Duck Soup

Long ago near a pleasant little pond, a blind dragonfly named Drag existed. All the other pond critters hated the bumbling bug because he always bumped into them. “Are you blind?!” yelled Joe the butterfly when Drag accidently bumped into him. “Yes actually,” replied Drag grumpily, “ why are you yelling?” Unfortunately for him, Joe had already fluttered off toward a pretty flower. “Stop talking to yourself, you’re disturbing my sleep!” snapped Yolanda the moth. “Ow! That's not

Duck Hunting One early saturday morning my dad (Shawn), my cousin (trey), and I woke up at 2:30 a.m. to go duck hunting. When we get out there we are one of the first people there and 4:00 comes along and we sent out to our spot. When we come to a spot that boats can't go we have to walk for about 15 minutes. As we are putting out the last of are decoys we here so more people throwing out decoys and they are pretty close. Well, we start talking to them and they are pretty nice and they ask if they

Maggie Priole 4/21/14 Fractured Fairy Tale The New Human Duckling Once upon a time, in an old barn with blooming flowers and golden stalks of corn, there was Mama Duckling. She is soon having Ducklings that will pop out of their shell and be part of the world. It has been about 6 months now and they are ready to hatch. As the Ducklings start to hatch they are all beautiful creatures. All of those Ducklings were normal except one of them. That one odd Duckling was quite ugly. The Ugly Duckling

learned to fish and hunt . At my Grandma and grandpas house they have ducks, lots of ducks, and I always play with them but there is this eagle that likes to swoop down and snatch the ducks up and eat them. We had a duck named Rex and he was two and a half feet tall and fifteen pounds. He was the biggest duck my Grandma and Grandpa had and was feisty and mean, even there German Shepherd named Moose was scared of Rex.He was the alpha duck and was the leader of his flock, kind of like a war general yet

Two Worlds, Two Choices, Two Boys In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield struggles to leave the real world around him which he constantly fails to fit in. He is expelled from three schools before going to Pencey. He then leaves Pencey for New York before Christmas. After experiencing the coldness of society in New York, He decides to hitchhike to the West alone, escaping the society and leaving his family behind. Instead, he chooses to dream about living in the fantasy world

creation of the land and people starts with a world covered in water. The world was dark when the Old Man of the Crow People came into the world. Old man was surprised to see nothing but water. He saw two ducks swimming and asked them if there was any land or if the world was just water. The ducks told Old Man that

Duck Quacker Qualities Duck calls were invented to mimic the sound of a female duck and to lure flying birds to hunters’ decoys. They were developed by waterfowl hunters desiring to create the most efficient tool possible and were originally made of metal. After too many hunters’ lips froze to the metal call’s mouthpiece, inventors turned to wood and acrylic plastic. Duck calls mimic female ducks because they make the loud quacking noise people associate with their species. Childhood rhymes such

He was Annoying, so I Threw Him in the Lake On a late spring morning, within the bamboo forest, there’s a lake with crystal clear water. Today, I stop by the lake to grab a quick drink to quench my thirst. I was staring at the water and lost in my thoughts until a high pitched squeaky voice startled me, “Are you a hybrid of polar bear and a black bear?” I turn around and look down, I come face to face with an ugly creature, which I assume is the owner of the squeaky voice. Upon closer look I

Ducks Unlimited vs. Delta Waterfowl Even though there are many ways to conserve waterfowl, there technically are not any wrong ways. However, one could argue that there are better ways. That debate rages on between sportsmen and environmental conservationists alike. There are two big organizations when it comes to conserving waterfowl and wetlands, Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl. Both groups are able to raise millions of dollars for waterfowl due to their enormous amount of members. However

the perfect parents, who pay no attention to their children’s unattractiveness or disableness. Thus, there is a huge contrast between the duck’s reaction to the birth of her little beautiful ducklings and the youngest ugly one (Dominguez, 2015). The duck is so proud of their first steps but the unusual ducklings is only briefly mentioned (Dominguez, 2015). Nevertheless, the consequent events do not allow the readers to conclude that the mother disregarded the ugly duckling completely, because the episode