Piney Woods

Authors, a lot of them surround us today, they are the person who enhances our imagination, or gives existence to anything that is plain and different. In American history, there were a number of poets and authors who rose to popularity. They changed people’s outlook on everything, and added a great amount of different things in American literature. Throughout this time, there were a couple of great poets and authors who helped create the local color school in American fiction. One poet who helped

humid swamps of south Texas. The second was the piney woods of east Texas. The third was the vast plains and towering plateaus of west Texas. As we arrived at the property, I imagined what our cabin was like. Was it a log cabin? Did it have electricity? Would we have beds? But to my surprise, it was a fairly modern home, with all the comforts of modern living. I say "fairly modern" because it was more of a mid-70s trailerhouse with shaggy carpets, wood panel walls, and the smell of asbestos throughout

Billy, Duchess, and Mother Shipton are characters cast out of Poker Flat for being socially unacceptable and morally inadequate. John Oakhurst was a gambler, Mother Shipton and Duchess were prostitutes, and Uncle Billy was a drunkard and a thief. Piney Woods and Tom Simson are not outcasts; the two lovers ran away from the town in an attempt to get married because Piney’s father objected to their marriage. These two lovers stay with the outcasts and remain loyal to their needs and become a closely knit

How should one act in their everyday lives to best maximize human efficiency? This question spawned Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues as he sought so live the rest of his days with poise and proper manners. He wrote his 13 virtues for human improvement so that any person could follow them and achieve maximum human efficiency. One of his virtues, frugality, is shown throughout many different stories and is described by Benjamin Franklin as “Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e.,

The Henry Wiggen Novels of Mark Harris       There can be no question that sport and athletes seem to be considered less than worthy subjects for writers of serious fiction, an odd fact considering how deeply ingrained in North American culture sport is, and how obviously and passionately North Americans care about it as participants and spectators. In this society of diverse peoples of greatly varying interests, tastes, and beliefs, no experience is as universal as playing or watching sports

What would it be like to live in Henderson? I don’t live in Henderson, but I know a lot about it. I actually live in a city called Kittrell. There can be a lot of differences between Kittrell and Henderson, but there also can be a lot of similarities. As you read this essay you will see some of the similarities and differences between my home town Kittrell and the city of Henderson. Kittrell is a town that is known for being small and innocent. This town goes through three different counties. This

different species of wood that are fitted together to create a 3-dimensional, mosaic-like picture. Intarsia is created through the selection of different types of wood, using their natural grain pattern and color to create variations in the pattern. The different species and colors of the wood contrasting lights and values. Similarly, grain gives the art amazing texture and makes it very realistic. After selecting the specific woods to be used within the pattern, each piece of wood is then individually

Into the Woods is a musical that was written by songwriter, Stephen Sondheim and director, James Lapine. In this musical, several Disney stories are humorously re-told by creatively combining their stories into one interrelated adventure. This show opened on November 5, 1989 and ran 764 performances before this film of the musical was released in 1990. Into the Woods was one of Sondheim’s most popular works in over 25 years. He is known to be the “giant” of musical theatre during his time for such

Every minute, 30 football field sized sections of forests are cut down—and that is just from illegal harvesting (“Corruption and the Environment”). The modern world has become so reliant on wood products that at the current rate of deforestation there will soon be no forests left to enjoy. Governments refrain from making their clear-cutting plans public to avoid scrutiny. With governments very unlikely to change their policies, unless monetary gain is guaranteed, it is on the people of the United

cityscape of San Francisco as I take the L Train uphill on Taraval Street, to watching the quarter-sized, glistening diamond, snowflakes fall outside my window as I try and stay awake to catch a glimpse of Santa before morning. To me, Nature is not the woods or a long, sweating hike, nor is it Golden Gate Park in San Francisco or any other city park for that matter. To me, Nature is catching that rhythm the world beats, that I beat, that you beat, that every pulsing