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    can result in a totally different outcome. In the Little Red Riding Hood, a young girl was visiting her grandmother when a big bad wolf tries to eat her. In Goldilocks and the Three Bears, a girl walks into a strange house to eat some porridge, sit on a chair, and sleep on a bed. While both characters face conflicts, they handle them in different ways. Their attitude, personality, and behavior show the similarities and differences between Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks. First, there are…

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    Foreshadowing is an author's way to give small, secretive events that predict the end of the story. “The Flowers”by Alice Walker and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell each include foreshadowing as a big part of the story. In both of these stories the foreshadowing in each takes the characters and changes them. In both “The Flowers” by Alice Walker and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the authors show the character's entry into the real world and change through…

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    trouble because there was a split in the rode. Then Hansel saw a sign it said Route 9 was one way and Route 5 was the other. They chose to go to Route nine because when they went for a drive they would always see the sign as soon as they left the house. So the moseyed down the old dirt road all the way to Route 9. They walked about 30 miles on the old dirt road, until they got to Route 9. They also knew that they lived on Route 9. Now they had to make a chose to go left or right. They…

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    Officer Harris Narrative

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    A hot summer day in Wylie, Kentucky, two twins, Quinn and Jake, decided to go to the park. Quinn and Jake met a strange, but nice man. Little did they know he was on the hunt. On the hunt for children. The man walked up to the twins and introduced himself. “Hi, children. I´m uhhh your new friend.” The children were frightened by the strange man, but they let the fear go and kept talking to him. Until, one day, Officer Harris got a report, two children went missing. Wanting to take the case into…

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    the house to go into the woods to get berries. As I was walking through the woods a strange guy came up from behind him and picked him up and took him away. Later on, I woke up from my nap and I saw that Mona was missing. I ran outside and yelled his name continuously. But I heard no response. So then I thought of exactly where I thought he was and the woods came straight to my head. So I ran as fast as I could through the cold and wet grass. I finally came to the opening peak of the woods and…

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    Fort Rouille Description

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    Fort Rouille was built in 1720 and served the French until 1759. The fort was the last fort to be built in Toronto and served a big role for the French during the fur trade. For those of you who don’t know what the fur trade is it was a huge part in Canada's history. In the fur trade the French and British fought and even killed each other just to trade with the natives. They traded goods like iron tools muskets and ammo and many other things to help the natives The wording on the monument…

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    a strong woman who had to do though work to raised her two daughters Maggie and dee. Walker describes a single home located far away from civilization. The house has a big front yard with a big tree that provides a nice sunshade. The house was made out of rough wood with circle shape windows. The bench for the table was made out of rough wood. A bench that Wangero pretends to be so happy to be sitting on because “daddy made for the table when they couldn’t afford to buy chairs” it is a memory of…

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    was also very entertaining. During the summer we did a lot of things because it was summer and didn’t just want to sit in their house everyday. They live kind of in the middle of nowhere and their house is back into trees, their back yard is woods, so with their parents having three boys they got them each a four wheeler and their dad and his friend made trails in the woods for them. The one day I went over it rained that night and the next morning for a while then started to get nice and hot…

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    depicted in both Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, where the thought of females not being able to help themselves without the assistance of a man is portrayed. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” is a classic example of an innocent girl needing to be saved. Little Red Cap goes into the woods to deliver baked goods and wine to her sick, frail grandmother. As she enters the woods the wolf…

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    In the south as the colonies grew wealthy landowners started building large farms called plantations. In the houses, there were many rooms including a separate living room and dining room. By this time they had glass windows, multiple fireplaces, and plenty of furniture. Lots of their houses were built in a style that reflected the architecture of the owner's homeland. There were german, dutch, Spanish, and English colonial styles built in many different regions. The log cabins were a…

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