earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law’s farm near Portage [Wisconsin]‚ I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions‚ botanizing in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable Tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps‚ and forests of maple‚ basswood‚ ash‚ elm‚ balsam‚ fir‚ pine‚ spruce‚ hemlock‚ rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty‚ climbing the trees‚ reveling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods‚ glorying in the fresh
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leafy plants covered the earth. When these plants died at the bottom of these swamps and lakes ‚they formed something called peat. Then new rock was formed on top of the peat called sedimentary rock. Layers and layers of new earth over the peat have caused it to squeeze the peat because of all the weight. The weight squeezed all the water out of the plants and swamp life. Then you get‚ coal or oil. Because the swamps from
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While reading Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Big Two Hearted River‚” one might think that it is just about a man named Nick Adams returning to Seney‚ to go camping and fishing. It may not be clear to some readers why the town of Seney is burned down or why Hemingway talks about each of Nick’s action in great amount of detail. While first reading the story one might not notice that Hemingway has many symbolic parts‚ so that he can get the true meaning of the story across
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wants to answer. Mrs. Starch is very strict and mean. Instead she calls on Smoke to answer the question‚ who then eats part of Mrs. Starch’s pencil. He then is required to write a 500 word essay. The next day‚ the students go on a trip to Black Vine Swamp. Nick and Marta record something when they hear a sound. A fire then starts and Mrs. Starch goes into the forest to get Libby’s asthma medicine. Mrs. Starch then disappears the next day‚ and some detectives talk to the students. The detectives assume
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consisted of brushing his teeth big green teeth with slug juice‚ and eating human eyeballs as a snack. The swamp was his home and he wanted no one to bother him so he kept signs saying ‘keep out’ which indicated that he liked to be alone. One day many fairy tale creatures invade his swamp because of Lord Farquaad. Shrek is forced to visit Lord Farquaad along with a donkey to ask for his swamp back‚ instead of Lord Farquaad simply giving the property back a quest was given to Shrek. The quest was for
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What will you happen if you travel back in time?In a Sound of Thunder Did Travis and Eckelsgo back to the future. Why? People are hunting dinosaurs and didn’t follow the rules. InBeing Prey‚ Plumwood didn’t follow rules either and was also attacked. In both stories‚ they both went hunting. In the first story‚ they were hunting dinosaurs and in the second story she was hunting crocodiles. One was a long time ago and the other was years ago. ‚ they traveled back sixty million years ago and one guy
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Personality Analysis Shrek is a roughly 30-year-old ogre. His parents sent him away from home at age seven‚ as per ogre tradition. He lives alone in a swamp in the middle of the forest. His swamp was remodeled to mimic a human home‚ complete with outhouse. He has two friends‚ Donkey and Princess Fiona. He also has a variety of acquaintances from numerous fairytales‚ such as Pinocchio‚ Big Bad Wolf‚ and the Gingerbread Man. He is sent on a mission to rescue Princess Fiona in order that
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first stage of the hero’s quest as outlined by Campbell is the ‘Departure’ that typically begins with a "Call to Adventure" in Campbell’s terms. The movie opens with the hero‚ Shrek‚ existing comfortably in his everyday ordinary world. In Shrek’s swamp he enjoys and has everything he needs to get by‚ for example the mud for bathing‚ the slugs for food‚ and a nearby village where he can horrify the people when he gets bored. In the film‚ we see that Shrek’s basic attitude and stance toward life is
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Neuroticism. The movie started with an ugly Ogre with a split personality. He experienced the feeling of anger very easily examples of this was when he saw the fairy tale people in is swamp‚ he got really upset but at the same time agreed to what they were asking him to do. He was yelling at them to leave the swamp. This can also be seems as agreeableness because he was easily convinced to talked to the prince. He scored high on Neurotism at the beginning of the movie because he showed signs of
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that time‚ for soon commerce attacked the swamp and began its usual process of devastation.” This shows that such a beautiful sight was attacked by disasters of nature. Another example Gene used was‚ “Now‚ the Limberlost exists only in ragged spots and patches‚ but so rich was it in the beginning that there is yet a wealth of work for a lifetime remaining to me in these‚ and river thickets.” (Porter‚1912) Gene put this into her piece to show that the Swamp was something very great! The examples Gene
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