... be blue on day and green another without any perceptible change in atmosphere. I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost green as grass. Some consider blue "to be the color of pure nature, whether liquid or solid." But. Looking down into our waters from a boat ... it slid four or five rods directly into one of the holes, where the water was twenty-five feet deep. Out of curiosity, I lay down on the ice and looked through the hole, until I saw my axe a little on one side, standing on its head, with its helve erect and gently swayin...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... of accountability. While he is preliminarily introduced as a scientist ranting about an absurd invention called "ice nine", his disbelief that the device actually exists eventually causes the destruction of the world. In Cat's Cradle, ice nine is described as a device which causes a chain reaction in water molecules altering the ... resulting in crystallization, "Now supposethat thee were many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freezeAnd supposethat there were one form, which we will call ice-nine-a crystal as hard as this desk-with a melting point of, let us say, one-...

• Word Count: 2901
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... gun and fish pole behind. The mass of men are still and always young in this respect I have been surprised to consider that the only obvious employment, except wood-chopping, ice-cutting, or the like business, which ever to my knowledge detained at Walden Pond for a whole half-day any of my fellow-citizens, whether fathers or children of the town ... ...

• Word Count: 1037
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... Babbitt's dinner party, George thinks to himself that the dinner party has lost all of the pleasantness he used to find in them. For example, he finds the usually enjoyable ice cream brick has become a nagging burden. Thoreau believes in simplicity of life, and he finds that many obligations society imposes upon the participant overly complicate life, such as fashion. Although ... ...

• Word Count: 3576
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School