Annie Oakley

One day, while Dillard was working in her office, she was distracted by the sound of an airplane cutting through the air. She uses imagery of sound to describe what she witnessed in the fortieth paragraph. Dillard heard the “buzz of an airplane...it rose and fell musically, and it never quit.” This imagery is included in order to bring back the tone of awed appreciation, and to display to the audience that Dillard thinking about Rahm’s performance months after her last encounter with him. In the…

Annie Desmond and her friends Talisha and Margie are inner-city teens struggling with the many implications of living in a lower-income community. Annie’s mother, Myrna Desmond, had Annie when she was in junior high school and still dreams of being a writer. Myrna is a cleaning lady for an office and she repeatedly has gotten in trouble for messing with the computers in the office.Annie and her mother have a strained relationship due in part to the fact that Myrna resents Annie for being born…

Dillard In-Class Write Annie Dillard includes two major analogies in her text, “The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” including the penny game she used to play as a child and the gaps that house the spirits. Dillard uses the penny game not to disappoint strangers with a mere penny but rather to “cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity,” showing the importance of little things that can make your day. (Dillard 22) Dillard also uses the gaps as well to emphasize the importance of little things,…

“Oh, be a fine girl/guy kiss me,” or maybe not. Learning this phrase has helped multiple astronomers to educate themselves on the spectral classification of stars and continues to do so in today’s time. Annie Jump Cannon’s legacy will carry on lasting a lifetime! The first letters of each word in the phrase represents the seven main types of stars. Starting with ”‘O,” these stars are very young, blue, hot, massive and extremely bright star. This type of star is very uncommon similar to the “B”…

For many years, Little Orphan Annie has been a source of entertainment for Americans, both during the Great Depression and after. The Great Depression was a hard time for everybody and caused a national crisis due to the stock market crash within the United States. During the Great depression, more often than not, families would have to be separated in order to find work. During this time of struggle, the protagonist on the radio show Little Orphan Annie, Annie, became a figure of courage and…

“The Night Face Up” The third-person narrator had just been in a motorcycling accident and was rushed to the hospital thereafter to treat his injuries, but is kept in a ward with the other patients and develops a hospital phobia based on the description and interpretations of the smells and the treatment itself. He eventually dreams himself in a different time period of himself as part of the Motecas fighting against the Aztecs. It is implied where he may have died of a fever while being…

Pingxuan Cao Instructor: Rebecca Levy ENWR 1510-005 21 October 2016 Family Support vs. Psychiatric Care Under the widespread influence of fraudulent advertisements and deceptive suggestions from specialists permeated in society, many people incorrectly attribute the recovery of many geniuses from madness to professional psychiatric care while overlooking the silent support they receive from their family members, which counts for the happiness and physical well-being of those gifted people. If we…

intelligent enough to get around the barrel without tipping them. The horse must be able to withstand the long roads a every person has to go to get to the next rodeo. These women spend endless hours practicing to perfect the skill. Learn about Annie Oakley. Annie Oakley was the one who created barrel racing. In the beginning it was considered “unladylike” to ride horses. Sadly it wasn’t until 1928 when it…

cared of this person or event. I once went to see Annie Oakely’s memorial down south in Greenville. It honestly was so amazing seeing it and actually remembering stories that i have once heard of her in my younger years. It really touched my heart. “A statue and memorial plaza are deticated to Annie Oakley, the women dubbed “Little Sure Shot’ by sitting bull...toured with Buffalo Bill Cody’s west show and congress of rough riders…” (Holmes 1). Annie had a fantastic career and she went very far.…

tried their best to gain land from the native Americans. to get away from this, sitting bull brought him and his tribe to canada for 4 years. in 1881 sitting bull returned to the Dakota area. he was held prisoner until 1883. in 1885, after meeting Annie Oakley, he joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West…