Narrative Essay On Spider Mascots

When I was seven years old, I was lying on the couch reading a book while my dad was watching television. I saw something moving, out of the corner of my eye, and as I turned my head to see what it was, I saw a huge daddy long legs trekking over the cushions, six inches from my face. I screamed and leaped off the couch, crying for my dad to come kill the creature. He told me to calm down, picked up the spider by one of its legs, and threw it outside. Ever since then, I have been terrified of spiders.
If someone had told me, when I was a little girl, that I would be applying early to a university with a spider mascot, I would have laughed and thought that that person didn't know me at all. And yet, here I am. I had visited the university twice
No matter how heavy the rain is, no matter how hard the wind blows, this spider web stays in tact. It has been there for two years. Don't get me wrong, I have never gotten close enough to see if there was a spider that actually lived there, but it is so big that I haven't had to get any closer than fifteen feet to see its architecture clearly. It is perfectly symmetrical, each silky string the same distance away from the
How do they construct their webs with the supporting branches so far apart? After a little research, I found an article that explained how spiders use the breeze to float from one branch to the other, spinning their webs as they fly. They are perfectly proportioned so that their body weight doesn't pull them down when they float from branch to branch. With this knowledge, I wondered why Richmond would use a spider as its mascot, so I did some more research; I found that spiders are often associated with success, good judgment, perseverance, and