English III (2013) (S2453406) Sierra Turner Points possible: 20 Date: ____________ This is your journal activity. Complete the prewriting steps below before moving on to the journal response. Read and Paraphrase Read the text below from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday: Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass‚ popping up like corn to sting the flesh‚ and tortoises crawl about on the red earth‚ going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the
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ways. In “On the Rainy River”‚ Tim writes about facing the decision to fight in a war he didn’t believe in or flee to canada. In “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim writes about what he believes a true war story is all about. In “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiley tells a story about a woman who gets sent to Vietnam on request of her boyfriend‚ a medic in the war. Each of these stories has instances where there is no right or wrong answer in different ways. “On the Rainy River” deals with
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"The Way to Rainy Mountain" A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north and west of the Wichita Range. For many people‚ the Kiowas‚ it is an old landmark‚ and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The Hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic winds arise in the spring‚ and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown‚ and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks‚ linear groves of hickory
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Funny things kids can do: Kids are like little angels who always do funny and naughty things. They make funny faces that make everyone laugh. For example:one day a kid went to zoo with his father. The kid started to tease a monkey. He wanted him to copy him but when it did not worked out the kid hit the monkey with a banana and was going away when the monkey grabbed his pants through the cage and pulled him back. The kid tried to run away. He was successful in running away but unfortunately he lost
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The "Way" To Rainy Mountain Q: In many ways‚ Momaday is writing a memoir of a people‚ the Kiowas‚ not just himself or his grandmother. How does he use events from his own life and his grandmother’s life as a lens through which he can talk about the Kiowas? Momaday star his book by familiarizing the reader with facts about Kiowas’s past. Momaday tell of how the Kiowa migrated in the early 18th century. In the course of that long migration (the Kiowa) had come of age as a people. They had conceived
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Descriptive Analysis Paper Ashley Baraan Frederic Edwin Church (1822-1900) October 2012 Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866) Art 118 Rainy Seasons in the Tropics‚ (oil on canvas) was painted by an amazingly talented artist‚ Frederic Edwin Church. Most of his paintings consisted of the nature‚ such as forests‚ the sea and sky. Rainy Seasons in the Tropics happens to be my favorite one by far. It is currently displayed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco‚ California
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Memories are what every human has experienced in the past‚ whether tragic‚ funny‚ shocking‚ and so on. We all have one memory in which it can’t be effaced from our lives. When I ask myself what memory can’t be relinquished from my mind only one comes into my understanding. I can consider my memory out of all the categories that I mentioned funny. The theory that I have developed evaluating this memory‚ I could say that funny memories or memories in general take place when you least expect it. This
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secret.’ ’I don’t know about that‚’ answered a blonde woman guest. ’I have kept my age a secret since I was twenty-one.’ ’You’ll let it out some day‚’ the man insisted. ’I hardly think so!’ responded the blonde lady. ’When a woman has kept a secret for twenty-seven years‚ she can keep it What A Gesture Two men were playing a round of golf one day. Just as they were about to start one of the holes‚ a funeral procession went by on the road beside the course. One of the golfers‚ Clyde‚ takes
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COMMENTARY: Poems I?d read over on any rainy day by Nikki Rivera Gomez / MindaNews Monday‚ 02 July 2007 23:01 It was the 1950s—the decade when a pompous West‚ emerging victorious from a world war that killed over 57 million people‚ was beginning to prance and preen like a peacock. Almost overnight‚ the US economy boomed with those big-finned Chryslers‚ Fords‚ and Buicks. Holiday Inn began its worldwide chain‚ as did the now ubiquitous McDonalds. I was barely a year old when Elvis‚ James
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CELIA CRUZ Cruz was born on the date of October 21‚ 1925 in Havana‚ Cuba. She was born as Ursula Hilaria Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso to the parents of Catalina Alfonso and Simon Cruz. Her trademark quote was “azucar” meaning sugar in the Spanish language. She was the first female salsa mega-star and today she’s known as the Queen of Salsa. She was raised in the neighborhood of Santo Suarez along with 14 other siblings. She was the second of 4 children. Life in this neighborhood was very brutal and
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