Storytelling Project Speech My dad decided to travel to Canada in 1998‚ when he was 29 years old. He had just completed his PhD in China‚ and decided to travel to Canada in order to conduct some research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. He had known for a while that he wanted to leave China- not permanently-but just for a little while to gain some experience in a new place. My dad never meant to stay in Canada. His intention was to work in Canada for a few years to obtain some
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Princess Mindset For many years‚ little girls have grown up watching Disney princess movies. All of which the princess’s get treated in a particular manner‚ dress a certain way‚ and physically look a typical way. As kids watch this‚ they believe that they need to act‚ dress‚ and get treated the way these princess’s do. It gives them false hope into adulthood‚ thinking there “prince charming” will actually come on a horse. They grow up believing they need to look a certain way for a guy to like
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In the two poems‚ Traveling through the Dark and Woodchucks‚ the speakers have two different tones and resources of language in the relationship between the human and animals. Both poems are about the deaths of animals‚ one intentional and the other not. In Traveling through the Dark‚ the speaker did not mean to kill the deer and feels the need to fix what has happened. In Woodchucks the speaker wants to rid their backyard of the garden eating woodchucks. These two pieces of literature are on
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Kumin’s ‚ “Woodchucks” provides an interesting and creative perspective Into the mind state of those influenced by Nazi warfare. What begins as a seemingly Humorous cat and mouse hunt‚ soon develops into an insatiable lust for blood. However‚ “ Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford‚ presents an innocent soul lost by the unawareness of man and the death of an unborn innocent. Both Kumin’s and Stafford’s descriptive language and overall theme provides the reader with the insight necessary
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Wouldn’t it be better to sacrifice one life rather than risk the lives of unsuspecting drivers? It’s a seemingly easy question to answer‚ however in William Stafford’s poem “Traveling Through The Dark‚” the speaker is faced with the dilemma. When driving on down road‚ the speaker is confronted with a deceased pregnant doe lying in the road‚ and has to make the crucial decision about salvaging the fawn‚ alive within the doe. Although the speaker’s actions may appear cruel to some readers‚ the speaker
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Traveling over to Atlanta‚ Ga.‚ I found my first little coffee shop of the week. Dancing Goats Coffee Bar‚ at 33 Peachtree Place N.E.‚ is directly across from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)‚ which makes it easy to stop and enjoy a pick me up before work. Upon entering‚ I was surrounded by city dwellers and students‚ most hard at work on their laptops and sipping iced coffees. Genuinely the cheapest coffee I have seen in this city‚ I purchased a caramel macchiato for $3
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In the poem‚ “Traveling through the Dark”‚ William Stafford conveys the story of a person coming across a deceased doe at night and has their mindset to move the body out of the way rather than drive around it. Then when the doe is approached‚ it has then occurred to the person that the doe passed away with an unborn fawn. After much though‚ the narrator decided to dispose of the body with the fawn into the river. The central conflict in the poem is an internal conflict within the person of what
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132 days. 2‚200 miles traveling to California for the gold rush. There was a gold rush in California. Some challenges people faced when traveling to California gold rush were the long journey‚ the lack of resources‚ and the spread of diseases. One of the challenges that travelers faced was the long journey. “There were wagons of every kind‚ including well-built covered wagons and simple‚ open carts. Usually they were pulled by oxen‚ but some pioneers used mules. Not everyone sat in a wagon or cart
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Cristiana Sandigo English 210 MWF: 11:00 Essay #2 Man’s New Toy In William Stafford’s poem “Traveling through the Dark‚” the persona drives alone at night on an isolated mountain road and happens to encounters a dead deer. As depicted in the poem‚ this anonymous persona is most likely a man since he managed to carry a 200-pound dead deer away from the road. Moreover‚ the chances of a woman wandering around an isolated mountain by
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“Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land‚ the lift of its mountain lines‚ the reach of its valleys” (Brooks 190). Yet‚ much of mankind believes that they have a supremacy over the natural world. Humanity has developed an anthropocentric philosophy‚ which is a belief that man is the supreme entity in the cosmos and the natural world should be defined in terms of their morals and knowledge. Society has forgotten that without nature
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