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…with his neighbors. Of the numerous volumes that make up the collected works of Thoreau, only two were published during his lifetime: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). The material for most of the other…

…. The market boomed, and skateboarding became an industry. The skateboard itself has undergone an evolution of it’s own. Skateboard decks were originally just pieces of wood. Slowly, the decks took on a rectangular shape, with the two smaller sides rounded off…

…trials occur because a group of girls from Salem accuse some of the townspeople of making pacts with the devil, or becoming witches. These girls were at first charged with being witches when they were caught dancing around a cauldron in the woods…

…the human head in its tight grasp, and thus holding it up to public gaze. The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron” (70). This structure had many meanings throughout the book; each time there was an event…

…that he could eat the wood chips he’s been sleeping on. Why does he need the food pellets? What good are they? Sure the wood chips suck but at least he’s independent. Well, that’s Bartleby. Why is this a threatening thought? Because suddenly people can…

…of Walden Pond in the woods near Boston, Massachusetts. He plants a garden of beans, corn, potatoes, turnips, and other dry vegetables and lives off what he can grow and what he can capture. He has isolated himself from other people. The closest neighbor lives…

…A. A. Milne's Magical World “Deep in the hundred acre woods, where Christopher Robin plays, you'll find the enchanted neighborhood of Christopher’s childhood days.” (Walt Disney’s The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh) Throughout his seventy-four…

…you, offer him as a sacrifice to me.” Obeying God’s words, Abraham set out with Isaac and two other servants. At the mountain, Isaac asked, “Father, I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for sacrifice?” Abraham answered, “God…

…celebration, Tom’s whole class goes on a picnic and on a cave exploration near the wood outside of town. While in the caves Tom and Becky get lost. The whole town searches for them but they are not found. also in the caves Tom sees Injun Joe snooping around…

…of her harsh life Margaret has developed mental problems of her own. She does thing for certain reason and then forgets why. This is how she ended up with the drawer. “Halfway open, it was jammed by a large piece of wood that she’d put in for a reason that she…