Tom Cooper Research Paper

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Tom Cooper was the strongest and tallest lumberjack ever. He was born in Canada in 1940. When Tom was born,he was born with more than 15 pounds. The people from his community were really surprised to see such a big baby like Tom. The people from his community wanted him to leave as soon as he was born,but his mom said no because he was just a baby. So his community accepted him to stay but said that as soon as he was 16,he needed to leave the community because he is causing fear and trouble. At the age of 5,Tom was really good at cutting down trees. One day,one of his neighbor’s house was covered with trees and it would take days for someone to cut those trees down. So,Tom came over and told them that he was good at cutting trees down,that he could help,but his neighbors didn't believe him because he was only 5 years old. At night when the whole community went to sleep,Tom went outside and cut down the trees down so fast. He was so fast at cutting those trees down,that he could cut down 20 trees in 15 seconds. In the morning when everyone woke up,they were surprised and they wondered who cut all those trees down in just 1 day,Tom wanted to tell them that it was him,but there was no way that they would …show more content…
Well it was time for Tom to leave the community,everyone was happy because now,the community wasn’t going to have fear.While Tom was walking,he saw a bird that was trapped in a tree and couldn’t get out,so 16 year old Tom reached up to the tree and untrapped the bird. Tom has helped again,but too bad that no one could notice how nice he was.Tom had a chance to save that bird because he was so tall that he could reach the clouds in the

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