Forever Young, Forever Unique Axolotls The axolotl is far from your average animal. From their major significance in Aztec culture to their involvement in popular media, they have had an outsized impact in culture. In particular, the axolotl took the face of the 50 peso bill in 2021, winning Bank Note of the Year the Read more…
The moment the movie started and we got into the Lonely Mountains of the Dwarves, I already knew this was going to be really good, as I was so taken away by the absolute beauty the place was. It is nothing like the book! I read the rest of the books a few years ago Read more…
In Chapter 37 “The Reaper Whose Name Is Death” is one of the saddest chapters in Anne of Green Gables. In this chapter Anne loses someone who was very important to her. Anne was not able to cry since she had so many emotions when Matthew died. “I think you won’t misunderstand me when I Read more…
I really adore this image, because almost everything was set to make a perfect image: the angles and symmetry, focal point, contrast of colors. In this image at the Half Dome, where Ansel Adams is standing perfectly straight to take a photo on top of his car, there are many places in this image where Read more…
The Way Up to Heaven: Spoiler Alert – only read this if you have already finished the story. “The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl is focused on two married old folks, Mrs. and Mr. Foster. Mr. Foster treats his relationship with Mrs. Foster like a mean sibling would, purposefully using Mrs. Foster’s fear Read more…
In the short story “Afternoon in the Jungle”, Albert Maltz revealed the society under the Great Depression with an absurd fight between a thirteen-year-old child and “a small, shabby man of forty-five”. Everything started with imaginative play: Charles Fallon threw imaginary missiles and picked up imaginary money, but then his dreams were interrupted by a Read more…
The Job Janice, a rich wayward child-woman, recently kicked out of her parents’ mansion, struggled to pay rent and to balance her priorities and necessities. Being raised in the palm of her father’s hands and cushioned at every fall proved to be a terrible way to prepare her for life. Her parents finally had had Read more…
The Long Game Molly Maguire, a 40-something researcher from Yale University’s staff of Zoological Studies, stepped off the portable staircase at Pemba Airport in northeastern Mozambique. It was the fourth airplane she’d disembarked from in the last 35 hours, having left New Haven what seemed like a week ago, and while she was extremely fatigued, Read more…
Skiing began thousands of years ago, first as a method of travel for people living in snowy areas. Early evidence suggests that skiing first appeared in parts of Russia and Scandinavia, where heavy snow made other forms of transport incredibly difficult. People there would find wooden planks and use them as early skis. Archeologists found Read more…
Myla’s Maryland American editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland had a mission: uncover America and all its richness, one state at a time. The project grew from a hunch and a conviction. The hunch was that for one to truly understand America, they must learn it state by state, and to acquire an accurate understanding Read more…
