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I walk through the woods behind my house with my dog. Though I stay on man-made, mowed paths, it still feels secluded and wild, completely surrounded by trees and plants, and the unfortunate spider web. As we walk […]

Submerging in water feels like washing away reality. As the cool currents lap against my body my temperature begins to cool and match that of the soft shifting waters surrounding me. As a child I lived in […]

In Cuyahoga Valley, plants bloom like colored dominos. They collapse quietly into autumn, where only the trained ear can hear aster falling into goldenrod. Many blooms are far down the line, so they stretch upward […]

Sitting amongst the red and orange hoodoos I have become motionless. The sheer sight of what I am seeing has grasped my attention fully. As I lay back into the dirt around me I see the universe. The stars are so […]

Después de graducaíon, yo quiero un apartmento que tenga dos dormitorios, una sala, y una cocina. Tambíen, yo necesito un baño en mi apartmento. En mi dormitorio, yo queiro una cama grande y una armaria gran […]

This text is what I wrote (with improvements) for the first assignment.

About a month into my freshman year of college, I was feeling overwhelmed and depleted. The grove of trees behind Bornhuetter […]

Around 500 campers and 130 staff in 8 weeks. That’s how many people have been to 13164 Taylor Wells Rd. Chardon, OH 44024. 500 plus 130 equals 630 times 2 equals 1,260 feet that have stepped on Camp Wise’s pro […]

Chapter 8 of A Land So Strange deals with the journey in Mexico and their experiences traveling with various indigenous groups. Reséndez highlights the importance of trade in this chapter, something I talked […]

In the novel “A Land so Strange”, Reséndez tells the story of Cabeza de Vaca and the three other survivors of the Narváez expedition. In following the story of a group of Spanish conquistadors, at times Re […]

Within the novel A Land so Strange, Cabeza de Vaca and some 600 other Spaniards are castaways in Florida. As the novel progresses all but 3 Spaniards and one African slave die and find salvation as slaves and s […]

The majority of the novel shows the expedition going anything but well. The travelers experience all kinds of obstacles that result in their starvation, dehydration and even their enslavement by Native Americans […]

Andre Resendes in “Following the Corn Trail,” describes Cabeza de Vaca, Castillo, Dorantes, and Estebenico’s journey across the continent and their interactions with the many native peoples they meet. The focus of […]

A decent car ride away from my home is a hiking path that’s well worth the trip. It’s a picnic area named for a misunderstood stone carving, known locally as the slightly pejorative name ‘Squaw Rock,’ contrar […]

According to Cabeza de Vaca “Four naked unarmed outsiders were led by hundreds, even thousands, of Indians. They were fed and protected and passed off from one indigenous group to the next, as if they were prized […]

Chapter 8 of “A Land So Strange” describes Cabeza de Vaca’s, Estabanico’s, Dorantes’, and Castillo’s journey after they decide to venture more into the land and abandon the hopes of reaching European settlements. […]

According to the Mexican historian Andrés Reséndez, the four travelers “felt greatly disturbed and saddened that other Christians had already reached these remote lands and were causing so much harm to the n […]