...Fishing I was on call to go rescue somebody from the cold waters of North America, It started out as a normal routine getting everything together and getting in the helicopter. By the time we got close to where the lady was I could tell there was something wrong. We made it to where she was and started to lower the ladder, I started to go down the ladder to get her and then all the sudden she started yelling, I didn’t know what was going on until I looked down and saw a huge fin. I calmly started giving her instructions on what to do and not freak out because that would make it worse. HA, it worked I saw the shark start swimming away so she started to swim my way. By the time she made it to the ladder she was already scared, out of nowhere...
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...I can remember the day I caught my first trout on ultra light rod when I was three.It was a 20 in rainbow and I still have that fish on my wall. My dad has been trout fishing all his life and he kept the tradition of the first day going with my brother and I. We like fishing later in the year because there isn’t as many people around and a lot of times you have a creek full of fish to yourself. Later in the year the leaves are starting to change color it smells great like fresh wild air. The water is pretty warm but starting to get colder and when it’s hot out I can taste the salty sweat. Now it was just four years ago when I was 10 that I got something I will always remember and always will have. My dad is about 5’9 dark hair,and loves to...
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...My One Summer Highlight I had so many amazing memories this summer. However my favorite memory is when I caught sea bass on Catalina Island. So one day, my family and I decided to go fishing. We walked onto the extended, wooden bridge to get our vessel. It was a dingy that was made out of wood and it was painted tan. Once we were ready, we went out to the ocean that surrounded the island. We steered our boat for about seven minutes to a vast area of sea. We dropped our lines and waited, and waited, and waited. My brother switched places with my dad, and my dad went to go help my sisters, Makena and Bailey. We caught nothing. Then my dad drove out to another spot where there was a big boat, filled with people. The boat was elevated and and a bog deck...
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...Canada Fishing Trip The sound of waves smashing up against the side of the plane. “Do you want to ride up in the front?” the pilot asks me as we get on the plane. I responded with an exiting “yes” and jumped in the front. I put on a headset and talked to the pilot. About thirty minutes later we landed on the lake we were going to fish at. The plane landed on the water creating huge waves that crashed against the dock like a fish slamming its body against the side of a boat. I jumped out of the plane and notice the cabin, it was way bigger than it looked in the pictures. We brought our luggage inside and dropped it off in a room. We separated our fishing equipment from everything else because we were about to go fishing. The first day I decided to go fishing with my grandpa, we put everything in the boat and jumped in. About ten minutes later we got to our first spot, we dropped our lines in the water and right when my jig hit the bottom of the lake I got a hit. It was tugging on my line so I reeled it in. I brought it up to the top of the lake and picked it up. “That looks like a good fish for eating,” said my grandpa. Two hours of nonstop hits later we went in for lunch. When we got back my grandpa was in the front filleting fish, when he was done he asked me to throw all of...
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...Imagine this: high quality of fishing all day long, hardly going to the store to replace broken or ripped lures, catching fish one after another, and a peaceful quiet morning. I am Alex Hurley in 8th grade at Silver Hills Middle School. I love fishing and the closest fishing and/or hunting store is the Cabela's store off of interstate 25. Honestly I do not like going to other fishing stores, because they are either too far away or they do not have what I need to enjoy my time fishing. Cabela’s is my favourite store so keep that up. But there are some things that I would like to see change. I have been using the Cabela’s fishing brand for as long as could remember, and I had good luck with the soft plastic lures. As you know you are going to lose some lures while fishing if that is getting it stuck or you have used it for a while. So I went and bought some more, the ones that I used before were my dads so he had them for a while. When I got the new lures I was excited to see the look of the lure. So I went out fishing and every couple of cast the soft plastic would rip and the action was never what I was looking for. It was like putting a stick on a string....
