Lumberjack Essays

  • The Lumberjack

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    never a tree too big or a job too tough for Woody. He enjoyed his job as a lumberjack and with good reason. The pay was good, he had always liked the outdoors and he was good at what he did. In fact, some say he was the best. His friends in the city however said he was crazy for moving away. They said there are so many opportunities in the city, but Woody never wanted opportunities, he just wanted to be a lumberjack. So far this job was running smoothly. They were on schedule and there was

  • Great Bear Rainforest

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    Great Bear Rainforest The controversy over logging, and more specifically clearcutting, is not a new issue in America. Ever since the 1920's and 1930's, when this nation started to become conscious of conservation, citizens have weighed the consequences of logging. Critics have questioned whether the increase in jobs, tax dollars, and economic growth was worth the destruction of forest lands. Regardless of what they believe today, the logging industry had become so efficient that by the late

  • Paul Bunyan and "The Big Tree"

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    A long time ago, in the middle of the nineteenth century, there lived a very large lumberjack named Paul Bunyan. Paul Bunyan was a very large person, and it took five big storks to deliver Paul to his parents. He lived in a huge forest, and he was a citizen of the nearby village of Bangor, Maine. Paul loved where he lived because he loved to chop down big trees with his big ax. He was usually unaware of his surroundings, so he often knocked down a lot of trees on accident. One day, Paul’s parents

  • Environment Essay: America Needs Responsible Logging

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    I walk along the narrow logging road, scuffing my feet in the four inch dust. I am delighted to see my dad's big, green skidder, a machine used to drag logs from the woods to the road, up ahead, hopping over stump after stump. I scan the small, freshly-cut patch of aspen trees, lying in the luscious bed of fallen leaves. In his skidder, my dad carefully backs up to the butts of the trees and grabs them up in one skillful sweep of the giant grapple. The huge machine gently speeds to a constant

  • Who Was The Most Responsible For The Princess's Suicide

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    Rank the following characters in the order of their responsibility of the death of the Princess (1 being most responsible and 6 least responsible) The madman: 1 The king: 2 The fisherman: 3 The princess: 4 The lumberjack: 5 The nursemaid: 6 Answer the following questions (in at least 5 well thought out and developed sentences each): 1. How did you reach your decision? Answer: I thought about the role each character played. I believe the madman was the most responsible because he was the one who killed

  • Case Study Of Hedonic Calculus Case

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    In addition it would theoretically increase their chances of winning the game. I gave a happiness value of 7 out of 10 for the lumberjacks. For mike the happiness level is 6 because he wants the team to win, but will have to risk his health. The happiness level of the citizens of Athens would be 8 because they do not know about his injuries since it was not public knowledge and they

  • Symbols Of Canadian Identity

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    in November 2012 that reminded consumers of Canadian identity. In addition, this advertisement stars a young man dressed in an all red suit and tie at one point holding a Canadian Flag and in other points, he is seen in a Mounties’ uniform, as a lumberjack and also in a hockey jersey. Not only does this advertisement have visual components of Canadian identity, but it also emphasizes on the politeness of the everyday Canadian through mannerisms like holding the door for others and also through saying

  • Wood Logging Essay

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    development of the city, trees occupy sites needed to build houses, schools hospitals and even for farming to grow food and so on. The first set of settlers had to open up the forest to build the town and achieve basic necessities of life. In 1850, the lumberjacks were dealing primarily with hand tools to cut down trees that weighs more than 5 tons, but over time the cross cut saw was invented which replaced the axe and horses were used to move logs through the rugged terrain of the forest. The logging trade

  • Argumentative Essay On College Sports

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    14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. What went wrong for the third-seeded Mountaineers? Everything. First, WVU lost at its own game. The Mountaineers turned the ball over 22 times that led to 29 points for the Lumberjacks. At times this season, WVU has been able to get away with turnovers, but the Mountaineers only faced seven turnovers. WVU turned the ball over on six straight possessions in the first half, which led to a drought over 10 minutes long spanning the

  • Bigfoot: In Search of the Truth

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    to travel outside unless absolutely necessary because of the beast. Next, in 1901, a lumberjack on Vancouver Island reported seeing a “man beast” washing itself in a river near his base camp. The courageous lumberjack decided there and then to approach the beast and confront him. The strange “monkey man” quickly fled, though, as the man approached the river. Upon examining the tracks left behind, the lumberjack concluded that the prints were almost identical to that of a human, except for the extremely

