The Abduction of Nature

“This is a short piece talking about the two poems and songs Big Yellow Taxi and Field Below, I will compare their mood/tone and their meaning of all four pieces” The poem’s Big Yellow Taxi and Field Below are not just poems; there have been multiple music artists who have actually sang these poems as songs. The two poems both link to the same meaning, which happens to be “Missing Nature”.

They both talk about how they both miss nature, Big Yellow Taxi talks about how their use to be a beautiful place of nature, then they paved a parking lot but they actually meant a parking lot as a big city. Also in the poem Field Below the woman talks about how she lives in a big city that’s boring and she misses the country with fields and everything. So both of these poems talk about how they miss nature.

The mood and tone for the poems are sad, they both miss nature and they want it back. For example in Big Yellow Taxi they say “You don’t know what you got until it’s gone” which just by the tone you can tell they have a sad tone. But in the song Big Yellow Taxi has a different type of tone, it makes you have mixed emotions when you read the poem then listen to the song because the song has more of a happy tone but the poem is more sad. Now in Field Below the song and poem both have the same tone sad. So these poems both show us that they miss nature a lot and they really want it back. Both the poems and songs show a great amount of master piece.

How free were the free slaves in the North?

“This is a paper on how free the free blacks really were in the North in the 1800’s, In this essay it will explain how free they actually were from examples of Economics, Education, Politics, and their social freedoms.”


Have you ever wondered how free the free blacks were in the northern states? They had some freedoms, but they actually had a lot of restrictions in the end. Many blacks didn’t have real freedoms until the late 1800’s. The blacks had many restrictions, so I wouldn’t consider them completely free, because if they were they could do whatever they wanted just as the white man would.

In the Northern states the blacks were restricted from many things that had to do with the government. For instance out of the 16 northern states only 5 were allowed the right to vote and in 1860 only one allowed blacks to be on jury duty. Even the few states that allowed them to do so, they even had restrictions on the free blacks. When the blacks were permitted to have political freedom in some of the northern states, many of the times the blacks wanted to file lawsuits, sit on jury duty, or vote the whites would say no and not let them do it even though the state said they could. Another thing is that many poor free blacks that got released by their owners they didn’t get the right to do any of those things in politics because of them having less money than the other whites, or blacks. In consideration the blacks were somewhat free in politics but in only a few of the northern states.

Many of the northern blacks had the right once freed they could own their own property, get their own job, and even get an education. The only problem about this is that there was a catch, a tricky one. Most of the white men that owned stores or places that would allow people to get an employment there would not accept blacks to their working. People of white did not feel that the blacks could work hard enough, or would make them look bad when hiring a black man. Now about the education, even if you graduated college top of your class with a 4.0 gpa, some white men wouldn’t even hire you even if you were that smart. They would still think you are not good enough of doing the tasks that they needed. Many blacks could also own their own land but that was only if the white would sell them the land to build it on. So this just proves that most blacks were restricted from many things in the economic and education world.

The black man wasn’t permitted to do a lot of things with the white man, because most of the white society did not accept the black man just yet. They could not do many things in the northern states, the only true thing they could do was to live on their own and if they were able, to pay taxes. In most states, the blacks could not dine, marry of their daughters, join them in the courtroom, or even go to church with the whites. The blacks got their own church to do their worshiping, and most of their politics and beliefs about the government happened in the church. It was like their town hall, the church was probably the most important place to a black in the mid to late 1800’s. In conclusion to the black’s social freedoms they were restricted from many of the regular things in life just as usual.

In conclusion the blacks were in fact restricted from many things in the northern states. They were restricted from living the normal life, including being restricted from politics, social, and economic/education freedoms. In the 1800’s it was a hard and painful life for the blacks in the north.

This is just to say

“This is a parody of This is just to say but a version using the book Zach’s Lie. This is from Zach’s(Jack’s) point of view to the thugs Alonzo and his men that tried to kill them in the book. This is a cocky piece of him saying “forgive me” in a cocky way.”

I have beaten
you and your thugs
that were from
dreaded Columbia

and which
you were trying
to kill me ad my family
every second of the day

forgive me
for putting you
in jail don’t be
too mad when you get out.

