...Growing up in Moose Knuckle, Minnesota was absolutely thrilling. Some of my earliest memories of ole Moose Knuckle are with my Uncle Olaf and Ice fishing on Lake Winnibigosh. In the middle of winter Uncle Olaf and I would drag his fish house onto lake “Winni” behind his old 61 Ford Pickup that he referred to as “Stinky Larry”, Stinky because it smelled like dead fish, Larry after his little brother Laurenz who died at an early age. We would ride out at 4:30 in the morning with the cold air nipping at our frosted lips. It would take about 20 minutes to get out to the middle of the frozen lake. When we arrive at the predetermined spot, Uncle Olaf would yell, “Time to drop the house on the witch!” At that point we both would get out of “Stinky Larry” and begin setting up our fish house on the frozen lake. Once the fish house was secured to the ice, Olaf and I would begin to drill our ice hole. I remember Olaf drilling the ice hole and the smell of apple cider and Jack Daniels. To this day, when I smell or see Jack Daniels, I remember my dear Uncle Olaf. These are some of my fondest memories of my childhood in Minnesota. Emphasis As a child, one of the most painful memories I recall was in 1973 when my Dad’s brother Olaf lost his arm in a tragic farming accident. The amount of blood and carnage gave me nightmares for days. That is a lot to go through for anybody much less a seven year old. As a result of the accident Uncle Olaf had lost his left arm from the elbow down. I did...
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...Critical Analysis of Darwins Nightmare Vs Hotel Rwanda as development education tools in Irish classroom settings. The world we live in is ever changing, with technology at everyone’s finger tips how can we keep one step ahead in our classrooms to engage our pupils in development issues that were once only found in print texts. Our pupils live in a media age, where technology is built into their lives, the days of waiting for a weekly magazine for the latest news has all but died with a click of button they have access to a wealth of information from varying sources be it bias or unbiased that is for the reader to decide. As a teacher it is becoming increasingly difficult to distract pupils from the latest celebrity gossip to highlight real world issues of race, poverty, sexuality, exploitation, etc., the pupils of today are uninterested in reading about these issues in text books so a new approach needs to be taken to open their eyes. The use of media texts in delivering development education issues to our cinematographic teenagers is the direction we need to head in. The type of media text used is a choice that has to be made by the teacher when highlighting these issues, the question remains should one use documentaries or blockbuster movies; documentaries by their nature are very factual, complex, have real life images and settings and can be difficult to watch; blockbuster movies on the other hand are produced for entertainment value, they must appeal to the cinema...
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...Lake Affect Snow And it’s Effect on Aviation BY: Perlisha Humphrey And Duane Johnson Imagine driving on high way U. S. 2 in the Upper peninsula of Northern Michigan just outside of Marquette, on a sunny winter day as the skies turn dark and ominous clouds build in the distance. Suddenly, a “wall of white” appears several hundred yards ahead and some of the heaviest snow you have ever seen obscures everything in your path. You inch forward through the blizzard until you arrive on the other side – where skies once again turn sunny. Anyone who lives in the Great Lakes region is familiar with this unique type of winter weather. This heavily localized snowfall, known as lake-effect snow, is most common from November to February. The winter weather phenomenon is capable of whiting out large sections of the Great Lakes region, from South Bend, Indiana, to Buffalo, New York. Towns and cities at higher elevations can expect even larger amounts of lake-effect snow. The Recipe for Lake-Effect Storms Lake-effect snow forms in the winter when cold air masses move over warmer lake waters. As the warm lake water heats the bottom layer of air, lake moisture evaporates into the cold air. Since warm air is lighter and less dense than cold air, it rises and begins to cool. The moisture that evaporates into the air condenses and forms clouds, and snow begins falling. This may seem like the recipe for whole world but due to the sheer size of the great lakes and the fact...
