Personal Narrative- My Discovery While Fishing with Dad
“Go get in the boat,” I told my twenty month old son, Adam.
I finished grabbing his lifejacket, toys and the snacks out of the car. I caught up to him just before the dock.
“Do you need help up?” I asked him, stooping down to his level.
He replied by lifting his arms up. We walked down the flimsy dock with me balancing everything and stopped when we reached the boat.
“Will you help him into the boat?” I asked my mom.
“Sure,” she responded and alley-ooped him over the side. I handed my armload in and sat down in my seat. We were off to find us some fish.
“Dad!” I semi-screamed over the roar of the motor, “What bait should I put on my hook?” I was getting my rod ready so I could be the first one to cast out.
“I’d try a leech,” he retorted. “If that don’t work, we’ll put on a worm.”
So after I manipulated my way into him putting on my leech, I had a line ready to go into the water. Now I’m not one of these people who adore fishing. In my younger years, I didn’t have the time to fish. It’s only been ...
In the world of money, firms including banks and nonbank financial companies face adversaries and often fail. When they do, most failures do not result in extreme externalities. In other words, loss of the firm does not place its counterparties into a troubled position. Ergo, the firm would go through a usual resolution process provided by the government. But, some large firms undergo a “special” treatment because of the government’s fear that its losses may have disproportionately big adverse externalities on the economy thus threaten the financial stability. These are the firms to which “too big to fail”, also known as “TBTF” apply. They are also referred to “too important to fail”, “too big to liquidate”, “too big to unwind and, most recently “too big to jail”. (Kaufman, 2013) Because of their capability to melt down the entire economy in the case of crisis, they are showered with public funding along with continuous bailouts. These unconditional supports have fostered generations and generations of controversy. The controversy dealt with in what extend should the government intervene with the financial firms, has it derived the economy to the desired result and flaws of this ironic concept.
Though the world economy as a whole has grown in recent years, a factor that is not taken into account is that the number “of the poor in the world has increased by 100 million” (Roy 3). In other words, the gap between rich and poor is widening. For India, this has startling implications. Though it is a nation that is developing in many ways, it also is a nation blessed with over one billion citizens, a population tally that continues to grow at a rapid rate. This population increase will greatly tax resources, which can create a setback in the development process. The tragedy, of course, is that the world is full of resources and wealth. In fact, Roy quotes a statistic showing that corporations, and not even just countries, represent 51 of the 100 largest economies in the world (Roy 3). For a country struggling to develop, such information is disheartening. However, there is also a more nefarious consequence of the growing disparity between rich and poor, and power and money being concentrated in the hands of multinational corporations: war is propagated in the name of resource acquisition, and corruption can reign as multinationals seek confederates in developing countries that will help companies drive through their plans, resulting in not only environmental destruction but also the subversion of democracy (Roy 3).
Jane is exposed to different kinds of religion as the novel goes on. Bronte exposes a great deal of characterization in Jane as she is forced to decide between conforming to the religions of her peers or staying true to herself and discovering the faith that is right for her. She must decide between the evangelical overlook of a harsh Christian society, represented by Mr. Brocklehurst, the idea of passion before principle, represented by Mr. Rochester, and the idea ...
...control individuals differently but it still has a negative effect. However, Jane refers to books such as St. Paul’s letters from the New Testament of the Bible to describe his character. This could show how St. John is a calm and graceful man because of the aftermath of the Old Testament. In comparison, St. John’s sisters (Diana and Mary Rivers) both show heartfelt compassion towards Jane which contrasts with St John’s more dutiful sense.
Jane is a spirited woman, and her emotions give her a strength of character that is unusual for a female heroine of this period. Rather than being nervous and oversensitive, Jane expresses her feelings through anger. The first example of this occurs at one of the pivotal moments of her life, when John Reed hits her. "'Wicked and cruel boy!' I said. 'You are like a murderer- you are like a slave-driver- you are like the Roman emperors!' I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, etc. Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud." Jane realizes for the first time that she need not be passive and accept her fate; instead she fights back, losing control, and her actions are a blur in her memory. "I don't very well know what I did with my hands, but he called me 'Rat! Rat!' and bellowed out aloud," she says.
For Jane, love means everything to her. But by being connected to God, she is able live with being desperate for the love of others. Without Helen’s influence, Jane may have succumbed to the temptation of love and married Rochester, and thereby, commit a sin. Maria Lamonaca also notes this, saying that Helen “seems to provide her [Jane] with a moral framework for later resisting an idolatrous relationship” (Lamonaca 254).