A Staircase called Life

The poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is a very interesting piece of writing filled with an excellent tone/mood and great types of figurative language. The tone of Mother to Son is very calming as if it was a real mother to her son, there is no yelling or screaming, just a nice calming tone of a mother telling her son not to give up on life and keep trotting up those stairs and don’t turn around. That tone extends through the entire poem and it causes the reader to actually sense the feeling of the woman’s voice who is talking to her son nicely in a calming voice. The theme of this story would have to be perseverance because the mother is talking about the obstacles that you will need to face in your life. By the tone and the theme of this poem you can tell that the mother has had a very hard life, and she probably was a slave, but as the character says in this poem is that even if life has you pinned down and wanting and making you try to give up, you don’t because it will all turn over in the end and life will go on.

In this poem there is one great example of figurative language, and it is a metaphor which happens to be “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” The mother is basically saying life isn’t as easy as it seems there will be major obstacles for you to overcome in your life and troubles you will have to go through but she is saying keep on moving up those stairs, it will all soon pay off. I’m going to compare that sentence that the author said about the crystal stair, and relate it to the quote “The universe tends to unfold as it should” because the mother is stating that life will go on and there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. The mother just wants her son to know even if you get the worst job, or even the worst thing in life, it will all be okay so don’t stop walking up those stairs and keep walking until you’ve reached the end of the hard but beautiful staircase that we call life.

The Great Spirit Bear

“This is an essay this explains the symbolism the Spirit Bear represents in the story Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen”

Did you know that some stories have an animal that symbolizes the whole story or is one of the main icons in a book? In the book Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson there is a bear that is the main icon besides the main character; this bear is also a huge piece of symbolism in the story. It’s very important to have at least one big character or object that is a very important piece of symbolism in a story.

Often the Spirit Bear appears many times in this story, and it is a big part of this story, it’s even in the title. Cole Matthews relies on this bear in the story; he learns how to control his anger and learns patience as well. Without this bear, Cole would never have learned his lesson; he would have still been a bad kid. Cole first learned of this bear when Edwin told him that there is a rare species of bear called the Spirit Bear. But like always Cole didn’t care about anything and ignored everything. A little farther in the story Cole tries to attack the bear, but the bear comes back and mauls him up and that’s when we learns not to mess with the Spirit Bear and not to be so selfish and angry. After that whole incident, the Bear still stalks Cole from time to time and Cole learns not to mess with the bear and let it live. The Spirit Bear then goes on and leaves Cole alone never coming to close to him again.

There is lots of symbolism in this story but the Spirit Bear has the most over all, because it’s one of the big things in this story that causes the big climax. The climax of the Story is when Cole learns his lesson, and when he learns all the dances and everything that is good. Cole ends up learning all those things that happened because the Spirit Bear taught him not to take his anger out on the innocent, I personally think that Cole got that because what he did to Peter when Cole beat him up. That bear has the most symbolism in the story out of anything in the story because it ends up helping Cole a huge amount in the end.

If the Spirit Bear was not in this story, lots and lots of things would have never happened. For example, Cole would have never learned his lesson, there would have been no anger dances, no forgiveness, and Cole would have probably ended up dying on that island without that bear. It gave him the strength to change, it gave everything to Cole that he needed. The story would just be like any other story where the bad guy loses, Cole would have ended up in jail for the rest of his life, and maybe even end up killing someone. Who knows what would of happened to Cole if the Spirit Bear wasn’t there to make the story a story.

It is very clear that all stories need to have at least one important piece of symbolism. The Spirit Bear means a lot in this story if there was no bear there wouldn’t be the great story of Touching Spirit Bear.

Global Warming

"This is a research paper on what is global warming, what causes it, and what it will do to our society or better yet our world"

What is Global Warming?

Have you ever heard of Global Warming? It affects our daily lives every single day of the year, and not just human’s animals also. Some people say that Global warming does not exist, but there is plenty of good facts that can back up that it is real and that is have already taken action. According to Dictionary.com Global Warming is “An increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.” In easier words, Global Warming is the warming of the Earth to a certain extent that the polar caps will melt which would cause the water levels rise so much that islands will be covered up and large land masses to be under hundreds of feet of ocean water. If this happens as people think it will, multiple animal species will go instinct and there will be less space for people live. Especially when Wikipedia.com and multiple other sources believe that there will be about 8 billion people on the Earth by as early as 2050 by the way we are going now. Global Warming is a very devastation warming in the weather that could destroy the way that we live our everyday lives.