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...Hoover Dam Located in the middle of America’s Southwest desert, seven hundred feet high, weighing 6,6 million tons and creating a huge lake, stands Hoover dam, which is impressive creation. Ironically it is fitted in the most dry place on earth, in Nevada’s desert nearby Las vegas. Building the Hoover dam was the largest government project ever attempted. Hoover dam had to provide: fluid control, irrigation, drinking water and electricity. Without controlling the river Colorado into Hoover dam there would not be any possibility to build up cities like Las vegas. Hoover dam is one of the primary attractions for the visitors Las vegas from the whole world. More than one million tourists per year come here to see the spectacular piece of human work. The river Colorado is the same river, which carves the worldwide famous natural sight the Grand Canyon. The watercourse is 14 hundred miles long and it flows through seven states: Wyoiming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, California, Arizona and New Mexico. The river ends into the Gulf of California. Robet Walsh from Bureau of Reclamation says, that the early settlers who were trying to build up their own economy were ruined in the spring, because of the flood, which had been caused by melting tons of snow in Rocky Mountains and in the summer when the farmers really need the water they could not get enough to irrigating. So they had to take the control over the devastating river and the first idea about dam was born. In the beginning...
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...Nothing can overcome the love a parent feels for his/her child. If you can’t let go, of the person you love, they may never get back to you again, so sometimes you have to make some decisions in your life, but they can turn out to be your worst nightmare. The short story Ice Break is written by Astrid Blodgett and was published in 2012. The story is about a girl named Dawn, who is going on an ice fishing trip with her dad, her younger sister Janie and their uncle Rick. Dawn’s mother warned her father about going, because it is late in the season and the ice could break, but they are going anyway. The relationship between her mother and father is not the best, and that is why her mother doesn’t want to come, and says she have some work to do. When they get to the frozen lake, they are looking for Rick and suddenly the ice breaks under them. The father tries to save Dawn first by forcing her out of the car window, but she won’t let him go, so he squeezes her fingers till she let go. Afterwards he tries to help Janie, but it is too late and they both drowns in the car. The end of the story is about their funeral, and is very tragic. Dawn is the middle sister in a sibling crowd of three. She is a regular girl. She pays Janie to go ice fishing with her and their dad, because she doesn’t want to be alone with him. “I didn’t want to be alone with Dad. He was always grouchier when it was just him and me. He was scary when he got mad. And he never knew what to talk about with me...
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...quality time with family and friends. Because of the close proximity to New York City, trains were filled with people constantly coming and going. Greenwood Lake was an interstate lake, lying in both New Jersey and New York State. During the resort era, several steamboats operated on the lake and they would meet the trains and take passengers to various resorts around the water in both states. After World War II and till this day, the area went under major renovations to change from a resort area to year round residences. A fellow friend of mine and resident of Bergen County was kind enough to share her experiences with the supernatural, all which occurred right under her own roof. It is not surprising that an area with so much history and life would generate ghostly phenomena. What makes this ghost story so interesting is that it is so unexpected. Sitting on a cold bench, right before practice, I figured I would ask around to see if anyone had any good ghost stories to tell. Little did I know that I would find one that would send chills down my spine. As the oldest sibling growing up in their two story house in Bergen county, Dana remembers a lot of her childhood as well as her brothers, who is only a couple of years younger. She made known that her house was in fact a vacation home that had the luxury of having the lake right in the backyard. It is a two-story house and after moving in they decided to put on addition. Prior to the addition and back when it was just a vacation...
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...ATTACK OF THE MAMMOTH A man and his family were constantly on the move, hunting for beaver. They traveled from lake to lake, stream to stream, never staying any place long enough for it to become a home. The woman sometimes silently wished that they would find a village and settle down somewhere with their little baby, but her husband was restless, and so they kept moving .One evening, after setting up camp on a large lake, the young mother went out to net some beaver, carrying her baby upon her back. When she had a toboggan full of beaver meat, she started back to camp. As she walked through the darkening evening, she heard the thump-thump-thump of mighty footsteps coming from somewhere behind her. She stopped; her heart pounding. She was being followed by something very large. Her hands trembled as she thought of the meat she was dragging behind her. The creature must have smelled the meat and was stalking the smell. Afraid to turn around and alert the beast, she bent over as if to pick something off the snowy path and glanced quickly past her legs. Striding boldly through the snowy landscape was a tall, barrel-shaped, long-haired creature with huge tusks and a very long trunk. It was a tix - a mammoth - and it looked hungry. She straightened quickly and hurriedly threw the meat into the snow. Then she ran as fast as she could back to camp, dragging the toboggan behind her. Her little baby cried out fearfully, frightened by all the jostling, but...
