. The smell of food permeated the air as the food trucks began to get started, and people were waiting in line to get their first hotdog of the day. The stage was empty but you could feel the anticipation of the people as they knew that soon the performers would take the stage and they would be on their way on a journey through different cultures and traditions. It was the morning of the last day of the National Folk Festival and the North Carolina Traditions Stage was opening with
The name of my tribe is the Eastern Woodlands. The location of my tribe is in the Southeast portion of North America. The Eastern Woodlands have more than one tribe. Two of them were called the Mohawks and Huron. The Eastern Woodlands covered up the East Coast of North America from the Atlantic to the West of the Mississippi River. This is some of the information about my tribe called the Eastern
And many of the stories that were once told by the people are working its way out of our homes. We only hold onto the knowledge of Appalachia and the stories that accompany each folk song. What I've come to see over the years is the lack of respect that we have for the Appalachian people and the work they put into each item they present. Whether that be a pot or a basket we need to recognize the craftsmanship that they invest to make things to eat out of or to put things into. Many of us, like myself, was not born into the Appalachian life but yet it chooses me. An event held every year on December 26th named Christmas Country Dance School(CCDS). That is where you really feel a sense of getting back to your roots. All kinds of people come together under one roof to sing, dance, tell stories, and fellowship together as one kin. There you find a sense of belonging where you can walk into a room and really feel the energy of people, and automatically feel as though you found a sense of
Birthday Party by Katharine Brush is a unique short story that captivates the reader in little words. Brush’s purpose with this story is to bring emotion to the reader, not their own, but a specific emotion, and vivid imagery that seems literal and realistic to the reader. She wanted to put the reader right in the middle of a realistic scene and she does that with few, but clever, literary devices: bland adjectives, the point of view, imagery, and the absence of metaphors and similes. Blunt description and the “dropping off” of the reader into the story without any detailed exposition drives the author successfully towards her purpose for the reader.
Climate change is one of the most controversial topics of the century. Many scientists believe that the main cause of global climate change is human impact. Specifically, the expansion of the “greenhouse effect”. The burning of fossil fuels has increased the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, causing the Earth’s temperature to gradually increase. This will eventually cause areas, like the Chippewa Forest, to lose all of its astonishing wildlife and plant life. The Chippewa Forest is a serene national forest located in northern Minnesota. It has eight different wetlands with distinct animal and plant species and it contains two of the largest lakes in Minnesota. Using direct data will provide an accurate indication about what will happen in
Absolute power is a perilous crown that bestows on people when they strive for ambition and like a leech it sucks them into a treacherous path, it inebriates their quench, it makes them malicious, and eventually, it corrupts them. The valiant Macbeth is a noble, courageous soldier who fought during a battle where his country Scotland needed him. He soon crosses paths with three witches which they prophesied his ascension to the throne. Blinded by his ambition, he turns to murder to secure his throne. Consequently, his actions soon affected his fate and his wife Lady Macbeth. Over the course of the play, power causes Lady Macbeth to change from ambitious to resentful which leads to her ultimate demise.
Lois Lowry’s 1993 dystopian novel, The Giver, immerses readers in a meticulously constructed society that is flawlessly enriched with sameness. Through the experiences of the protagonist, Jonas, Lowry effectively establishes the potential risks associated with conformity and sameness in a heavily regulated community. She vividly illustrates this through the mandatory medication utilized to overthrow genuine emotions and sexual feelings, demonstrating how conformity can suppress emotions. Furthermore, the assignment of occupations, and identical clothing, emphasises how uniformity restrains individuality and freedom of choice. Additionally, the allocation of spouses in the community, in conjunction with emotion-suppressing pills, outlines how
I have been to the Pecan Festival at St.Rita for ten years now. I went to my first Pecan Fest when I was only two years old and I probably just ran around and did not go on any rides. But when I was little, my favorite part of the Pecan Festival was the games in the courtyard.
A cultural event that I have attended in the past that has had a memorable affect on my life was a Native American Powwow. This event takes place every year, Thanksgiving weekend in Tucson, AZ. I arrived in the late afternoon, as the sun was going down. I remember seeing many different types of people, from tourists to the different Native American performers. The physical setting of this particular celebration was outside, and based around, one main circle. Drums were beating so loud, you could feel the pound inside your chest. Different activities were going on all around, such as dancers, vendors, and a huge variety of foods to choose from. The circular dancing arena is known as the arbor, this area is blessed before any of the events
In the beginning of the Sugarcane Festival during the 1930’s, it was not held in New Iberia. It was held in the town of Plaquemine in Iberville Parish which is a sugar parish located across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge. The original idea of the sugarcane festival was to celebrate the beginning of harvest season which originated in the town of Plaquemine where the local rotary group wanted to celebrate the production of their hard labor. In 1937,after a shortage of money in the town, it was decided that the Sugarcane festival would be moved to the larger city of New Iberia and it was “planned as a fall agricultural harvest fair” (Levin 3). Business owners in New Iberia viewed the Sugarcane Festival as a way to develop local tourism.
The new theoretical perspective, accessibility-attribution model, is a more flexible and malleable variant of the prior affect-as-information model (Isbell et al., 2013, Isbell & Lair, 2013). As this new model illustrates, one’s affective states confer value on any currently accessible cognitions (Clore & Robinson, 2014). More specifically, positive affective states assign positive value, so serve as a “go” sign, to those available thoughts and inclinations, while negative affective states assign negative value, and therefore represent a “stop” sign, to those accessible cognitions.
The public place, in which I chose to observe fashion, was a community fall festival. This festival occurs once a year and brings people from several communities. I arrived at the festival in early afternoon, around 12:30 pm. The festival was just starting to get crowded. At this time there were mostly families with children present. I observed numerous families with babies in strollers. There were at least twenty “vendor” booths
It was a calm, overcast day, and I found myself resting at the side of a large oak tree, admiring the beauty of the woods that surrounded me.