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Mountain Lion Red Fern
1,900 words"I was walking along whistling when I heard the dogfight", Billy starts the story. He rescued an redbone hound dog and took it home. This brought memories back to his mind. It all happened This is a story about friendship between two coon hounds and a boy named Billy Colman. Billy is ten years old and lives in the Ozark Mountains. He had long straw-colored hair that was He wore patched and faded coveralls. Billy did not wear shoes during the summer. He was a boy and worked hard to help his mothe...
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Dining Room Wooden Table
966 wordsWe pulled into the gravel driveway a punctual half hour before our expected arrival. Great, I thought, an extra hour I would be waste at my grandparents'. Wasn't it good enough that I was spending the entire weekend here? Did we have to get there so soon? When you are thirteen, each minute at your grandparents' is like sitting through an oration of the entire set of the World Book Encyclopedia. Climbing out of the car, my sister and I apathetically walked across the driveway to the brick sidewal...
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Grandpa Family Highly
354 wordsDear Grandpa, You may know who I am, then again you may not. You left this world before the thought of me even existed. Those two packs a day and countless nights at the bar captured and destroyed any chance there was chance that you and I would ever meet. If you " ve been keeping a watchful eye on me you probably consider me a fool. Due to the fact that I have picked up some of the same habits that pulled you away from your family. Your oldest daughter has done a wonderful job raising me. She r...
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Danger Of Getting Shocked Feel A Sense Plugs
914 wordsEvery young man my age dreams of being the next Michael Jordan, or the next Troy Aikman. For me, it was quite different. I wanted to actually do something that would make a difference in other people's lives; I wanted to be a police officer. My dream was shattered when I realized that the majority of them lie more than they tell the truth. The next big thing I wanted to be was a mechanic because I loved the feeling I got when I made something start up after being dead and in hibernation for a lo...
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Mini Van Thirty Minutes
1,508 words... reason why he left Alabama. A man named Floyd Walton originally owned the land he inherited. He allowed our family to sharecrop on the land after the civil war. Our family roots traced back to Alabama. My ancestors were his slaves. That's where we got the last name Walton. My grandfather was given the name Floyd just like the master. Grandpa told me horror stories of mob violence and public humiliations. He even described in graphic detail a gruesome lynching. These are things that he person...
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Dead Person T V
366 wordsIt was a time for me when life was like one of those T. V. shows that have perfect families and nothing bad ever happens. I liked it that way so when my father came home with a sad look on his face I have to say it scared me more then a little bit but I had no idea that the news he would present would change my life forever. My mom came out of her room and my dad called us to him. He started to say that something bad happened but he stopped because he was getting choked up. He finally came out a...
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Christianity In Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
1,199 wordsWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is the story of five lucky children who won a chance to tour the secret factory of legendary candy man, Willy Wonka. Although the film is regarded as one of the greatest childrens musicals of all time, the movie subliminally forces Christian motives upon an unsuspecting audience. Throughout the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, there are numerous allusions to Christianity. The first of these allusions can be found in the opening scene, during a so...
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High Blood Pressure Las Vegas
1,047 wordsCreative Story: Grandpa By Eddy Arevalo We were going to Las Vegas for vacation. I was looking foward to having a lot of fun there. When we finally got to Las Vegas, it felt like an oven jacked up all the way. When we got to the room it felt like when you open a refrigerator. Then we went to see all the major attractions, like Cesar's Palace, this was one of my favorites because when you go inside the roof looks like the sky inside of a building. I also took some pictures in front of the hotel n...
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Death Of A Salesman Willy
515 wordsDeath of a Salesman vs. The Simpsons Each of the characters in death of a Salesman can be compared in some way to a character in the Simpsons. Linda Loman has a lot in common with Marge Simpson. Both love their families very much and are always the first to defend their husbands actions. Each wife is unappreciated and and does not receive much respect from her family. They try to instill good values onto their children: Marge reprimands Bart for stealing, and Linda tells Willy not to encourage t...