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...Lake” and Judy Brady’s “I want a wife”, both authors write on personal encounters they experienced. The author chooses two different methods of writing styles. E.B. White utilizes a nostalgic reflective descriptive piece, whereas Brady uses a more sarcastic narrative. Arguably both writers do a great job in their story telling skills. Both stories are respected and pleasing, yet similar but different at the same time. The authors’ choice of writing style is what gives one story more of an advantage to the other. Though descriptive and narrative essay have identical intent – to tell the reader a story- narratives are more effective in capturing the audience because the uses of different voices, they bring ideas into perspective and they are relatable. There are special components that both style of writing possesses. Narrative writing usually does not stress adjectives to give the physical details of characters, setting or events in the story. Nothing like descriptive writing, narrative writings are written in the first person in order to convey the author's attitudes, beliefs and memories. Narratives are conventional, while descriptive writings content often emphases on a single event, object or place. Occasionally, writers utilize narrative writing style to tell about the past or the future in broad terms. A narrative often reflects personal experience, clarifying what happened during some sort of incident. Narrative essay topics include recounting an experience where the learned...
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...after the deaths of her father and Piquette, she realizes that the loons are no longer there. The loons become associated with death and loss, and while symbolic of Piquette, they are also an allegory of Canadian history. 4. What does Vanessa mean by the last sentence of the story? When Vanessa encounters Piquette as a young woman, she recognizes in Piquette what she hears in the loons' cries—“self-pity” (192) and “terrifying hope” (193); when Vanessa learns of Piquette's death soon after, she responds with silence. Vanessa's personal loss—of her father and of Piquette—is connected through the symbol of the loons with the Metis' loss of their land and their culture. Vanessa's realization at the end of the story, that only Piquette “had heard the crying of the loons” (194), signals the loss of her political innocence. Vanessa faces the reality of Canadian history at a direct personal level. 5. How does Laurence connect the personal with the political in “The Loons”? 6. How does Laurence...
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...1 Overview of How to Write an Essay Writing essays is a major element of your education at the university level. Effective writing gives you the ability to express your ideas, theories, arguments, and projects clearly. The skills you acquire at the university level through writing essays will be aimed at practical business applications that you will be able to use in the workplace. The following information provides a succinct overview of the elements you need to know to begin writing an essay. It will help you on your writing journey. Types of Essays Narrative A narrative essay is a story told by a narrator. Generally, a narrative discusses the personal experience of the author (the first person point of view), but it can also be written about things that happen to others (third person point of view). A narrative typically involves characters, a setting, specific and vivid details, and a series of events that can include current incidents, flashbacks, or dialogue. Cause and Effect A cause and effect essay explores why events, actions, or conditions occur (cause) and examines the results of those events, actions, or conditions (effect). For example, a cause could be purchasing a new expensive home. The effect might be fewer family vacations, more time spent on upkeep, or less time with family because of extra work hours to pay for the home. Comparison and Contrast A comparison and contrast essay shows the relationship between two or more elements. The items can be compared...
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...1 Overview of How to Write an Essay Writing essays is a major element of your education at the university level. Effective writing gives you the ability to express your ideas, theories, arguments, and projects clearly. The skills you acquire at the university level through writing essays will be aimed at practical business applications that you will be able to use in the workplace. The following information provides a succinct overview of the elements you need to know to begin writing an essay. It will help you on your writing journey. Types of Essays Narrative A narrative essay is a story told by a narrator. Generally, a narrative discusses the personal experience of the author (the first person point of view), but it can also be written about things that happen to others (third person point of view). A narrative typically involves characters, a setting, specific and vivid details, and a series of events that can include current incidents, flashbacks, or dialogue. Cause and Effect A cause and effect essay explores why events, actions, or conditions occur (cause) and examines the results of those events, actions, or conditions (effect). For example, a cause could be purchasing a new expensive home. The effect might be fewer family vacations, more time spent on upkeep, or less time with family because of extra work hours to pay for the home. Comparison and Contrast A comparison and contrast essay shows the relationship between two or more elements. The items can be compared...
