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Fields Town Birds
655 words
There was once a town in the heart of America
where all life seemed to live in harmony with its
surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a
checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of
grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring,
white clouds of bloom drifted above therein
fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up
a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across
a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the
hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half
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Mount St 000 Feet
448 words
Mount St. Helens is a young volcano that developed
over the last 40, 000 years within a very ruff
terrain of meta volcanic rocks. Mount St. Helens
was givens it s name some time between 1753 and
1839. This Volcano was named after Baron St.
Helens. The mountain was named by Commander George
Vancouver and the officers of H. M. S. Discovery.
Mount St. Helens was known as the Fuji of America
because its symmetrical appearance was similar to
a famous Japanese volcano. The incredible cone
top, whose s...
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Mistress Eyes Love Poems
735 words
William Shakespeare was one of the first
developers of the English Sonnet. His style is
powerful and that is why he is considered to be
one of the best poets of all time. The sonnet My
mistress eyes are nothing like the sun is no
exception. Shakespeare s use of structure,
diction, rhyme, contributes towards developing the
meaning, form, and content of the poem. My
mistress eyes are nothing like the sun is a poem
in which Shakespeare forms an argument against
common love poems that use flattery t...
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Amount Of Light Time Passes
878 words
Love andThe Curtain Love Love and infatuation have
many characteristics that can be compared to
number of different things. Love is supposed to be
everlasting, true and forever. Infatuation is a
short period of time where you think its love, but
in reality it is not. Both are entertaining, but
both can also be fatal. It all depends on how deep
and involved you get into them. In a sense, the
are like nature. Both start out as a seed rooted
deep in your heart, small and hidden. It is unseen
to the...
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Put Your Weight Steps In Skiing Skies
911 words
Do you like Ski SKIING Do you like to be out in
the snow, get some fresh air, and have fun at the
same time well then skiing is the way to go.
Skiing is a fun and exciting way to enjoy the
winter months and it also is gives you an exercise
while you are taking on the slopes. Even if you
are not a very good skier at first, you can
practice on smaller hills and work up to the
larger hills and become an expert. The main things
you need to know to get started are what kind of
boots and skies to get,...
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Santa Clara Clara Valley
1,299 words
N. MARIAN Jack London's novel The Call of the
Wild, is about Buck, a courageous dog fighting for
survival in the Alaskan wilderness, is considered
to be his masterpiece. This legend shows the harsh
and frozen Yukon during the Gold Rush. As Buck is
ripped from his pampered surroundings and shipped
to Alaska to be a sled dog, his primitive, wolf
like nature begins to emerge. Savage struggles and
strong bonds between man, dog, and wilderness are
displayed to there extremes, as Buck undertakes a
mys...
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Hundred Feet Nature Quot
805 words
Nellie McKay Images of scarcity, drought, and
death in the natural world of the poem parallel
the oppression of race, sex, class, and economics
that comprise the reality of Karintha: And cotton,
scarce as any southern snow, Was vanishing; the
branch, so pinched and slow, Failed in its
function as the autumn rake; Drouth fighting soil
had caused the soil to take All water from the
streams; dead birds were found In wells a hundred
feet below the ground It is a dismal landscape
into which the flowe...
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Paul Case Red Carnation
1,680 words
Paul? s Losing Game In Willa Carther? s? Paul? s
Case? Paul, the main character, lives a life that
may be compared to flowers, which are so vividly
and often referred to in the text: just as flowers
blossom and die, so too does Paul. After living
one week as? the kind of boy he had always wanted
to be? (Carther), Paul finds the idea of returning
to his ordinary life unbearable. Paul had lived
one splendid breath and a losing game in the end,
just as he had referred to the flowers growing
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Polar Bear North Pole
875 words
Saving Polar Bears Polar Bears Saving the White
Beast The Polar Bear males can measure up to nine
feet long, and can weigh 770 - 1430 lbs. The fur
of the Polar Bear covers their entire body except
their nose and pads of their feet. The Polar Bear
(Ursus maritime) is the largest living carnivore
on the planet earth. (National Parks Service). The
polar bear lives in a small place on the top of
the globe called the Arctic Circle. At an average
the polar bears have about five million square
miles of...
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Grocery Store First Person
453 words
Daniel P Yeckley English Comp II Paper # 1
February 25, 2000 I found the story powder very
intriguing. The author kept you enchanted with the
character of his father, yet disenchanted with his
own character. The authors father was a cool
impractical father he drove a sports car, took
risks such as driven through unplowed snow covered
roads and went down hill skin for fun. Unlike my
father who drives a compact car, desert like
during at night let alone in snow and goes antique
shopping for fun. Y...
