Pine Barrens

During 1865-1900’s, Western Expansion caused major impacts on the Natives Americans and European Americans. Natives were slowly being wiped out due to the powerful challenges caused by the colonist and the conflict between cultural arrogance such as the natives being primitive and the European Americans thought of being superior. It causes cultural issues that led to Reservation Systems which the U.S. Government forced Native Americans tribes to live in certain areas. This act caused rebellious…

The Pyramid Lake War of 1860 was an unavoidable war that stemmed from the years of abuse and mistreat against the Paiute tribe by Euro-American settlers. The Great Basin tribes were being forced into starvation by the Euro-American settlers who flooded into the area and overtook the lands. While the Great Basin Tribes tried to remain peaceful, after years of violent acts against them, they finally stood up against the settlers. The conflict which is considered to be “the single greatest…

“Give me a chance,” Xavier (Patrick Stewart) begged to Logan (Hugh Jackman) way back in Bryan Singer’s X-Men. “I might be able to help you find some answers.” And to paraphrase famous songwriter Bob Dylan, things have drastically changed. Since that has happened, comic book movies have taken over the movie screens. It’s an uglier world with uglier heroes and uglier villains, and “Logan” is the product of that world. All of those years and feelings together form the latest installment of Fox’s…

asks Prospero for his liberty but Prospero tells him not before the time is out. Prospero becomes offensive when Ariel asks for his release and he reminds Ariel of the witch Sycorax who he holds against because she imprisoned Ariel in that cloven pine for a dozen years within which she died and left him there until Prospero heard him and let him out. This is also a perfect example how Prospero keeps a tight grip of his servants and he even threatens Ariel by telling him that if he keeps asking…

HUM1: Demeter in the Hymn to Demeter is More Closely Resemble to Penelope in The Odyssey than Calypso In The Odyssey, Calypso resembles herself as Demeter, the goddess in Hymn to Demeter. However, Penelope in The Odyssey is more closely resembled to Demeter. Penelope and Demeter share one thing in common. When Demeter and Penelope struggle to fight with authority or pressure for their loved ones, Persephone and Odysseus, Persephone and Odysseus also suffered simultaneously when Demeter and…

Silent Pain Imagine being treated very poorly, imagine having a nozzle put over your mouth, and imagine being locked in a cold barren cage, where you are forcibly dragged along with a rope around your neck and pushed down. You can either face death or replicate the dreadful steps of cosmetic testing. Many chemicals and products are forced into your airways. While aching with loneliness, you have to wait for the next painful procedure. You do not get the opportunity to say no, get up and leave,…

One of Odysseus’ biggest emotional hardships was introduced with his captivity on Calypso’s island, where he sat every day, “wrenching his heart with sobs and groans and anguish, gazing out over the barren sea through blinding tears,” because of his inability to return home (Homer 5.174-75). Odysseus’s devastating experiences may be worse than most humans will encounter in their lifetime, but they represent the difficult emotional times everyone will…

Five times in the history of Earth, mass extinctions of unimaginable death scale almost wiped out most of the life on the planet. The last event occurred 65 million years ago when Earth was impacted by an asteroid killing the dinosaurs and other organisms (70 per cent of the species). The deadliest of these extinction events happened more than 252 million years ago. The event is known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event or the “Great Dying” that killed around 90 per cent of all species on…

the other shore at three distant bulls, each an ashen grey and each staring back at the confined cow, a look of distaste is noticeable within their gaze. Located on the same stretch of land sits Mercury, glimmering in elegant gold robes against the barren, dark soil which surrounds the two similar to the sun far in the distance penetrating the growing gray clouds above. On his mess of hair proudly sits his mighty herald cap, fluttering like a bird with a broken wing who can not fly off with…

Large poverty populations, large populations not connected to sewers and life expectancy over five years under the average Americans sounds like we would be talking about a third world country but these are the living conditions experienced by Native Americans residing on Indian reservations today. This is a huge problem because today the United States is home to 5.2 million Native Americans and around 22% of them are currently living on tribal lands. So many Native Americans are struggling just…