Inman tries to go back to Cold Mountain because Ada's home is near Cold Mountain. When he reaches Cold Mountain he can go to Ada's home. ... Inman deserts the Confederate army a few years after the start of the war, and he tries to go back to Cold Mountain where he can find Ada's home. ... This place is seen by Inman as a beautiful place he can go to forget, relax, and to be reborn. He believe this thanks to his Indian friend Swimmer who tells Inman that Cold Mountain is the closes thing to the heavens (pg19). ...

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It's our first day up on the mountain and as we go outside to start our day we take a walk down the trail. ... Behind me I see my cousins driving four wheelers and they are all excited to go fishing. ... After I while, I hear the lunch bell ring and we have to go inside, but I'm still okay with it because I know we can go fishing again tomorrow. ... As my cousins laugh at me and call me funny names, I tell them that they can't even get their Frisbees past mine and most of the time theirs ended up in the same situation as mine. ... I love the mountains because I get to be away...

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One of his positive traits was that he loves mountain climbing. ... The setting of the story was May 1985 in the Andes mountain range in South America. ... It is important to the story as a whole because it tells why the climbers want to climb and risk their lives in this task. ... It is important because it tells the reader Joe's experience and chance of living. ... The first scene was important because when Simon cut the rope, he wanted to save himself and he knew that Joe wasn't going to survive being lowered down the mountain by rope. ...

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When Jack and Ralph report their discovery of the beast he sees that the only option is to climb the mountain and do something about the beast. ... When he does try to tell the group things he knows and they cannot see, he cannot seem to express his thoughts and is often jeered at by the other boys. ... He is brave enough, because he feels it must be found out, to go up the mountain on his own and find out what the "best" really is, and finds out the truth. When he staggers down the mountain in a rush, feeling that he must tell the group immediately, he is greeted by the group of over-excit...

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It is quite frightening to go hunting in The Mountain Pine Ridge area, especially since many of the people in Belize believe that the Sisimito lurches through the forests in this region. Some people believe that this is only superstition but, after hearing about the abduction of many adults and children who had encountered this fierce creature, I have decided that going into the forest of Mountain Pine Ridge is not worth getting kidnapped and later killed over. ... This woman was very lucky because she had survived, but there are many others who had been kidnapped by the Sisimito and never l...

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The boys then set a signal fire in the central mountain of the island so passing boats will see. ... The next day they find pig droppings and go on a hunt for the pig. ... Jack, Simon, and Ralph climb up one of the mountains and sees a dead parachuter and mistake him f! ... When they get back to the camp they tell the group and Jack leaves and starts his own tribe where he is chief. ... Ralph goes over to Jack's tribe and tries to make him see reason, but Jack just tells his guards to grab tie up the two remaining members of Ralph's group. ...

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Ask your self that question when civilization is gone, no one to tell you what's right from wrong and chaos is all around you. ... When his squadron went too far down the river, he volunteered when no one wanted to go. ... The boys were so frighten by the beast on the mountain, so Simon thought that it would be a good idea to face it head on. They were too cowardly to encounter it, for fear of their life, so he volunteered to go up the mountain to check if the beast was real. ... When the worst is over and they hit rock bottom there's no other way to go but up. ...

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We were just wondering if you two want to go catch a flick with us. ... When I say courage, what I mean is women want a man that has the guts go ask her out face to face. ... She may tell all of her friends about him and it might come back around to hurt him. A real ladies man only tries to get a woman's phone number if he is actually going to call the woman back. ... So, if the woman wants a double gulp Mountain Dew with no ice from 7-11 and the closest 7-11 is in the next state, a real ladies man has to go to the 7-11 and get the Mountain Dew. ...

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It goes like this: " Put your shoulder to the wheel; push along. ... One can think of or look at Sisyphus as a beast of burden just plodding up and down the mountain each and every day oblivious (through the pain and anguish of his task) to his surroundings; to his choice. ... Albert Camus even tells us so, "But when he had seen again the face of this world, he no longer wanted to go back to the infernal darkness". ... Knowing that after he reaches the top of the mountain, he can recharge his batteries in a sense and relax for a moment before he starts his rigorous journey again. ...

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After answering the riddle correctly, the Sphinx was surprised and killed herself by going into the sea which now caused Thebes to be free. ... After being revealed this prophecy, Jacasta, mother of Oedipus, sends a shepherd to bring the baby to the mountains and to kill it. ... Oedipus, being persistent, demands that Tiresias tell him the truth. After being insulted by Oedipus, the blind seer finally tells him that he is looking the person that he is looking for. ... After enough pain the shepherd gives up and tells him that he is the child of his wife, and mother. ...

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This cabin is out in the middle of the woods in the Allegany Mountains. Half way up the mountain in the pitch dark my friend's car broke down. ... After going back up to the cabin we found my uncles bow some of his hunting gear. ... This sentence was a great foreshadowing line because it tells us right away that it was going to be rough for those four men on that boat. ... After reading that line, one can imagine that times were going to be tough. ...

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I could tell that each person was truly glad to see the others. ... There is something special about going back in time to revisit common memories. ... We may or may not have climbed the corporate ladder, scaled the slippery mountain of fame, traveled the four corners of the earth, accumulated mounds of wealth, or acted upon our dreams, but we made the effort and found the time to gather and share some precious time with some old buddies. ...

