First Time Tubing... My heart beats fast like it’s in a race. It’s the start of Summer and the Sun is shining right on my face as the Water is hitting me like tiny rock pebbles sliding across my cheeks. It’s been awhile since me and my sister‚ Lane‚ went tubing on Gun Lake. After we started to speed up‚The Tube jerked every witch way and skidded across the dark blue sparkly water and the water winced at me. I started to feel the fun‚ happy emotions inside of me.I remember when I was little
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Seeing by Annie Dillard was about how Dillard wanted to justify on how people see and recognize the world. Dillard suggests that our observations help us look deeper and look past anything insignificant in your life. Seeing is grateful because we get to see marbles things everyday. Everyday that passes by I see more beautiful things. For example‚ the sky is so clear without any clouds and tress moving in slow motion. Dillard does tent to use examples of dark and light imagery to help us feel amazed
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and the historical study of the Bible‚ drew other writers away from the immemorial subjects of literature into considerations of problems of faith and truth.<br><br><b>Nonfiction </b><br>The historian Thomas Babington Macaulay‚ in his History of England (5 volumes‚ 1848-1861) and even more in his Critical and Historical Essays (1843)‚ expressed the complacency of the English middle classes over their new prosperity and growing political power. The clarity and balance of Macaulay’s style‚ which reflects
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When I was eight years old‚ I peered through a telescope for the first time in my life. It was a small device‚ no more than two metres long‚ and yet it let me glimpse a brilliant view of Jupiter: it was the size of a marble‚ magnificently striated in hues of brown‚ red and orange. Then‚ when I was 13‚ I went to the Birla Planetarium in Hyderabad‚ where I revisited my five-year old fascination with Jupiter as I sat spellbound in the arena as a cosmic dance played out in the canvas stretched above
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On seeing the 100% Perfect girl One Beautiful April Morning Form Murakami adopts a fairytale style into the recalling of the male protagonists imaginary pick up attempt‚ this shows his ideals of romance are fantasy and unattainable in reality. The structure of the internal story about the lovers creates juxtaposition with the cold reality of the rest of the story which he wishes to detach himself from‚ this separation of fantasy and reality shows his loneliness. Structure In the story of
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M A R K T WA I N Two Ways of Seeing a River (1883) This passage is excerpted from Mark Twain’s 1883 book Life on the Mississippi‚ in which he shares his experiences as a river steamboat pilot and explores the many facets of the great river. As you read‚ consider his masterful use of language as he reflects on his changing relationship with the river. Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I
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breathtaking world we live in. Throughout “Seeing”‚ Annie Dillard described in exquisite detail the world around her‚ from the creek near her house to the reactions of people newly given with their sight‚ she tells us what is missed by living in our own minds. Dillard states‚ “With the naked eye I can see two million light-years to the Andromeda galaxy” (7). Humans have the capacity to observe stars millions of miles away‚ yet how many actually take the time
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Perception: Seeing is Believing - UFOs Since the times when the earth was believed to be a flat object‚ man has had a lust and curiosity about space and the bodies that exist in it. Early astronomers trying to grasp the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe would study the patterns of the stars and planets to try to put this massive puzzle together. In their studies history has recorded sightings of objects that didn’t hold to any pattern or set movement supposedly proved to be correct
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compressed version of facts from several conversations. If you were to consider disapproval or maybe a guilt trip mixed into the conversation then this may make it more relatable to modern day. Mothers of any time period disapprove of something that their daughters are or are not doing all the time. Certain styles that come in to fashion today for a daughter may have been completely unacceptable for their mothers when they were growing up. Perhaps the girl within this story had done something that
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pities doctors because he thinks they have lost the eye for beauty when examining a maiden. He wonders if the doctors realize that they have lost something besides gaining the knowledge and skills of their trade. Similarly‚ the author had stated in the first paragraph that he had lost something. To my understanding‚ that ‘something’ must be his ability to be in awe and to be dumbfounded by the magnificent scene of the sunset painted by Mother Nature herself. His knowledge and experience had stolen his
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