Back in Your Own Backyard

the idea. Having moved into our own house in Canada, my sister and I noticed how empty our home was without hearing a dog’s bark, or having any dog toys laying on the ground. We immediately decided to purchase a dog right there; the journey had started. On Kijiji, we noticed that a breeder in a farm town two hours away from Kitchener was selling a Pomeranian. This puppy had an orange fur that made him resemble a fox, small pointy ears, and a face that would make your heart melt. We didn’t need much

cheating, bribery, or worse, it’s human nature to chase after the all-important win. It starts by cheating once, and the taste of success drives us to cut corners again and again. At some point, however, life catches up to us. The cut corners come back in the form of massive mistakes, and life’s past successes turn into misery and failure. A prime example of this misery in the face of wealth and success is Jay

present day and work backwards but then you's just be completely lost. So lets start somewhere in the middle and buckle your seat belt because were gonna hop around a bit. Anyway lets quit wasting time and begin. The address was 819 Locust. It was a monsterous house that sat on a ridiculously small lot. The amount of land alotted to this home was so minute that it wasnt even granted its own driveway. It shared an extremely narrow gravel path with the neighnoring house. It was a two story house compiled

burger joint. Several things seemed suspicious that day about Mr. Craill, especially the fact that the gate that separated Craill’s yard from Dorothy’s yard was open along with Craill and Dorothy’s back

all head back home to Tucson. Sophie does not learn how to control her fears on her own though; there are many people on this expedition that help her learn to be “Sophie la Fuerta” and love life. Being so young, Sophie has much to learn from the people who care about her wellbeing. Sophie learns to be friends with her fears and that is how she overcomes them. Towards the beginning of the book Sophie’s parents help out illegal immigrants cross the border by letting them camp in the backyard overnight

on to share that, “the more high tech we become, the more nature we need” (Louv, 2011). Think about a time you have sat in your office for hours on end, working on your computer, at last lunch time came and you went outside for just five minutes because you forgot something in your car. In just those few minutes of going outside, you might have noticed a slight increase in your happiness level. Can you then venture to understand how this could be applied to children, or even increased with taking more

Where black’s and white’s generally did not associate with each other, unless they worked together. In the family you had the head of the house Mama. She was a woman of dreams and a simple life. She wanted to be able to work in a garden, in her backyard. Her son Walter, was much like his dad in the sense of he had big dreams. Walter wanted

Solitude can have notable effects, emotionally, spiritually, and physically, on individuals. I too witnessed these effects in my own solitary circumstances. Some positive emotional effects include: deep thinking, realizations, changes in attitude, and new appreciations. Being alone causes one to have time to think deeply about life and themselves, just as Thoreau portrays in Walden

my economy was primarily constructed by our own hands. I am from Western Samoa where things are rather simple and slow in comparison to the classy outside world. We do not have Walmart or Ross or huge grocery shops that would provide us with the convenience as other. My Samoa provides to our Economic growth, however, the ability to provide the necessary skills surfaced far along, gradually increasing growth. Economy? If I had to define the word back in my young days, I’d probably say that somewhat

remembering all the events form Gabriel’s life leading up to his death. Edward Hirsch uses a three line ten stanza on each page, without punctuation. This is to signify that the starting and stopping of punctuation cannot unpack the hardship of outliving your child. The three line stanzas imply the book’s most painful suggestion that, “The dead are no more than how we remember them”. Edward Hirsch starts off the elegy by writing about when they were at the funeral home, and shocked by the sight of recently