Kate’s family was off again for another annual camping trip; a trip she hadn’t enjoyed since she was a child. Back then they were close and happy but now she had to give up a weekend with her friends to tough it out in the woods. Since she begged not to go that morning they were running late and had to walk up the mountain at a more than average pace. Kate was exhausted so they stopped for a quick break next to a crowd of trees. A few years ago they trekked up Mount. Everest, they stayed in small lavender sleeping bags. This night for some reason stood out to her. Mom had given out books to the family and we all just sat there reading our novels. That’s when a bear came along; he didn’t bother us just kept strolling in the moonlight. You
But, it was no use, she ran as if she had years of experience running through the trees, in different zig zags and turns. Jonas then started to feel the exhaustion overcome him since his muscles were sore from his long journey . But, he wasn’t going to give up, not now, not after everything he had done. Then all of a sudden he came to a
Once they were there, the quarter-mile trek to their place had to be made. It was a small, circular clearing in the cone-bearing woods. The area around the fire pit was dirt, for safety reasons. On the outskirts of the copper-colored dirt were five large, round logs arranged in a circle for sitting. Just a few feet beyond the logs, the forest began again in copious amounts of vegetation and growth, like an untamed lion. That night’s weather was just right. The cool air was
The drive up to the cabin was a long, twisty trail that went up a huge steep mountain and on top was a huge cabin that overlooked the mountains. The cabin had a huge set of elk antlers over the front door. I was in love with the cabin, but I couldn’t look around too long. The guide had told us that if we wanted to we could hunt that night. Jim and I didn’t think twice about it and started to get ready for the hunt.
Miss Kate’s letter about her salary is a violation of the Equal Pay Act (EPA). EPA requires that both men and women be paid the same if the jobs content are equal regarding skill level, effort, and responsibility (Bethel University, 2013). Based on the letter, the male professor hired does possess a PH.D. in the field, but with no experience. There may be an exception to her case on him based on the EPA’s exception rule due to his education. However, the other two counselors with no experience in counseling, no Ph.D., and no license to supervise graduate student interns is worthy to be brought up on legal issues.
I wonder where this path leads, wondered Nancy. The mountains were very beautiful, so Nancy was amazed! She looked around and saw the sun peeking through the bright-green, summer leaves. She felt so happy that her parents had let her go on a hike on her own. Nancy felt as if she were almost grown up. She had been studying north, west, south, and east, so her parents let her hike alone. Besides, she lived in the mountains, so she would know her way around. Little did her parents know there would be some trouble!
A theme in the book Animal Farm, written by George Orwell is the theme loyalty. Loyalty towards an enemy is a theme in the book Animal Farm due to the animals being loyal to an enemy named Napoleon. A question that is related to the theme of this book is why were the animals loyal to Napoleon? They were loyal because Napoleon promised things to them and took advantage of them knowing that the animals had weaknesses. Napoleon was their leader, and they followed his orders no matter what the conditions were. When the windmill blew down, Napoleon convinced the animals that Snowball had done it and convinced them to re-build it. The reason why Napoleon was in so much power was due to the fact he had more people around him to support what he said. Also that he was somewhat intimidating to the other animals. Napoleon influenced the animals, in many ways due to his evilness.
Kate and Marylin have been best friends since nursery school but when they start 6 grade everything in their friendship begins to change.The most difficult change the friendship has went through is when the two best friends find their own path and grow apart. Especially when they become friends with the new girl Flannery who has moved onto their street. Flannery tries to break up Marylin and Kate’s friendship by becoming more close with Marylin and making Kate feel like the third wheel or telling Marylin to ignore kate. Flannery plan to break up the friendship worked but it did not work in her favor because after awhile of ignore Kate, Marylin felt bad and the two friends made up. After a while Marylin and Kate go from best friends to just
We have seen it before. We have witnessed the corruption of governments before even if we didn’t even realize it. From communism to democracy, world wars to civil wars, genocides to religious upraises, government involvement has always been silently exalted. In Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaids Tale’, we see the fear of the Gileadian society caused by a régime government who practices its inhumane beliefs through everyday life in Gilead. The uses of military corruption, fear, and oppression are things that describe the everyday life of the defenseless citizens of this totalitarianism government.
