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Half An Hour Middle School
599 wordsThe students of Snow Canyon Middle School desperately need there time away from school. To unwind from tests, teachers, school work, and learning. All those subjects are very stressful in a young teenagers life. Our lunch hour is the only hour from 8: 00 a. m. to 2: 50 p. m. that we have that we can just get away from school, and relax and have fun. This is why we must fight for a longer lunch hour. My friends and I are always rushing down to lunch, which takes time out of our unwinding. Then we...
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Pakistan The Land Of Adventure And Nature
766 wordsFrom the mighty stretches of the Karakoram's in the North to the vast alluvial delta of the Indus River in the South, Pakistan remains a land of high adventure and nature. Trekking, mountaineering, white water rafting, wild boar hunting, mountain and desert jeep safaris, camel and yak safaris, trout fishing and bird watching, are a few activities, which entice the adventure and nature lovers to Pakistan. Pakistan is endowed with a rich and varied flora and fauna. High Himalayas, Karakoram and th...
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Rhyme Scheme Sonnet 130
595 wordsIn Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detailed yet exaggerated comparisons to the lover's mistress that often emphasized the use of blazon. The application of blazon would emphasize more on the metaphorical perfection of the mistresses due to the natural objects wer...
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Past The Lake Cotton Clouds Todd
1,300 wordsI looked ahead of myself, letting my feet do the work, for a moment. The trail seemed so distant and lengthy in front of me. The blue sky filled with scattered puffy, white like cotton clouds. The long grasses tickled at my legs, which were covered with nothing more than my shorts. My boyfriend and I were on our annual hike to Clear Lake. An obviously attractive name for a beautiful body of water. Clear Lake was an icy cold from the glacier run off but after a 2 day hike up a mountain ridge it a...
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Winter Oak Yuri Nagibin
1,104 words1. a) Our gut reaction to Winter Oak is that it had a lot of meaning, but was dull and tedious. Some words and phrases we used to relate our thoughts on the story are as follows: - Boring. - Monotonous. - No real conflict. - No feeling. - No real plot. - Didnt invoke a strong reaction. - There was a definite lesson to be learned. 1. b) Yuri Nagibin used different devices to evoke various reactions in us, some of these were: The dialogue; it was concise yet boring but realistic for example, when ...
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Run Run Men Mongolians
416 wordsYou may heard of me in ancient history. I am Genghis Khan and I, would like to share a story that was not recorded in history. In 1199 near the middle of winter, on the northern borders of china. My two best men and I were left standing, after being at war with the mongolians for several weeks, filled with hunger and dressed with wounds decided to retreat to home to heal and gather more men. I yelled lets go, We lofted on our horses, and right at that moment, a loft of arrows depended, up on all...
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Finny Accident Separate Peace
1,320 wordsUpon returning to his school fifteen years after graduating, Gene Forrester, recalled his days at the Devon School in a surreal sense. In his own words, In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day I entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left. Helping embellish this reality were his friends, including Leper Lepellier, who appeared in onl...
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Shih Huang Ti Filial Piety
1,353 wordsDressed in the drab military uniform that symbolized the revolutionary government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body still looked powerful, like an giant rock in a gushing river. An enormous red flag draped his coffin, like a red sail unfurled on a Chinese junk, illustrating the dualism of traditional China and the present Communist China that typified Mao. 1 A river of people flowed past while he lay in state during the second week of September 1976. Workers, peasants, soldiers and students,...
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Smelly Lice Head Boy Smelly Lice Head Kent
1,698 words... he Real Jan Brady. I was really happenin in a far out kinda way! I wanted to get my dog's picture taken, so I went to the picture store, and they said that if you have a baby, you could have your picture taken for free! So, I went and bought some baby clothes and put him in them! Then I brought him back. They thought he was awfully hairy, but I said he had a growth problem, so they stopped talking about it because they didnt want him to feel bad. Then I brought home the pictures, and hung th...
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Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim
1,362 words"Fate: 'what has been spoken, ' a power beyond men's control that is held to determine what happens" (Webster's Intermediate Dictionary 270). Everywhere in the world, people attribute events to fate because of the belief that one has no control over one's own life. People freely donate their lives to destiny because they believe life will happen according to a master plan, and they cannot help what happens to them. Therefore they do not try to change their life's path. In literature, authors hav...
