Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada

The Canadian Shield has many forests, within those forests are a lot of trees. Mostly trees grow in the Shield. The types of trees that are found are birch, aspen, hemlock, pine and balsan. The trees listed are found in the southern parts of the Shield. There is also tamarack, black spruce and white spruce trees are in the forests of the Shield, a lot of the forests in the shield have a mix of many trees.

1. Write a precise, well-developed sentence that states as fully as possible the theme of the story. Remember to avoid clichés or oversimplification.

Some may say that it is impossible to survive in the wilderness for a month. However I will tell you how I survived the unexpected events that led me to be stranded in the Canadian wilderness. It's crazy to say that I only had very few items besides the clothing I had arrived in. Theses selected items had helped me survive southern Canadian wilderness.

The major animals that live in the interior plains are wolves, mule deers, elks, antelopes and brown bears. These animals, with the exception of the wolves, feed on the vegetation that grow on the plains, which are mainly grasses. The native plant life in the interior plains consist mostly of different types of grasses, like blue stems, june grass and porcupine grass. The trees that grow in the plains include pine, spruce and fir

“If I truly believe the war is wrong, is it then also wrong to go off and kill people? If I do that, what will happen to my soul?” (pg 60). Tim O 'Brien is an American man who was drafted into the Vietnam War. O 'Brien is not a violent man and struggles because he believes that the war is wrong. He debates whether or not he should go to war or move to Canada to avoid the draft. Tim O 'Brien decides to join the army. O 'Brien uses his personal experiences as a foot soldier in the Vietnam War to convey his possible bias perspective that the Vietnam War was a waste of people 's lives and a shameful venture for the United States.

When Richie’s platoon leader, Lieutenant Carroll, is killed during a combat mission, Richie begins a serious search for answers to why he and his fellow soldiers are even fighting in Vietnam in the first place. Though his friends insist that such thoughts are futile and dangerous, Richie feels compelled to find meaning within the chaos. He also longs for some way to communicate his confused thoughts and emotions to his family, but he remains unable to do so. Richie is not sure how to sort out the emotions he feels or how to communicate them effectively to civilians who have never seen combat.

According to page 115, bud thought about shooting Todd Amos with the gun. It would have been different if he shot Todd. What if bud was a murder, he would o gotten in a lot of trouble and gotten caught by the police. The Amos would have killed him. Bub wouldn’t of died in the story by the Amos or the police.

Caribou Ranch area was popular with hunters and trappers in the 1800’s. A hunter named Nathan W. Brown decided to make the area home and built a 2-story log home that became known as Brown’s Mountain House, which became a welcoming inn for hunters and prospector. One such prospector was Sam Conger who was also a good friend to Buffalo Bill. While on a hunting trip in 1869, Conger discovered silver ore and staked several claims naming them Caribou. News quickly spread about the find, and at its height, Caribou became home to 3,000 Prospectors.

Though readers could look to any chapter to find the themes of life through the eyes of war and all of its lenses, O’Brien pulls haunting strings in the chapter, “Friends.” Tackling a story of love amongst friends in the face of tragedy like a New Caster who was live at the scene. The scripted and dispassionate feel towards the demasking of the pure ugliness of war, forces the hairs on the back of one's neck stand. In this chapter, O’Brien tells a story that includes: Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen. After being enemies and then becoming friends through Dave Jensen's paranoid act of breaking his own nose. The two eventually grow to trust each other so much, that they write down a pact of honor. Should one be injured to the point of needing a wheelchair

In the beginning of the novel the boys are at war yet there return marks a change in the family dynamic. Gabriel has plans for the family in California, symbolic of the American Dream, but when the boys return from the war they bring an agenda of their own. In the season of their return they simply drink all night and cultivate a spirit of apathetic disappointment from their parents. “My mother worried about them almost as much as she had when they were at war, but she said nothing. As long as they were back she was happy.

In today's era it's very hard to die from a cold or flu, and everywhere you go there is medicine from sore throat to stuff for diabetes. This would benefit Bud because he wouldn’t be an orphan anymore. He also wouldn’t have to go on this big chase for herman. But at the same time if his mom didn’t die then he wouldn’t know lefty Lewis or the band. also, if Bud's mom was alive she could just straight up tell Bud who his dad is. His mom would be able to protect Bud and take a lot more of him if he was still alive. In conclusion if Buds mom was not dead Bud would be a lot better

As a young adult that has seen things that no one should ever have to see and experiencing them first hand changes the way that someone deals with issues. With how hard it is mentally going into the war when you do not understand why they are fighting must have been very grueling for Gary. The Vietnam war was very tough on the body and the mind and for a 19 year old dealing with these experiences and thoughts that occur change the way one person deals with things and

BUD NOT BUDDY Do you know what it was like to be a black 10 year old boy roaming the streets, during the Great Depression? In the book, Bud not Buddy, Bud a young boy, goes through events. Bud has to go to a foster home and the family was cruel to him Eventually, Bud escapes there home. Then Bud goes on the lam and takes off for Grand Rapids in search of who he believes to be his dad but who turns out to be is grandpa.

Like a pebble or a blade of grass, you just stare and think, Dear Christ, there's the last thing on earth I'll ever see” (O'Brien 189). Vietnam made O'Brien's life difficult and now he is stuck with the memories. “War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” (O'Brien 76). War is a mystery one does not know what it will physically and mentally do. War is also an adventure and a way to find oneself. It molds the soldiers into the men they are today. O'Brien repeats the fact that he is forty-three years old five times. He does this throughout the book to show how the war continues to haunt him, 20 years later. One example is, “I’m forty-three years old and a writer now, and the war has been over for a long while. Much of it is hard to remember ¨ (O'Brien 31, 171, 213, 223, 232). O’Brien also repeats throughout the book the event of Lavender's death. Lavender’s death affected Cross, and he blames himself for Lavender being dead. “At one point, I remember, we paused over a snapshot of Ted Lavender,

In the story, Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden, the major focus of the novel is the collapse of culture and traditional ways of the Cree in Mossonee, and how people can lose themselves. The