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    My Blog About Peak In my book called Peak there is a character called Peak I think the 3 adjectives my character and I have in common are that we are determined, dedicated, and cautious. In this blog I will be talking in depth on each one. First let me give a quick intro. The book Peak is about a kid who is given the opportunity to climb Mount Everest, and he is trying to summit it. I think that my character and me share the trait of determination because; when I am training I am determined to

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    allegory, or symbolism, is alive and useful in both history and present day. "Hills Like White Elephants", "A Rose For Emily", and "Where Are You Going, Where have you been?" are all fictional short stories, with numerous amounts of allegory, or symbolism, to be analyzed by the use of quotes from each story, and all with both a short term symbolic meaning and a long term overall theme. I was intrigued by all of the symbolism in “Hills Like White Elephants”. At first, I did not realize the symbolic meaning

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    order, check their smartphones, eat, and I wonder why they do not look up, face each other and genuinely communicate. What I perceive, are men and women living not with, but next to each other. This is exactly what I imagined when I read Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”. A couple waiting to catch a train and as they sit and drink some beers, they start talking about Jig’s pregnancy and the option of abortion. However, all I can hear is silence because they simply do not speak the same language

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    the basics down, we must keep riding the hills to get better. We rode on two hills called the EZ rider and the terrain. The EZ riders is more for beginners, it’s not as steep as other hills, wider trails, and easier chair lifts to get off. The terrain is a little harder it has jumps, rails, and other obstacles, steeper than most hills, and faster chair lifts. Riding the same hills repetitively slowly became tiresome. With even switching from hill to hill it felt like I was making the same movements

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    happened. The big time has come. Me and my cross country teammates are all getting ready for our big meet. The meet we all were riding to was Cascade aka known as the “bitch ditch” because one of the enormous hills we go up this little hill and go straight down then up the other big hill again. Right after I got ready I came outside to get on the bus. I could feel the sun beating the hotness right on me and my sweat dripping right off of me. While I went on the bus we are doing the attendance and

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    7. Case Study 2: Visakhapatnam City Geographically, Visakhapatnam is situated in the middle of Chennai-Kolkata Coromandal Coast. The city coordinates lies between 17°41'18″North latitude and 83°13'07″East longitude. This area is covered with hills of range between 30 m to 594 m above mean sea level. Geologically, Visakhapatnam has major folds which are traced in the direction of north east and south west of Eastern Ghats hilly region. The geography and geomorphologic characteristics make it prone

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    “All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn’t that bright?” “I wanted to try this new drink: That’s all we do isn’t it? - Look at things and try new drinks? “I guess so”. “The girl looked across at the hills. “They’re lovely hills,” she said. “They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees”. (Hemingway 590) There seems to be a disconnection between both individuals. On one hand they seem to be calm, cool, and

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    elements in this painting. The artist used many contour lines to define the boundaries between the trees and the valley, the river and the land, and even the long roads from the hills as it winds through the countryside. Wood also incorporated a lot of implied lines into his artwork. The trees and bushes that line the hills create a line of sight which draws the eye of the viewer to the house on the river, which is the focal point of this painting. The lines all move in different directions and help

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    the sky. It would’ve been a great day to run, except for the fact that we were running at the El Paso-Gridley course. The course is filled with lots of small hills. There’s a long creek the runners run through

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    spot where we could see the rim of the canyon through the opening in the trees. As we looked up to the top of the canyon, we noticed there was a bull elk at the top of the canyon. It looked like a postcard. The elk was standing on the very top of the hill with nothing around it but the green grass and the tall trees in the background. He was looking straight down at as, and didn?t even care that we were there. We didn't shoot right away. For one thing we didn't know if he was of legal size, and another

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