William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways

Throughout the short story “The Worn Path” there are multiple symbolic terms. Phoenix Jackson an old negro women that ventures into a journey to obtain medicine for her grandson. This story has many symbolic points that expresses Phoenix's life. Her name represents a phoenix by her restoring life by going to the doctors to get her grandson medicine. The title is symbolic because she sacrifices herself for her explicit love for her Grandson. Also while on this journey she struggled with her eyesight and mistakened a scarecrow for a dancing ghost.

‘48 Shades of Brown’ by Nick Earls is a novel that follows Dan Bancroft, the main protagonist, and his troubling experiences as he goes through his final year of school. Dan is thrown into a world of unfamiliarity, where he makes many comical and embarrassing decisions. This novel expresses the theme of having or not having control subtly through the choices Dan makes, and their consequences. This theme is also successfully revealed through the four elements; characters, plot, motifs and setting. The relationships between the characters are vital to providing an insight into the theme.

blamed  the migrants of the problems that faced the North and the West cities when they

Most songs represent the sun as its protagonist and the moon as antagonistic. In the song "The Moon" the composer ,Andy Beck, sets the moon as the protagonist. Using a different prospective for the moon, Beck uses the moon as a symbol of beauty. The moon becomes a sense of clarity and relaxation to the singer and its listener. Near the end of the song the moon begins to set, while the sun

Our land that is no longer ours. How can we provide for ourselves when it is illegal to hunt and fish on the land that once

There was a time when the entire world was at piece living with their own people on their own soil. There was no one attempting to overtake others and no one warring for land. However, that soon changed with the colonization of the Americas. Europeans came to America from all sides and took land as they saw fit in order to colonize it for themselves. The Spanish people were explorers who were interested in what this new land could bring to them and their people. This is what led to the colonization of the Chumash tribe by the Spaniards.

In his riveting journey through the US, Heat-Moon experiences numerous eye-opening situations with numerous cultures. Heat-Moon leaves in his little van, Ghost Dancing, not knowing what to expect as he rode unsurely. Despite no apparent goal, he still enjoys the trip, and the people he meets aid him in finding a goal. Although a challenging journey, Heat-Moon withers through it and has new outlooks for these people in the country. The USA, presented in blue highways, routes through distinct regions of the country and allows for different cultural experiences, transforming the people who experience it like Heat-Moon.

The roots of the tree suggest the requirement of understanding the conditions that conclude health and ill health; biological inheritance, physical environment, cultural, social, political and economic circumstances. The understanding of who, when and where is affected enables possible interventions to be identified. The trunk of the tree illustrates the importance of organisational commitment to improving health. Lastly, the branches describe key areas for health promotion activity and those elements of the setting that contribute to health. Health promotion works by the belief system. The belief system is when an individual is experiencing change in their health. The belief system is made up of many positive factors such as; health, aesthetic gain, benefits to family, pariah status and financial gain. This belief system can be used in many health issues such as overcoming obesity. There are many positives for overcoming obesity which are; reducing the chance of getting illnesses/diseases, heart disease, infertility, type 2 diabetes, some cancers and strokes. The aesthetic gain It would be that people would lose weight more and then would look/be thinner. Benefits to family The benefits to the family would be that by them being healthier the rest of the family may be influenced to start being healthy to avoid the risk of developing any illness/disease.

1. One of the main characters in the book Black and Blue is a woman named Frannie Benedetto. Some of the roles that Frannie had were being a wife, a mother, a Catholic, and a nurse. Her role as a wife was very challenging, due to the fact that she was in an abusive relationship and was married to a New York City Police Officer. Frannie had been married to her husband Bobby Benedetto for almost twenty years. Her entire relationship with her husband has been traumatizing. Numerous times Frannie had been physically assault, raped, and belittled. Bobby physically assaulted Frannie when she was nineteen years old for the first time in their relationship. Frannie recalls many times that Bobby came home drunk and would rape her. Bobby belittled his wife by accusing her of sleeping with the doctors she worked with and by making her feel like she had deserved to get beaten up by him. One of the major reasons that Frannie stayed in the relationship with Bobby was because of their son.