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Grapes Of Wrath Rose Of Sharon
2,580 wordsYears Born: 1902 Died: 1968 Wrote: He wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1930 s and released it in 1939. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Nationality: He was an American author who lived in Salinas, California. He was educated at Stanford University. He first worked as a fruit picker, but then moved to New York. He didn t like it in New York so he moved back and became an author. Style: John Steinbeck s style is to write about something that he knows first hand. He likes to have all the details befo...
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Tom Joad Jacket Struggles Against Nature
2,021 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930 s live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930 s. The Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. The bank took possession of their land b...
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2,250 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath is an eye-opening novel which deals with the struggle for survival of a migrant family of farmers in the western United States. The book opens with a narrative chapter describing Oklahoma, and the overall setting. It sets the mood of an area which has been ravished by harsh weather. " The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky ...
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Grapes Of Wrath Intercalary Chapters
2,699 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath Joad's Journey- Through out history man has made many journeys, far and wide. Models great march through the Red Sea and Columbus transferring the Atlantic are only, but a few of mans great voyages. Even today, great journeys are being made. Terry Fox's run across Canada while having cancer is one of these such journeys. In every one of these instances people have had to rise above themselves and over come essence odds, similar to a salmon swimming up stream to fulfill its li...
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Grapes Of Wrath Joad Family
673 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, is a story that takes place during America s dreadful period of depression. Due to misunderstanding the nature of the entire situation, Steinbeck writes this novel to shine some light on the people about the great migration westward. This novel portrays the life of the Joad family who go through the harsh struggles of poverty and migration. They are forced to leave their drought stricken land in Oklahoma, hoping to find work in Cal...
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Grapes Of Wrath Rose Of Sharon
502 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath Synopsis: The Grapes of Wrath is a story about the Joad family and their 1800 mile journey to the supposedly job plentiful California. The family in the beginning of the book were sharecroppers in Oklahoma and were soon thrown off their land by the bank. There had been a long drought and the family were not making enough profit to keep the land. The trip to California begins the Joad family which includes: Grandpa, Pa, Tom, Noah, Rose of Sharon, Ruthie and Winfield, Uncle Joh...
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532 wordsSituated between majestic Great Lakes and the marshes, Ortonville is much like any other small northern Michigan town. It was election day, looking forward to a visit to the ice cream shop, I accompanied my grandpa as he drove the fifteen-mile tripe into town. Country life offered little excitement, but that day an air of uneasiness replaced the usual contentment I felt while passing aged buildings, their drabness contrasted sharply by a few colorful, modern improvements. Having spent the first ...
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Musley Graves Jode Family Character
261 wordsIn the novel the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbach, Steinbech develops a concept of myself. Myself is a kind of self confidence that can t be taken away. Three character in the novel that have mantle are Grandpa, Ma and Musley Graves. Grandpa is the oldest of the Jode family. He has the last say in everything that the family does. Grandpa decides right before the family is to leave for California that he isn t going to go with the family and that he is going to stay in the farm. When the family ...
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Lot Of Time Life
671 wordsA lot of people are very important and special in my life. One of them is my grandpa. I was very small when it was my summer vacation and I went with him on vacation at his place. It was after that and he became my best friend, advisor and closest colleague. At first time when I saw him I was very small. I remembered I was looking at him as if he was stranger. Big white moustache all dressed up and white curly hairs. I was thinking he is policeman and he is here to take my mom in jail. And than ...
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O Clock Back Home
271 wordsMy Trip To China I went to China at 4 th April, with my grandma and grandpa. That day, we got up at 7 o clock in the morning. We went on the ship at 9: 40 am. When we reached China, we saw our relation, they saw us and helped us to carry the luggage. They are very kind to us. After about 1 hour, traveled by car, we reached home, it was about 1 o clock, we were very hungry, they ve already cooked the lunch for us. After lunch, we walked around in the village. When we back home, we chatted until d...
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718 wordsAnalyze the Regional Aspects In regional novels, using the right tools of language to create a sense of environment is essential, and in The Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds does this extremely well. While she weaves the story of a young girl growing up in a secluded religious community somewhere in the rural south, Reynolds is forced to describe and create an extremely convincing and obvious surrounding for Ninah and her God-fearing family. With the right combination of language tools, the aut...
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