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    Experience is Life’s Ultimate Sculptor The morning was young and the barn was alive. Horses were neighing‚ dogs were barking‚ the goat was bleating‚ and cats appeared out of every nook and cranny that you could see. All were awaiting their morning meals. I grew up on a small farm in Pennsylvania. During the fourteen years of living in Pennsylvania‚ my experiences have taught me many important life skills and morals that will forever guide my life. When people think of farms‚ people normally

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    Poem Fern Hill

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    honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. And as I was green and carefree‚ famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home‚ In the sun that is young once only‚ Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means‚ And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman‚ the calves Sang

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    break anything. So‚ we got out of the pickup‚ adrenaline pumping‚ ready to go find some coons. We smelled the fresh fall air‚ heard the sounds of the wind rustle through the trees‚ and we knew it was going to be a good night. We first tried the old barn when we opened the door we stopped and listened for a second‚ all we heard was the sound of nails scratching on the old boards. We looked left‚ we looked right; we looked up‚ and saw nothing. Then one of my friends felt something fury on his neck‚

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    Passage Explanation “Now comrades‚ what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable‚ laborious‚ and short. We are born‚ we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies‚ and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old

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    ANIMAL FARM ESSAY “The tragic consequences of the rebellion on Animal Farm could have been prevented” What did go wrong on Animal Farm? In George Orwell’s book ‘Animal Farm’‚ many things went wrong. Many agree that the consequences depicted in the book could have been avoided‚ but what really caused these tragic happenings? Did these consequences occur solely because of Napoleon’s dictatorship‚ or did the animals willingness to cooperate

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    Barn Owls

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    Tyto alba‚ more commonly known as the barn owl‚ is one of the most widespread and well-known owls in the world; they can be found on every continent except Antarctica! Barn owls are notoriously named for their favorite nesting location‚ barns. Small rodents‚ insects‚ reptiles‚ and even other birds are all potential meals for the barn owl. It is nocturnal‚ so it usually hunts at night when it uses its extraordinary hearing to track down and capture its prey. Barn owls may be great predators‚ but they

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    I chose to write a comparison essay on Flannery O’Connor’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and William Faulkner’s "Barn Burning". Both of these stories share central characters with similar personalities as well as similar themes and conflicts through the stories. The Grandmother‚ in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"‚ is an old woman with old-fashioned ideas and manners. She considers herself to be a good person‚ but she is also very selfish and manipulative. She makes up lies to get what she wants‚ such

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    paint‚ and a distinct smell that is all too familiar makes the barn my favorite place with my horse‚ Curly. It is my favorite because my world becomes just the two of us. The barn is the most fulfilling place‚ but it also has a component that makes it lonely‚ a feeling like we are the only ones in the world even when other people surround us. When I am with my horse‚ my world is shrunk down to the space that my horse and I are in. The barn has so many things that make it unique and special to me. The

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    Barn Owl

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    1. Barn Owl 2. “Barn Owl is a conversational poem in style ballad 3. Gwen Harwood 4. Gwen Harwood Poems: Volume Two (1968) 5. “Barn Owl” tells the story of a child who leaves bed at sunrise and shoots a Barn Owl that lives in the barn. The Barn Owl comes home to the barn every morning to sleep. The child expected the owl to die immediately he shot it but it didn’t; instead it was badly hurt and the poem describes how it fell from the beam and was tangled in its own innards. The child’s father

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    Barn Owl

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    Barn owlBarn Owl ESSAY Gwen Harwood’s‚ ‘Father and child’‚ is a two-part poem that tempers a child’s naivety to her matured‚ grown up attitude. Barn Owl presents a threshold in which the responder is able to witness the initiation of Gwen’s transition. The transformation is achieved through her didactical quest for wisdom‚ lead by her childhood naivety and is complimented through ‘nightfall’‚ where we see her fully maturate state. The importance of familial relationship and parental guidance is

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