Pine Barrens

Kenneth Lincoln has called Louise Erdrich as the most significant Native writers of the second wave of the ‘Native American Renaissance’. Her novels got recognised when her first novel Love Medicine (1984) got National Book Critics Circle Award. After that she continued her charm of wonderful story about Native Americans lives. In her novels, we witness the Native American life, their way of living, culture, spiritual connections with the land, healing process of people’s lives, and the wisdom of

“Harrington Ave.” by Cynthia Katz is a photograph in the University of New Hampshire Museum of Art. The person sees two tree-trunks that inosculate into one trunk at the base. This single trunk goes into the wilted pine needle covered ground, looking like a typical late fall day. The two trees are surrounded by a wall of chopped wood on the left and right side of both trees; even between the two trees and above the shared trunk there is a pile of chopped wood, creating balance and symmetry. The

The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey is one of the highest grossing films of all time, telling the story of The Hobbit, crafted by J.R.R. Tolkien three-quarters of a century earlier. What makes this story so popular, even today? There are certain aspects of literature that outline a novel as fantasy and The Hobbit is an exemplary case. The most attractive elements of The Hobbit are its moral universe and how it pertains to the ordinary hero within Bilbo Baggins. The moral universe is what defines the

Ana Henderson Mr. Ethan Spencer English 10 Honors 30 November 2017 A Universal Truth According to the dictionary, an archetype is “the original pattern or model from which all things are the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.” Archetypes are the basic building blocks of any story that is told whether it’s an epic fantasy novel or an intense autobiography about some white guy from 100 years ago. An archetype can be any type of character such as a jester

Discuss how phenomenology has become a fundamental concern in the works of Peter Zumthor through both the formal and spatial characteristics of his design for the Steilneset Witches Memorial, Vardø, Norway Phenomenology in architectural terms can be expressed as: The philosophical study if the built space as it appears in experience. It however gets its root meaning from the Greek words_ phainómenon which means: “that which appears”, and logos which means: “study”. We can further bring this to more

     Through the years there has been much debate as to whether Shakespeare’s The Tempest is an Allegory to European colonization and colonial life, or if it is his “farewell to the stage” with a complete overview of the stage and a compilation of all of his characters into a few, in which the playwright himself being presented as Prospero. Is The Tempest an allegory to European colonization, or is it Shakespeare, presenting his formal farewell to the stage?      Many

Acid rain is a huge problem to the world. Acid rain is defined as “precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid-forming chemicals, as the pollutants from coal smoke, chemical manufacturing, and smelting, that have been released into the atmosphere and combined with water vapor: harmful to the environment”(Dictionary.com). Acid rain has huge effects on trees and plants, waterways, and soil (epa.gov). Acid rain is an unnatural environmental problem that

leaves or the grass to turn completely brown. Everywhere I looked, patches of green grass peeked from forest glens and barren wisteria vines and multihued, leafed honeysuckle vines frapped hardwoods along the shore. Above those, tall elegant cypress trees reached for the sun welcoming it into the forest. I too, felt comforted by the forest - the winds through the boughs of the cypress pines and moss-hung oaks sang to me as we traveled upriver. Broken, scattered clouds drifted across the sky

The Great Northwoods As with all things, the history of an event does not begin at its conception. With this in mind, it is my intention to provide the reader with a general history of events that led to the formation of the Nicolet National Forest of northern Wisconsin. In order to do so, I found it necessary to begin with the early explorations of such notables as James Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Jean Nicolet. These French explorers blazed a path that enabled the settling

region to near where New York is currently. Various environmental situations south of the ice sheets remained in place, though in the north part of the continent, once been covered with dense forests, fertile land, and abundant game, ended up cold and barren. Hidden lands started to become exposed. Forceful winds moved seeds planting many types of vegetation alongside the glaciers. Ten thousand years ago, the glaciers withdrew to their current size. Such as widespread range of animals increased on