Home on the Sierra Madre by Sigfredo R. Iñigo "You forgot to check the traps‚" Father was chuckling‚ shaking his head as he came up to our hut from the meadow. He held between his two fingers a tiny feather-covered skeleton: a quail had been caught and gone unnoticed for days and the ants had picked it to the bone. He was not a big man but he could roam by himself through the woods for days with only a box of matches and a sharpened machete. I was perched on a log on top of an outcrop‚ watching
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SUMMER LOVE By: Carlisle Naudyn Caroro Ice cream on a hot day. Going to the beach. Sleepless nights. Good hair days. Taking a leisure walk along the boulevard. ILC 2013 in Metro Manila. A Hong Kong Disneyland spree. Frolicking under the sun and simply living in that moment—just a few of the things I planned for my summer bucket list. My thoughts were more tangled than the students around me as we gather for our Commencement Exercises. My left eye got badly infected and turned crimson red‚ the
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1. What is a primary source and how is it different from a secondary source? A primary source is a source that is constructed directly by the witnesses or first recorders of events around the time they occur. This entails diaries‚ letters‚ reports‚ photographs‚ artifacts‚ memos‚ newspapers‚ etc. In contrast‚ a secondary source is a source that is constructed by a person or persons subsequent to an event or past happening. These usually fall under the category of books and journal articles. 2.
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My ideal summer holiday After my hard and busy school year my summer holidays began. I felt happy and began to plan a lot of wonderful things to do during my summer vocation. There are many ways to spend our holidays. I like travelling very much. In the old days people had to travel several days‚ weeks and months to get to the place they needed. They either went on foot‚ by coaches driven by horses or on horseback or by boats and ships. Then trains‚ trams‚ cars‚ buses‚ airplanes‚ underground
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September 27‚ 2010 My favorite season by far is summer. The coming of summer brings countless days at the town swimming whole‚ end of school‚ and trips to the beach. Summer time is a time when our family spends a lot of time together. It was the season when we set out to accomplish meeting every cheerleader at the beach. Most important of all this meant a time for us to enjoy ourselves. Summer days at the town swimming whole brings back so many things to my mind. It was where I had first learned to swim
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My 15th Birthday This summer was the best summer ever‚ because it was my 15th birthday. I celebrated on a cruise with 3 of my friends. When I got to the airplane I was very excited. Then I started to watch a movie on the airplane. The movie that I saw was one of my favorites Leap Year. When we landed to Miami‚ Florida I was more excited because I always wanted to go to Miami. When we got there my cousin picked us up on the airport. Then we went to the most famous place to have fun
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The poem Horses by Edwin Muir uses imagery and figurative language to create and associate the the themes such as nature‚ machine‚ power and myth. Edwin Muir uses a variety of language tools such as Paradox‚ simile and metaphor to create a particular effect. He conveys his feelings through the poem and to link to the past. In addition‚ Muir’s use of rhyme scheme with the repetition of words puts emphasis on certain lines which in turn provides development for the tone. The Rhyme scheme for the poem
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Summer to me is the season of fun; the season where kids get to be outside play all day long because the day is illuminated by the sun almost until eight at night. I got to play all day and it was even better when my cousins came over‚ I especially enjoyed this season when I was little. I have four other cousins that are about my age so you can imagine how chaotic it was with six kids from ages six to ten years old being together. As all kids we looked for adventure with our imagination‚ we invented
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Mario Hernandez Period 3 What I did this past summer. This past summer I went paintballing a couple of times with my friends and after that I did almost nothing just work I work at pizza hut. I also went fishing to ports Mansfield we caught about two‚ three fishes we were there then we went back home stopped by McDonalds got some hamburgers went home got some sleep. I did almost nothing this summer because I mostly slept. If any I went to go out to go eat‚ watched one movie at the movies
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"The Horses" is a poem by Edwin Muir. It tells the story of a world ravaged by nuclear war‚ where the few survivors live hopelessly in a desolate reality. Their outlook is changed by the arrival of the horses‚ a relic of the past which lets them rediscover humanity’s bond with nature. "The Horses"‚ as well as being a very beautiful and moving poem‚ has an important message to convey. The poet uses various methods to illustrate this. Throughout the poem‚ there are many biblical
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