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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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Representations Of Male Power
1,652 wordsTraditionally media representations of men have always involved power and other characteristics commonly associated with males and masculinity. In the past, media texts have generally constructed men to conform to specific ideals understood by society regarding masculinity and the idyllic male qualities. These principles in todays society describe what is known as dominant masculinity. While it is common for modern society to construct texts reflecting dominant masculine values, new representati...
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Mountain Lion Red Fern
1,209 wordsBilly Colman The protagonist of Where the Red Fern Grows. At the start of the novel he is ten years old. He has three younger sisters. He is filled with "puppy love" -- he wants a dog badly. He is a brave boy, full of determination and grit. Papa Billy's papa is a good, honest farmer. He is poor, but is working hard so his family can move to the city. Once Billy buys his hounds, he starts to treat Billy like a man Grandfather Billy's grandfather runs a general store and a small mill. His store i...
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Addison Wesley Longman Exact Opposite
2,853 wordsDrummer is a story about a boy who is trying to be normal in a society full of people who like big, strong, athletic people. The people are looked at as flawless, or else they cant anything wrong. Billy is the exact opposite of what the community accepts. We are very sympathetic toward Billy in Vanderhaghe's Drummer because he lives in the shadow of his older brother Gene, Billy's dad wont let him do what he wants, and he takes the blame for getting Nancy home late when it was actually Genes fau...
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World War Ii Kilgore Trout
8,561 wordsTHE NOVEL THE PLOT Billy Pilgrim, like Kurt Vonnegut, was an American soldier in Europe in the last year of World War II. If you come to know a combat veteran well- a veteran of that war, of the Korean War, or of the war in Vietnam- you will almost always find that his war experience was the single most important event in his life. The sights and scars of war remain with the soldier for the rest of his days, and his memories of death and killing help to shape whatever future career he may make. ...
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