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- 4441: Creative Writing: Dogs and Cats
- ... while Fontenelle pushed against them but not against them. Each animal was working very hard. "You have to come forward," Fontenelle said. "It won't reach the tree." By this time the bars were fairly high, so it wasn't as much of a strain to push them forward. At last, this delicate balance gave out and Fontenelle toppled forward. The bars smacked against the tree, wobbled... and just barely held ... Scampi's accident. That was a cold-blooded move, Mustard had no doubt. The cat could have knocked over the ladder as soon as they put it up, but no, it waited until Scampi was high off the ground. This had gone beyond getting the stray jumped out of the neighbourhood - the cat had declared war. "Come on. You have tons of ideas. There has to be something else." "I'm ... Mustard made a grab for it just in case. "I think I got it," Scampi said through clenched teeth. With that, they made a graceful exit, each holding a mouthful of bizarre items. It was high noon when they made their way back to the yard, and they saw a familiar face. Killer the pitbull from down the way had come visiting. Killer was one of those poor canines whose ...
- 4442: Creative Writing: The Case of the Broken Hutch
- ... then they are no longer goals they are a way of life. And now if had missed our goals he would be upset because we were functioning below standards. Not only we were missing his high standard's, he were making him look bad. He thought that if the store looks good than he would look good. the problem with this is that Bob's idea of the running of the ... still thought that I was not in the wrong, but instead of arguing more I signed the write-up. I needed the job and I needed the money to pay bills and to pay for school. I later found out that Bob had been written up by Mike for something concerning the store. Bob has the personality that he will pass the buck as they say. In order to make Bob ...
- 4443: Death Of A Salesman 4
- ... mistress while visiting him on one of his trips to ask him to come back home and negotiate with his math teacher to give him the four points he needed to pass math and graduate high school. This scene gives the reader a chance to fully understand the tension between Willy and Biff, and why things can never be the same. Throughout the play, the present has been full of misfortune for ...
- 4444: Unchained Heritage - Creative Essay
- ... him as he bent down, but he did not notice it as his nose had long become insensitive. The Elder shook his hands dry and glanced up at the position of the sun. It was high overhead, indicating noontime. He sighed, knowing that in a couple of hours his son would bring his family from Toronto to visit him. He did not like his son very much, but he put up ... up at him happily in response. A third child walked up and laid both hands on the Elder's shoulders."Hello, Grandfather," he said."How's life up here?" "Peaceful," he replied. "Have you finished school yet?" "No," laughed the oldest child. "You always ask me that same question; you know I still have a year to go." "Here come your parents," replied the Elder. "Hello, Ted. How are you, Wendy ...
- 4445: A Seperate Piece
- ... Chad A Separate Peace by John Knowls Is a classic struggle of man vs. himself and man vs. society. Taking place as a flashback, the narrator Gene Forrester tells of his struggles as a prep school student in the years of his life between age 16, and 17 during the period of WWII. Although Gene Forester the narrator and Finny an athletic roommate are best friends, they have to contrasting struggles. Like the garden of Eden the first few chapters express the peacefulness of the summer at the Private school in New England and the land beneath the forbidden tree. Like the Book Billy Budd by Herman Melville, A Separate Peace identifies some of the characters as innocent to the world. Gene expresses what peace is like by saying "sixteen, careless and wild" and "Phineas was the essence of this careless peace." Gene Forrester returns to visit the school and a tree in the book and represent him returning to some of the traumatic events in his life. Gene had always conformed to rules and followed rules and regulations with obedience. Throughout time ...
- 4446: I Was With ______ When ......
- ... him. Just enough for me to jump at the man behind me and tackle him down. I grabbed his strange looking machine that he had dropped and ran out of the room. I was searching high and low for George's cage until i heard a slight buzzing noise behind me. A thin shaft of blue light hit my left leg and i screamed out loud. i dropped to the floor ... robotic parts. The leader look down at the ground for a few moments. Then he looked at me and said " My daughter has a half bionic and half human heart. She was coming back from school when she was shot in the heart. We rushed her to the hospital just to get it repaired on time or she would've..." He stops for a few moments and takes a deep breath ...
- 4447: Quarry Hill
- ... view. "Heh, there's gotta be more over to the left, it looks like a big clearing." We had come to a small pool of water, that was surrounded by a cliff about 3 feet high. Rudy began down a small trail to our left, Tom followed, and I brought up the rear. I had not taken more than 10 steps when I heard Rudy gasp and say "Ho-my-gosh ... where Tom was standing, and peered out. Looking over this enormous cliff made my legs feel weak, and I made my center of gravity very close to the ground to feel stable. "Damn, that's high!" To me, the cliff seemed at least 500 feet high at that point in time, in reality it was more on the lines of 75-100 feet. The walls were sheer granite, covered with graffiti "tags" that people had left. "Jim wuz here, '85" ...
- 4448: A Tale Of Two Cities LA
- ... worked in a factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He only worked there for a few months, but it was a miserable experience that would remain with him his whole life. Dickens attended school until he was fifteen. He always enjoyed reading, and especially adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. In the late 1820s, Dickens became a newspaper writer and reporter. Dickens= first book, Sketches by Boz, written in ... a ferocious time...like a gnashing of teeth in unison, with dancers who advance, retreated, struck at one another=s hands, spun, clutched and tore, and then, with their heads low down, and their hands high up, swooped screaming off.@(Dickens 374) Foreshadowing is another important element used by Dickens. Many times he foreshadows the Revolt to come. AThe time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on ...
- 4449: Duddy Kravitz
- ... being a bum to being a "gangster". "He was just another bum at the time. And what is he now? The gangster."(Pg.23) Jerry Dingleman made a living off selling drugs and being a high time gangster. This is not the way any one though it would be. Once Duddy was looking for a way to make some money. So what did he do? He went tod Jerry. Jerry, the ... reason why Duddy was not liked as much as Lenny. "He's not gonna be a sawbones. Duddy's a dope like me. Aren't you kid? Lennie's 21. He had scholarships all through school."(Pg.22) As you can see to have favortism in a family does not work and it is wrong and very dishonest. A very dishonest incident we look at is between Virgil and Duddy. Virgil ...
- 4450: Stephen Crane
- ... with faith are evident in most of Cranes work, Throughout his writings he tried to shake the thought that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101). Stephen Crane began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because he refused to do any work. After leaving Lafayette, he moved ... also played baseball, and wrote for his brothers news service (Colvert 12:102). It is said that Crane wrote the preliminary sketch of his novella, Maggie, while at Syracuse. He eventually decided to quit school and become a full time reporter for the New York Tribune ("Stephen" n.p.). Crane began his writing career in poverty, hoping that it would inspire him to write. Along with his beliefs in ...
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