do your tail feathers grow just so?" And she spanked him with her hard‚ hard claw. He asked his tall uncle‚ the Giraffe: "What makes your skin spotty?" And Uncle Giraffe smacked him with his tail. He asked his broad aunt‚ the Hippopotomus: "What makes your eyes red?" And she spanked him with her broad‚ broad hoof. He asked his hairy uncle‚ the Baboon: "Why do melons taste just so?" And his Uncle Baboon spanked him with his hairy paw. ’satiable curiosity! And still he was full of Narrator 1: Elephant:
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First time at a cremation ground To witness my uncles body being burnt I sat in bed impatiently Waiting…..ing….ing….ing for my phone to RING Finallyyyyyyy my mom calls Why my uncle left………. God only knows As I near the duthe There wasn’t a breath
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Stephen Bolden 4/1/13 Contemporary Lit Honors Ms. Delmour Boobie Miles in the book Friday Night Lights had minor differences from Boobie Miles in the movie. In the book they touched on boobie’s background and how he got to live with his uncle L.V. the movie didn’t touch on that. In the book Boobie had more pressure on him to do well in football than in the movie. The Odessa townspeople felt like he was only good for football and after his injury he was a nobody. In the movie people were
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Slavery Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs are two books which were written against slavery. Both authors are deeply against slavery and write these books to convince their audience that slavery is bad. They both want the reader to get an image of how slavery was about during the 1850’s. Only difference is that Stowe writes about things that occur during the 1850’s but are not based on a true story. In other words‚ Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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towards‚ the large estate that my uncle and aunt own. It has a large building that looks somewhat like a castle‚ it is a cream colour with blue roofs but still manages to look dark and mysterious and has an eerie feel surrounding it. It is long and on half of it is about 10 floors high with little towers coming out above the main roof‚ the other half is lower down‚ only about 5 stories high‚ with a large watch tower in the middle of that section. It houses my aunt‚ uncle and their daughter‚ my cousin
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America. This idea raises the question of how does Jayanti’s uncle effect her view of America in terms of what she thought America would be and how it actually is? By analyzing Jayanti’s impressions of and interactions with her uncle‚ I will prove how Jayanti’s high expectations of America are later on let down by her uncle’s substandard way of living life. Jayanti has a more hopeful and promising attitude towards America‚ while her uncle is more cynical and hopeless towards the life he currently lives
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looking building‚ we entered on the first floor which was a restaurant. The people were eating and socializing. It was not nearly as crowded as the airport scene not by far. We make our way to the elevator we stop on the second floor there I meet my uncle small slender man smiling and nodding welcoming us. We entered taking our shoes off at the entrance; I look around and see pictures of animals and various little Buddha men statues with incense and lots of bamboo plants. There was no furniture‚ just
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Exotic Hobbies around the World The dictionary definition of hobbies is an activity or interest pursued for delectation or felicity and not as a main vocation. On par with this theory‚ many would delegate many evanescent pursuits such as eating‚ talking or joking as one. On contrary to normal beliefs‚ people earn money doing their hobbies‚ which in other words means that somebody managed to turn a hobby into a job. Did you know that there are so many millionaires in this world‚ who would never have
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general. The word choice that Rich showed also had a great effect on this poem. Rich describes the tigers as "prancing along the screen‚"(1) which gives you a picture of playful tigers. However Rich goes on to describe "the massive weight of Uncles wedding band‚ Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand."(7-8) Now that gives off this sudden stop in the poem. It went from one stanza being very happy to just gloomy and painful. Rich also wrote "When Aunt is dead‚ her terrified hands will lie.
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life scarring consequences from competition. Rubin states‚ “It [competition] is intimately linked to envy‚ jealousy‚ and paranoia (Rubin).” If allowed‚ this jealousy and envy can engrave itself between two siblings quite easily. I have witnessed my uncles not speak a word to each other for years because of their competitive nature. The older of the two was angered at the younger one for receiving better treatment from their parents. He has held a grudge for fifteen years. This type of competition destroys
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