The Edge

Aleksei Ananin 9 October, 2017 EDGE Final Reflection The idea of hiking in a tropical rain forest has peaked my interest since I was a child. Having never traveled in the southern hemisphere, I had a craving to see what this side of the world had to offer. Nicaragua exploration demanded peak physical fitness, a swift learning of basic Spanish skills, and working knowledge of what not to eat. It took quite a few steps to complete my project. First was choosing a destination, then researching…

To take a moment to stand back and start to notice that maybe not all we hear about as we’ve grown up is connected and possibly untrue. The book The Edge of the World, written by Michael Pye allows us to have a different view of our past and things in it that we may never have known.With a conventional view of history has the dark ages beginning with the decline of Rome in the 400s and the lights not coming back on until the Renaissance and a millennium later. But it has become increasingly…

The Edge of Sadness The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor, it is a wonderful book, which every candidate for the priesthood must read. The life of Father Kennedy narrated in this text is a mere representation of the experience of many priests around the world. At present, good and bad things of priests are heard; unfortunately, we hear more bad things than good. This text reflects an aspect of the life of some priests and also as people imagine how they live. Father Kennedy expresses it with…

various fields, but not every institute can attract students. For the institute to flourish it is very much vital to attract students and employers and also to have an identity. Edge consultancy solutions is one such organization which helps students to have practical exposure of all the concepts learnt at the university. Edge consultancy started its operations in India from the year 2010. The institute dint had a website of its own from its inception, and its performance was not that great as…

After the terrorist assaults in 2001, the national government moved rapidly to build spending on flying security and take control of traveler and stuff screening at U.S. airplane terminals. TSA confronts interesting difficulties in its endeavors to secure our Nation 's transportation frameworks. While insight demonstrates to us we should stay concentrated on aeronautics security specifically, TSA is likewise accused of securing mass travel, rail, expressway, and pipeline areas. To work…

Threat was a hardcore band from the 1980’s who pioneered the Straight Edge movement with a song called “Straight Edge”, which told kids that it was okay not to do drugs. That in turn gave birth to something of a sub-genre, straightforwardly named, “Straight Edge Hardcore”, which include other hardcore pioneering bands such as Gorilla Biscuits and Youth of Today, which introduced vegetarianism and animal rights to the Straight Edge community, with their 1988 song, “No More”, which included the…

follow- obtaining the complete knowledge of the natural world, or the deep interconnectedness of all things. Fan Kuan’s ink on silk painting, “Travelers Among Mountains and Streams,” made in 1000 C.E., and Jacob Van Ruisdael’s oil on canvas painting, “Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield,” made in 1656, exemplify these concepts beautifully. In Fan Kuan’s Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, his…

The Edge of Eternity I slipped on my black dress, laced my black shoes, and stroked my eyelashes with a black mascara brush. I stared at myself in the mirror as my miserable, watery eyes blinked a couple times, pushing the tears down my face. I stretched my trembling hands to the highest shelf in the cupboard and fumbled for the box of tissues. I should not have put on that black mascara. I looked out the window as the trees and houses zoomed by me. The rain poured down against the car window.…

Passion for social class, desire for knowledge, and love of the material, captures the essence of the characters in The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Set in the 1920’s the novel explores multiples characters’ journey through Paris and America. From minor characters like Sophie and Gray to main characters like Larry and Isabel. In The Razor’s Edge, Gray’s weary character is used as a foil to amplify Larry’s vibrant character to emphasize how a person is not derived from wealth and social…

I ambled around my family's spacious property, the same property I had traipsed around almost every day in my life. I had walked this property feeling elated, dejected, and even puzzled, but today I was feeling as aggravated as I feel when a teacher gives out homework on a sunny day. I would have much rather been inside my comforting house, eating a delectable dinner, as delicious to me as any five star restaurant, with my family, than looking for my annoying brother. Through our dense treeline…