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    Celebrating National Pig Day Have you ever thought that our farmyard pig has an annual celebration day? Well, as new and interesting as this might sound for you, it is true! National Pig Day is a special event celebrated every year, on March 1, in the United States, mainly in the Midwest. This celebration has its origins in 1972, and it was first started by two sisters – Ellen Stanley and Mary Lynne Rave. National Pig Day was invented for celebrating the pig, which is one of the most intellectual

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    #1: Jack failing to kill the pig the first time “They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (31) In this moment, Jack’s inability to kill the pig due to hesitation allowed it to escape from the creepers into the undergrowth. Jack claims he “was choosing a place… I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him,” but in reality, he was anxious to kill the pig because he had never been put

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    The stories “The Ant And The Grasshopper” and “The Three Little Pigs” have both similarities and differences. One thing these stories have in common is the theme. The theme of these stories is being unprepared can hurt you. In the story “The Ant And The Grasshopper” winter is coming, and the ant is preparing for winter, and the grasshopper is not. The ant spent most of his days gathering food and making shelter. The grasshopper spent his days eating all the food he could find and enjoying

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    shapes coming closer to the spaceship. Once the smoke was all gone they realized the shapes were pigs. Soon more and more pigs began to appear around the space shuttle. Thomas was worried about stepping outside to greet them but Fredrickson insisted it was okay because they were only pigs. The pigs greeted them kindly and offered to take them to their king. On the way to the Pig Palace Thomas asked the pigs some questions like “How did you guys manage to get to the moon?” or “How have you survived this

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    Two Little Pigs and Two Big Wolves A long long time age there was a small village that has only a few animals and peoples. One sunny and bright shining day, the sun was shining hard on the small village. In the small village there was a farm that was as green as a grass land. The farmers were working hard in the farmlands to earn money. In the morning the pigs that were in the village decided to go out and live outside for a few days. The pigs’ mother and father were all very worried and afraid

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    This topic was explored throughout a novel called The Guinea Pigs, by Ludvík Vaculík. Vaculík was a notable Czechoslovakian author in the mid 20th century, while the novel takes place in Prague around 1973. The experiments the narrator forced on the guinea pigs, paralleled the government’s mistreatment of its banker’s-- each one became more invasive and more controlling. In the novel The Guinea Pigs, the experiments done on the guinea pigs become more invasive and controlling by the narrator throughout

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    Thanks to the Future Farmers of America there are several reasons to raise a pig during one’s years in high school. However, these motives may be unclear to the naked eye of a visitor. For example, I managed to befriend a foreign exchange student from Denmark this year and the concept of raising a pig simply to slaughter it and present its carcass to a crowd of people who would proceed to bid ridiculous amounts of money with each raise of a card. Though it may seem morbid, this entire process can

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    Pig Dissection Lab Report

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    Introduction Most animals don’t have similar structures, but they all have same function to stay alive. All animals have a reproductive system, digestive system, nervous system Pig: Our fetal pig which we dissected is a female who was 100 days in the gestation period and has the length of 25 cm. In the pig dissection, we found the stomach and intestines. By the way it looks it seems to have similar functions of the human digestive system. The stomach breaks down the food while the intestine absorbs

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    Once Upon a time in a forest far far away there lived 3 pigs and a mother. The pigs names where Ricky Nicki and Joseph. Joseph was the oldest one Nicki was the second oldest and Ricky was the youngest one. One day the mama Pig went to the grocery store to go and get some food and decoration for the house. Well as soon as she disappeared the 3 pigs seen that she had left some chores for them on the kitchen table. To them it was like the list never stop, it was like a bible full of chores. Ricky Nicki

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    Fat Pig Heroism

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    I cannot deny that I am privileged. I’m relatively well off financially, I have no disability, I’m white, and I meet conventional beauty standards for the most part. Yet when reading Neil Labute’s Fat Pig, I found myself identifying with both Tom and Helen. As much as I would like to cast off the idea that I could ever do what Tom does Helen, it seems likely that I have. Yet, I’ve also experienced a longing similar to that of Helen. Which is why I must agree with what Labute says in the preface

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