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    and water and they will set up camp when jenny was gone the 2 others set up tents they opened it up. Than AHHHHH screamed gina like there was a crazed murderer jumped out a scorpion fell out the tent She slipped it fell on her but it bit her. Gina passed out 30 minutes later jenny arrived donna said she got bit by a scorpion Jenny “said oh my gosh” donna allready tried to help her but she did not know what to do. “I think I know what to do said jenny” She pulled out a first aid kit and pulled…

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    steinbeck, Kino is a very poor man that does not have money. Juana his wife and coyotito his son all live in a brush house in La Paz on the Gulf of Mexico.Kino decides to go pearl diving to find a pearl to help coyotito because he got stung by a scorpion. Therefore,When kino finds the pearl of the world it brings him great fortune and also great evil to his family. Steinbeck uses the theme of stick with your family through good and bad. He effectively develops the theme through the use of…

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    A couple days passed and we finally reached Alcove Springs. I looked across the field and saw tall green grass and small hills barely peeking at the top of them. Wildflowers grew everywhere and it looked so pretty blending in with all the nature. The sunset between the small hills was a wonderful sight. We had to find flat land so we could camp there for two nights. After we set up our tents, the kids instantly went to sleep. The next morning Marvin got up and grabbed our firewood from the trunk…

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    In the greek myth, Artemis and Orion, Artemis is like her brother, Apollo. Once she was born she wished to be nothing more than a huntress and be able to live on the mountains and forests of Arcadia. Her father, Zeus, granted her wish and gave her seven nymphs to help protect her, the Cylops had given her a bow and arrow which was made of pure silver. Her skills then became hers and she was fiercely competitive just like Apollo. Everyday she would hunt day and night. One day has Artemis was…

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    Apollo got jealous of Orion being that before he was the only other male in Artemis’ life that he sent a Scorpion to kill Orion. Orion tried escaping the scorpion by swimming into the ocean. All the while Apollo was convincing Artemis that someone had raped one of her priestesses. Artemis was enraged and asked who the offender was and when Apollo pointed to Orion. Artemis did not know about the scorpion chasing him and she thought he was trying to escape after being outed. Artemis shot an arrow…

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    what we wanted to do. There was so much we could do and we wanted to do it all. The first thing we did when we got there was go to all the souvenir stores and buy a bunch of little stuff like shirts, fake guns, candy, and snow globes with scorpions in them . We went to the OK Corral and had some pictures taken of us all dressed up in the old western clothes. Both my older brothers and I hated it at the time. We always…

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    modest about it. Together, they hunted plenty of creatures and were very happy together. Apollo grew jealous, because before Orion, he had been the only man that Artemis had favored. One day, when Artemis was away, Apollo summoned a giant poisonous scorpion to the…

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    things were getting started in the small town. however, as things progressed, a scorpion was approaching Coyotito. The Song of the Family was the description of how Kino felt, especially about his family. Steinbeck used this personification to demonstrate how Kino feared for his child, and how he was afraid to lose Coyotito, his child. In the time of this textual evidence Juana and Kino’s child had been stung by a scorpion. As people began to mourn the child as he had been stung. The town, as…

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    Roald Dahl Comparison

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    adventure. Dahl went completely unprepared in the Royal Air Force and fought battles everyday. He was not scared of scorpions roaming around the desert and took pictures of many things in nature. I, however, am quite afraid of doing things such as that. I am not the most adventurous, and certainly would not join the Air Force completely unexperienced. I am also afraid of scorpions. That is how our sense of adventure differs.…

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    hero shows bravery, courage, incredible accomplishment’s, and has good morality. Gilgamesh and Antigone are both heroes. Gilgamesh shows courage multiple times, but it could not be seen any clearer then when he surpassed the Man-Scorpion to continue his journey. The scorpion even said “No man born of woman has done what you have asked, no mortal man has gone into the mountain; the length of it is twelve leagues of darkness… (23)” I cannot even begin to imagine what walking 36 miles of darkness…

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