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She starts going out on missions with Green Berets and she changes into a wild woman. ... Mark Fossie, her boyfriend, gets her to go back to how she was for a little but she returns to her wild way. She ended up walking up into the mountains one day and never coming back. ... Tim tells stories about her in the novel and it almost feels like she is still alive. ...

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My parents always used to tell me, "Life isn't always easy." ... While I do love to be around her, I had to tell her that I needed some time to myself every once in a while and it's nothing that she should take personally. ... As for North Carolina itself, I took notice of the fact that finding one's way around, especially in the mountains, is far more difficult than finding one's way around in Ohio. ... Secondly, if a sign reads " 53 North", all it takes is one turn around a mountain or a curve to be traveling south on a road that is actually northbound. ... When I go s...

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Cold Mountain Essay Ruby, the young firl who comes along in the book to help Ada with her farm, is the confidante that I chose. ... Swanger tells her that Ada needs help with farm. ... The stories that Ruby tells Ada about, the ones that include how her father never cared for her and how she had to do everything on her own, make Ada remember her own father and also gives her a different view of life, one in which she doesn't have to rely on anyone, she just needs herself. ... Ruby and Ada would be perfectly fine without Inman they"d go about working on the farm like always. ...

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A small child sees a "beastie" on the mountain and the entire group begins to talk about the subject with fear and intent of killing it, whatever it may be. ... They run to the camp and tell the others about what they have seen. Jack, Ralph, and Roger decide to climb the mountain and search for the creature. ... Simon climbs to the top of the mountain, and finds the "beast," but examines it to see what it truly is instead of hiding from the fear as before. ... Piggy is furious and along with Ralph, Sam, and Eric, the only boys outside Jack's domain, go to Jack's fort to try to recove...

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Ralph also tells everybody about his plan to create fire to attract nearby people to the island. ... So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. ... As the story goes on, Jack becomes more and more fixated on killing pigs. ... Ralph calls an assembly and suggests that the boys should die before they let the fire go out. ... After Ralph tells everyone else that they should die before the fire goes out, he has trouble remembering it. ...

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So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. ... He understands what is going on, but lacks the linguistic prowess to state it. ... I'm the reason why it's no go? ... It was true part of him did know, and he felt that he had to tell the others about his realization. He was killed while trying to tell them. ...

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So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. ... How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don't keep a fire going? ... If the fire were to go out, the leadership skills and civil order on the island would all be lost. ... After allowing the fire to go out, Jack tells Ralph,"The fire's only been out an hour or two. ... Jack was only asked to do one task, to make sure the fire did not go out. ...

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He gathered everyone up to tell them that there were no adults on the island. ... Ralph and Jack had to calm everyone down and tell the group the beast was from the boys dreams. ... So a group of hunters are put in charge to keep it lit and they end up lighting a bunch of trees on fire. in the craziness of the trees catching fire Piggy tells them that the boy who was talking about the snake is missing, and they just go one as if nothing is wrong. ... Ralph confronts jack and tells him that him and his hunters are using hunting as a way to get out of all the real work. ... Ralph was re...

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Danger: The Slithering Kind It was mid-July and almost 85 degrees in the small town of Bastin, located in the mountains of West Virginia. My parents and grandparents were going into the big city of Bluefield, population 3000. ... They told us that they would take us down to the river to go swimming when they got back. ... When he suggested we go to the river to go fishing and explained to us that they said we could not go swimming, it made perfect sense to us. ... We returned home ready to tell our story to whoever would listen. ...

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We"ll make sure when we go hunting" (p 37). ... The rest of the boys don't go for that, and because of this, Jack informs the group, "I"m not going to be a part of Ralph's lot - I"m going off by myself. ... The Lord of the Flies tells him "I"m the Beast. ... When he awakens, he stumbles up the mountain and discovers the dead parachutist. ... Just as he is trying to speak, Roger shoves a massive rock down the mountain slope, and it crushes Piggy. ...

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They tell him that Jack plans to send the entire tribe after him the next day. ... The officer tells the boy that his ship has come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle. ... Ironically, though, this "civilized" officer is himself part of an adult world in which violence and war go hand in hand with civilization and social order. ... "Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a war. ...

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If you do not, you are going to find yourself, well, hitting things and that can get damn expensive. ... The idea behind it is if there is a cop ahead, he is going to nail the person in front of you and not you. ... This fun yet daring method originated during a trip home from Loon Mountain by fellow good driver John Smith and myself. ... VII The Commonwealth of Massachusetts also has their own ideas about how to drive, but lucky for you, I am here to tell you what their "laws" really mean. ... If you"re going to be traveling at the speed limit on the highway, watch the lane to your left...

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It didn't go to fast, but it went fast enough to drive on the road. ... Anything from the massive mountains, glistening white sand, or the ocean water which was bright baby blue matching the color of the beautiful clear sky. ... For our second day there we decided to go kayaking. ... We decided to go swimming in the 85 degree water. ... I think that all of my experiences there will be with me for the rest of my life and some day be a good story to tell my kids....

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