“Up the Slide” and “Hatchet” are stories written by two different authors, about two different people with their own individual journeys. There are differences between these two stories, but there are also similarities. For example, both Brian and Clay study the place they are going to travel through before beginning their journeys. Clay “studied the cliff thoroughly before attempting it” and noticed that the small dead pine was in an “out-of-the-way place” and on the river side the mountain was scarred and gullied and gored. Brian noticed that “there were tall pines, the kind with no limbs until very close to the top, with a gentle breeze sighing in them, but not too much low brush” and two hundred yards up there seemed to be a belt of thick, lower brush starting—about ten or twelve feet high—and that formed a wall he could not see through.
Every line that I read brought in waves of memories from the time I spent on the Appalachian Trail (AT) and backpacking trips out west. He starts the poem with the line, “The plains ignore us but the mountains listen”. Back packing through plains or flat grass lands is unlike anything you'll ever experience. To feel the vast openness of the earth is so incredibly energizing. But it is also extremely terrifying because if you did a complete 360 degree turn, you'd see nothing but maybe a mountain range a few dozen miles out and you feel so vulnerable out there.
Tyler Tungate Mr. Stamp English 4 August 4, 2014 Rough Draft In “College In America” Caroline Bird states that college is overrated, and a waste of your money. She believes there are other ways to get training for a job other than college. Bird’s view of college is she doesn’t believe it’s the best way to get training for a job because most of the time you don’t use half of the stuff you learned in college. In our century everyone now wants a college degree when you’re applying for a job.
Similarly, both stories bring about an area of uncertainty, in which both main characters of the stories, Goodman Brown from “Young Goodman Brown” and Connie, from “Where are You Going, Were Have You Been?” are put in vulnerable positions. In “Young Goodman Brown”, Brown leaves his wife to complete a quick “errand” in the forest. There, he meets a man holding a suspicious stick with a snake illustration, looking, however; like an ordinary man. Brown classified this ordinary looking man as the devil shortly after the man asked him if he’d like to walk with the stick. Regardless, Brown did not return back to his home, to return to his wife, Faith, he continued to follow the old man.
Pop later notices, after Cecil has left, burn marks in the bark of two small trees that faces each other diagonally across the ravine, which might have been made by wire loops. A wire stretch between the two trees would easily have tripped a man crossing the log bridge into the ravine. The setting of the short story helps contribute to the theme. The story takes place in the 16th or 17th century, which is suggested by the use of planes, in a logging camp in the forests of British Columbia. Mainly, the workers’ lives are described with Cecil, Moose and Pop in the foreground.
“By tying grades to money, we give students incentives not to take risks” (Vogel, 392) that stop them from choosing challenging courses in college. Students find easier courses through word of mouth or websites that previous students rate their professor in. I always ask people who previously took the course I am interested in whether or not I have a chance of passing the course with a C or higher. Students are afraid of putting their grade point average at risk because the grade point average is a component of the application process that helps colleges decide who to accept. .
If there is zero chance of the outcome swaying in your direction then at some points you might as well give up. Living with this philosophy will get you nowhere though, because if you always give up early then you may not know how it could have ended. For example if you simply will not win a court case because there is hard evidence of the defendant being guilty, then it might be acceptable for you to call it quits. This could make sense because, if you could spend your time doing something more productive with your time instead of wasting it on a lost cause. You never know how something will end; you must always wait it out till the end.
If that happens then you might have to take whatever class could not transfer over at a university for more money. Be sure to find a good advisor to make the chances of a nightmare happening slim to none. Unfortunately you do not get a bachelor’s degree from a community college. Some say community colleges have limited curriculum. (Pros and Cons, 2012) For high school graduates, commuting from home appears to them as a disadvantage.
In the shoreline community of Fairfield, police and firefighters could not come in to work, so the overnight shift was staying on duty, said First Selectman Michael Tetreau. "It's a real challenge out there," Tetreau said. "The roads are not passable at this point. We are asking everyone to stay home and stay safe." Several state police cars were also stuck in deep snow in Maine, where stranded drivers were warned to expect long waits for tow
It can be the lack of wanting a higher education, or the greed for money. Choosing to go to college before pursuing a career in professional sports would, in any case, be the smartest and right thing to do, because of all the benefits it can give you later in life. Works Cited McGuire, Jeff. “Importance of College Education.” Collegeview.com. 6 April 2008.