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Eulogy For October

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After a while, he finally found a small raspberry bush. To him, it was like finding gold. Although he was starving, Henrik knew he needed to be very careful. Carefully, he cut the bush off of its roots and carried it back to camp. He then boiled some water to be sure it was clean and let it cool down. Once it was cool and he knew he wouldn't burn his hand, Henrik took the raspberries off of the bush and cleaned them in the water. After that, he could finally, safely, eat his first meal that wasn't fish since he was ditched. The raspberries were so good that Henrik was inspired to find more good food. Meat. Henrik hadn't had meat for all this time, either. A bird Henrik thought. He had no way to catch it. He had no tools other than a small knife that was almost worn down from using it so much. He didn't want to waste it making such a large tool, like a bow, that required many arrows and might not even work. I need to think more positively. Creatively. Henrik thought. I have two great tools right on my arms. He through looking at his hands. Henrik put his knife back in his shelter and left to look for a bird. It took him the best part of the afternoon to even spot a bird. Then he saw it. He came across a flock with at least twenty birds! Before he tried to get one, he stopped himself. Once he went for one, the rest would fly …show more content…

Henrik was unsure of it, but he would take the chance that the pilot wanted to hurt him rather than die in the woods. The pilot told him to get on the plane, but Henrik turned around, saying he needed to grab one thing. He ran into his tent and picked up the knife. It seemed useless now that it was rusted, but it was what saved his life. Maybe he could get it fixed, but it was to important to him. Maybe back home, he could get it fixed. Henrik put the knife into his back pocket and ran to the

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Brian Roberson was in a plane crash in the hard-spined north woods of the Canada during the winter. Brian found an emergency survival kit from the plan. It had a 22 rifle with a compass in the handle, hunting knife, matches, pot and pans, a fork, spoon, knife, two butane lighters, a sleeping bag, foam mat, first aid kit with scissors, a cap that said “Cessna”, fishing line, lures, hooks, sinkers and freeze dried food . Brian hoped that these supplies would help him survive until help came. Brian uses the tools to build a shelter out of wood and bark.

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but then he kept eating and jamming them into his mouth. Then he felt sick a little but then it was gone. “He could not believe it was that easy. It was as if the birds had taken him right to the berries,” (59). “A tightening, rolling.

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He walks slowly along the side of the lake. He sees several different kinds of birds and eventually comes upon some bushes full of bright red berries, which the birds are eating. Although the berries are tart and have large pits, Brian is so hungry that he eats and eats and eats, not stopping until his belly is full. Not wanting the birds to take all the berries after he's gone, he makes a pouch from his torn windbreaker and fills it with as many berries as it will hold. As the sun goes down, the mosquitoes return and attack again.

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Since the pilot taught him, Brian flew the plane. He also tried to call for help, until the plane ran out of fuel and crashed. He had crashed in a lake that was in the middle of the Canadian wilderness and managed to survive the crash. Now, Brian had to learn how to survive. It took all his knowledge and strength to survive this terrible disaster.

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After picking up the hatchet, he sees something he never should have seen. Brian saw the pilot's head. The head was eaten by the fishes and Brian almost could have been sick in the water but comes up to the land and tried to sleep. The next day, Brian opened the survival pack. He found a freeze-dried meal which could be cooked fast and there were also an Emergency Transmitter which did not work even though Brian tried hard.

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“She opened the window and set the bird out the ledge. ‘You're alright,’ the bird said. She stroked the underside of his chin and he closed his eyes. ‘Silly bird,’ she whispered. She closed the window and locked it.

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This was until Louie noticed a bird flying, got an idea, and slowly inched his hand closer and closer to the bird. All in one go, Louie closed his hand, and while the bird is pecking he closed his hand and then snapped the bird 's neck. In order to get the meat from the bird, Louie

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One bird asked us if we needed a place to stay. Mom almost started crying she was so happy. Page 8… After about a week, we are all settled in at the bird who offered us to stay with him. He was very welcoming and told us his name was John.

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He found the shell easily and went back to the forest to look for the maple leaf. Once again he couldn’t find the maple tree. He spent the rest of the day looking for the maple tree hoping that he would eventually find it. At last, Al found the maple tree and picked off a leaf and flew urgently back to the starting

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Recently Owen Aerts has been hunting. Owen had shot a 6 point buck. He went hunting to manage the deer population in Lakewood Wisconsin where there was a lot of deer hunters out in the woods on that day ,but Owen got a buck. A lot of people just went out in the woods and sat next to a tree.

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Flannery O’Connor’s The King of the Birds is a narrative explaining the narrator’s obsession with different kinds of fowl over time. The reader follows the narrator from her first experience with a chicken, which caught the attention of reporters due to its ability to walk both backward and forward, to her collection of peahens and peacocks. At the mere age of five, the narrator’s chicken was featured in the news and from that moment she began to build her family of fowl. The expansive collection began with chickens, but soon the narrator found a breed of bird that was even more intriguing; peacocks.

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However, Hillenbrand said, “But the men were fed so little and worked so hard that they felt they had to steal to survive.” There were elaborate sugar and vegetable stealing lines set up. Men would take sharpened bamboo reeds and stick them into sacks of sugar and drain it into socks and deliver it into camps. A similar technique was also used with

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If Mrs. Wright loved her bird so much she would not have been able to kill the bird, therefore Mr. Wright would have been the only one to break the birdcage and kill the bird. The women converse and conclude that Mr. Wright was probably an aggressive and abusive person, “‘But he was a hard man, Mrs. Peters. Just to pass the time of day

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Then the bird said ‘Nevermore’” He inquires whether the bird will leave him

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Sapere aude! The motto of enlightenment which means ‘Have courage to use your own understanding!’ (Kant, 1996). During the year of 1700s, human were said to be immature as they relied too much on other rather than having a courage to have determination and resolution in life. Before that, enlightenment is defined by Immanuel Kant as “…mankind’s exit from its self-incurred immaturity”.

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