What Triggered this Phenomenon?

Many Scientists, Meteorologists, and other people believe that the Green House Effect is what this whole Global Warming theory is made up of. The definition of the Green House Effect from Dictionary.com is “An atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.”, many people believe that the Green House Effect was triggered by the great rise in carbon dioxide levels around the world. Since there is Billions and Billions of cars in the world and most all cars pollute our Atmosphere with Carbon Dioxide, except Hybrid cars. There is one huge problem about all these cars, and the problem is that each day there is about 9 tons of Carbon Dioxide that is put into our Atmosphere every day according to Worldometers.info. That probably doesn’t seem like much but it actually is, Carbon Dioxide is very toxic to the human body and all of it is sitting right in our upper layer of earth just sitting there. So in the End Carbon Dioxide is the main problem in this fight, and the only way to stop it is to get rid of cars that export Carbon Dioxide, even though this may seem like it is impossible to do this task but in reality if lots of people committed to it, it would be possible to live a clean and nice life on this Earth.

Skepticism

Many people believe that Global Warming does not exist, and many people called it a money scam back in the early 90’s late 80’s. Global Warming was actually introduced in the early 1890’s by a Swedish Scientist named Svante Arrhenius, he was the first to claim that fossil fuel combustion may eventually result in enhanced global warming effect. There are many skeptics that say many things about Global Warming, they don’t think it exists here are some of the questions skeptics have been asking in the late 90’s to now. “It hasn’t warmed since 1998”, they are wrong between 2003-2011 we’ve beat high temperature records all over the world. “Sea Level Rise is exaggerated”, once again wrong, over the past century a variety of different measurements have proved that the water is rising slowly but surely. “1934 – Hottest year on record”, this time they are correct, even though 1934 was the hottest year we are starting to work back up to that point. “Ice isn’t melting”, wrong Arctic ice has shrunk by an area equal to Western Australia, and summer or multi-year sea might be all gone within little as a decade. Lastly “Sea Level fell in 2010”, this is partially true the temporarily in sea level in 2010 was due to intense land flooding caused by a strong La Nina. On Thefreedictonary.com the definition of La Nina is “A cooling of the surface water of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, occurring somewhat less frequently than El Niño events but causing similar, generally opposite disruptions to global weather patterns. La Niña conditions occur when the Pacific trade winds blow more strongly than usual, pushing the sun-warmed surface water farther west and increasing the upwelling of cold water in the eastern regions”. Although there are hundreds of different types of skepticism about Global Warming, those are a few of different perspectives of the Global Warming phenomenon.



Conclusion

In conclusion Global Warming can be stopped if we get enough people to contribute to this cause. We could get people to stop making cars that pollute our air and manually switch to hybrid-cars or figure out a way to filter the carbon that pollutes out of our vehicles. People need to learn about the long term effects that Global Warming will do to our World. Animals will go extinct and we will lose lots of land that will hold billions of people. What will happen? Food shortages? Extremely crowded land masses? We won’t find out until it really happens and strikes us in the heart of our beautiful planet we call Earth.

Living in Anonymity

“This is a short characteristic piece that talks about Jack Osborne or Zach Granger as many know him, in this piece you will know exactly who he is and what he looks like while using your imagination”

I use to have dark brown eyes, but now they are the color of the ocean on a bright sunny day. I still have my brown hair that looks like the shade of bark on a pine tree. My skin, which happens to be changing to a bright white from staying inside so much. Some say that I a nerd because I have a mighty obsession with writing in my journals and reading my books, but I’m not one at all. No one can know who I am ever again, because if they do I could get myself killed, or even my own loving family killed. I had to change my name to something I didn’t want, and tons of other things that just made me want to jump off the biggest skyscraper in the world.

The reason why I’m even in this situation was because my father went out and opened his own airline company who flew things in and out of different countries. Until one day he met a man with a soul that was darker than a day with the darkest solar eclipse, so dark that no one could see inside it not even with the brightest flashlight in the world, and the only this he cared about is hurting innocent people and making money. His mind is like a cold winter blizzard on the outskirts of Antarctica. But you know what, I’m not scared of him or his men, I’m stronger than they are. With my short body about the size as a twig, and I’m still stronger than they are.