Some Desperate Glory

For quite some time now, food has been at the forefront of people’s lives throughout the world. Eating has become a tradition, as food keeps us alive, healthy, and well. The importance of agriculture and farming is something that should not go unnoticed. Even just sharing a meal with somebody is intimacy, it has brought us closer together than ever before. Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of “The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Religion”, takes a closer look at how food has

of her house and hiding in the cellar during the Siege of Atlanta, which she recorded throughout all of August 1864. “We had to go in the cellar often out of the shells. How I wish the federals would quit shelling us so that we could get our and get some fresh air.” Almost every day, Carrie detailed how much shelling there was, from none to “not many” to “shells in abundance. We averaged one every moment during the night.” On August 22nd, Carrie and her family moved to safer quarters in downtown Atlanta

I been figuring bout them rabbits…. I got it figured out. We can make some money off them rabbits if we go about it right.” Overall, Candy, as a character is not very strong. He was left behind in the story because of that, he was also left behind because of his handicap and his age. Lennie, a mentally disabled man was

in order to claim some measure of freedom against an institution that defined people as property. African Americans resisted slavery in many different forms in order to secure customary rights that dictated work routines, the speed of work, rations distributed, and other basic liberties granted to white Americans. Such forms of resistance included everything from armed rebellion and violence to the use of passive thinking, which involved very subtle rebellious engagement. Some strategies that involved

James Joyce's The Dead In The Dead, James Joyce lets symbolism flow freely throughout his short story. James Joyce utilizes his main characters and objects in The Dead to impress upon his readers his view of Dublin’s crippled condition. Not only does this apply to just The Dead, Joyce’s symbolic themes also exude from his fourteen other short stories that make up the rest of Joyce’s book, Dubliners, to describe his hometown’s other issues of corruption and death that fuel Dublin’s paralysis

To my dear Anastasia, I had heard rumors that you have left Russia and escaped the horrible demise in which the result of our family faced. It was not until 1930 that I found you hiding away in Germany, and now I can finally tell you my story so that you can learn from my mistakes. Throughout the years that we were both together, mother and daughter, I had never disclosed the turmoil occurring with our family and Russia. Now, as I continue to watch over the world with a new found wisdom, I send

Escape Through The Red Sea Exodus 14: 10-20 10 As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the LORD. 11They said to Moses, ‘Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? 12Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, “Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better

theory concerning basic human motivations that are based upon a hierarchy of needs. (Boeree 1998, 2006) Often described or pictured as a pyramid, basic physiological drives like thirst, hunger and sleep, as well as the need for safety, shelter and some feeling of security are the motivational needs that occupy the bottom tiers of the pyramid.. They provide the foundation for higher levels of needs to become present and available that the individual is aroused or driven to attain. Once those physiological

you hear that word? Do you think of a place where heroes go to defend our country or do you imagine a body count of all the dead that happened because of that word? Either way you have your own viewpoint on that word, and with it come many things. To some people it might be emotions or memories. And to other it can be something more powerful. Although “Who’s for the game?”, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” both are about the same topic, their points of views, mood, and effect on the reader couldn't have been

school senior are sharing a communication medium, the results are bound to be a strange mixture of endearment and preposterousness. Four out of 5 are starting a new chapter in their lives, but are still grasping onto any sort of connection to their ‘glory’ days. Comfort and reassurance is found in one another as we try to navigate through school for the first time without each other. There seems to be a pattern of bringing up Mrs. Curran who was our AP United States History teacher whenever possible