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Civil War Battle Field
479 words
I ASK YOU LEAV MY NAME SOME WHERE ON IT! ! USE THS
CAUS I LOOK ALL OVEAND FUND IT NO WHERE SO I HAD
TO DO IT! ! Across Five April's by Irene Hunt is
about how the civil war tears apart a family
during the hard times of the civil war. The book
Follows the life of Jethro Creighton, a young farm
boy in rural Illinois as he grows from a protected
and provided for nine year old, to a educated and
responsible young adult during the chaos of the
civil war. In the beginning of the book Jethro has
a roma...
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Lord Of The Flies Reader Realizes
1,170 words
Lord of the Flies, is the story of a group of boys
of different backgrounds who are stranded on an
unknown island when their plane crashes. As the
boys try to formulate a plan to get rescued, they
begin to separate, and a band of savage tribal
hunters are formed. Eventually the boys almost
entirely shake off the civilization of the world
they once knew. When all the confusion of
behaviour leads them to a manhunt the reader
realizes the sudden decay of law and order and
loss of civilization when ...
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Protecting Our Lands Valuable Purpose In Keeping Balance Animals
831 words
As a woman and animal lover, I could understand
Joy William's feelings and motives in The Killing
Game. Ms. William's believe that hunting or
killing of animals is "murder, murder, murder." In
this essay she states point blank that she is
completely against hunting of any kind and for any
reason. I can sympathize with her love and
appreciation of animals, as I am a true animal
lover and enthusiast. I am also, however, a
rancher who Ms. William's ridiculed in her essay.
I firmly believe in huntin...
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Hunting And Gathering Modern Societies
1,048 words
As we look for a new way to live our lives, we
constantly look back to remind ourselves of the
way things used to be. Western culture as we know
it today, did not start off as it is now, and it
certainly is not going to remain the same for very
long. Change has always seemed to be the human
beings way of life. We strive to find something
different and more effective. As we look onto the
Pre Modern, Modern, and Post Modern societies we
can see that there have been drastic changes
throughout the a...
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Cave Paintings Early Man
1,198 words
Primitive Man and Civilized Man are Alike in Many
Areas An Analogy Early civilizations are credited
with introducing government, art, and religion,
among other things to the modern world. Does the
credit actually belong to the people who created
these early civilizations or to those that came
before? The final product may be considered
greater and certainly more polished than the
product created by early man. All things found in
an ancient civilization were actually brought to
them by the collec...
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East Coast West Coast
778 words
Life on the east coast of America was very
different than life on the west coast. Although it
was the eastern settlers that moved west, the new
conditions caused the their lives to change
immensely. The east coast was more densely
populated than the west. The personalities of each
set of settlers was very different. The
geographical variation changed the living
conditions of the Americans. The wealth of the
Americans also changed the living conditions. The
east coast has been populated since the...
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Witch Hunt Scarlet Letter
670 words
American literature often examines people and
motives. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The
Scarlet Letter, and in Aruthur Millers modern
dramatic masterpiece, The Crucible, people and
motives often depict patters of Puritans
struggling for life during a shaky time. Two main
characters from both pieces of works share the
traits of a struggling Puritan as adulators. Even
tough Hester and Abigail have similar traits,
their sins differ dramatically and were punished
differently. Hester Prynne is a w...
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Billions Of Dollars One Of The Men
1,130 words
On January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon was sworn in as
the thirty-seventh president of the United States.
Nixon's vice-president was Spiro T. Agnew. His
work as president started weeks earlier, before he
even took office. Those weeks were spent choosing
the people who would be in his cabinet. In 1969,
one of the most urgent businesses facing him was
finding a way to end the Vietnam War without
allowing the government of South Vietnam to be
defeated by Communists. Nixon decided to drop
bombs on Cambo...
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Life Form Holy Contact Man
560 words
We think of ourselves as Knights of the Holy
Contact. This is a lie... we need only mirrors.
Man has always tried to create or search for
another life form, whether this life forms
intelligence is less than, equal to, or greater
than our own intelligence, hence the Knights of
holy Contact. We search as the Knights of the
Round Table did for the Holy Grail. Yet in stories
and movies of today the first thing that happens
when man discovers an intelligent or creates a
being, they assume the worst w...
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Helen Hunt Jackson Emily Dickinson
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... in hymn writing, especially iambic tetrameter
(eight syllables per line, with every second
syllable being stressed). She frequently employed
off rhymes. Examples of off rhymes include ocean
with noon and seam with swim in the lines "Than
Oars divide the Ocean, / Too silver for a seam /
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon / Leap,
plushness as they swim" from the poem "A Bird came
down the Walk. " Dickinson used common language in
startling ways; a strategy called de
familiarization. This techni...