“No the tent goes on this side of the fire pit! I want it on this side.” “Who cares! Just set it up on this side!” Bree covered her ears and ran back onto the path to sit quietly on a rock. “Don't go too far!” Her mother yelled breaking away from the argument. Bree sat and stared out to the trees. She sighed and wished for a peaceful life like them. She felt envious. How long had she been sitting there? Should she get back? Someone screamed. Her head whirled around. There was shouting, then a moment of silence. She frantically slid off the rock and sprinted back to the camp. Only, no one was there. It was completely empty. “Mommy? Daddy?” Her voice quivered. Where were they? She thought she hadn't taken that long. She was scared. Her tears started to flow. Then by the grassy area, she saw something. It was a shoe. Mommy's shoe! She ran to the spot and brushed the grass away. Bree gasped and fell backward. Her mother had scratches bleeding all over, her head had a large gash, and she could see all the whites in her eyes. She cried. But where was her father? She went around camp searching. Hoping, praying. She couldn't find him. He was gone. Just like that. He just had disappeared into thin air. Sniffling she ran. Water streaming down her face, blurring her sight. She ran. Right into a giant… What exactly was it? She looked up. A man stared down at her. “Are you ok?” He looked down at her worriedly with huge eyes. “Where’s your campground?” “Whaa~?” She felt dazed and fell into a pit of darkness. Bree could hear distant shouting that she couldn’t quite reach. Did someone say hair? Too much she thought and closed her
The sun was glistening through the tall, swaying pines. To the right of the trail, a gentle river flowed softly down towards the mouth of the lake. Walking across the rickety wooden bridge, I inhaled a deep breath of refreshingly crisp mountain air. The sun beat down on me as I made my way across the bridge and back onto the well-used hiking trail. The ambient sounds of chirping birds, babbling water, and the croaks of several frogs filled my ears as I made my way around the bend. As I entered the mouth of the forest, I could see my father standing in the middle of the path, glancing upwards, taking in the beauty that had began to engulf us. “We better get going.” he said, looking back at me. “There’s still many miles to go.” I smiled and turned, taking in one last view of the beautiful creekside. Then, with determination, we set out to finish the challenging trek we had started.
Imagine having all of your best friends living right next to you. This is how I felt when I grew up with my neighbors, Jessie and Catherine. Between four-wheeling, camping, and slumber parties, we all had grown up with each other acting more like sisters than neighbors.
The thick bushes with their leathery green leaves, and twisting branches, were a tangled growth well over the height of her head. She had moved halfway up on a mountainside. Now, the ravine the creek was in was narrow, and steep all the way down to the water. It was very hard to see any distance ahead of her while walking in the heavy cover. She was following some sort of game trail that skirted the side of the mountain but away from the openness of the stream. She turned a corner and started down a gradual slope when something dark caught her eyes on the trail ahead. It was two black bear cubs rolling around and wrestling with each other. She stood and watched their comical antics and couldn't help but chuckle at how much they looked like little children who teased and poked and chased each other in play. One cub would wrap its arm around the other's neck and chew on its ear. Then the victim would break away and circle right back to jump on the back of its sibling. All thoughts left her mind for a few moments as she saw them play in their wild home. She had never been so close to animals like this before and was riveted in place by fascination. Then Christopher got restless, cried aloud, and suddenly both cubs stopped playing and looked towards her. When they saw her standing there, they became alarmed and separated. Each one ran up a separate tree by the path. Once in the trees they looked her way and then bawled loudly. It was a noise that sounded like a deep "Maaww,
She had walked quite a long distance from the lake towards the huckleberry shrubs when she suddenly found herself facing a grizzly bear just twenty paces ahead of her. She wanted to run away that instant but her instincts stopped her and she slowly tried moving one step backward. When she did that the bear came one or two steps forward. She stopped and the bear stopped too. She saw Liam behind the
Running through the trees and deep snow. The branches stretched and reached out for me as I crashed through them. The snow got deeper and deeper, making it all the harder to run through. It like it was trying to keep me away from the house. With every step I took, my breath was left behind with it. I thought to myself. “I can't make it. How can I?” My pace weakened, and I could hear Hunter catching up with me. “You have to make it Megan, you have to.” I thought to myself. With that self motivation I gave it everything I had. I finally made it to the edge of the woods. With the hardest part behind me I make it to the
A Doll 's House by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen is a play about the story of Nora Helmer, a childish woman who once borrowed money from a worker named Krogstad for the sole purpose of saving the life of her husband, Torvald Helmer. Her husband treated her like a child throughout their entire marriage due to his gender superiority and due to this treatment she leaves him at the end of the play. Most people view Nora Helmer as a feminist heroine due to her ability to stand up and break free from the oppression that was brought upon her by her marriage. However, the playwright Henrik Ibsen, shut down this idea and claimed that the play was written from more of a humanist perspective. Despite Ibsen 's words, even though the themes of feminism and human rights are both present, one of them is dominant over the other. Looking at the historical background and context Henrik Ibsen 's A Doll 's House, the actual meaning of feminism, and the message conveyed through Nora 's character, it is evident that feminism plays a much greater role in the play than humanism.