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Stopping By Woods Woods On A Snowy Evening
1,319 words
Among Robert Frost Robert Frost Among the many
poets that have contributed to the shaping of
American literature, Robert Frost stands as one of
the most prevalent. With his descriptive lines
about nature, in all its beauty and splendor, he
creates scenes within a reader s mind that are
hard to forget. His thriving life, and all that
was a part of it, is the main genetic make-up that
he used in his writings. Frost s love of nature
seems to dominate all other themes found in his
poetry, whether di...
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Brother Sam Is Dead Sam Is Dead Principles
1,357 words
My Brother Sam is Dead was written by James
Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier in 1974.
The action takes place in Redding, Connecticut in
1776 during the Revolutionary War. In this novel,
the main characters are the Meeker family: Life,
Susannah, Tim, and Sam. Once a whole family, war
ripped them apart. The important principles
guiding these people profoundly affected how they
acted in the story and helped determine the
decisions they made throughout the novel. It is
evident that certain pr...
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Iorek Byrnison Amber Spyglass Ice
1,049 words
The Amber Spyglass The polar bear king, Iorek
Byrnison, has entered another world to seek out
his friend Lee Scoresby And some time later, Iorek
Byrnison stepped through the blackened undergrowth
and the heat-split rocks at the edge of a burnt
forest. The sun was glaring through the smoky
haze, but he ignored the heat as he ignored the
charcoal dust that blackened his white fur and the
midges that searched in vain for skin to bite. He
had come a long way, and at one point in his
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Lets The Reader William Shakespeare
491 words
My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun William
Shakespeare s poem, Sonnet 130 has a rhyme scheme
and a rugged tone. It s three quatrains, four-line
stanzas, and couplet, two-line stanza expresses
that It also has a tone to it that signals some
meaning to it. In this sonnet, Sonnet 130, William
Shakespeare talks about a love one, who he
compares to things that are suppose to be
beautiful. His comparison gives the reader a good
idea on what his lover looks like. Her eyes are
nothing like the su...
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Place Where My World Began Place Where My World Life
763 words
Sylvan Where The World Began Modeled after
Margaret Laurence s essay, Where The World Began A
quaint little place it is, that place where the
world began. A place in the middle of nowhere,
unknown to most, treasured only by a few. A place
of quietude, not by any means warm or friendly,
yet quite comfortable. A place where there is an
understanding of independence and unity as well.
It is in fact a road made of packed down stones,
along which there is one main crossroad requiring
a stop sign. A b...
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Utility Vehicle Mini Van
801 words
We see them everywhere these days, on the way to
work, on the highways, parked in every driveway
and hundreds of them by every shopping center.
Sports utility vehicles have given a new meaning
to the word car. When it comes to safety, SUVs
(sports utility vehicle) are by far the most
dangerous vehicles on the road, and the road is
exactly the place they should not be. Sports
utility vehicles are designed for off road
driving. It seems like bigger the body is on a
SUV, the more popular it is; the...
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Woods On A Snowy Evening Lovely Dark And Deep
1,304 words
In Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert
Frost demonstrates a dedicated persons commitment
to life. Despite the hardships and troubles that
life carries, the speaker in this poem comes to
the realization that he must continue living his
life. He makes an important decision that is
brought on in a question, which is triggered by
the beauty of his surroundings. He decides that he
wants to complete the life that he started because
of the many obligations he is responsible for. The
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Force Of Nature Show The Reader
1,698 words
In the poem? Design? , by Robert Frost, the
speaker tries to convey a message of some
protruding evil that occurs in everyday life. The
poem is designed to make the reader see different
signs of small evils in our lives. Then the poet
brings all the information about evil together to
pose his master point, that there is an evil
design that hangs in and is part of our everyday
world. This evil deign is in everything we know,
for it is a force of nature just like many other
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Brother Jack White Men
1,326 words
I shivered, looking toward the street, where up
the alley through the tunneling dark, three
mounted policemen loomed beneath the circular,
snow-sparkling beam of the street lamp, grasping
their horses by their bridles, the heads of both
men and animals bent close, as though plotting;
the leather of saddles and leggings shining. Three
white men and three black horses. Then a car
passed and they showed in full relief, their
shadows flying like dreams across the sparkle of
snow and darkness. And, a...
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Santiago Chile Rugby Players Plane
346 words
This article is a disturbing occurrence of events
that happened when a plane crashed in the Andes
Mountains. The plane was filled with young rugby
players from Uruguay. They were flying form
Montevideo, Uruguay to Santiago Chile, a mere 900
miles away. They experienced turbulence on the
trip and the pilot decided to stop in Mendoza
Argentina for the night. The next day the
turbulence had not improved very much, but the
rugby players taunted the pilot, until he decided
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