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    Every little boy dreams of the day they are old enough to go on a fishing trip with dad. In both passage one and passage two a story is told about this exact experience. While E.B White’s story is told from a fathers eyes reminiscing, Virginia Woolf wrote her passage from her own eyes. Constantly going to a summer lake house as a boy the father in passage one finds himself nostalgia seeing the fun his son is having. In paragraph one he states, “the incessant wind which blows across the…

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    “There are three things that are brothers: my two hands and the fish.” Santiago, or the old man, states this in the beginning of his voyage with the mighty marlin. This begins to develop the theme of Santiago’s relationship with nature. In my opinion, the best theme in the story. In the beginning, it is briefly mentioned that some of Santiago’s, or the old man’s, fellow fisherman disrespected nature. Santiago had a positive relationship with nature. He had no trouble sleeping outside because he…

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    how Red Lobster uses subtle trigger items to attract customers, explain how they do business and how they give you the feeling of friends and family every time. Imagine yourself on a dry dock on the coast of Maine, bringing in your haul from a big fishing trip; this is how the author feels about his trip to the Red Lobster restaurant. The Red Lobster gives you a feel of how it is to be a fisherman whenever you walk inside. By providing this experience, they attract customers and keep showing a…

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    “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim” says Vicki Harrison, the author of Dressed to Thrill. Learning to swim is something that almost anyone can accomplish. Much like swimming in the ocean, no matter how overwhelming it can become, everyone can learn to cope with their grief. For the main character in A Christmas Carol, however, he strives to take on his grief without learning…

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    The ARA San Juan, which was last contacted off the coast of Argentina on November 15, has enough air to last only seven to 10 days if it has remained fully immersed since that time, experts say. If the submarine has surfaced or "snorkeled" -- that is, raised a tube to the surface to refresh the vessel's air -- since then, the crew may have bought more time. Anxious families have been waiting at Argentina's Mar del Plata navy base, to which the submarine was heading when it vanished, for news of…

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    Hooked on Fishing Some people never get to experience the thrill of fishing or they just don’t like it. I am lucky enough to have an uncle with the same interests as me. I thought that getting up early on the Sunday before the last week of school would be horrible. I was at my grandma’s house and was getting up to go fishing on my uncle’s boat. I had gone fishin previously, but only in small ponds with small fish. We drove all the way to Lewiston on a windy day and put the boat in the water.…

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    hunting and fishing has changed a good deal over time, the essential spirit is similar just like my grandfather’s day. It’s true that hunting gear products are more effective. You’ll find warmer clothes, better gear, and-tech monitoring equipment. You possibly can make fishing and hunting as high-tech as you wish, really. You’ll be able to sea food with sonar where you can begin to see the feet from the ocean, or search with infrared scopes. For me, however, I like hunting and fishing the old…

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    Old Man Perseverance

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    this was not the great fish he was hopping for. It was only after many hours of nothing that he first felt the tug of a marlin. Soon after hooking it all the way he found out about the raw power of the great fish for it easily towed both him and his boat out to sea. See the power of the fish did not however diminish his hope of catching him inside it strengthened his determination of caching it. For three day the fish towed Santiago around with varying amounts of fighting and tugging on the…

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    me wearing a gray t-shirt, blue jeans, and carrying a fishing pole. Is he coming up next to me to cast out or is he going to the opposite side? The area is small near the dam and it's hard to have two or three people casting because when you cast out the river carries your lure or bait down with it, causing you to possibly become tangled. Doe's he know that? The writer was taught to ask or go somewhere else if she noticed someone was fishing in a spot. Is he there because he's having a bad day…

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    A captain, cook, oiler, and correspondent find themselves in a miniscule boat fighting for survival. This is not the beginning of a bad joke, but rather the scene found at the beginning of Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”. Following these four characters as the recover from a shipwreck and attempt to make it to safety though all they have is a small boat and their waning strength, this story shares a powerful theme. This story is a prime example of the Naturalism philosophy: no matter what humans…

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