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...Communication Breakdown It was a day like any other. Dad had just brought breakfast back to the family. I especially remember how fresh the carrots tasted. We’ve just moved to a new place, just south of the lake where my brother and I learned to swim. Although our old home was destroyed unexpectedly by a bunch of men in hats, we were adjusting well to our new place. The grass was soft and the hills were lightly capped with white snow. It was in between winter and spring, my favorite time of the year. Jimmy and I were on our way to the pasture to find hay for our beds. Suddenly, I saw a quick flash and heard a crisp crack! Oh no, not again. “Jimmy run, go home!” I screamed to my little brother as I fell to the ground. Skeptically, my brother ran south. I lay on the ground with tears in my eyes. A sharp pain overcomes my body as I concentrate on breathing. I think back on all the times in my life that I’ve been scared or hurt. This is definitely the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I start to worry that I may not make it out of this jam alive, when I see a human in an orange vest triumphantly marching towards me. Thinking quickly, and bravely I might add, I use all my might to force myself up off of the ground. As the man in the orange vest raises his hunting tool at me, I dart off behind two large oak trees. One shot! Two shots! Good thing this guy is really a lousy shot. I run and I run fast, but before I do I stare the man right in the eyes. If he could...
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...“Chardon High School Shooting” School shootings have become recurrent in the past 15 years. Though violence in young adults, teenagers, and children continues to rise, we like to think of schools as safe havens from the harsh reality of society. It is scary to think that the schools we feel our children are safe is now a concern and even a nightmare. We entrust the institutions to keep them safe and protect them from harm. It is disturbing and frightening when the violence is happening inside these institutions as well as outside. Parents have no place where they can feel their child/children are safe, but with them. Bullying, one of the major issues students face in school, has become a dilemma in today’s society which for many reasons has caused young adults, teenagers, and children to react negatively. T. J. Lane, age 17, is a suspect in the Chardon High School shooting, which took place in Chardon, OH. It was February 27th, 2012, at 7:30 am in the Chardon High School Cafeteria when Lane, whom at the time was attending Lake Academy, a school for at risk youth; fired ten shots from a .22- caliber handgun killing three students, Daniel Parmetor, 16, Russell King Jr., 17, and Demetrius Hewlin, 16, and injured two other students Joy Rickers, 18, and Nick Walczak, 17. After Lane fired the ten rounds killing the three students, he fled the building through the east door of the parking lot and into the woods. Officials found Lane around 8:40 am where he was then taken into custody...
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...[29TH September 2014] 6. Stephen Price ed. The horror film [29TH September 2014] 7. Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell, Horror films [29th September 2014] 8. RetroSlashers: http://retroslashers.net/friday-the-13th-1980-review/ [2nd October 2014 Analysis of genre in horror films looking at 3 films In this essay, I will be doing research on horror films, but looking at a specific part under ‘approaching the media’, which is genre and looking at three objectives to complete this: * How genre is represented * How the genre concept works in Teen Slasher films * The key genre conventions used in films. The three films that would help me conduct this research and meet my aims are Candyman, Friday the 13th and a nightmare on Elm Street. By looking at these films, I would be able to see whether all the elements that come under genre is applied e.g. iconography, setting etc. The creation of horror films was done to make people scared and frightened but also tap into our hidden fears. This could be done by looking at the most common thing that scare people. For example, The fly, David Cronenberg was based on the idea of people being scared to get sick/diseases. The word “genre” comes from the French word meaning type or category. Genres only began to develop due to getting inside help form studio the repeated patterns the audience tend to like. However, there is not just one type as there as hybrids. The stages of genre begins with primitive where the...
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...the passage, the author adds details on actions made by the main character that apply to survival. The author writes“somehow he pulled himself out of the shattered front window and clawd up into the blue, felt something hold him back, felt his windbreaker tear and he was free”, when writing quote the author gave hints to the readers that the main character was an emotional moment when realizing he was gonna break free. A similar quote that supports my claim is “But there was a tiny bit of speed left and when he pulled the wheel the nose came up and he saw in front the blue of the lake and at that instant the plane hit the trees…” by pulling the wheel as said in the quote, it is shown that the main character performs this in thought of a better landing for protection. When the quotes are understood, the common theme is easily released (You can survive anywhere, even when it feels like your worst nightmare). Although the fiction text (Teen in good spirits after surviving Washington plane crash by Associated Press) has similarities with the nonfiction text (Hatchet by Gary Paulsen), the author gives off different details, even though both go through a plane crash. In the fiction text, the author includes how the main character manages to survive throughout the horrifying experience, and how she uses her intelligence to survive the plane crash. In the first paragraph of the of the text, it’s written about how Autumn Veatch (main character) goes days looking for a way to get to a...
