The Deer Hunter

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    When I was a child, Seven-or-eight years old, In the little town of Dalton in the pasture behind my home, I was going on an adventure. I left my house at Six Thirty in the morning, expecting something extraordinary to happen. I was wandering through the dark woods when I started hearing a roaring sound off in the distance, but having the mind of a child, it did not bauther me. I started to notice how the roaring sound began to get closer. I was paying Really close attention to the sound when I…

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    provoke further thought. If the intention was to make the reader feel like the narrator is wrong for failing to help the deer, or that it implies a moral flaw, then the author is mistaken here. The idea, that what a person does when no one is looking reveals there character, is valid. However, the metaphor used relies on the basis that a person is expected to aide an already dying baby deer, who would either die without a mother or live on only to be hunted and killed. The poem is beautifully…

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    I saw the deer in the cross hairs of my scope; I took one last deep breath of the crisp winter air as my dad pressured me to hurry up, and I squeezed the trigger. I had never heard anything sound so loud in my life. My heart was beating through my chest as I looked down to see blood and shattered glass everywhere. The doe I was aiming for still standing in front of me unharmed. I was shaking uncontrollably, and not from the cold, but from the sight of what I had done. The smell of black power…

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    ack the Squirrel Happy Jack Squirrel had had a wonderful day. He had found some big chestnut-trees that he had never seen before which promised to give him all the nuts he would want for winter. Happy Jack started on his long journey around the open field. Now, Happy Jack's eyes are bright, and there is very little that Happy Jack does not see. So, as he was jumping from one tree to another, he spied something down on the ground which excited his curiosity. "I must stop and see what that is,"…

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    My first time going trap shooting The first time I want trap shooting was when I was 12 and into shooting sports. One day I decided to ask my friend that went trap shooting with his dad a lot if I could go with him next time he was going, of course, his dad said if my parents are ok with it. So I went and asked my parents they said I could go. I was ecstatic at the thought of my first time going trap shooting and I had a lot of questions like, how do I do this?, is it going to be hard?, will I…

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    pop up blind in the top of a creek bed spraying apple spray to have them come. We then waited about four to five hours, and a hundred twenty five pound doe came into the creek bed. My uncle stood up aimed and shot it. Then we dragged it out with a deer cart,and field dressed it in the corn field. It was fun because me and my uncle were like brothers and we did everything together. He would take me out hunting, and the first time I went I wasn't really into it but when I finally got to shoot it…

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    Spending the night was always something common for me to do at my grandparents’ house. On this particular morning it was extremely cold outside. Not the type of cold where you just might want to put on two big jackets. It was the type of cold that made you want to cringe; even the whistle of the wind was harsh to your eardrums. The type of cold that the ligaments of your fingers ached from the chills attacking at them, even they were simultaneously begging you to get them to warmth. Now I was in…

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    Spearing Caribou Analysis

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    practice in the 1970s. I was the first individual taught by the Ethen Eldèli Denesųłiné how to spear caribou in more than 20 years. Denesųłiné do not spear caribou anymore. Besides myself, the last time a hunter was trained to spear caribou was in the 1990s, when a single novice Denesųłiné hunter was taught. Denesųłiné treat caribou heads with respect. At caribou kill sites, Harvesters remove heads during the first stage of caribou butchery. They keep heads separate from caribou meat. They bring…

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    In the middle of the movie Pete was starting to become more confident with his actions, meeting Elliot was the best thing that had happened to him. Six years of this unbelievable journey throughout the forest and this moment was positively the scariest. The wonderful archetypal journey Pete and Elliot had experienced had seemed to finally come to an end. A woman of wonder saw and experienced something she never thought she would. According to the movie Pete's Dragon it states, Grace. “Well, I’m…

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    Do you know whose name was originally jumping badger. Sitting Bull name was originally jumping badger.Sitting Bull was a tribe chief. He was a holy man . He fought to protect his tribe. Sitting Bull has been credited for several acts of bravery in his lifetime . According to (Bio.) Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in what now is called south carolina Near the yellowstone river. In addition sitting bull loved making bows and arrows. He hunted Buffalo,Rabbits and Birds.His father was known as…

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