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Small White Birds Snow White Birds Snow Poem
1,325 words... ings of storm. Nights I sat at the kitchen door listening out into the darkness until finally spring came, and everything transcended. As one by one the ponds opened, tool the white ice painfully into their dark beliefs, I began to listen to them shore-slapping and rock-leaping into the growl of creeks, and then of course the ocean, far off, pouring everything, ever and over, from jar to enormous jar. You'd think it would stop somewhere, but next it was rocks flicking their silver tongues al...
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The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
638 wordsIn the novel The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman, there were many different stories about Jane Pittman's life. In the movie there were not as many stories as the novel, but they were still quite interesting. The novel and the movie had many similarities and differences. Some of the similarities were very noticeable. Just from the beginning, in both the movie and the novel, Ned carried the two rocks that made the fire for Jane and Ned. Ned then moves away and writes Jane, but the letter doesn'...
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839 wordsHeathcliff and Cathy of Wuthering Heights The setting and descriptions of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange that Emily Bront? uses throughout her novel, Wuthering Heights, helps to set the mood for describing Heathcliff and Cathy. The cold, muddy, and barren moors separate the two households. Each house stands alone, in the midst of the dreary land, but the atmospheres of the two estates are quite different. This difference helps explain the personalities and bond of Cathy and Heathcliff....
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Knocked Unconscious Dragon Smaug
1,350 wordsThe story begins with Bilbo Baggins a hobbit, enjoying a pipe after breakfast. Bilbo is middle-aged, and resides in a clean warm burrow in the ground and leads a fairly quite and normal life. One morning Gandalf, a mystical wizard stops by to chat with Bilbo. Gandalf tells Bilbo that he is looking for someone to go on an adventure with him. Bilbo is tempted with the idea of going on a adventure, but declines in the end. After Bilbo's decision Gandalf decides to leave but not before Bilbo invites...
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Concentration Camps Haven Yale
1,224 wordsThe Holocaust was a devastating event. It will be remembered forever. Statistics are important to learn just how many people perished as result of the Holocaust. But perhaps more shocking than statistics, are the words said by people who experienced the Holocaust first hand. It takes a certain person to survive through this tragic experience. To fully understand what qualities it takes to survive life through concentration camps, it is necessary to know what goes on in these concentration camps....
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Lived Happily Genetic Variation
1,028 wordsLizards to Snakes Many millions of years the planet was dominated by lizards great and small. It was a place ruled by the laws of natural selection where the only way to survive was to be able to defend yourself with what you had. It was a constant struggle for food, shelter, and supremacy. It was about survival of the fittest, because only if you were best suited to your environment would you have a chance at living to reproduce. Sometimes adapting to ones environment could create a whole new s...
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Leonardo Mona Lisa
1,238 wordsGeniuses come few and far between in history. Hippocrates came in the late BC period. Einstein came in the late 1800 s-early 1900 s. Leonardo came in between the two of them, but is not recognized as well as they are. He was a brilliant human being. He was a master in the fields of painting, designing, engineering, and science. Most people know him merely as an artist, and some know him as an inventor, but not too many people know him for what he really was. This is because his life and his acco...
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O F Lake Erie
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Adaptations That The Snow Leopard Adaptations That The Snow Leopards
675 wordsDescriptive and Behavioral Aspects of Snow Leopards The Snow Leopard is an endangered species, and lives among many other species in Asia. These leopards are medium sized cats and usually, males weight more than females. The average male weighs anywhere from 100 - 120 lbs. ; whereas, the average female weighs 75 - 90 lbs. They do not belong to the same genus as larger cats because they lack the ability to roar. Leopards do not have the fibro-elastic tissues in the throat that allow other cats to...
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Scarlet Letter Hester Rest Of The World
784 wordsSimilarities in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest is a short story bye Nathaniel Hawthorne that presents deadly irony. Residing in a notch in the mountains of New Hampshire, a cottage sits on the side of a steep mountain. In the house lives a family whose contacts with the rest of the world are from the travelers that pass by. One night when the family was huddled by the fire, a traveler stopped by. The family was happy to have a guest and the guest was happy to have people to...
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Piggy Glasses William Golding
681 wordsSavagery has existed inside of everyone for all of man existence. Though as time has progressed and people have become more civilized the desire to kill mitigates to nothing more than entertainment. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies he proves that man can quickly revert to a savage life style if placed into a hostile environment. Although Roger may be quiet and civilized acting when he arrives on the island he quickly becomes one of the most malicious behaving boys on the island. His first ...
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Quot And Quot Ten Thousand
728 wordsRed Rose is a poem written by Robert Burns, during 1796, the year of his death. The poem consists of four stanzas; each one four lines long. The first stanza has an exact rhyme at the end of the second and fourth lines June and tune. The repetition of " O, my love" in the first stanza conjures up the idea that his love is different from other men. His woman is so special to him that she reminds him of a red, red rose, not just a " plain" red rose. He uses two different simile...
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Theory Of Evolution Food Chain
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Nelson Mandela Early Sixties
821 wordsUse Your Head Not Your Heart Imagine people who have done nothing wrong, get killed just because of their race. This is what happened in South Africa, between black South Africans and white South Africans and is delineated in the film, Sarafina. In this movie, a school in a black-dominated town called Soweto, tried to revolt against the stronger armies of the whites in the town, because of the racism or as they call it in South Africa, apartheid. In the middle of this whole situation was the pri...
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798 wordsStoned on the Riviera Mick Jagger and Keith Richards by Dominique Tarl? Exile Dominique Tarl&execute; Genesis Publications? 245, pp 248 Early 1971 found the Rolling Stones still sucking on the sour, sticky end of the Sixties. Following the abdication of the Beatles, they were now rocks reigning monarchs, but after the death of Brian Jones (and those of Joplin and Hendrix), and in the aftermath of their personal Apocalypse Now at Altamont, the fancies of the previous decade looked suddenly remote...
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History Of Time Carbon Dioxide
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1,049 wordsThe 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 journey, he had ...
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Cold Dark Deep Cold Dark Deep And Absolutely Water
1,662 wordsThe The Shampoo Insomnia The moon in the bureau mirror looks out a million miles (and perhaps with pride, at herself, but she never, never smiles) far and away beyond sleep, or perhaps shes a daytime sleeper. By the universe deserted, shed tell it to go to hell, and shed find body of water, or a mirror, on which to dwell. So wrap up care in a cobweb and drop it down the well into that world inverted where left is always right, where the shadows are really the body, where we stay awake all night,...
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Lava Flow Complex Dome And Lava Flow Complex Augustine
613 wordsSt. Augustine Volcano Augustine Volcano is the most frequently active and the youngest of the Cook Inlet volcanoes. Detterman considered Augustine to be entirely Quaternary and Johnston concluded that volcanism at Augustine began during the late Pleistocene Moosehorn glacial advance 19, 000 - 15, 500 IBP. Since its discovery by Captain James Cook in 1778, Augustine Volcano has had seven historical eruptions. 1883, 1935, 1979, 1985, 1986, and 1987. Yount and others, 1987. The activity in 1908, re...
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