Port Orchard, Washington is a town overflowing with rich forests, fresh air, and spectacular views. As Isaac Suttle walks from his front door, he can see the Two Brothers to the west and Mt. Rainier to the east. His home sits quietly in an area of Port Orchard surrounded by trees, the nearest neighbor hundreds of feet away. Like that of most western Washington, the weather is cool and rainy throughout the year with little relief in the summer. The drizzly rain can last for months; Isaac can remember
Sage had been waiting for this moment since he woke up. As he watched from the shadow of a blackberry bush, a young black and white molly appeared with a blackbird in her jaws. Crouching low, Sage dug his hind claws into the soil. His amber eyes followed the molly’s paws as she walked down a branch that had fallen on a thick rise of blackberry thicket. The rising sun’s light danced through the forest canopy and dappled the fur on the molly’s pelt. She hopped down from the branch, her white paws falling
historical and contemporary roles of Singapore, Hong Kong and Port Louis as ports have indeed been drivers of economic and social change. For many years now these three cities and many others have thrived off the revenue generated by their ports. The growth of a port has ongoing economic and social ripple effects that change not only the shape of the city but the country as a whole . The aim of this essay is to show how the role of port cities contributes towards such changes. The three cities mentioned
for their port characteristics. In the course of urbanisation, port cities initially began to act as the core of all economic activities. This part of the city represented the core of the city, its main marketplace and its identity. Through concentration of production activities at collective centres, globalization trends entailed the need for greater ports and this way followed by relocation of harbour activities independently far from central areas of the city. The relocation of port activities
Analyzing Wilbur’s Orchard Trees, January By reading one of Richard Wilbur’s poems, one can get extremely confused while trying to find the actual meaning of the poem. Someone could take the easy way out and not try to get deep down into the poem to find the real meaning, or one could investigate the poem and learn what Wilbur is trying to get across to the reader. In "Orchard Trees, January," one could pick up what Wilbur is trying to say if one takes the time to think about it. On some of his
Janie and the Pear Tree in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the image of a pear tree reverberates throughout the novel. The pear tree is not only a representation of Janie's life - blossoming, death, metamorphosis, and rebirth - but also the spark of curiosity that sets Janie on her quest for self-discovery. Janie is essentially "rootless" at the beginning of her life, never having known her mother or father and having been
The setting in "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost is crucial to the theme that it is human tendency to build barriers in some form whether they are emotional or physical ones. Frost 's description of the wall separating the two properties as well gives us a clear idea of the differences in the neighbors. The way Frost formed his poem by not using a rhyme scheme, no stanzas, a very specific amount of lines and syllables paints a picture of the wall. The author heavily focuses on the perspective of the
An Interpretation of “In the Orchard” For any educator that is searching for a poem to arouse the interest of students enlisted in upper level literature classes, the poem “In the Orchard” by Muriel Stuart, written in the early twentieth century, conveys the ageless theme of unrequited love. The poem has all the elements of making students understand how far back the feeling of unrequited love has been around. We can understand these elements better through the rhetorical strategies. A rhetorical
“Fruits and Words” Essay “Fruits and Words” by Aimee Bender a short story that is full of symbolism and metaphors. The protagonist struggles with her relationship with steve, and on the road she discovers a strong craving for a mango. The mangos and the words symbolize the protagonist's lost hope and dying relationship. In the story “Fruits and Words” there are several times when the protagonist relates to her dying relationship. When the narrator and Steve were planning on getting married,
“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when in the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.” This quote ties to the challenges Janie faces when trying to
built a wall I'd ask to know/ What I was walling in or walling out, / And to whom I was like to give offense." These feelings are expressed also in lines 23 through 26. The wall is located between the neighbor's pine grove and the speaker's apple orchard. Is there a point in dividing these trees? Even though the narrator does not know the purpose of the wall, he is always the one responsible for making sure it is mended every year. More than likely he unconsciously feels a need for the fence too
Sanna Keith English 474 Dr. Tim Caron June 15, 2015 Symbolism in Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a novel with a resilient theme of Janie’s quest to find an unequivocal and irrevocable love. It is a literary work that is rampant in the use of symbolism and metaphors. Perhaps the most compelling symbolism employed throughout the novel is the budding pear tree, which Janie explores during the peak of her adolescence. As she is lying under the
Andrew Carpenter Picetti English, 1 9 April, 2014 Love Isn’t Perfect; Their Eyes Were Watching God Essay “Cinderella finds the perfect man and lives in a castle the rest of her life, so why can’t I?” Society uses fairytales to make children think that love is perfect, but the sad reality is that true love has flaws. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Hurston, Janie’s experiences show that true love is not like a fairytale. Throughout the novel Janie has three separate relationships, trying
Tree Imagery in Hurston’s Novels, Their Eyes Were Watching God and Seraph on the Suwanee Hurston uses the fruit tree as an important image in both of the texts: the blossoming pear tree for Janie and the budding mulberry tree for Arvay. Each holds a unique meaning for its counterpart. In looking at Janie’s interaction with her tree, I chose to focus on the passage on page 11, beginning with “She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree…”. For Arvay, I chose the passage on page 37, beginning
“Ghost House” is a poem by Robert Frost showing deliberating emotions and feelings. The speaker experiences loss of something significant, talking of nature, and going through a dark phase from the loss. Holding on to something and never knowing how to let it go is horrendous. Speaking of nature could relieve the mind and refresh the brain. Yet, being in darkness only makes a human decay quicker. Robert Frost knows every way to drag you and entertain ones mind. Something can vanish right in front
primary harbours since the 4th century AD, the Great Harbour (Megas Limin) and the Eunostos, of which the Western one was the chief commercial centre and the site of the customs house and numerous warehouses for cotton, grain, sugar and wool. ‘The ports of Alexandria flourished during the Hellenistic, and the Roman periods up to the last decade of the 4th century AD.’[1] Indeed, the harbour established an enclosure as described by Strabo, but was essential in ensuring Alexandria’s control over
course, was home to the nearly ice-free Port Arthur; Russia’s other naval ports were frozen for a large part of the year. In addition, “control of Port Arthur gives [Russia] a large measure of control over the water approaches to Peking.”<<2 Asakawa, K. The Russo-Japanese Conflict. (Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1970), 49.>> Moreover, by controlling the southern coast of Korea, “Russia would not merely possess a truly ice-free, and the best naval port to be found in East Asia, but also at last
of transportation. It can therefore be referred to as a center of combined modes of transport. It is a point where transportation routes on land and sea meet. A port is also where the exchange of goods and passengers take place between ships and land transportation vehicles. A modern seaport is a supper – harbor. It is a deep water port that assists in handling the largest tankers and transportation methods. These seaports are controlled by harbor masters. The harbor masters control them from a high-tech
In the poem by Mary Oliver, The Black Walnut Tree, the mother and daughter dispute over the sale of the tree because it can pay off their mortgage. As the debate occurs, Oliver shifts from literal to figurative language to highlight the symbolism of the tree. This identifies the relationship between the tree and the family; family is above all financial needs, their obstacles, and the father’s labor. As the poem is introduced, the words and sentences are both logic and simple. It states: “we could
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie had a defining moment that helped shape her future. In the second chapter, she saw a pear tree and ever since she became obsessed with the idea of love. She spent every bit of free time she had to be with the tree. Many people have these defining moments which lead them on through life. For example, it could be an art set that one received at a young age that made them want to be an artist. Whatever the case may be, we all have our own