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...first word i had said to his mom was “I”m so sorry, Devlin was an amazing person.” I couldn’t even come out with those words. I wanted to scream, cry, and run away. It’s like that feeling you get when you’re half asleep and your body shakes, and you wake up and forget everything in that moment. I felt like I was nothing. We sat down next to my two friends. I did not get up to go look at the casket for about a half hour, I didn’t even think it was real. Everyone was hugging everyone. People who i never thought that I would speak to again, I ended up speaking to them the most. The funeral directors seemed to play the saddest songs, the people who tried and go up to the stand to talk about Devlin insantly froze. It all seemed like it was a nightmare. I never cried that much or had the least amount of words to say, I was just in shock. I think the hardest part of the funeral was seeing his mom say goodbye to her son, and then shut the casket. At that point, my sneses kicked in and I really realized what was happening. It wasn’t a dream, It was happening. Someone who I grew to love over the years, was gone. However the most beautiful part of the whole ordeal, was when we went down to Lakeshore Park and letting off lanterns and balloons. Throughout that...
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...horror Nobody could have predicted that something could happen so fast and unexpected. It was like any other day in UITM Alor Gajah; we were just getting use to our new life as a university student. On that faithful day, Aiman, Azri and I went to one of our friend’s birthday party at Masjid Tanah. We had the time of our life as the party went on until late at night. It was approximately one o’clock in the morning when we arrived in front of the main entrance and the night was almost pitch black as most of the street lights were somehow turned off. As we entered the university’s main entrance we started to feel unease due to the fact that there were no police officers guarding the main entrance. We went up the hill passing through the HEA parking space and getting closer to the library. We were talking very lively as we get closer and closer to the library not knowing the terror that awaits us there. Just arrived in front of the library, as we were chatting suddenly something strikes at the back of my mind. I thought I heard some weird noise coming from the lockers. I just kept on walking as I tried to convince myself that it was only my imagination. But then, Aiman and Azri pulled me by the sleeves and said that they also heard the weird noise. All of a sudden, we were shocked by a loud sound like a locker was being banged opened. Our hearts literally skip a beat. We thought it was the wind slamming on one of the opened locker so we kept on walking. Just before going down the...
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...to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine O, Mother Earth by Ernesto P. Santiago O, Mother Earth, O, Mother Earth, you’re so rich, with butterflies’ songs and full of olden lullabies, sung by mountains and valleys while rivers keep flowing through the ever-changing seasons of life. Youspeak the language I hardly know, but your silver touch sends me a tingle, that great joy and laughter bejewel the lake of green. Your yellow orb scattered sparkly gems on the blue water of a mesmerizing sea; as for your majestic sky, it wraps, gently, its arm around me whilst I gaze, at-night, at the stars. O,Mother Earth, take me to the fortress, where kings and queens meet and teach me… the graceful dance of the wind. If...
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...The mystics say you can find God anywhere. I believe many women have found him in “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The trilogy has sold more than 10 million copies, mostly to women over 30 who can’t put the books down. Publishing rights have been sold in 37 countries and movie rights have been secured by Universal. Even British hotelier, Jonathan Denby, has decided to remove all the Gideon Bibles from his hotel's 40 rooms and replace them with the book in the Damson Dene Hotel in the Lake District of England. The books chronicle the relationship between a dominating male entrepreneur, Christian Grey, and a young female college graduate, the submissive Anastasia Steele. The series has been mulled by many writers who have debated whether or not this is a setback for women, to be attracted to a submissive relationship, or a breakthrough, to be able to openly read and discuss a book so sexually explicit that it is often referred to in the media as “mommy porn.” I think the “Fifty Shades” phenomenon is a thinly veiled rewrite of religion. Not religion in the conventional sense of the word, but in how we are redefining faith practices today as more and more people, especially women, shun man-made traditions yet continue to yearn for religious experiences. Something, yet again, to reassure those afraid of the unknown. Diana Butler Bass writes in “Christianity After Religion,” that millions of people share her story “of growing up in a formal religion, finding that somehow chilly or distant...
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