Reservoir Dogs

There was a plane crash and a teenage boy survived it, but now he has to figure out can he survive his first winter in the wildernest. In the book Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen, a boy that used to be in the city has to survive the winter in a forest in Canada. Brian has to learn different ways to hunt to keep him alive even though he does not like killing animals. Brian has to use everything around him to stay alive in a very cold winter. It is a good thing Brian is intelligent. Brian…

I am a beautiful, delightful, little bird with a large happy personality with bright, fuzzy, yellow feathers to match. I have been lonely lately though, it makes me quiet in addition fragile. I am on the search for a new best friend; I hope this friend with be real as well as pulchritudinous, loud as me with a big, corny sense of humor. I spy a large creature with floppy, brown ears with gross stream of drool slide out from its mouth, the next thing I notice is the creature is rolled over on a…

The book I chose to read was The Cruelest Miles: the Heroic Story of Dogs and Men In a Race Against an Epidemic by cousins Gay and Laney Salisbury and it was published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2003. This book is set in Nome, Alaska during the winter of 1925. At this time there was a deadly widespread outbreak of diphtheria that was threatening the city's people. Many were dying and Dr. Welch knew he needed to do something to help save these people. The one thing that could truly get rid of…

The pet overpopulation problem in the United States is sickening to me as a human being. We allow people to profit from the breeding of their pets when there are too many animals being euthanized every day in shelters. Animals in our shelters are fighting for their lives every single day, and yet we are allowing breeders and puppy mills to continue to produce more and more animals. Pet ownership is not a right. Pet owners have a responsibility to leash their animals, dispose of their waste…

Larry Levin’s Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love presents a heartwarming story of a dog in desperate need and the family who saves him. Larry Levin lives with his wife and adopted twin sons. The twelve year old twin boys owned a cat who was terminally ill. One day, they brought the cat to Ardmore Animal Hospital near Philadelphia to say their farewells as the cat was going to be put down. Despite the original sadness of the day, the mood was soon lightened when a puppy with a mangled face…

Plum Island Trip First of all, I decided to do this project because it included a trip to an island. My first thought was warm weather, the sun, the beach, and the ocean, but unfortunately we did this trip in a cold, dark and windy day. We spent most of our day at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, which is located along the northeast coast of Massachusetts. This refuge has it's history, it was established in 1941 for several reasons, which they are: to provide feeding, resting, and…

Throughout our lives as adolescents we are asked “what do we want to become?” I have contemplated what I wished to do with my life for quite a while and I was inspired by constants in my life ever since I was little. I remember always having a pet by my side to comfort me when I was unhappy and play with me when I was alone. The catalyst for my decision was whenever I lived on a busy street with cars constantly speeding through every day. One sunny day I went to the car to retrieve something…

when anyone reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime written by Mark Haddon. In this book the main protagonist and narrator is, Christopher an autistic child who struggles with social interaction and trust throughout this book. This novel started as a mystery novel quickly turn into a heart-breaking story about Christopher conflicts with trusting the people in his life and social acceptance from others. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Haddon presents animals in…

They take part in it just as another family member would. Who knows, tomorrow could be the day a family that has been wanting and go into an animal shelter and wants the dog, which the shelter wants to euthanize. There’s always hope in every animal finding a forever home. Although there’s nothing you can do to help some dogs, except take them out of their pain and euthanize them. In conclusion, I believe that no animal should be put down due to the time limit of not being adopted. Animals are…

disregards the old man's orders and carries on. He obviously has lack of experience if he can't tell if it's too cold to take on such a big task. The man wanders out into the great Yukon not knowing the weather conditions and nine hours into the hike the dog breaks into the ice and gets his legs wet as the man pulls…