The Edge Chronicles Essays

“Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, which narrates her experience with woodchucks and how she lost her humanity trying to protect her garden from the pesky creatures. She uses such a simple past experience to symbolize something more profound. Throughout the poem she is at war with the woodchucks and as the story progresses, her means of extermination do as well. In the end, she uses a rifle to kill them all she is left saddened as she watches the last woodchuck die. The simplicity of the title is perfect

BOONG BOONG! I hear the ship's horn echo through our tiny dorm which we are sharing with 7 other people. I can still hear the gunshots ring through my ears, the sound makes me shiver. My home town in Cabo Mexico is under attack by scary people with faces cloaked with a dusty black cloth who talk some sort of language that I would never understand. Now I am sitting in a small bed on the top bunk of our dorm looking out the small glass window at the dark wavy waters. I better get used to the smell

I am pretty sure are whole class is so excited to go on this field trip today. We are going on a cruise to the Caribbean. Are class did an amazing thing to go on this trip. St. Judes Children Hospital asked are school to raise money in order to help their research and save many kids lives. The class that raised the most money got to have the chance to go on a cruise. We raised over $5,000 dollars that was the most the school raised this year. We are leaving on a Charter bus and going to Florida

Growing up, you face new conflicts and challenges. Eleven-year old Rachel faces a new type of problem with her math teacher in the short story, "Eleven". Rachel starts of her day joyfully, since it was her birthday. However, in math class, Rachel's teacher Mrs. Price thinks that an "ugly sweater" sitting in the coatroom, belonged to Rachel. As a result, she gave Rachel the red sweater, ignoring the young girl. I believe that Mrs. Price had a reason for being rude to Rachel. First, Rachel didn't stand

The sunshine awakens the early morning birds but also Charley and Winnie. They are lying together on the queen size bed. Maybe because they all just wake up, both two are gazing the white ceiling and being silent. Charley turns his head and watches Winnie, “I think I fall in love with you, sweetie”, he takes the first to break the quiet and reaches out his hand to stroke her cheek with his thumb gently. “Me too, I love you,” said Winnie. Her face goes pink and also stares Charley with a shy smile

Sex Offenders: Being Brought to Tiers In 1995, David was at the park with his friends playing basketball. He was just a regular 17-year-old boy in high school trying to endure through the stresses that come with that age. He was an average student and had high hopes for college and the future. As the day was going on, David realized he needed to go to the bathroom. Seeing the bathroom was on the other side of the park, and seeing nobody nearby but his friends, he decided he would just run over to

I sit at an angle, I have for a while now, it’s this bad hip so to speak. If you bumped me or the table I sit upon, you’s find that I wobble as much as a weeble, but I cannot insure you that I won’t fall down. You see, often I do, fall that is. I have dents, scratches, ink smudges, and scuffs although they’re not all war scars or anything I’m particularly proud of. I know I look silver, but I also duly reflect my surroundings in vertical streaks across my body. Hidden beneath me is a dent formed

I stood on the edge of what seemed like life or death. Looking down, I knew it was a long way to be falling from. I stepped back, away from the cliffs sharp edges while everyone behind me waited patiently. “You don’t have to do it, you know.” said my dad. I wanted to jump so badly, but my fear of heights was holding me back. This fear was like an invisible wall placed at the cliff's edge. Down below me, my cousin and aunt had already taken the plunge into the dark water below. It was so deep. I dragged

In this passage from The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow, Jesse and Rachel are the only ones there after Brick and Lakeisha left when Jesse took out some drugs to smoke. Rachel decides to follow everything that Jesse says; run into a fountain, dip her head into the water. They end up talking about travelling into his car after being insulted by strangers who were playing rock music. Durrow demonstrates that dissimilarity is only noticeable by those affected by it. When Durrow describes

Describe how you walked for each of the graphs that you match. Part 2: #7 Graph: To achieve the graph given, start one meter away from the motion detector. Then, in the time span of two seconds, walk farther away from the detector to approximately 2.5 meter and land there exactly at three seconds after beginning to walk. Then, walk towards the motion detector to 1.7 meters away from it in 1.5 seconds. Finally, remain at rest at 1.7. Part 2: #10 Graph: To achieve the graph given, start at 3 meters

