“A campsite!” we shouted‚ we all went over to the trailers as my hand got closer to one of the knobs we heard a growling noise. “Where is that coming from?” gina asked as I started walking steadily around back. “Ummm‚ should we go back there?” jenny asked as i peeked over the corner‚ I grabbed a shard of long sharp glass‚ put my sock on the not sharp end and held it like a knife. “RUFF RUFF RUFF GRRRRRRUFF‚” we all flinched at the same time. I jumped sideways ays to get a view of the creature. As
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Thugs In Accient India On a well-worn road through central India‚ Lieutenant Subhani of the Bengal Native Infantry and his three traveling companions were nearing the final leg of their journey. Ordinarily the Lieutenant would have only his pair of loyal orderlies to keep him company as he traveled‚ but today a third man walked alongside hishorse—a stranger who had joined him only that morning. The year was 1812‚ and the pleasant October weather made for an easy trek. Subhani knew these roads
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In this passage from Dalton Trumbo’s novel Johnny Got His Gun‚ the reader learns about the relationship between the young man and his father. Trumbo tells the story in third person limited‚ letting the reader know the thoughts of Johnny‚ the main character. This makes it even easier to analyze the father-son relationship. The seemingly minute‚ yet numerous details recalled by the young man also give the reader insight into how important the time spent with his father was to the son. This passage
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have marred this unique‚ this holy spot . . .". He was certain there would be changes as he slowly descended into detailed reminiscences of the smells of his old bedroom and the "stillness of the cathedral". When White and his son settled into the campsite and as he heard his son sneak out to go to the shore‚ something White used to do‚ he adopted a "dual existence" and had‚ "by simple transposition"‚ become his father and his son was himself as a young boy. The imagery used by White contributes to
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That stories teach us about life is a main idea in the book Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook the Readers From the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron. This main idea connects to a major theme in the book Scat by Carl Hiaasen‚ which is lying for a good cause. Many characters in the book Scat lie for the greater good. All of them lie for different reasons‚ though at first it is not clear why. As the plot progresses‚ the reader finds out that they are all breaking the
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It was a Friday afternoon in May of my freshman year when my Dad met me at the front door. This was odd‚ but I didn’t think much of it at the time since he was supposed to have had a doctor’s appointment that morning. I had been in a good mood walking home since had received an A on one of the hardest global history tests of the year‚ and I was thinking of the fortunes that were coming my way as the grass grew untamed. I said hello to my dad and went to the kitchen to prepare a snack before I went
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the food to Ely at the side of the road gives us a sense of goodness and selflessness in the boy. No matter what situation they get into‚ the boy always tried his best to be a “good guy.” For example‚ when the man and the boy come back to their campsite everything is gone. A thief stole their whole cart causing them to have nothing. They catch the thief and the man threatens him by pointing a flare pistol at him. “Papa please don’t kill the man. The boy was crying” (256). Although the thief had
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The Three Stooges It was a very long year of doing the same thing but different days. As the last weeks of school came to a close it was a blessing to hear that Lexy‚ Chloe‚ and I were allowed to go on our first camping trip. Everything seemed to be falling into place as we were packing the car fool of needed supplies and extra goodies; though I must say it was rather weird that Lexy insisted she must pack the supplies in her car by herself. Chloe and I didn’t have much of a problem because it
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It was three years ago in May‚ and my family decided to set out on a trip to the famous Lake Powell. My Turpin side‚ which is who we went with‚ consists of a fair amount of people: Grandparents‚ uncles‚ aunts‚ and cousins. Lake Powell is a reservoir located on the Colorado River on the border between Utah and Arizona. It was a little over five hundred miles from Snake River to Lake Powell and it took us over nine hours to get there. The drive consisted of my cousins and I sleeping on each others
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regarding the number of attendees. For the third consecutive year of Ultra Europe in Split‚ more than 160 000 people attended the Festival. Concerning the location‚ our guests have different options‚ as they can either camp in the Ultra Beachville Campsite‚ or book an apartment in the surroundings of Split‚ where some shuttle buses are provided‚ facilitating the transportation of our participants. There are indeed some shuttle buses within Split‚ but also in Zagreb‚ where our guests are driven to Split
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