The other man was Hugh Glass who was attacked by a bear and crawled one Hundred miles to saftey from the grand valley all of the way to the Missouri river. Each tale filled with different obstacles and hard ships. Well since it is two stories I chose the one story I liked better. This is from the story of John Colter "He came out of the mountains and staggered into the sea of grass that lead to Fort Manuel Lisa. he limped as he walked with the sun hot on his neck.
Emma Thurston English 12 Mrs. Frelich 5/23/12 Wolves, Boys & Other Things That Might Kill Me Kristen Chandler's novel is a classic coming-of-age tale set in Montana shortly after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. KJ Carson, 16, lives with her father, who runs a business as a guide for hunting and fishing parties. While on a hunting trip with him, the teen watches a wolf get torn to pieces by other wolves. Her father tells her not to forget it. He explains, "The minute that wolf backed down it was all over."
She tells me how the Kiowa’s found cedar. She, in summary, said “a long time ago almost the entire tribe was killed but this infant that sustained life from nursing on his dead mother. While nursing on his dead mother he was found by a pack of wolves that took him in as their own and raised the child. And during his childhood raised by wolves he found cedar. It was the Kiowa that found cedar.” Like the boy, last of his people, from us, this land has things hidden.
Keila Pope AP English & Composition 11/29/12 The documentary Brother’s Keepers, made in 1992 directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky tells a story about an alleged 1990 murder in the village of Munnsville, New York. The story takes place in a low income community involving three brothers by the names William, Adelbert, Lyman, and Roscoe Ward were barely literate, had no education, and farmed land. William Ward, who had been ill for years, was found dead one morning. Delbert was accused of killing him, but at Delbert’s trial, Delbert stated that he had performed a mercy killing in order to put William out of his misery after a period of severe headaches and horrible health issues. The New York police violated Delbert's rights by tricking him to confess (which he later retracted) and by having him sign a written statement that he could not understand because he was illiterate.
The Soledad Slayings By: Brett Plaskowitz Figure [ 1 ] Curleys wife dead on the floor in the barn I Brett Plaskowitz am one of the several editors of the Sycamore Sun Newspaper. Our most recent article “The Soledad slaughters” has caught the eye of many people in this small town. Although this is a small town there are quite a few ranches like the one these gruesome crimes were committed on. I have been editing this newspaper for 13 years and this is the most shocking article i have seen happen in this town. For those of you who don’t know what happened I will tell you: Tuesday of this week 2 bodies were discovered on a small ranch in our home town.
A couple lines down Eddie tells us his best friend from high school had died as well. He tells us on page three, “all of them on their racks of black, black earth.” Where he lived they would kill someone for little to any reason. On page three as well “He had died all because he told another guy he had yellow shoes” talking about his cousin. Through the hole book his life was even danger. Samuel had chased Eddie with a knife trying to stab him throughout most of the book.
Transform from one thing to another. Change is represented in the newspaper article by the head line “ten die in QLD floods, 78 missing. The head line tells the reader that a negative change has occurred. The first opening paragraph represents emotional change as a boy as a four year old boy has died. This is an emotional change for the family of the little boy as they have to cope with the death of a family member.
He died when she was thirty years old living her alone with no husband and with a lone to the town. She keeps her father’s body for three days which gives us the idea of insanity. After her father’s death she met foreman Homer Barron who has an affair with Emily for over a year. Homer lives for couple days then he comes back to visit Emily, he goes in the house “and that was the last we saw of Homer Barron” (291). In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses foreshadowing, imagery and symbolism to depict how the small southern town’s mentality and a dominating father drive Emily to insanity and murder.
The Power of Adventure In the book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer writes about his failed exploration in Alaska that forced him to turn around after many setbacks. Chris McCandless, the main character of this novel is found dead in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness and his travels are retraced back through the two years he went missing. Krakauer explores McCandless’s motivations and experiences to recount on his own experience attempting to climb Devils Thumb. Most of Krakauer’s life was spent in and around Alaska, which was a major influence to write this novel. Krakauer’s childhood was a life outdoors and full of adventure, which was brought on by his father.
Desiree Luther English III For more than 100 years, the gray wolf one of the most important members of the Yellowstone National Park Ecosystem, had been missing. The gray wolf was exterminated in the park area by hunters, ranchers, and some of the early park rangers. For several decades park biologists and scientists had discussed the possible reintroduction of the wolf to the park and surrounding areas. In mid-January 1995, fourteen wolves from many separate packs were captured in Canada and then transported into Yellowstone Park and placed into one-acre acclimation pens. The reason for not capturing an entire pack, or packs and moving them into Yellowstone was primarily because it would have been very difficult if not impossible.