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    Gary Larson is the creator of the enormously popular cartoon The Far Side. The cartoons unique style and creative style has helped it to become one of the most recognizable and popular cartoons of all time. Gary Larson was born August 14th 1950 in University Place‚ Washington (near Tacoma‚ WA) to Verne and Doris Larson. As a child he enjoyed drawing and biology as well as playing the guitar. He graduated from Curtis Senior High School and then attended Washington State University where he earned

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    A Cry in the Wild by Gary Paulsen Elements of Action/Adventure book Gary Paulsen’s life experiences help him write his action/adventure stories because of living in the wild with all the wild animals. This could help him make the stories more interesting. It helps him know what they act like. Paulsen can go more in depth with his stories details. Some examples of this are in A Cry in the Wild and Wood Song where the bears are the main problem. He could go into great detail with the details on

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    I believe I deserve to be selected for this scholarship because as a hard working student‚ I commit myself to effectively take advantage of the opportunity this scholarship will provide me. Besides being a student who persistently works hard academically‚ I also constantly try to improve my own community’s quality of life by doing volunteer work. Paying for college is difficult‚ especially in a family where the financial status is not very high. My father is the only one working and bringing home

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    Speak Your Mind‚ Even if the Voice Shakes To make a difference in life‚ you have to have courage. Most people have the ideas of making a difference‚ but don’t have the courage to do anything about it. In the story NightJohn by Gary Paulsen‚ NightJohn shows us how to have courage‚ when everyone else would turn the other way. Foremost‚ NightJohn had escaped from slavery already‚ but came back to teach slaves how to read and write (page 55). NightJohn could’ve just stayed in the North where it was

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    Gary paulsen Alejandro Carrillo Gary paulsen born minneapolis minnesota on May 17‚ 1939-present in his lifetime he became known as an author‚ but it wasn’t always this way. Gary Paulsen as a child lived with his grandmother until age seven Paulsen then went to live with his parents in Manila‚ Philippines. While living with his parents who continued to argue‚ Paulsen was frustrated and decided to leave at age 14 working odd jobs at a young age Gary in his early years worked odd jobs like;

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    Gary Ridgway was born on February 18th 1949 in Salt Lake City‚ Utah. He was born to his mother Mary Steinman and father Thomas Ridgway. Gary was raised in McMicken Heights‚ Washington and had an abnormal childhood overshadowed by a bad and unpleasant relationship with his mother. Gary was a bed-wetter and was believed to be very unintelligent with a very low IQ. He had trouble in school with poor grades. Gary first attempted homicide in around 1966 at the age of sixteen years old by luring a six

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    an immigrant to avoid such obstacles; however‚ different people may adapt at a different rate. In my case‚ I interviewed my father to which he mentioned that adapting to American Culture was not as strenuous as it seemed. His name is Narciso Cesar Soto and he immigrated at the age of 14 from Morelia‚ Michoacán to Santa Monica‚ California. His birthday is on the 29th of October; however‚ his sister in law‚ Rosa Santander‚ changed it accidently to the 31st of October on his American birth certificate

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    “Canyons” by Gary Paulsen is a fast-paced adventure that should be read by all action book lovers. “Canyons” takes place in the hot and dry El Paso‚ Texas near Mount Franklin and up near the jagged rocks that make up Dog Canyon. Brennan is a fourteen year old boy that nearly failed biology‚ runs for fun‚ works for a cold hearted man‚ and lives with a mother too poor to take care of him and is desperate for love. Brennan - Because of the lack of money at home‚ Brennan works for a man mowing grass

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    There are many events that occur within chapters 6‚ 7‚ & “Words” in Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen. To start‚ on the second night after he got his two middle toes cut off‚ John taught Sarny “H”. After he tells Sarny how to pronounce letters and has a flirtatious conversation with Mammy‚ he breaks the news that he is planning on escaping from the plantation for a short period of time. Sarny thought that this was stupid‚ because she thought that the dogs would be able to catch up to him‚ but Nightjohn had

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    "The Worm"‚ it says in stanza 4‚ "I didn’t like the taste a bit‚ so I didn’t swallow it." Instead of saying‚ I didn’t like the worm so I spit it out‚ or something like that which would sound blander than what the author really used. And in hatchet Gary Paulsen used figure of speech to describe the feeling of eating a turtle egg. On page 95 it states it had are really oily and greasy feeling when it passed down his throat. The author used the descriptive words‚ greasy and oily because those taste

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