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My Cockatiel from Aussie Spicy is her name. I wonder if she ever lived in Australia. I wonder if even her parents did. I wonder even if her grandparents did. And I wonder if cockatiels ever really knew this. Spicy was brought from Animals and Things. She was about 6 months old when me and my brother took her out of the display cage. She was the more timid of the two, there was another in there with here but she did not look too appealing. My brother picked this one because he said she was peaceful. I said to myself “A peaceful prisoner, freed from this prison to be transferred to another prison at our house”. My brother had to go and buy a bird I thought to myself. Why does he like buying pets only to not pay attention to them? He went to the cage section of the store and picked out this blue cage too short but narrow enough I guess. He barely had enough to walk out of the store with his new pet and its new prison or cage. Well...

Rhetorical Analysis of Publication Venue 1. Analysis of a publication venue. http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/fg/index.php?Page=home Explores creative nonfiction. They welcome personal essays, nature essays, essays about travel and journalism at a maximum length of 8000 words. Reading date are August 15th to November 30th 2. Description of one story…

The fresh air of a beautiful spring afternoon, turning evening, in the middle of an open field, not stale, muggy, but unsullied and cool, is wonderful for flying RC helicopters. All of them put together sound like an orchestra of a mix between a lawn mower and bees too close to ones ear, all buzzing around in the fresh open air of a wonderful spring day in New Jersey. One such RC helicopter is now flying inverted or upside down and is only about 30 feet above my head. I could hear its buzzing sound almost as if I could hear each individual blade spin around and around. The pilot then cocks the toy back into straight flight and speeds off towards the direction of the sun. “How can you see it?” I ask in interjectionally, as if I knew better than his experience. “You don’t. You have to bring her down below the trees or launch higher.” He is standing to my right next to be almost yelling because of the buzz of the other helicopters. I then see the tiny helicopter bounce up of the blinding ...

An extreme version detailing a story about the study of a bird from Australia. It is sort of a documentary but the purpose of this piece is to show how a wild cockatiel can be tammed to live inside a house and be completely dependant on a humans for its means of survival.

Beginning or Intro- The experience of a man flying an RC- Helicopter through a reporters perspective. Reporter describes everything almost as if he was the man being described. From here branches of to a conversation with the man asking him if what he experienced was worth the $3K. the man does not answer only looks up at the sky. Ascen- Cluster stats, facts and specs of hobby. Cover all areas- more specifically cost vs performance /parts. accessibility/availability to newcomers. Flying one- from beginners to advanced plateau- Learning the cost v enjoyment of hobby. The answer to the question raised by reporter in the beginning. decceleration- explanation of hobby v really flying-helicopters- cater the hobby,definite connection with the real thing End- Reporter tries to fly the mans helicopter...

There should'nt be not even an ounce of purported truth in an authors work of non-fiction. The truth in a work of non-fiction should be deterministically true. If not, then the author is accountable for mutating the genre of non-fiction and contorting it into fiction. I mean really, there is nothing like reading a book and sharing emotions between what an author experienced only to find out that it was made up.

After reaing the article about Frey, I did re-think whether or not I cut around the corners in telling the truth in my essays. I really so believe that an author is responsible for the truth he or she writes as being true. Authors must tell write about the truth according to their own experience otherwise then they aren't writing honestly and when someone finds out about it their career could be in trouble. If the author publishes a work as non-fiction, then it should all be factual according to the author's experience. I amde sure I wrote the truth in my essays according to my experiences and I wrote it to be non-fiction; which means that it is true and is what happened to me. I do not believe that if an author were to write about non-fiction about himself and writes it honestly anyone should be offended since it is based on truth and the only reason why they would be hurt would be if they told the author not to write about them and they did or they know what the author wrote ...