Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg‚ Manitoba‚ but raised in Port Coquitlam‚ British Columbia‚ a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. As an active teenager involved in many sports‚ in 1977 Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated six inches above the knee. <br> <br>The night before his operation‚ Terry read an article about an amputee who had competed in the New York Marathon. Indirectly that story‚ along with Terry’s observations
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Terry Fox-My Hero “I’m gonna do my very best. I’ll fight. I promise I won’t give up!” Terry said this after he had to give up in Thunder bay‚ Ontario. Terrance Stanley Fox is a hero to me because he set examples to younger and older people to raise awareness and money towards supporting cancer. He is my idol because my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer in 2001 and had it for 5 years and due to a seizure he tragically died on July 28th‚ 2005. Terry Fox was born on July 28th‚ 1958. In his younger
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The Thought Fox By Ted Hughes Imagine可作两种解释。一，think about something and forms a picture or idea of it. 二，同dream‚ you think you’ve seen‚ heard‚ or experienced that thing‚ although you have not. I imagine this midnight moment’s forest : Something else is alive Besides the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. 本段loneliness重复出现了两次，与第一行的midnight形成呼应。相似的还有no star 与darkness。同时fingers move又与loneliness所表现出的寂静形成对比。虽然深夜静谧，但作者的思绪却正活跃，不然也无法在deep
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Canadian history there are many famous people. In my mind one really stands out among the rest. His name is Terry Fox and he is one of the greatest athlete to run on the face of this planet. Terry discovered he had cancer and then decided to run across Canada. He was a brave man who would take what the world through at him. Running across Canada was his way to show the world that he was not going out with out a fight. Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg Manitoba on July 28 1958 Terry was raised in port
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It was a very hot and sunny afternoon. A fox‚ which had been hunting the whole day‚ was very thirsty. "How I wish there was some water‚" the fox thought to himself. Just then‚ he saw bunches of fat and juicy grapes hanging from a vine above his head. The grapes looked ripe and ready to burst with juice. "Oh‚ my! Oh‚ my!" the fox said as his mouth began to water. "Sweet grape juice‚ quench my thirst!" The fox stood on tiptoe and stretched as high as he could‚ but the grapes were out
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Bigmouth Fox Penguin‚ Reindeer and Fox were great friends. One day‚ Penguin and Reindeer found a load of fruit‚ and decided to keep it a secret. On the way‚ they met Fox‚ who seeing them so happy‚ asked them why. They told him they couldn’t say‚ because it was a secret‚ but Fox asked them to trust him‚ so they told him about the fruit. When they arrived at the village‚ Fox forgot about his promise‚ and told everyone. When Penguin and Reindeer returned to the place where they had found the fruit
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Within Fox and the grapes is one of the more well known of the Aesop’s Fables. The story illustrates the common tendency of people to speak unfavorably of thing that they are unable to get for themselves‚ although in reality they may like it. There are a few themes that fall under this fable‚ they might include jealousy‚ perseverance‚ failure‚ or even greed‚ but I believe as a reader the main theme of this fable is deceit. “Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel‚ but at last had to
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‘The Thought Fox’ and the poetry of Ted Hughes RICHARD WEBSTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Critical Quarterly‚ 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE THOUGHT-FOX I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the
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Mark Cornacchia Dr. Housel January 12‚ 2009 Essay #2 Terry Fox Few people in today’s modern society become a household name for traditional merits of heroism. Even fewer are remembered long after the spotlight of their accomplishments fade. In Canadian history‚ no name resonates closer to the word hero than Terry Fox and his marathon of hope. His innate sense of selflessness‚ and perseverance in the face of adversity has become Terry’s lasting legacy. Turning tragedy into opportunity
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Terry Fox is an inspiration to all; he set a phenomenal goal for himself to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Why did he do this? He was only 18 at the time when he was diagnosed with Metastatistic Osteosarcoma which is a cancer that starts around the knees. At first Terry didn’t think it was anything because he was in a horrible crash with a pick-up truck and hurt his leg before‚ he just thought the pain was coming back. Terry wanted to raise money and awareness because he
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