This environmental problem of the Dominican Republic will deal with those challenges that are considered of highest importance for the Caribbean country, challenges that require immediate attention from the Dominican people in order to secure a future that is environmentally, socially just and economically a future here the island's population can continue to benefit from the many goods and services that natural resources have to offer. There for one of the most important focal points of biodiversity in the world is located in the Caribbean region, and in this region The Hispaniola Island is the most diverse of all the West Indies that are being the most focal point that other places. However,climate change has invasion of non-native aggressive species, the overexploitation of forest and marine resources and the pollution of water, air and soil, are threatening the planet's biodiversity, thereby endangering its long-term existence. That’s why it is so much of a big deal because there is a lot in consequence more than just environmental. To be able to face the increasing losses caused by humans. It is hoped that this agreement can promote the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable distribution of benefits arising from such use in the Dominican
“Just show me the tackle and give me some bait. Then watch me go fishing, the rest can wait.” Fishing is one of my favorite things to do. It is catching a fish for either food or simply for fun. You can do it by yourself to enjoy the peace and quiet or fish with others to pass the time. Many people think fishing is an old man's sport but I think of it differently. It has helped to form my values, most importantly patience.
Charlotte Brontë was one of three English sisters who had books published in the mid-1800s. Her father was an Anglican minister and she attended a religious school as a child. Her most successful work, Jane Eyre, tells the story of an orphan girl with no independence who falls in love but has to face her morals when she finds out she is about to marry a man who is previously wed. Jane ends up coming full circle and gaining her independence from a wealthy inheritance and meets some interesting people along the way. Throughout Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, some of the characters Jane meets are Helen Burns, St. John and Mr. Brocklehurst whom all portray the hypocrisy, obedience, and obsession views of religion.
To elaborate, after the narrator asks Sheila on a date, he brings his fishing rod because he never went anywhere that summer "without a fishing rod" revealing that fishing is what he likes to do and is important to him. He adds when he wasn't trying to impress Sheila Mant, he "was fishing the river for bass" explaining that he spends a lot of time fishing and he enjoys it very much. Before Sheila Mant, fishing has been his true passion. Nonetheless, the narrator becomes torn between Sheila and fishing. During the date, as the narrator discusses fish, Sheila pronounces that she believes "fishing's dumb" which created a dilemma with the narrator because fishing is what he cherished as extremely as Sheila. His rash desire masks his true passion and provokes the narrator to hide his passion from Sheila. Furthermore, the narrator hooks the largest fish he has seen inside his fishing pole and realizes that "Sheila must not know" because he would have given anything not to "appear dumb in [her] eyes." His superficial values and hunger for Sheila cause him to hide his passion in exchange for the possibility of Sheila's love. His desire for Sheila forces him to try to seem sufficient enough Sheila's love even if it means endangering his passion. Instantly, the tug of Sheila was too great for him and he extracted a knife and "cut the line in half" forcing his passion
Gone Fishing. It was an exciting day for me, and I didn’t even know what was going to happen. My grandpa came to my house and then he told my brother Luke and I that he was going to take us on a fishing trip to Canada with his friend. We were so excited when he told us I told Grandpa, “This will be the best summer vacation ever!” After he told us we went and got gear like fishing poles, rain suits and food.
India, the second highest populated country in the world after China, with 1.27 billion people currently recorded to be living there and equates for 17.31% (India Online Pages 2014) of the world's population, but is still considered a developing country due to it’s poverty and illiteracy rates. As these nations continue to grow at rates that are too fast for resources to remain sustainable, the government’s in these areas wi...
She responds to Beaty’s article by saying, “Beaty suggests that St. John’s way is the ‘life of agape’ while Jane’s is that of Eros. But St. John’s way is also that of Eros: it is simply that his erotic impulses are devoted to Christ” (Pearson 302). I disagree with Pearson. It is an overstatement leaning towards the dramatic that St. John has ‘erotic impulses’ towards Christ. I argue that the ideologies that Helen and St. John represent are based in the total rejection of Eros as Beaty describes it. In their ideology, there is only room for the love of God, or agape. Jane rejects this; she refuses the false consciousness of a world without love already in it, a world with
St. John’s two sisters, like Jane were very intellectual and loved to read. Jane loved having conversations with them, as they were as intellectual as she was. These characters raised Jane’s expectations of society.
... were usually about movement up the social ladder or because of the fact that the woman was "worthy of the work, and competent to accomplish it." Love was a factor, which many people negated. Brontë condemned this negation. The patriarchal religious system, Calvinism, instilled a view in its members that men were far superior to women in many respects, including morality. In Victorian society the most 'moral' people seemed to be figures like Brocklehurst, who were in reality hypocrites. They were seen as pious and likely to be the chosen few to enter the gates of Heaven. Brontë conveys Brocklehurst's character as being shallow and he eventually loses his business because of lack of humanity.