Dairy Realms: A Narrative Fiction

When summer finds out the truth about her dad she is shocked. Summer always thought her dad was a good person. She always thought that her mom was wrong about all of the horrible things she said about her father. Summer never thought her father would do something like this. When Summer goes back home her mother tells her what really happened. “Dad has a daughter? I said numbly. It seems all i can do is mumble moms words

Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, is a novel about a fifteen year old girl, D.J. Schwenk, and her life working on her farm. D.J. thinks of herself as a cow, going along and doing what people tell them to do, for the rest of their lives, and eventually dying. D.J.’s mother and father both work, her older brothers are away at football college and her little brother is silent and never says a word. One day the Schwenk’s family friend, Jimmy, brings a boy from his football team, Brian Nelson, to help them with their farm. D.J. does not like Brian and she is stuck with him for the rest of the summer.

Then Alison gets a letter from the people from Zip magazine. She hides it from her parents and then reads it. It says that if she wins the modeling competition, she will receive a $10,000 scholarship, and Alison knows what’s she going to do she is going to win that money for her family, then her parents will finally see her as just as good as her two sisters.

Ravi Landeck Short Story Third Draft The Diamonds Deep in the Alps lies a small town called Clay. The sun was rising over a frosty blue mountain, and drops of dew dripped down from the leaves in the valley. Arthur awoke to find his bedroom filled with light. He

“Well I guess we keep going until she loses interest in us.” I say. She didn’t.

She huffs, "Listen, if you didn't want to be my partner you could have just said so."

Hearing this is like the summary of life itself. I felt like this related to Alex like no other character in this book. Alex herself was in the revolution, as told in her own diary. Despite the fact, that Alex was in the revolution, even if she had wanted to change what happened, it would be impossible. I personally loved how Donnelly structured and brought this sentence to life. It’s hard to perceive the whole concept behind what the author is trying to illustrate, but what I can understand from this is to try to only worry the things that you can control. If you can’t control it, then simply let it go. In the story Alexandrine’s dairy was an emotional roller coaster, with things you would never expect to happen.  In this novel, we can see

“Is that supposed to explain everything?” she asks staring up at me. “I’m saying I’m sorry that I can’t be what you need.” Her mouth opens to reply. I cover her mouth with a finger, forbidding her to interrupt. “I don’t think I have it in me. I’m not built that way,” I tell her.

“Mom, I just cannot do this anymore. I don’t enjoy it anymore,” I remarked. “You can stop, but know that quitting does not mean you should to give up,” she replied

Justin Lemoine In a tragic accident with a semi and a farmer on interstate I-94, Justin Lemoine and Caleb Kadrmas both passed away at the age of (20). Caleb and Justin pulled over to help the sheep that got his head stuck in the fence. Justin got out of the vehicle

After finishing at the hospital the couple picked up the rest of their group for their tour around Washington, planned visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and Arlington National Cemetery. When they arrived at the hotel the couple found Gabby and her son waiting for them in her husband’s room. Since Frank was now the odd man out, he received a single room. Little JJ bounded out to the limo and grabbed his godfather in an all-encompassing hug around his neck, during which Jackson grimaced when JJ pulled and the reaction did not go unnoticed by Jackie. When she started to say something, Jackson waved her off with his good hand because he didn’t want to hurt the kids’ feelings. Once JJ released him Jackson tried to hide his discomfort from

James just sits at the bar drinking his regular whisky with a few ice cubes drinking his problems away. James lives in a broken down apartment in Harlem, New York trying to provide for his family. James can barely reach his wallet and drop a twenty on the bar. He starts walking back to his miserable life while moving side to side drunk. James fell a couple times and one last time in front of his apartment and he hears screaming in the room he was about to walk into. It’s Natalie yelling at the kids to keep their grades up and help around the house. James listens for a little while and walks in trying his hardest not to collapse.

Elaine Parker’s Great Depression Story It was 1929 and Herbert Hoover was the president. Elaine Parker, age ten, lived on a small farm in Clearwater, Arkansas. She enjoyed being outside and helping on the farm, which is how she got her many freckles. Elaine’s bright green eyes

The dreams of the Younger family have all been derferred. Mama,s dream is to have her own home and move out of the ghetto. She and her husabnd have been working for years but could not scrape enough to ever purchase a hme. When her husband dies , she is at first devasted but then she gets the innsyrrance money and her dream is realized. Now she can have that garden she always wanted, ahaome for her family and a backtard for her grandson to plat in.

Running Header: Milk: the New Weapon of Democracy During the Cold War, the Soviets were trying to spread communism throughout Europe and Asia by exalting its achievements, and undermining democracy. Part of their approach was by launching ‘Hate-America’ propaganda. “As the Cold War intensified, the Truman administration launched an aggressive “Campaign of Truth” […] to counter the Soviet Union propaganda machine (Ubah, 2012).” The Campaign of Truth was created to help convince the world that the United States has “no purpose of going to war, except in the defense of freedom. (Vaccaro, 1950)” Truman encouraged the media to show the world that the United States was ‘wholly dedicated to the cause of peace (Vaccaro,