On Sunday, a 43-year-old man who disappeared in Lake Ray Hubbard after jumping from a boat to give his a life vest to someone else, officials said. His body was recovered Monday afternoon.…
The following article is about a small Native American community living in a remote area in northern Ontario, Canada. Curve Lake is a First Nations community, half an hour north of…
Lake Holcombe, nestled between maples and pine trees, is a perfect place to find a person’s real self, hangout with family, and gain mental and physical strength. As the years passed, the girl found less and less time to visit her magnificent view that soaked up her stress. Still, she was known to be a strong and independent women, and she gave all the credit to the lake and her family. She knew who she was and who she wanted to be. Her life was impacted enormously because of that small…
The theme in T.C. Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” is demonstrated when the narrator and his friends learn a potentially deadly lesson through a series of accidents, caused as a result of their reckless pursuit to be bad. The nature of life reveals to them that striving to be bad in order to be viewed as hip or cool can often result in dark accidents, with catastrophic consequences. In the beginning of the story, three adolescent boys believe themselves to be “dangerous characters” (Boyle, 131) and that “it was good to be bad, when you cultivated decadence like a taste” (130). However, they learn painful lessons during summer vacation that reveal there will be a price to pay in trying to appear bad. They will be forced to question whether or not they are as bad as they think. The potential that there is someone worse than you needs to always be appreciated. Questions of limits and how far they must be willing to go to survive, regardless of the consequences, is a test that will be given.…
Kai Lin ARTD 250 Extra credit My Blue Lake When looking at Kiki Smith’s My Blue Lake, it maybe difficult, at first to understand what you are looking at. In fact, it might even be difficult to tell what the piece of art is. The picture has the detail and smoothness of a photograph, but the abstractness and lack of defining boundaries characteristic of a landscape painting.…
This chapter briefly states about the disappearance of Kathy, and what she could have been thinking of when in her “dreamtime” phase. It also briefly outlines possible roads she could have taken, let it be with another man or simply just fed up of her own life with John. This hypothesises demonstrates how profoundly hurt she was by politics and Johns selfish ways.…
The essay “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White was about a man who had a great sense of nostalgia after he reminisces old childhood memories of a lake in Maine. The author begins to feel a sense of immortality and is in denial of the fact that he’s not a child anymore. He begins to realize that we cannot relive or recreate our childhood, only visit the locations it took place. Throughout White’s essay, he begins to convey his confused and deniable emotional roller coaster towards mortality.…
Going on a family trip is always a good idea so you can relax and create memories with your family. I think one nice family trip we went to was lake havasu. Lake havasu is a place where you can rent houses and it is close to a lake and you can take jet skis. My cousins,uncles,and my family went.It was like a 4 hour car ride.I was happy to go on a trip with my family.…
White, E.B. ”Once More to the Lake.” Seeing & Writing 3. Ed. Christine McQuade and Donald McQuade. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2006. 162-167. Print…
It seems to me that Refuge is more than anything else, about confronting death. In the very beginning of the book the author says “most of the women in my family are dead. Cancer. At thirty-four, I became the matriarch of my family. The losses I encountered at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge as Great Salt Lake was rising helped me to face the losses within my family. (pp. 3-4). The book tells of the time before the death of the author’s, Terry William’s mother who was struggling with cancer. It also tells her story of the flooding of the Great Salt Lake, which coincided with that time, focusing in especially on its effects on the birds of the region. Together these stories intertwine, and we see a clear picture of the effects of death and disaster, and the steps one takes to accept them.…
For generations, Lake Clarke National Park has been providing outdoor opportunities for nearly 200,000 visitors each year. Recently, a September 20, 2006, email message sent to park supervisors was published on the internet. Local media outlets, including the New York Times, have made this memorandum the topic of much controversy. Due to the park’s financial situation, service level adjustments are necessary in order to maintain the standing of LCNPS. However, by no means was the park trying to intentionally mislead the public nor were we attempting to cover up the reality of this situation.…
Lake Victoria is the second largest fresh water lake in East Africa. Lake Victoria was the home to over 400 cichlids; which today more than half of the population are now extinct. A major destruction of Lake Victoria’s ecological balance was due to the Nile Perch. The Nile perch is a large voracious predator. The Nile Perch was brought to Lake Victoria to help out fisherman but instead the ecological balance of the lake stared to destroy. By 1980 fisherman noticed they were catching more Nile Perch and less of the cichlids. Water Hyacinth also is a major issue that has helped decrease the clearness of Lake Victoria. The water plant has now caused the lake to suffocate.…
“Once More to the Lake,” by E.B. White, is about the return to the lake of his childhood after many years with his son. The theme of White's essay is the passage of time and the changes that it brings. He confronts multiple changes as he grapples with the idea that the peaceful place of his childhood, and his existence in it, remain the same. But while the lake in its essence remains unaffected by time, he himself is changed, and then he finally acknowledges one basic irony of life that he is subject to the normal course of birth, childhood and the path that guides to death. This awareness develops as he vividly describes his memories of the lake with his revisit with his son.…
Agricultural Non-point Source Water Pollution Caused Eutrophication of Dianchi Lake in China and Possible Solutions…
Lakes are relatively small to large water bodies surrounded by land on all sides sustaining an ecosystem in and around them. Lakes have been an integral part of the ecological system by providing natural abode for plants, animals and microorganisms. Increase in urbanization and industrialization has led to the destruction and in the reduction of lakes in the city of Bangalore, Surviving lakes in Bangalore are reduced to cesspools due to direct discharge of industrial effluents and unregulated dumping of solid wastes (Ramchandra 2007). Water bodies like lakes readily acquire pollutants because they are complex and a fragile ecosystem and do not possess self-cleaning ability (Abida et al., 2008). Industrial activities, urban and agricultural…