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    Carla Meadors is the proud owner of Lost Creek safari which is a small zoo outside of Stillwater she has had the animals for twelve years ranging from lemurs to water buffalo the animals on her twenty one and half acres but the animals are only on about ten of the acres. Not a lot of people of been to a zoo owned and ran by locals which is a very neat and unique experience. When you do go to one of these you can learn and get so much closer than a regular ole zoo. They have had multiple people tell

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    gripping fashion‚ Ambrose Bierce offers up his idea of what death is like in his popular short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” During the heat of the American Civil War‚ a Southern sympathizer by the name of Peyton Farquhar is faced with the enigma of dying. Farquhar has been set up by Northern spies‚ and he now faces summary hanging for attempting to sabotage Owl Creek Bridge. As gravity cruelly pulls him to his untimely fate‚ his mind throws him into a fantastical delusion where his perceptions

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    Natural Ecosystem: Stony Creek Metro Park Natural Ecosystem: Stony Creek Metro Park My pick for this park was based on the fact that this was made in to a natural ecosystem in 1964. A plan was drawn to make this park by making a dam and creating a 500 acre lake in the center of a 4‚461 acre land section from the stony creek (a tributary of the Clinton River). Once the dam was formed the lake was made‚ and the park came together. There are many plants and wildlife in this park‚ and fish in

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    Good morning teachers and fellow students‚ the reason that I am up here talking to YOU is a very serious one because our famous Rocky Creek reserve needs fixing. There is an abnormal growth of weeds‚ litter‚ and damages to the b¬¬¬¬¬¬arbecue and picnic facilities. These all contribute to upset the biodiversity of the reserve. The reason is that the habitats of many animals and birds are destroyed and subsequently makes it hard for them to live or survive. The biodiversity of the reserve affects

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    Standing on Owl Creek Bridge dressed in green head to toe. My riffle seemed to suddenly gain weight‚ was it just me? Maybe because I knew what was happening was wrong. Poor guy didn’t even know what was coming his way. All planned‚ beginning to end‚ just because of his passion toward the union he easily got set up. A cold gust of wind blew across my face causing the rigid noose to sway furiously in the water; even nature knew what we were doing was wrong. What was the point just to embed fear into

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    Stolen Generation - 1869 In 1869 the Victorian Boar for Protection of Aborigines was established. This meant indigenous and ‘half-caste’ children can be removed from their homes and families and sent to a reformatory or industrial school. The children were stolen from their families so they could be brought up t ‘white’ and told that being Aboriginal was wrong. The children were also expected to become labourers and servants and girls in particular to become domestic servants. The children’s legal

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    One of the ways naturalism relates itself with realism is in concern of the nature of inevitability in reality. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce the nature of reality is highly subjective‚ placing the subjective reality experienced by Farquhar‚ as he is to be hanged by the Federal army‚ against the broader reality of the events and Farquhar’s inescapable death. At the beginning of the story the careful and immutable description of how Farquhar and the soldiers are positioned

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    What can be found in this essay are the answers to the questions assigned to respond to at home after reading the story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. There are a variety of elements that are going to be discussed such as how a simple plan affected Farquhar as much as it did. The author really did play with some points of view throughout the story and that may be the reason of my confusion while reading it even though the author did include many details about Farquhar’s experience. I hope

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    Sherman Alexie has lost his faith in humanity. His poem “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” illustrates a despondent mind that has been shattered by the horror of his reflection upon contemporary and historical events. Alexie explores his feelings about Sand Creek and American history and ultimately realizes that he cannot pretend to be surprised by the past violent crimes directed against Native Americans. Alexie is inconsolable because he believes that the blood‚ violence and death are all inevitable consequences

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    social or political circumstances‚ we all are witnesses to the beautiful constant that is our Earth. Ada Limón grapples with this idea in her poem Drowning Creek. She notices a bird‚ a belted kingfisher‚ and reasons that she “was nothing to that bird‚ which wasn’t concerned with history’s bloody battles or why this creek was called Drowning Creek” (4‚ The Hurting Kind). Regardless of human activity‚ nature will always exist in its own way‚ apart from humanity. Our fickleness will pass‚ nature will

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