Waterlily Analysis

Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria tells the story of a young woman, Waterlily, and her family as they experience the every-day life on the prairie as Oceti Sakowin. Through the clever storytelling of Waterlily’s childhood, Deloria’s novel covers the Oceti Sakowin family life, camp circle, ceremonies, hunts, and war parties, and the introduction of white presence in the Midwest. Themes of reverence for tradition and honoring of beings and nature span the book; however, the story also exceptionally demonstrates the Oceti Sakowin way of life in a way that illuminates many of the beautiful pieces of the Oceti Sakowin culture. Waterlily displays two particularly significant aspects of the Oceti Sakowin culture: kinship and generosity.

In the Chemistry of Natural Waters Lab we were to collect a sample of water, ranging from a fountain, stream, bottle, or tap water. After we collected the samples we all did many tests to see what the hardness was for each one. Water hardness is determined by the amount of Calcium and Magnesium in the water.(2) Water that has more Calcium or Magnesium is considered to be harder than water with less of those two elements. When you use soap and detergent, this is where you see water hardness coming into play in everyday life when you are washing things.

Water, although often taken for granted, is the lifeline of Earth. All carbon-based life requires some quantity of water to survive. However, in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, water signifies much more than survival. The novel opens with Gene Forrester visiting The Devon School, his old boarding school. During the visit, Gene visits a marble staircase, as well as a tree, both of which cause him to recall memories of his old friend, Phineas. Gene tells his Devon memories, water becomes a key symbol in the story. Clean water, dirty water, snow, and bodies of water encapsulate Gene’s childhood recollections. Connections between water and Gene’s childhood began at the start of the novel, developing all the way through it, establishing water as

“What the hell is water?” “This is Water” was originally given as a speech to college students before it was published in essay form. David Foster Wallace, in his essay “This is Water”, addresses the importance of awareness and perceptiveness of others. He believes this and proper education can help people become well-adjusted to the world around them. He adopts a humorous, personal, and important tone in order to accomplish his rhetorical purpose.

The story “A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park, took place in the years 1985 to 2009. A theme that comes up in the story is survival. In the story, Salva is one of the characters that faces the theme. Many things helped him survive, but the most important factor in his survival is his uncle. Linda Sue Park shows that Salva survived because of the help his uncle gave him along the way, he survived with the help the lady he called auntie offered him when she gave him shelter in the barn and helped him join a group to stay away from war. His survival in the story was also shown when the boy brought him down in the river almost drowning him but ended up saving his life.

Water by the Spoonful, is a play that focuses on struggles of redemption. The main protagonist Elliot is damaged and is trying to deal with all his issues by not moving forward. The play shows Elliot trying to overcome his past, but it also shows that he’s having difficulties moving on.

Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria tells the story of a young woman, Waterlily, and her family as they experience the every-day life on the prairie as Oceti Sakowin. Through the clever storytelling of Waterlily’s childhood, Deloria’s novel covers the Oceti Sakowin family life, camp circle, ceremonies, hunts, war parties, and the introduction of white presence in the Midwest. Themes of reverence for tradition and honoring of beings and nature span the book; however, the story also exceptionally demonstrates the Oceti Sakowin way of life in a way that illuminates many of the beautiful pieces of the Oceti Sakowin culture. Waterlily displays two particularly significant aspects of the Oceti Sakowin culture: kinship and generosity.

Water by the Spoonful, is a play that centers the struggles of redemption. The main protagonist Elliot is damaged and is trying to overcome his issues by not moving forward. The play displays Elliot’s attempt to overcome his past, but it indicates that he is having trouble moving on.

From the figure above, it can be seen that Gliese 581 G has drawn much notice because of how similar its features are in comparison to our planet. Theoretically, the planet can sustain liquid water on its surface and maintain life comparable to that on Earth based on the planet’s atmospheric conditions. The planet is predicted to have temperatures between −37 to −11 °C, which allows the existence of liquid water. Figure 3 also illustrates that Gliese 581 G is reflected as a Super Earth because it has a mass of about 2.2 times the mass of Earth. It can be seen that the planet is believed to have similar proportions of land and water. It is nearest in mass to Earth identified in a habitable zone. These characteristics have made Gliese 581 G one

Life takes a strong toil when war strikes. People start to lose hope in survival and start believing in the wrong source of power. Revenge and world domination. It takes one to realize what truly matters, and that is life. But there are factors to lead to one’s survival and hope for a better path. In the novel that Linda Sue Park had written; a Long Walk To Water. Tells a story of compassion, bravery, and a little bit of luck, during one of the worst times in Southern Sudan. Told from a perspective of a young boy named Salva. Throughout the book, Salva had many factors that made survival possible for him, they include; Marial, Uncle, some luck on the way. These are the factors that helped him survive, even when tomorrow did not seem

The book that I read for the truman report was Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. This book is about Mare Barrow and her family who are reds that serve the sliver elite. The silvers have supernatural abilities that make them nearly gods. Mare does what she can to help out her family until her 18th birthday when she gets set way to the war where her brothers have been sent in the past years. In a twist of fate she gets sent to the castle where she discovers her own power, but her blood is red. To keep the secret the king forces her into the role of a lost silver princess and betroths her to his son. As Mare is living the silver world she finds herself helping the Scarlet Guard, the leaders of the red rebellion. Every action

Water is essential for life as we know it on earth. It is used by plants

“You can’t spend too much time in one place without a bit of yourself inside you” In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as a troublesome, creative, and charming. She could also be described as easily deceived. In the beginning the author portrays her to be troublesome because as a young girl she loved to play pranks on the people at the palace and use her imagination to turn the things she imagined into a reality. She acted spiteful even though she just wanted to have a little “fun” at the inventor’s parade she made a lady’s giant hoop invention spurt water “It’d be more fun if it had fountains of water were coming out of it,”Alyss said, and immediately the hoop was spurting water from tiny holes all along the surface” (Beddor

The book that I have picked is called Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt. This novel is a supernatural/fairy tale-ish book that involves love and death. In this book, Keturah, a 16 year old female, follows a hart into the forest behind her house. She gets lost in this forest for a few days and when she was starving and thirsty a man on a horse comes up to her and tells her that her time is up and that she’ll become Lord Death’s wife. Keturah being the person she is asks if she could stay alive and take care of her grandmother. Death responds that she could say a name and that person will die instead of her. But Keturah doesn’t want anyone to die so she tells him a story about love. In this

This paper discovers the water budget for Berkeley, California in comparison to Terre Haute, Indiana. The two cities precipitation differs throughout the twelve month calendar year where many of the heavy precipitation months are totally opposite. Berkeley California’s winters, where the majority of rain occurs and Terre Haute, Indiana where the rainfall is observed as consistently disseminated throughout the year evenly. This paper will also magnify geographic position, climate and elevation in contrast of the two cities that reflects the water budget outlined in Project 1: Water Balance defined in