Puritans and reformers of seventeenth century England have been given a bad name for their part in history. This is primarily because they were working against the grain and trying to create change in world that saw change as a threat. The time period was turbulent and there was bound to be resistance in a world that was dominated by Catholics and those that had reformed to abide by their King’s law. The puritans of the time were considered extreme and rubbed people the wrong way because they wanted a world that abided by their morals and ethical codes. For this, they took the blame for the misery that many suffered during this age, but as we see in Fire from Heaven, this is not a fair assessment. The Puritans of this time wanted to improve the lives of the people and society as a whole through morality and purity.

All aspects of life require a give and a take in order to reach overall stability. This message was explored throughout the composition of Alice B. Fogel’s “Balance”. The flow of the poem gradually introduces the notion of balance in one’s life through the stepwise integration of aspects that seem to be mundane but in hindsight require much more stability than what initially meets the eye. In the first stanza the concept of balance is put forth as “the only way to hold on” in terms of it being the most secure and sure aspect of any given situation in which “I’ve weighed the alternatives” in order to best proceed. The poem then goes to the broad topic in which stability and balance is the deciding factor “between later and too late” for any

The short story On The Bridge by Todd Strasser is about two boys, Adam and Seth, who are hanging out after school on a bridge that overlooks the highway. Seth was the character that demonstrated maturity towards the end of the story. He showed some examples of this when Adam got them into some trouble. For example, when Adam flicked his cigarette onto the windshield of a car below the bridge, the drivers came up behind them. “But suddenly he [Seth] noticed that all three guys were staring at him. He quickly looked at Adam and saw why. Adam was pointing at him.” It was this point where Seth started to question his friendship with Adam, because they had gotten into trouble because of Adam, and then he blamed it on Seth. After the men left, Seth

From reading the “Night Drive” by Wil. F. Jenkins and putting the details in the test together I have came to conclusion that Mr.Tabor did commit a crime. One reason of why I believe Mr.Tabor committed a crime was when he started to show that he know where Madge was driving because he was supposedly a “Stranger” to this area. In the text he says “We’re near the turnoff ”(W. Jenkins pg. 2), and he mentions where the girl was killed, how long she was dead before she was found, he explained how the two murders were different, and how the police found the murder. When Mr.Tabor says all of that information that reveals to Madge and us the readers that he was either their, or he contributed and or was the killer and the person behind the two murders.

William Least Heat-Moon’s “From Blue Highways” portrays the solution to Heat-Moon’s mid-life crisis, making the story’s primary purpose self-expression. Heat-Moon’s journey to find out more about the town Nameless teaches him valuable life lessons that have the potential to help him out of his mid-life crisis. On the road to Nameless, Heat-Moon encounters a factory worker who farms to remember the humble past. Heat-Moon asks if the factory worker ever “‘wish[es] it was still the old way’” to which the wise worker lists the satisfactions of his new life, topping it off with “‘if you’re satisfied, that’s all they are to it’” (Heat-Moon 1060). The factory worker understands that although the past is often a delightful place to live, only the future

In 2009, Dr. Sylvia Earle wrote The World is Blue to educate and alert the reader about human impacts on marine ecosystems. Through this book she conveys her passion and methodical arguments concerning the importance of the conservation of the ocean, which encompasses approximately 80 percent of the earth’s surface. Dr. Earle states “the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume” (17). This statement emphasizes the significance of the ocean, not only for marine life, but all life forms on earth. The book implies that currently in today’s world, the conservation of the ocean requires a global effort to reduce human damage from the past generations. Using facts gleaned from credible scientific resources, she defines the problems of overfishing, bycatch, and pollution. By analyzing human impacts on marine ecosystems, Dr. Earle determines successful and unsuccessful solutions to these problems and suggests various ways individuals can change their lifestyles to reduce impact on the environment as a whole.