Perhaps the most significant myth in American culture is that of the American frontier. Its symbolic meaning created such moral‚ ethical‚ and emotional values in American that it paved the way for a country that would grow from an East Coast settlement‚ to a coast-to-coast nation of progress. One of the most famous stories in frontier mythology is that of Paul Bunyan. Although Bunyan’s stories didn’t appear on paper until the early twentieth century‚ his stories were passed down by word of mouth
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Earth‚ to complete its perfectness. One day God had this big feeling that he needed to create something for Earth and his people. But what could it be? Everything was already so perfect. So God asked and angel named Jack to go down to Earth and figure out what was missing. Jack went down and searched and searched‚ he disguised himself as a human and asked many children and adults‚ “If you could add something to our earth‚ what would it be?” everybody’s answers were the same. They all said that there
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start. They were graded I to x (1-10)‚ there were going to be 6 tasks. The first task was to seek out he dangerous animal in the woods in less than 20 minutes. Diana of course got the complete 10 points because she saw the animal in10 seconds. The next task was to dress up Apollo with the best clothing and Venus got the 10 points. The table score was: DIANA VENUS 10 seeking out an animal 4 seeking out an animal 5 dressing Apollo 10 dressing up Apollo 10 archery 9 archery 6 changing into something
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and strange voices echoing in my head. My headed was bottled by all the blurriness and I was waiting to finally wake up. From the little knowledge I had left‚ I knew if I could find a bathroom I would be to splash water on my face to help snap me out of the large fog that I was trapped in. So I did and I followed my plan as accordingly‚ but it made a complete left. Other than the unbearable pain I was feeling physically‚ the pain that I felt emotionally overpowered that and I just felt numb. I
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Carissa 2-22-10 Ahrens english 90 Prewriting for reader response on inside out I was almost overwhelmed by fear when my friends car slammed into the car in front of us on the freeway. It was the year 2008 and my friends and i where driving to Oceanside from San diego to go to an concert. It was my friends Candice‚ Karis‚ Moline‚ and Kayla. Kayla was driving with candice in the front seat‚ Candice was three months pregnant. The rest of us was sitting in the back seat‚ I was sitting
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the glove that is thrown down experience a larger acceleration because there is a force pushing it down‚ and gravity takes side with it also since it is already heading south. #5 You are driving through town at 12 m/s when suddenly a ball rolls out in front of you. You apply the brakes and begin decelerating at 1.7 m/s2. How far do you travel before stopping? -a=-1.7m/s vf^2= 14^2+2(-1.7)x 0=144-3.4x -144=-3.4x x=42.35m vf= 0 vi= 12m/s x= ? #6 A train starts from rest and
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take his pill forgot to turn his hearing aid back on. Every day it seemed he had forgotten more things important things like which of his children lived in San Francisco and which of his children were married or divorce. Then one day when he was out for a walk by the lake he forgot what his mother had told him. He forgot that he was not a dinosaur. He stood blinking his dinosaur eyes in the bright sunlight feeling the familiar warmth on his dinosaur skin watching dragonflies flitting among the
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begged you please‚ you still pressed it in. You heard me scream and beg‚ and you still dug deeper‚ until you couldn’t hear me anymore. You could hear the blood gushing to the floor‚ the universe’s way of saying you’d fucked up. But you’d already ripped out my throat‚ you couldn’t go back from that. But that’s not what happened. I guess it only feels like that. I guess it only feels like I’ve been slaughtered at your hand. But did you really think the best way to go about this was to bottle it up?
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The Transformation of Little Red Riding Hood Through the Years Nicole Rose English 4950 Section 602 Professor Hackett July 27‚ 2008 The Transformation of Little Red Riding Hood Through the Years The world has always had a fascination with Little Red Riding Hood. The little girl in the red hood has meant many different things to different people. Early oral versions were told for adult audiences and contained a background
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hunter. He describes how beautiful and life changing the landscape and wild life is in Montana. He says how the valley of Montana has converted nearly every local into a hunter. 2. How does Rinella construct and support his argument? Rinella starts out the essay by stating that there are fewer hunters in this day and age then ever in history before. Rinella then continues to try to explain the reason why he hunts by telling personal hunting stories. The two hunting stories were well written and describe
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