Read and Paraphrase Read the text below from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday: Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass‚ popping up like corn to sting the flesh‚ and tortoises crawl about on the red earth‚ going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye‚ but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning‚ with the sun
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The Way to Rainy Mountain The title of N. Scott Momaday’s "The Way to Rainy Mountain" encapsulates the theme of a journey that permeates the story. In the story‚ a young man journeys to the grave of his grandmother along the same route that her people‚ the Kiowas‚ took across America before settling on the southern Plains. The young man’s grandmother had never undergone the journey that she so often told stories about‚ and yet she seemed to have experienced it through the memories of others that
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The Great Smoky Mountains If you have never been to The Great Smoky Mountains‚ it is definitely worth the drive. We strapped our luggage to the top of my Jeep to save room for the three anxious kids and our over grown "puppy"‚ a five month old german shepherd/great pyrennee’s mix. With everyone packed in like sardines in a can‚ we set out on our much needed first family vacation! We left home on a rainy Wednesday morning‚ the day after Christmas.With the company of "The Blue Collar Comedy
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Across a Hundred Mountains Notes and Quotes Summary • Eleven-year-old Juana lives with her Amá and Apá in their little shack at the outskirts of their village in Mexico. • On the night of a flood‚ which enters their shack‚ her mother leaves Juana on top of the table holding the baby‚ Anita‚ to go look for her husband. • Juana falls asleep and loses hold of the baby‚ which drowns. Now in debt again to the wealthiest man in the village‚ Don Elías‚ who paid for the funeral‚ Apá decides
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The Way to Rainy Mountain In Scott Momaday’s introductory paragraph of “The Way to Rainy Mountain” he uses figurative language to show his love for the land in Oklahoma. As a Kiowa‚ he describes the land with such intimacy‚ that it seems as if he owns the land and he is one with the land. He starts the paragraph with a descriptive image of the Wichita Range: “A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma”. He describes the weather with extreme exaggeration‚ “winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic
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Jacob S. O’Brien 3rd Grade Mrs Townsend February 1‚ 2013 Jupiter and Venus Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the most massive planet in our solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 143‚000 kilometers. It is 11.2 times the size of earth and has a mass 318 times the size of Earths. You could also fit almost 1400 Venus’s inside Jupiter. Jupiter has an enormous magnetic field‚ has 63 moons‚ and it also has rings which form
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"The Way to Rainy Mountain" A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north and west of the Wichita Range. For many people‚ the Kiowas‚ it is an old landmark‚ and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The Hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic winds arise in the spring‚ and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown‚ and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks‚ linear groves of hickory
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domestic product slowed considerably in the third quarter of 2000 to the lowest rate since a contraction in the first quarter of 1991. 2. Cultural and Social Values and Trends From pharmacy novelties‚ soda fountains soon became a central part of American culture and transformed into community gathering places where people would meet and socialize over a delicious effervescent beverage. The soda shops were often classy places‚ anchored by a grandiose fountain made of marble‚ gilded with metal piping
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On the day of September 11‚ 1857‚ an emigrant party camped at Mountain Meadows was brutally killed by the Mormon militia aided by Indians. This essay examines two viewpoints regarding the massacre found in Sally Denton’s “American Massacre” and in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” by Ronald W. Walker‚ Richard E. Turley‚ and Glen M. Turley. September 7‚ 1857‚ the emigrants of the Fancher-Baker train were just awakening and preparing for the day when gunshots were sounded. The emigrants were caught
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A Tale of the Ragged Mountain By: Edgar Allen Poe Whenever I hear someone say‚ “Edgar Allen Poe” I often get the same feeling. Most of his stories put me to sleep but there are few I like. This short story was okay‚ at times it could have put me to sleep but then there was interesting parts too. In the beginning of the story I believed that Mr. Bedloe really took a trip in the mountains and I remember‚ as I was reading‚ what would I do in his shoes. Mr. Bedloe just kind of went with it and
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