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    The man’s attitude at the beginning of this story‚ was over-confident. “He was a newcomer in the land‚ a chechaquo‚ and this was his first winter‚” but all he did was‚ challenge the nature‚ thinking that he could handle it. He didn’t care about all the warnings that the nature did‚ he was too confident about himself. The nature started to torture him physically‚ with cold. It was his first time in the cold‚ but he never thought it was going to be like that. Now he is starting to appreciate the old-timer’s

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    “I am Canadian” Explication In the free verse poem “I am Canadian”‚ Duke Redbird uses imagery‚ contrast and paradox to confront us with the vastness of Canada and its great diversity. And yet‚ emphasizes the main identity that binds these all – one of a Canadian. In the first segment of the poem‚ the speaker uses light contrast to show diversity with in line-regions. The speaker opens with this form of identity‚ saying “I’m a lobster fisherman in Newfoundland”. While we may not readily relate

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    Suspense Techniques in “To Build a Fire’ by Jack London The old timer was right. The short story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London is about a cheechako (newcomer to Canada or Alaska) that decides to travel on the Yukon trail without a trailmate just with a dog that he uses as a tool. Even though the locals say you should never travel the trail by yourself‚ he ignored their statements. Along the trail the man encounters problems and must overcome them to survive. In “To Build a Fire” Jack London uses

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    about one individual person or one isolated incident‚ but a story used to illustrate a larger continuous gamble or battle between man and nature. London spends the first few paragraphs setting the physical scene. The setting is in Alaska along the Yukon River. It is close to the end of winter but the sun is still not yet in the sky. It is mentioned that this does not bother the man. The rest of the setting is described around the man and the places he has passed on this current journey and where else

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    the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada. The high plateaus and isolated mountains with the only deserts in the US of A are very sparsely populated (excluding major cities). In Canada‚ this region is consisted of the interior plateau valleys of BC and the Yukon.   The economic development of the Intermountain Region is greatly affected by its topography which is full of streams and rivers which instead of flowing into the sea‚ instead flow into the brackish lakes or disappear into desert sinks

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    Russia‚ Norway‚ India‚ Venezuela‚ Japan‚ Sweden‚ Paraguay‚ and France. It is also used here in Canada in provinces like British Columbia‚ Alberta‚ Manitoba‚ New Brunswick‚ Ontario‚ Quebec‚ Newfoundland & Labrador‚ Nova Scotia‚ Northwest Territories‚ Yukon and Saskatchewan. (There is a map provided that tells you what countries or provinces use hydroelectric dams.) Advantages of Hydroelectric Dams Some advantages of hydroelectric dam is that they do not pollute the air or the earth. To make

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    Even though all of the different groups’ style of hunting and food was disparate‚ they all shared similar general ideas. All of the First Nation groups hunted‚ this was the men’s responsibilities and was done in the summer time and occasionally in the winter. Small game(animal hunted for food)‚ such as birds or small animals like rabbits would be caught in traps or snares and bigger game‚ like deer and bears‚ would be hunted using various different weapons like spears and bow and arrows. Some groups

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    com/pdf/top_10_embezzlement_cases_in_us_history.pdf NCEO News‚ A. (2011‚ September 14). Qantas Baggage Handlers to Strike. Retrieved March 14‚ 2013‚ from http://www.abc.net.au: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-14/qantas-industrial-action/2899496 Yukon‚ T

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    topography and vary slightly year-to-year. There are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle‚ so the countries and territories whose populations experience it are limited to the ones crossed by the Arctic Circle‚ e.g. Canada (Yukon‚ Northwest Territories‚ and Nunavut)‚ Denmark (Greenland)‚ Finland‚ Sápmi‚ Norway‚ Russia‚ Sweden‚ the United States (Alaska)‚ and extremities of Iceland. A quarter of Finland’s territory lies north of the Arctic Circle and at the country’s northernmost

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