Yellowstone

Yellowstone

            If I was allowed to visit any place in the United States I would pick Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.  The main reason I would want to go there is because I love the outdoors and would much rather be outside than inside a cramped city. Before I could go here I need to look into the travel information to find out what it takes to get there and what it will cost. If I flew there a Southwest airplane ticket cost about $70 but I would need to get back so it would end up at about $140. I also would have the choice of driving there. Maryland and Wyoming are about 1,892 miles apart so depending on the gas mileage of the car the price of travel varies. Once there, I would have to rent a lodge in Yellowstone. It would be idle to go in the summer because in the winter Yellowstone is often covered in snow and very cold.

            Yellowstone is known for many things. For one the vast number of different animals that make their home on the grounds. It is also very popular for its natural water geysers and one of the most popular, Old Faithful, is a huge tourist attraction. Another thing is known for is that Yellowstone Park sits right on top of a super volcano that, if exploded, could be up to ten times worse than Mount St. Helens. The only things I would take on this trip would be some extra cloths, a good pair of shoes, and a fishing rod.

            There are numerous things I would want to do if I went to Yellowstone. The first thing I would want to do is fish. I would love to go around to different streams and ponds and just see what types of fish are in there. Next I would want to go hiking around and camp outside. Another thing that would be fun would to go bicycling. I would just enjoy going sightseeing around because Yellowstone is such a beautiful place. The last thing I would want to do is to try and see all the animals and maybe even try to take a tour of the whole Yellowstone Park and see everything it contains.

            Visiting Yellowstone would be dreams come true for me. To be in a outdoor area as big as Yellowstone would be amazing. There is just so much to do I would never want to leave. I would take a lot of pictures so I could always remember my trip to the great outdoors.

Transformation Essay

Transformation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

                             William Shakespeare uses transformation as a way to change certain things in his play. The word transformation is defined by Dictionary.com as “A change in form, appearance, nature, or character. Shakespeare uses transformation to display change in his play. He uses it to shift your view from one point to another.

                             Bottom, love, and power are all examples of how Shakespeare uses transformation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is Snout seeing Bottom for the first time with the head of a donkey.  Snout exclaims, “O Bottom, thou art changed! What do I see on thee?” (Shakespeare 3.1.111-117) Puck uses his magic to transform Bottom to a head of an ass. This is ironic because Bottom can sometimes act like a jerk. Robin also says, “On the ground sleep sound. I apply to your eye, gentle lover, remedy.”(3.2.477-481)This is when Robin is putting the potion on Lysander’s eyes. When he does this he transforms Lysander’s point of view when it comes to who he loves. The first person he sees is who he loves. Shakespeare uses the general concept of power to show that the fairies are more dominate than the humans. The fairies are able to transform the humans in both mental and physical ways. They were able to transform Lysander and make him love someone else as well as being able to transform Bottom so he had the head of a donkey. They were also able to fix him and turn him back. This shows that the fairies have more power. You could say that the power has transformed for the humans to the fairies. Though out A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses Bottom, love, and power as examples of transformation.

                             There are many cases of transformation in the modern world. One example of transformation is gene splicing. This is where you can take DNA from one organism and put it into another to transform it. Scientist can make a lot of strange thing by doing this. They would be able to make glowing mice by taking the DNA of something that glows and splicing it into the DNA of an ordinary mouse. The mouse would basically transform into something new. Another form of transformation is bribery of powerful people or really any person for that matter.  You could bribe someone usually with money to make them do something that you want. For example somebody could bribe the president with a whole bunch of money so he would change a law or something else. That president’s view on the subject would be transformed so he would look at it in a different way.  The last example of transformation is ageing. Nobody stays young forever and when you age in a way you transform for stage to stage. You start off as a baby crawling around then as you get older your body transforms and be could stronger making you able to walk on two feet. Then as the years go by your body may go though some other forms of transformation such as growing taller and then well your even older you may start to shrink. These are all examples of transformation in modern life.

                             Transformation can appear though various situations. The prime connection transformation, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and modern day are though power. Power is shown by the fairies in the book, and it is shown though ranks of authority in modern day. The fairies display it by showing the have power over human emotions, such as love, and  modern day people show it by being promoted to a higher level and therefore having more control. All of the examples in the book prove that Shakespeare uses transformation.

                                                                                                     

            Work Cited

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Washington Square P, 2003.

"Transformation." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 05 Feb. 2013.