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is a book that got famous among both the publishers and the readers around the globe. The book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus was written by an American author John Gray, Ph.D in 1992. He is a relationship expert and one of the most trusted voice in relationships today. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of communication too. Up to now he has written seventeen books. Fifty million copies of these seventeen books have been sold

U2's color scheme has been featured on everything from iPods to Coffee mugs. The Irish rock band has mastered branding. They're creativity has transformed them into a global icon. A status that has overshadowed they're recent terrible music. People might not recognize all the band members. But they do recognize the name U2. For many music isn't just a hobby. It's a lifestyle. Music fanatics take the art form extremely seriously. When U2 is on stage going crazy; the fans are doing the same thing

In the short story, “Eleven,” by Sandra Cisneros, a girl named Rachel narrates her eleventh birthday. After her classmate, Sylvia Saldivar, wrongfully stated that a red sweater belonged to Rachel, this causes the teacher to give it to Rachel. Yet, the teacher, Mrs. Price, never took into consideration whether it actually did belong to Rachel. There are three reasons as to why Mrs. Price acted this way. Firstly, Mrs. Price was eager to get rid of the sweater that had been sitting in the classroom’s

Roulette looked out on the city of Corinth, scanning the rooftops for signs of scouts. She let out a contented sigh and held up her bracelet to her lips. "This is the grieving widow checking in. There are no known visible threats in quadrant four. I repeat no visible threats in quadrant four over." She continued watching her quadrant from the tallest building in her city. She was supposed to watch until dawn. The organization she worked for caught wind that terrorists who attacked Athens two weeks

Macbeth, a tragedy written by Shakespeare around 1606, dramatises the consequences that unchecked political ambition can yield. To truly understand Macbeth, however, it is important to know the time period and political context in which it was written. The main theme, excessive ambition leads to great consequences, is interestingly relevant considering how, why, and when Shakespeare wrote the play. Shakespeare drastically altered certain historical events in his writing. Shakespeare likely made these

In My Antonia, a historically-based novel about Western settlers, Willa Cather paints powerful picture of the culture of the American prairie. Two children, destined for opposite lives based on their backgrounds. Many themes are explored in this novel, from suffering to love to feminism. Feminism, and the view of women as objects, is a main struggle of pioneer society in My Antonia. Throughout the story, Jim’s mind is constantly on Antonia, and there is something about her that separates her from

Abstract The PRADA Group is an Italian luxury fashion house, founded in Milan in 1913. The Group is composed by four brands which are: Prada, Miu Miu, Church’s and Car Shoes. Prada is an international large sized firm that operates in 70 different countries around the world, with 551 directly operated stores (at 30 April 2014) . The company presents a total number of 11,518 direct employees and had net revenue equal to 3,587 million Euros in the end of January 2014 . This report identifies the

In Ross Haenfler’s book, Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change, he discusses and evaluates the many aspects that are present in straight edge (sXe) culture. Straight edge individuals define themselves as being members of the larger punk subculture. Furthermore, in addition to being “punk,” they refrain from alcohol use, drug use, and premarital sex. In chapter six of this book, Haenfler examines the obstacles that straight edge women face, specifically in the Denver

This book is the third installment in The Underland Chronicles and is the most similar City of the Beasts out of the five. The series has the same audience of young adults and also has fantasy aspects, which even include a huge bat, too. The reason this particular installment is the most similar of the series

Emily Dickinson was a poet who wrote over 1,800 poems mostly about death even though she was young. Emily Dickinson’s writing was different than many other poets in the 19th century. Dickinson’s writing incorporated her emotions, metaphors, broken rhyming meter, use of dashes, and intentional capitalization unnecessary words. Dickinson’s fascination in nature that is exposed through her continues theme of nature’s beauty and the gothic movement in 19th century England most heavily influenced Dickinson’s