Jack London‚ a person who witnessed the aftermath of the earthquake‚ glanced over the ravaged ‘imperial city’ of San Francisco using photographs‚ along with its renowned citizens‚ who were distraught about their personal belongings being burned. In his article‚ “The Story Of An Eyewitness”‚ London argues that despite the tragic event that occurred‚ the citizens turned heroic due to maintaining their serenity‚ as well as working with one another to survive‚ regardless of their social status or ethnicity
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Scott Russel Sanders’s Buckeye is a memoir‚ in which the author reminisces about his late father. He fondly recalls his father’s attachment to buckeyes‚ believing that it would help him overcome arthritis. He highlights his love for his father and the land he once lived on by using vivid sensory details. Throughout the story‚ Sanders describes events and surroundings with specific details that bring readers into the story‚ allowing them to watch it unfold as if they were there with the author. His
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The story is told of a man who jammed a pike into a drill hole filled with gunpowder causing an explosion that sent a pike through his head‚ but too much surprise‚ he lived. The man’s name was Phineas Gage and he was the railroad foreman at the time of the incident. The explosion sent the pike firing back at him impaling his forehead leaving permanent damage mentally and physically. Just before he slammed the pike in the drill hole‚ he turned his head to check on the other men that were loading large
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The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service is an incredible example of a narrative ballad. It tells it’s story through internal and external rhyming couplets Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee‚ where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam ’round the Pole‚ God only knows. (Service) with a cadence which holds true through out the whole poem (Team‚ Shmoop Editorial). Service’s application of literary devices like alliteration enhances the flow of the poem;
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Buck was a better leader of the dog pack than Spitz because he was able to bring out the best in his fellow dogs as well as return peace to the pack. In the Call of the Wild Buck feuded with Spitz from the first day he joined the dog pack‚ his main problem with Spitz started after Spitz laughed when Curly was brutally attacked by a large group of huskies. Throughout the book both Buck and Spitz have been open with how much they dislike the other‚ however it was Spitz who would constantly act on
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In America‚ people hunt for bears‚ but in Russia‚ Putin bears hunt you. For two weeks‚ a team of meteorologists found themselves trapped after polar bears had them surrounded. PUTIN’S ARMY OF POLAR BEARS INVADE NORTHERN RUSSIA According to a report from NBC News‚ the five meteorologists were able to leave their remote weather station after two weeks. Allegedly‚ the men chased away the bears. During the two weeks‚ the team shacked up in their facility on the Izvestiy TSIK Islands‚ 2‚800 miles northeast
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What kind of films do you like? Most people don’t care about what they watch. It’s important because people can learn more from poetic films. Japanese films are more poetic and better made than other films‚ from how war affects others‚ how the characters change‚ and the tough issues that are involved. For example‚ Japan’s films involved the effects of war‚ and social acceptance (Nastasi). In the films Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind‚ and Princess Mononoke‚ the characters are dealing with the
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At 29‚000 feet‚ Mt. Everest isn’t a hospitable place to be for any living creature. The cold icy winds tearing through the bodies‚ extremely cold temperatures unbearable to anything alive are making it extremely tough to keep moving forward. Clouds thundering and the mountain freezing everything to death. Ground just beneath the fresh snow is similar to a knight’s armour. Almost impenetrable like the mountain is protecting itself‚ but his sharp ice axe is shedding it into pieces wherever it hits
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Jack London is one of the greatest American authors of all time‚ and more specifically one of the greatest Regionalism literature. He short story “To Build a Fire” displays many of the characteristics of this subgenre of Realism. There is a strong emphasis on the harshness of nature to man and how man must fight to survive and the main character is of a lower class. Also there is a simple language that is realistic to the characters and setting. These characteristics combine to create one of the
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In White Fang‚ the novel starts out with two men‚ Bill and Henry‚ crossing Alaska to head south with sled dogs. They where on this journey because they find themselves needing to burry the body of Lord Albert. During this journey‚ they crossed paths with a famished pack of wolves whose only objective was to eat. Day-by-day‚ one of Bill and Henry’s sled dogs was killed by being attracted by the she-wolf. The she-wolf would catch eyes with one of the sled dogs and as the dog would run out of camp to
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