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Nature And Nurture Call Of The Wild
1,383 wordsNature and Nurture "Call of the wild", written by Jack London, is one of his famous short novels that is known for all. It is a story about a dog, Buck. Buck is a domestic dog living in the sun-kissed Santa Clara valley. He is living a good life and taken care of by his master. But life is not always a picnic. When it is the end of 19 th century, there comes the gold rush. Big dogs are tremendously wanted for exploring in the North. For Buck, his cozy and happy life comes to an end as he is secr...
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Time Of Year Family And Friends
305 wordsTo me Christmas means a time of happiness towards everyone. It is a time when families and close friends come home from all over the world to be with the people they love. To most people family and friends come first in their lives, so this is obviously a very favored holiday. When its Christmas time, people exchange gifts often and take it for granted. This holiday is usually associated with receiving gifts. Personally, I think giving a gift is just as great as receiving one. Most of the time g...
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Of Relationship Between Elie Wiesel And His Father
957 wordsThe Book Night begins in a small town, Sighet, in Transylvania. The narrator / author of the book is Elie Wiesel. Elie is a child and a fairly devout Orthodox Jew during the time of World War 2. Night occurs in the 1940 s when Hitler has begun to invade Hungry and slowly takes over Sighet and deports Elie and his family. Elie and his father have a very strong relationship in the beginning and throughout the book, although this relationship does transform as the two go through more and more. Towa...
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Summer Session Gene Finny
459 wordsThe persistent theme of A Separate Peace is the deterioration of a complex friendship. The bond between two boys (Finny and Gene) becomes tested and attacked, as the reader observes a seemingly utopian relationship fall into decadence. Gene becomes challenged with various inner hostilities, while Finny, his proclivity for athletics revoked, has been forced to find acceptability and provocation elsewhere. Furthermore, the book commences during mid-to-late 1942, during the height of the Axis power...
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Analysis Of Famous Poems Relating To Ethan Frome
510 wordsPoems relate to many people in society. Two poems that relate to a character in a novel are Desert Places by Robert Frost and Mirage by Christina Rossetti; they relate to the main character, Ethan Frome, in the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. In the poem Desert Places, Robert Frost portrays snow falling down to the point where all you can see is bright white with a little bit of shrubs and weeds sticking out of the ground. He describes the frozen desert very vividly. In one of the stanzas Ro...
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Full Of Life Bright Star
772 wordsA Bright Star by Keats, is a sonnet that shows his infatuation to be with his lover for eternity. The poems main theme deals with the love and appreciation of things that are unchanging. This theme is brought up many times in the poem. For example, Keats uses a bright star and the earth to describe his innermost desires to be immortal, unchanged, and rejuvenated. He expresses deep feelings toward his lover, and if he had to live without her, he would welcome death. In the first two lines, Keats ...
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Wicked Stepmother Prince Charming
1,172 wordsFrom Cinderella to Ariel, Disney heroines have stolen viewers' hearts and invaded imaginations of young girls waiting for their dreams to come true and Prince Charming to come on his white horse ready to whisk them away to a life of bliss. These perfect characters allow the audience to feel the pain and agony each one faces before she reaches her goal in life, to marry the man of her dreams at the age of 16. Through the entire struggle Disney's animated Barbie dolls have to endure, I see not onl...
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Social And Environmental Indigenous Peoples
1,158 words... Last, and Korea of Siberia. The art and culture of these peoples is remarkable and is characterized by resourcefulness, adaptability, and innovation. The chief groups are now the Lapps of Europe; the Samoyedes (Nentsy) of W. Russia; the Yakuts, Tungus, Yukaghirs, and Chukchis of E. Russia; and the Eskimo of North America. There is a sizable Caucasian population in Siberia, and the people of Iceland are nearly all Caucasian. In Greenland, there is a mixture of Eskimos and northern Europeans, ...
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Great Gatsby Fitzgerald Bad Person
830 wordsIn F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel, The Great Gatsby, the subject, Jay Gatsby, eludes extensive description of character. During the extent of the narrative the reader creates his own opinion of the individual. Fitzgerald intended this to create suspicion towards Gatsby. Despite the questionable characteristics, Fitzgerald did have reason for describing Gatsby as great. Such a reason is not clearly found on the surface, but more so on his driving spirit and determination. From the introduction of Gat...
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Tree Fort Day Cabin
463 wordsAs a young child I had a most favorite place. It was a tree fort that I built with my big brother on our wooded property up north near a cedar swamp. Back in those days I would play all sorts of games there with friends that I would bring up to our cabin. Behind the island there is a swamp with little islands that we give nicknames to. It is a great place to play and forget schoolwork. The tree fort is not big. It is about 10 feet off the ground. That was high then but not any more. It is about ...
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