  • Analyzing Persuasive Techniques Of A Political Cartoon 'Election Day'

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    Analyzing Persuasive Techniques Political cartoonist use symbolism to help the reader understand larger concepts or ideas. In Election Day the political cartoon show that if the women get the right to vote the house would fall to pieces. The symbolism in this cartoon is the man and woman switched roles. The cartoonist used their facial expressions in order to show they swapped roles. In child labor the cartoon shows that the spider has a gold on a child. The symbolism in the Child Labor cartoon

  • Slant's Charged Language

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    with many example of slanted language in use as well as selection and what information we decide is important and worth remembering. He did this through examining how three different people, a lumberjack, and artist, and a tree surgeon, would examine and write an account about a large tree. The lumberjack, he describes, would likely focus on things that would serve his best interest. For example, the best direction for the tree to

  • Fashion In The 1920s Essay

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    usually wore fur coats of leather jackets specifically called “horse hide windbreakers”. Dress shirts were not brightly coloured as women dresses instead they were light coloured or white. In addition to the dress shirts, they wore flannel lumberjack. A flannel lumberjack is now mostly referred to as a plaid shirt. Finally, the most trending hat styles of the 1920s were the: Gambler, Fedora, Panama, Homburg, Derby, and

  • Paul Bunyan's Influence On Jay Gatsby

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    From the interesting stories of James bond to Jay gatsby comes the fictional character Paul bunyan. Known for being the lumberjack of american folklore, he is the symbol of bigness strength, and vitality and is accompanied by babe the blue ox. “Tales about Paul bunyan say that he is the person who created Puget sound, the grand canyon, and the black hills.”Known as the most enduring tale in american folklore. Paul bunyan was so big at birth that he was delivered to his parents by five exhausted storks

  • Belonging In Riel Nason's Short Story 'The Box'

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    his perceptiveness, ‘You know, in my wife’s family there was a lumberjack five or six generations back,’ Rich pops one of the mystery hors d'oeuvres into his mouth.” (Nason, pg. 2). Here Jeff faces false assumptions because Rich concludes that Jeff must be a lumberjack because firstly, he lives in the countryside and is not from the city, and secondly, because Jeff stated that he works with wood he automatically must be a lumberjack. But in reality Jeff is actually a chemical engineer that works

  • Compare And Contrast Grimney And Disney Fairy Tales

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    Everyone at some point in their lifetime has seen or heard of the Disney fairy tales such as the well-known Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and so on and so forth. However, what you might misconstrue is where these stories originated from. A majority of Disney’s stories are an adaptation of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales which aren’t nearly as exhilarating as Disney dipicts them as. However, how do the two stories compare and contrast to one another? The major similarities and differences between

  • The Satirical Essence Of Monty Python Imbibed Into Cotemporary Theatre

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    Circus was up on the sound stage of a television studio the live theatre roots were imbibed into each performance. Leave it Monty Python to find a way to make sketches about the Spanish Inquisition, Death, buying a dead parrot, and a song about Lumberjacks more than just highly amusing. The comedic team was a tight knit netting of brilliance matched with humor, which has in turn kept the troupe going strong still more than thirty years later and still appearing to the new generations with what would

  • How Community Service Changed My Life

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    I never thought that I would have fun teaching and serving others. But that could also be to me having close friends around me. It was a great experience, now I just hope young kids would change their attitude to their elderly, because I wanted to smack them so hard but I didn't. I refrained myself. But I served them food, taught them how to defend themselves, and had a fun time while I was there. Not only is it good exercise, because it felt like was running track before the season even started

  • Dumbfuck Asshole: A Short Story

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    smiling around her mouthful of chocolate. Sighing along with her, Kate sat up, wiping at her chocolate around her mouth, they both jumped, startled by a sharp knock at her office door. “Khome ihn,” Way called, her mouth full of candy. The door swung wide and of course, there stood Walker Rike. Hands in his pockets like it was his office, Walker sauntered directly up to Kate, stuck out his hand and drawled, “You must be Kate Peck, I’m Walker Rike. Also known as the Dumbfuck Asshole.” Way choked

  • Dangers Of A Single Story By Adichie: An Analysis

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    the many screens that we are subjected too constantly. We begin to have certain pictures as to how things ‘ought to be’ because we have seen them depicted so on television or films. We have these preconceived notions on certain things such as: “lumberjacks are big hairy men” or one of the more overly used ones: “the nail salon technicians is always Asian and they always talk shit on you while you get your nails done.” One