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Deer Hunting Public Land
1,170 words
Imagine yourself perched twenty feet up in a tree
at six oclock in the morning in the middle of
December. Completely exhausted from the mile hike
to your stand, you start to feel the effects of
the freezing weather as your body begins to cool
down. Your fingers and toes feel like they are
going to break off as you wiggle them, desperately
trying to regain feeling. Does this seem like an
enjoyable leisure sport? Whitetail deer hunting is
a very popular winter sport in the south and in
many other ...
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American Heroes John Wayne Vs Billy The Kid
559 words
John Wayne was viewed as the embodiment of
Americas spirit. He and the fictitious land he
roamed is, says Louis Owens, The greatest dream of
all, (La Puerta 109). The man was always trying to
correct some wrong, avenge a moral crime, save a
damsel in distress, or capture the bad guy. He
followed his own path, made his own rules, strove
for personal justice, and always came out on top
(and usually got the girl). Women wanted him; men
wanted to be him. In Americas John Wayne heyday,
there was not ...
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Twenty Six Mother Died
490 words
John Keats was one of the greatest poets of the
Romantic Era. He wrote poetry of great sensual
beauty and had a unique passion for details. In
his lifetime he was not recognized with the senior
poets. He didnt receive the respect he deserved.
He didnt fit into the respected group because of
his age, nor in the younger group because he was
neither a lord nor in the upper class. He was in
the middle class and at that time people were
treated differently because of their social
status. John Keats w...
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Native Americans American Indians
1,156 words
Native American religion penetrated every aspect
of their culture. This makes it difficult for a
predominantly white, European, secular society to
interpret Native Indian spirituality. There is no
single Native American religion, but rather as
many religions as there are Indian peoples.
Religion and ritual were a function of all
activity: from the food quest and other
survival-related work to technology, social and
political organization, warfare and art. Religion
and magic were fused with pract...
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State Of Florida Alligator Farming Alligators
667 words
The American Alligator is an amazing reptile,
having survived almost unchanged since the time of
the dinosaurs. Having been hunted almost for
extinction, this reptile has made an amazing
comeback in recent years. Inhabiting almost every
body of water in Florida. American alligator are
not considered endangered species, but these harsh
looking creatures are threatened. There are two
kinds of species of alligators. The American
alligator and the Chinese alligator. Many people
have a hard time tell...
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Struggle For Power Stay Alive
787 words
In the Lord of the Flies William Golding has a
group of schoolboys crash on an island and become
barbaric. The reason why the boys turn wild is
because of their primal instinct to hurt others.
This behavior is inherited from early ancestors
killing to stay alive. Mans tendency towards
violence, how people take sides and divide into
groups, and the struggle for power are three ways
mans behavior will generally occur. Each of these
suggests that violence is a key factor to getting
what they want. ...
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Explored My Body Whisper In My Ear Beast
2,035 words
... ld feel privileged that I have selected him to
be my chosen one. No one must have him except me.
I will get his phone number from his cousin if he
does not show up. Tonight will not pass without my
arms around his gentle body. GRIEVING CHILD I did
not want to go, but my mother thought it would
help me. She thought it would help me get over my
fathers death. I was scared to tell her the truth.
How I was scared of him and the way he looked at
me. I did not want him to touch me this time. I
hat...
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Dogs Billy Dan
282 words
This book is about a young boy living in the great
bottoms of Cherokee country with his mother,
father, three sisters and his two dogs, Old Dan
and Little Ann. Dan is a large dog with plain
brute force, Ann is the one with intelligence, and
Billy is the one with the heart to train them.
Together they made an unbeatable hunting team.
Billy saved up for the two dogs through hard work,
sweat and a little help from his grandpa. After a
gruelling two years of saving he finally gets the
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The Salem Witch Trials A Research
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Why do you hurt these children? I do not hurt
them. I scorn it. Have you made no contract with
the devil? No! Mr. John Hawthorn, a Judge involved
in the witchcraft case of Sarah Good, then asked
all of the afflicted children to look upon her and
see if this was the person that had hurt them so.
They all gazed at Goody Good and said that this
was the person that tormented them presently they
were all tormented. Puritanical beliefs had all of
Salem truly believing that witches rode on
broomsticks ...
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Lord Of The Flies Signal Fire
921 words
Sigmund Freud divided the human psyche into three
parts: the ego, the superego and the id; balance
between the three was deemed essential for mental
health. Over the course of Lord of the Flies,
Ralph, Piggy and Jack increasingly personify the
attitudes, ideals and drives of the ego, superego
and id, respectively. The interactions between the
boys at the beginning of the novel are different
from those of the middle and end; the loss of
balance between the boys is an important theme in
the novel,...
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