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...Personal Narrative “RYAN!” My sister shouts from the lake as I spray on sticky sunscreen. “Hurry up, we’re about to leave!” Hurriedly grabbing my towel, I swing open the screen door of my grandma’s remote Minocqua cabin, bounding down wooden steps to a similarly wooden pier. As I clamber onto the boat after my siblings and parents, I check what’s in it- a rope, a handle, waterskis, and a few fishing rods- we’re ready! Once I untie us from the dock, my dad pushes off and we chug across North Placid Lake .I’m 11 years old, and today is the first day I will try to waterski. I’m not sure what to expect- will it be easy? Difficult? Will I get dragged, unable to let go? My worries fade away into calmness as I observe the serene woodlands I’ve become...
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...philosophy, imaginations and real life events. Even in the modern age this subconscious desire results in the inclusion of autobiographical elements of the author into his writings. Ernest Hemingway, America’s most celebrated novelist-cum -short story writer of the twentieth century is said to derive the impetus for his fiction from his own real life experiences or very rarely from the experiences of others who have went through agonies in life just like him. The Old Man and the Sea, one of his greatest and most widely read work is certainly filled with many allusions to his own life, and ideals. The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of an old fisherman named Santiago who fishes in the gulf stream. The man is having some bad time with fishing and has gone without fish for eighty five days. He is very poor and his apprentice, Manolin is the only company he has on the shore. Due to his ill luck, Manolin is forced to work on a different boat by his parents. The major part of the novel takes place in the sea, when the old man goes into the sea alone on the eighty fifth day to catch a fish. He philosophises about many things, talks to himself aloud and interacts with the nature around his. Make small...
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...Journal of Health Communication, 13:667–680, 2008 Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1081-0730 print/1087-0415 online DOI: 10.1080/10810730802412248 Interrupting a Narrative Transportation Experience: Program Placement Effects on Responses to Antismoking Advertising SARAH DURKIN AND MELANIE WAKEFIELD Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia It is thought that ‘‘transportation’’—absorption into the narrative flow of a story— may play a role in influencing resistance to persuasion. We hypothesized that advertising that disrupts the experience of narrative transportation may be adversely appraised by audiences. This study aimed to explore the influence of two types of television programs: narratives (dramas, comedies, and soap operas) versus nonnarratives (light entertainment, sports, documentaries, and news), on smokers’ reactions to antismoking advertisements. In preexposure interviews, daily smokers (n ¼ 779) were asked to watch a particular television program they usually watched. Postexposure interviews were conducted within 3 days of exposure. Results indicated that placing an antismoking ad within a program in which the viewer is focused on the narrative flow of a story may lead to reduced immediate cognitive and emotional impact of the ad and reduced intentions to quit, especially among those for whom the ad is most relevant, such as those preparing to quit smoking. Placing antismoking advertising...
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...Representation is a process of composition wherein composers make stylistic choices in order to position responders to see aspects of human experience in new ways. Mark Raphael Baker, in his 1997 historical memoir, The Fiftieth Gate, deliberately chooses a fragmented, polymorphous structure united within an overarching narrative to embody how the disparate aspects of past human experience can be understood through the symbiotic reconciliation of the once polar oppositions of history and memory. Like Baker, Joe Kubert, in his graphic novel, Yossel April 19, 1943, deliberately chooses a raw drawing style and fictionalised recreations of silenced voices of the past to embody the subjective reality that is omitted from documented history. Both...
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...Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Advanced Placement English III First Six Weeks – Introductory Activities: ▪ Class rules, expectations, procedures ▪ Students review patterns of writing, which they will imitate throughout the course: reflection, narration and description, critical analysis, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and persuasion and argument. ▪ Students review annotation acronyms, how to do a close reading, literary elements and rhetorical devices. Students also review the SOAPSTONE (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone, organization, narrative style and evidence) strategy for use in analyzing prose and visual texts along with three of the five cannons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style. ▪ Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern...
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...influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm. "New Wave" is an example of European art cinema. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm. Using portable equipment and requiring little or no set up time, the New Wave way of filmmaking presented a documentary type style. The films exhibited direct sounds on film stock that required less light. Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of objective realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end. It holds that the director is the "author" of his movies, with a personal signature visible from film to film. The informal movement was spearheaded by a handful of critics from Cahiers du cinema Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric...
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