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    Time cat By: Lloyd Alexander The time cat was written in 1963, Lloyd Alexander succeeded on his first time writing fantasy for children, which he later called "the most creative and liberating experience of my life(Lloyd Alexander)”. Sadly Lloyd Alexander died on May 17, 2007, two weeks after the death of his wife of sixty-one years. “Lloyd alexander wrote time cat as a fantasy inspired by one of his pet cats, Solomon. Solomon would visit the office while Alexander was working(LlA)”.…

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    Cathy, and I went to my Aunt Silva’s house for our weekly dinner date. After ringing the doorbell, but she didn’t answer. Her neighbor ran across the street to tell us about seeing Aunt Silva drive into her driveway when she started in the house. A cat darted across the lawn and went toward the opening under the house. Grabbing it by the tail, she swung it around several times before slamming it against the…

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    Cat and Rodents Have you ever wondered how cats, rats, and mice became great enemies? There are two theories. There is the ancient Chinese legend “Cat and Rat Legend of the Chinese Zodiac” and “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies.” In Cat and Rat It is about a race and the first twelve to get to the finish line gets a year named after them. In Cats and Mice is about the conflict that happens between cats and mice to make them despise each other. I will give the similarities and differences…

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    mother that i am grateful to him and has given me great pleasure.This quote is taken from the trickster tail Master Cat. The master says that he's thankful for the rabbit. Trickster tales that contain similarities and differences of Master Cat and How Stories Came to Earth. In Master Cat and how stories came to earth there are several simularities.One of the first simularities of Master Cat and How stories Came to earth is how they use Anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism is the act of taking…

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    fatigued after a long hard day. My cat Pluto had been acting a little mysterious. The beast was tilting his head ever so slightly. The cat's eye blinked at me but it was not just any blink it was a blink of guilt. I had this strange feeling my cat did not like me drinking. I have been drinking so much lately since my o’ dearest wife does not show much affection to me. So I intend to drink Rum to feel better. I stared at the cat, I blew my breathe into the cats face to see if it would be…

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    into chunks of main components. In other words summarizing takes something larger and turns it into something smaller. For example, Lincoln’s cat ate at the White House dinner table. His dog was named Fido. His cat was named Tabby. The revised summarized copy follows, Lincoln loves pets. His dog was named Fido, and his cat name was Tabby. He loved his cat so much he let him eat with him at his dinner table. Paraphrasing is expressing the meaning of the…

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    n this draft I will be talking to you about my claim on Aesop's Fables which is not to be greedy. To prove that claim I will use the stories ¨The Swollen Fox¨ and ¨The Flies and the Honey Pot¨. In this draft i will try to prove my claim. In this draft i will give reasons and evidence. In ¨The Swollen Fox¨ A hungry fox seeing some food left by the shepherds crawled in and had a hearty meal. After his meal he was to big to get out then a another fox told him ¨You will have to stay here till you…

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    The graphic novel Maus is an ingenious piece of literature through its usage of illustrations along with text. The co-relation between the text and images is so steadfast that one could only look at the pictures and understand the message the author is trying to get across. There are many instances as such when we can “read” the pictures and understand the meaning, specifically page thirty-three is a great example. Page thirty-three communicates to the reader the messages of hate, oppression and…

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    and go against humans?"... The animals were sitting around and just out of nowhere, a leopard went to a group of cats and he somehow told them to kill a teenage girl nearby and the group did what the leopard said. They called their friends and surrounded the girl. "Why, what a cute little cat. You brought your friends too!" The first cat ran up to her and bit her arm. "Ah! Rabid cats are attacking me!" A man saw her from his apartment on the top floor. He grabbed his shotgun from the shelf…

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    fair — she had never contributed on any decent patrol. But who said life was just? And when she did manage to shove her way into a patrol, she made it clear that she didn't need anymore concerned glances of other cats staring at her in pity! Not that there was any reason to. The silver she-cat didn't bother to fully acknowledge a cream colored tom making his way towards her, his cheerfulness radiating around him as he padded towards her. Instead, Silverstreak knew that he was just the same as…

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