The first thing Daryl felt when he slowly opened his eyes, was the sweltering heat. Sweat was pouring from his body, pooling down around the tangled sheets. The humidity was so thick you could cut it with a knife. He was used to it though, Georgia summers were brutal that way. He glanced over to look out of the small window that accompanied their cell, where sunlight was streaming through,shining down on to their cot. He figured it was somewhere around noon. If he could get out in the woods now, he would have just enough time to catch something for dinner. Since the Woodbury group had moved in to the prison a few weeks ago, any meat or supplies they had stocked up, had quickly dwindled. His ass was getting real tired going hungry. Most of the time they went to bed feeling like their backbones were shaking hands with their intestines. Hopefully today he could bag a deer. He slowly became aware of the silky smooth thigh lying across his stomach, and he reached down to lovingly caress it. He turned his head and there she was...Carol. She was lying on her side facing him, the sheet had...
Wiping the sweat from my brow I called a halt to the crew. Phil and I dumped our packs and found a comfy boulder to rest on. I looked back to where the last guys were coming from back down the trail. They had stopped talking a while back and marched slowly along the dirt trail. Phil produced an energy-bar he’d saved from breakfast and began to munch on it as I drained another water bottle. After the refreshing drink I laid back against the rock and stared up at the pine trees. But a moment later, hearing grumble about sore legs, I sat up, grinning, “By the map we only have another couple hours.”
Each author has their own style that is reflected in their poetry. Emily Bronte, author of the poem “Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun,” is known for her whimsical style (Emily). Some authors stick to one common pattern in the style of their poems; on the other hand, Bronte utilizes many different elements to make her writings unique. Bronte takes words and tells a story through her poetry, and that ultimately is why her name has gone down in literary history. From Wuthering Heights to her many other poems, and even under the pseudonym of “Ellis Bell,” Bronte includes a multitude of writing styles to make her works memorable. The poem contains a rich source of figurative
.... He felt comfortable showing this side because he knew that she wouldn't laugh at him, but would be understanding because she felt the same as he did; they both longed for each other.
took over the camp. The first thing the free men wanted was food. They could not
Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun was released in 1994, a year in which over seven decades of communism were undoubtedly still a vivid memory in the eyes of the Russian people. The transition from dictatorship to democracy left them with no choice but to try and disregard their past in order to better accept the many changes that the future would bring. In Burnt by the Sun, however, the director focuses on the characters' human emotions rather than condemn their ideology or their motivations. He thus brings us close to these individuals who are clutching the remnants of the ideals they originally fought for, and who, with the return of an old friend, are suddenly forced to simultaneously confront their future and search through their past. Throughout the whole movie this is the main theme the viewer is given to reflect on: the clash between the sweet, safe, nostalgic past and the forthcoming of a bitter, dangerous, uncertain future. This theme is particularly alive in the sequence 'Arrival of Summer Santa'. By analyzing the opening segment of this sequence, we realize that it is the editing which renders the conflict so palpable. From one cut to the next, we learn Nadia and Mitia's implicit memories and desires; during their conversation, the cutting alone makes us realize what will happen; near the end of the sequence, one simple cut says more than a minute-long scene ever could have done. Thanks to the editing, we become involved with the characters, and grow fully aware of the symbolic opposition between Nadia and Mitia, between past and future.
Poverty doesn't have to effect the people's personalities that I consumes like most of the Youngers. Mama, Ruth, and Beneatha did not let being poor make them envy any one who had money. Walter on the other hand was sick of the way he and his family had to live. He was fed-up and was desperate to make money any way he could think of for his family.
pile against his chest. Then he sat back and looked at the water with bright excited eyes.”
On February 24, 1864 the first two hundred prisoners of Andersonville Prison arrived at the local train station. The prisoners were then led like cattle to the still unfinished pine stockade. When the prisoners entered the stockade they saw a large open area surrounded on three sides by a large pine wall. There were no shelters of any kind to protect the prisoners from the elements. The underbrush had also not been properly cleared out and there was still vegetation on the ground. The food was issued in small rations, and all food was raw. The cookhouse was still unfinished and there were no pots or pans to cook the rations, so the prisoners had to scavenge some firewood and use whatever implements they could find to cook their first meal(Roberts, 26).
himself lay in the bed… Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the
Percival had spent more time down at Rion’s cottage than he intended, and after mucking out the pig pen, he was ravenous. Unfortunately, supper wouldn’t be served in the Dining Hall until after sunset, and if he had to wait that long for nourishment, he might starve. Not really, but it sure felt that way.
It had been one scorching hot summer when the temperatures were record breaking. Everyone was dying for water and air conditioning, people were having heart strokes, getting over heated and being rushed to the hospital. This place was Nashville, Tennessee, where country music is all you hear and they all wear jeans, button down shirts with boots and act the heat is no big deal.
Lorraine Hansberry in her play, “Raisin in the Sun”, attempted to explain the feelings of the average African American Male in the 1940s. This persona, which is portrayed in the character Walter, had experienced a severe feeling of depression and hopelessness. In order to understand this source of grievance, one must relate back to the Great Migration and the dreams it promised and the reasons why many African Americans sought to move to the North. A desire to achieve freedom from racial injustices and poverty was the prime factor that encouraged Blacks to abandon the south. However, these dreams where soon crushed as African American noticed that Northern whites had still maintained unequal segregation and where as stumbling block to Black advancement. The consequences of a “dream deferred”, as Langston Hughes called it, was dependency on others, alcohol addiction, as well as dysfunctional families.
It must have been a hundred degrees when we arrived in Florida. I took off my shirt and used it as a towel to wipe the perspiration off my face. How do Floridians live in this heat? How am I going to live in this heat? Those postcards I’ve seen of people in bathing suits at Daytona Beach must be true because it’s too hot to wear regular clothes.
In the next couple moments, the work might be justified so that I knew it was not a mistake waking up early before the sun rose this morning and that I was not crazy sitting out here in the rigid prewinter air. Even though there are the few hunters that have lucky successes despite not preparing for this day at all, it’s the little details that count out here in the woods; the tiniest twig out of place could cause the game to be on alert and possibly spook. Everything should be in place for this day, and this starts months before the hunting season, in the preseason when deer hunting enthusiasts everywhere track down the game, pick their perfect hunting spot, and get ready for the long awaited day. In this bitter cold morning air, an hour into the sunrise, this lesson that I have learned could win me, at least to this point as the middle school me shakes with cold and nerves, the biggest buck of
A star is an orb made up of hydrogen and helium. Stars are formed when a gravitational disturbance, such as galaxies colliding or a supernova explosion, causes molecular gas clouds to collapse. The concentration of gases generates heat and momentum from particle movement in the cloud produces a spinning effect. After approximately one hundred million years, core temperature and pressure reach levels that are sufficient to ignite nuclear fusion, which is what defines a star. A star’s properties are determined by its mass. Red dwarf stars, the least massive, use small amounts of energy over a very long period of time and scientists estimate that they can live for ten trillion years. The most massive stars, Supergiants, may live only a few million years. Most stars, including the Sun, are in the main sequence phase of their existence (Cain, 2009).