It’s November‚ so that means its deer season. Every year deer season starts on the second weekend of November and last for ten days. I get really excited around August because during this time my family and I start exploring the woods looking for signs of deer. We look for signs like scrapes on trees‚ footprints‚ and tall grass that looks like it has been laid on and flattened. We set salt blocks out around our tree stands and set our cameras out hoping to catch a picture of a big buck. After we
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The Deer of Providencia Journal Response #4 When reading the essay "The Deer of Providencia" I found myself wondering who I felt more sympathy for. The deer or the burned victim? The objective and subjective detailed writing used by the author helped me really put myself in that moment. First‚ with the setting over the river bank near the village watching the deer suffer and struggle to escape from the rope that had captured it
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One of the most surprising times is when my dad and I were sitting there in our deer stand. It seemed like any other morning until all the sudden there it was a huge deer it came out of nowhere. We were trying to just stay silent and still and had to call our friends and tell them not to got out of there stand. The deer was 200 yards from them. They did not have a powerful enough gun so we had to shoot it. Dad and I were out of our stand already‚ my dad gets positioned to shoot‚ then the unreal
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Things Can Change Most Texas natives know that deer hunting is a tradition. However‚ some of us haven’t been on the other side of the scale‚ the hunted. Though hunting can be fun‚ I’ve learned to definitely be prepared for whatever happens. Last year I had my first experience and it was a crazy one. In two short days‚ I went from being the hunter to being hunted. For most Texans‚ hunting is fun‚ however proper preparation is key because one should avoid mistakenly taking an unloaded gun
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The vision quest is a coming-of-age ceremony common to most Aboriginal religions. The seeker of the vision quest‚ who is usually an adolescent male‚ is first purified‚ which involves a confession‚ or at least a desire to atone. This usually occurs at a sweat lodge (Figure 1)‚ which is usually an igloo-shaped structure about five feet high‚ built in about one and half hours from bent willow branches tied together with twine. The structure is then encased in blankets to preclude all light‚ and a maximum
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It’s Okay to be a Deer It is hard for me to admit that I’m afraid. Being a black woman in today’s society‚ I constantly feel the pressure to prove something. The pressure to destigmatize‚ and rise above—to be better than the ill-gotten images depicted of my race and sex. The pressure to carry the entirety of my race and sex wherever I go‚ yet still be an individual. Facing all the pressure to become the model “strong independent black woman‚” I am hesitant to admit I am afraid because fear is seen
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It was sunday‚ the end of deer season. After an unsuccessful morning hunt we were left with one more opportunity. We would have to start hiking a couple hours before dusk until dark. We hopped in the truck and drove slowly‚ our eyes scanning the brush for signs of movement until we reached a rusty yellow gate where only foot traffic was permitted. We continued on foot. Eventually the sun began fading behind the mountain and visibility became lower. My dad told me to wait a fork in the road and he’d
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countless others suffered from disabling injuries and mental instabilities even after returning home. Both The Deer Hunter (1978 Michael Cimino) and Apocalypse Now (1979 Francis Ford Coppola) can be used to provide and insight into the effects of the war on the soldiers that fought in the war‚ but also to those who knew the soldiers and remained in the United States during the war. In short The Deer Hunter is a film about men from a working-class steel town that are about to be shipped off to Vietnam with
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When Comparing Flannery O’Connor’s short story‚ “The Lame Shall Enter First” and James Baldwin’s short story‚ “Sonny’s Blues” many similarities and differences come to mind. In both O’Connor and Baldwin’s short story’s they urge the reader to consider what the lack of fulfillment can do to people’s everyday lives. However‚ Baldwin addresses the theme of growing up in neglected households while O’Connor relates to the feeling of overall loneliness when it comes to home life. One of the first things
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Although many of us wouldn’t question the treatment of asylum seekers; Paris gave voice to those who couldn’t. Form past experiences‚ haven’t we all had those times when we want to stand up for something but we just can’t for some reason? In September he implored the Turnbull government to remove asylum seekers from Nauru and Manus Island‚ or face the "high likelihood" that many more would attempt to harm themselves. In doing this heroic
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