I’m in my blind on opening morning and in the corner of my eye I see a set of antlers walking through the brush. It was my first time out with my bow. I’ve been shooting all summer for this moment. I have a choice to make‚ draw back and try shooting through branches or let him go for another time. The first time I can remember shooting a bow was when I was at an outdoors day with my grandpa and I thought it was really fun. When i was in 5th grade my grandpa got me my first bow. At first I couldn’t
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field I could see my breath float upwards out of the stadium and dissipate into the crisp fall air. I turned to see my dad cocooned in his Lehigh scarf‚ while a brown and white pom-pom danced on top his head. Yankee stadium was almost at max capacity‚ full of Lehigh mountain hawks and Lafayette leopards. We watched with anticipation as the first punt of the 150th Lehigh Lafayette game lifted the ball high into the air. The atmosphere was electric‚ a sensation to be remembered. My dad has always been
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attacks‚ and shootings. I think one of the problems that continue to grow rapidly is school shootings. In 2015 there have been more than 45 school shootings. This has left schools with a tragic event they will always be haunted with. In order to protect the school‚ teachers should have the right to carry a pistol on campus to make it a safer place for students‚ faculty‚ and staff. No matter how prepared you are it can still happen‚ and being armed could bring down risk of school shootings or protect
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that he himself has made all the plans. He is‚ however a good father and husband. Sergius Sergius is handsome‚ as a romantic hero ought to be‚ has a good position in the army and supposed to be brave. He is supposed to be in love with Raina but flirts with Louka. | | Bluntschli Bluntschli is a Swiss professional soldier. He believes that it is better to be armed with chocolates than with ammunition on the battlefield. In contrast to Sergius "he is of middling stature and undistinguished appearance"
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CABARRUBIAS‚ John Rodnie C. 1 – CBE REFLECTION PAPER (“Rich Dad Poor Dad” Lesson 1: The Rich Don’t Work for Money) Rich Dad Poor Dad lesson 1 really focuses on how money works on a rich person by having controlling their fear and desire. It is true that we need to control our fear and desire. If we have fear we are afraid and then after that we have the desire to have or to move on it. I usually encounter this kind of situation for example when I buy clothes‚ I usually have fear to bought
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Everyone calls my father Lefty for the obvious reason. My dad was born at home in 1941‚ on a farm 20 miles from the nearest tiny town in Indiana. A farm kid‚ he went to school in a four room school house where most of the kids were like him and went to school when they didn’t have to help out on the farm. When my father was in the second grade‚ he was already 9 years old. Dad’s teacher then was Mrs. Graves‚ who he remembers well. Back then everyone in second grade had to learn to write in cursive
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experience with his own father from when he was a teenager. In the final stanza the poet looks back‚ aged ‘twenty nine’. The poet marks the time shift by shifting from past into present tense. This poem is a nostalgic look back at a defining moment from Armitage’s childhood‚ his relationship with his father and how he feels about it now. From the first words of the title‚ ‘My father’ shows that Armitage’s memory of his childhood‚ like the poem is dominated‚ looked over‚ by his father. The effect is
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It was a beautiful warm sunny day in August and I went on the bridge pedal with my Dad. The Bridge Pedal is a 33 mile bike ride that rides over 10 bridges in Downtown Portland and when we finished I wanted to ride my bike somewhere. Well when we left is when the incident happened and changed my day from good to bad. I had to go to the ER and get stitches. It was a good day and here’s my story that changed my day. To begin the day we got up a 6:30 am and rode our bikes down the hill to get breakfast
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1 “The Allegory of the Cave” and “Shooting an Elephant” seems like two completely different stories. Both of them have their own ways of showing enlightenment and ways of perceiving realities. After reading both of these tales multiple times‚ I’ve drawn some conclusions on the different ways of enlightenment that are described throughout each story. In “Shooting an Elephant‚” Policeman Eric Blair is asked to kill the elephant that was ravaging the village. Many times he would describe how he
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My First Time Shooting It’s Christmas 2014‚ my Dad and I went to go shooting with my Cousins‚ my Uncle‚ and my Grandpa. He brought his AR (Assault Rifle)‚ .45‚ .09‚ and his AS 12 gauge (Assault Shotgun). I brought my BB gun too. The boys shot off a couple of rounds with the .45‚ the .09‚ and the AR. Grandpa taught me how to shoot a BB gun first. Then my Dad let me shoot the .09. The .09 goes like this BAM…… BAM…….. BAM it is semi automatic‚ that means it is not rapid fire. I was pretty good with
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