Danville, Arkansas: A Short Story

My eyes get drawn by the vibrant green thank you card; given to me on my last day working at a preschool with my first paycheck is in front of it. I felt so accomplished getting it in the mail and though the amount of clothes I bought was a little concerning, the job taught me about myself. I never knew how much I loved helping kids furthermore, helping people. Normally, I am quiet and reserved, but early on I realized how important taking more leadership with the kids was. Most essentially, I learned how to save money. The last day was bittersweet; on the one hand, I was excited to go and play softball, but on the other hand, I knew I would miss working with kids.

“Your Arkansas Traveler” is a short story detailing the rise and fall of a charismatic but egotistical radio-host named Lonesome Rhodes. It was adapted into a feature-length film titled A Face in the Crowd, which remains quite faithful to the original work but expands greatly upon it by adding or altering several main events.

Soon after, Sylvia became incontinent, and Gertrude locked her in the basement. A “bathing” regime came into action; every other day, Sylvia was burned with scalding water. She was starved and often kept naked. Grosser indignities were to follow, with Gertrude continuing to authorize Sylvia’s torture carried out by the neighborhood children.

I was on my third day of residential care placement; the staff had just started to take turns for their morning tea break so I took the time to catch up on my case study

On a cold Thursday morning, school was in session but I was starting on my way to Lake Winnibigoshish. I was going up there with my five foot nine, one hundred forty pound dad and my five foot nine, two hundred thirty pound neighbor. We stopped in at the Senior Center for some donuts, and went to Holiday Gas Station for some coffee and a cold drink.

Her foster mother, Rosa Hubermann, collects laundry to provide necessities for the family; she collects laundry from the wealthier parts of town. Rosa takes Liesel with her on her laundry job; and because of this, the broken girl meets the silent woman. Liesel usually walks to Ilsa’s house, so it is significant her walking to a new pathway of healing. When Liesel first meets Ilsa, she describes her as a woman with hair like fluff and a bathrobe. Zusak uses the word ‘fluff’ because it is usually not given a second glance; it is normally ignored. This is used to show how Ilsa has ignored her happiness because she feels guilty about her son freezing to his death. Ilsa’s feelings are represented by her doorway, “Standing fluffy-head and shivery in her enormous cold-aired doorway. Always silent. Always alone. No words, not once” (94). “Cold-aired doorways” suggest frigid but open paths. The mayor’s wife shows no sign of friendliness or enthusiasm, although, on some level, she is willing to let Liesel in so that both of them can walk down a new path as different people. In the mayor’s wife’s state of coldness, she feels empty, blank. She is frigid because of the ‘home-cooked’ war that took her son, home-cooked meaning started at home. In Germany, a home that is supposed to be safe and welcoming it isn’t for her son. So Ilsa’s home is not welcoming either. Ilsa desires to suffer like her son does, “he froze to death” (146), and so she attempts the same painful exit from

We donated our time to a charity during the fall, the JROTC program decided to do the Mana Cafe to help those in need. It was a food drive and people would help gather food together to deliver it to families that needed it for the winter. Everyone was pitching together and doing their part to get the food together and in the people’s car. Even in the cold weather, everyone was having fun, knowing that they were doing excellent in their hearts. Therefore that day families were allowed to eat despite their economic struggle and all as a result of the service we did to help them.

In recent years, Danville has received several honors, including a place on "Money" magazine's list of the best places to retire and the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Great American Main Street Award. The city prides itself on its ability to continually evolve, maintaining a proper balance between holding onto its history while thriving in the modern world. Part of this balance involves ensuring that paved surfaces are properly maintained so that the city always presents a good impression to the area's residents as well as the many visitors that come to Danville to shop, tour the historic sites or conduct county business. Services such as asphalt paving, concrete repairs, sealcoating, asphalt overlays, pavement markings and asphalt repairs are commonly requested by property owners in Danville.

One cold evening in New York City, a woman named Jeannette is getting ready to go to a party. Worried that she is overdressed, Jeannette looks out the window of the taxi to find her mom rummaging through trash cans. Jeannette has not seen her mother in months, so she is taken back to see her mother getting no acknowledgements from anyone. Instead of getting out of the car, she panics that her mom will call her name out. Therefore, she decides to duck down and asks the taxi driver to take her back home. Once Jeannette arrives home the only thought that crosses her mind is her mother freezing on the streets of New York City. Also, she feels ashamed for hiding from her own mother. A few days later, Jeannette meets up with her mom for lunch. She

Racism, everyone knows what this is, but does everyone know how inflicting it is? Racism has been apart of human culture for decades, but until recently, there hasn’t been any sign of a resolution., I am a freshman student attending Monte Vista High School, and I am writing to you in order to speak out on that issue we seemingly have been constantly experiencing. Its effects on Danville, and coincidentally, America, have been shaping society into a judgemental world, filled with stereotyping and racial profiling. Imagine you’re an African American teen. You go to school normally, and hang out with your usual friends. As you are talking you hear someone make a racist joke towards African Americans. You play it off as a joke, but inside, you

The city of Danville, Virginia is expecting a terrorist attack to occur in the near future due to Dominion Power dumping their waste water into the Dan River. Terrorist have given the city five days to have a response before the city endures a major attack. This emergency operations plan will include all aspects for the city of Danville, Virginia to carry out the various roles and responsibilities of government organizations and providing a connection to the local, state, federal, and private organizations, and resources to address during emergencies. The emergency operation plan will be taking steps and roles necessary to provide a well throughout response to ensure the safety and well-being of the Danville’s civilians. The safety and well-being of citizens is never more threatened than during disasters and attacks. The main goal of the emergency operations plan is to ensure that we limit the severity of the situation, having preparedness, responding quickly and firmly, and making sure recovery actions exist to the public to make sure their safety and well-being stays protected. This emergency plan will provide a guidance for the Danville’s departments with a general concept of potential emergency assignments before, during, and following an emergency but making sure it does not replace county or local emergency operations plans or procedures they may have already established. This plan wants to ensure that there is and will be consistency with the now current policies and

Danville, PA is a wonderful place to live as it is a small town and it has several large employers to supply good jobs, however, more small businesses are needed in the downtown and surrounding area. Danville has a history of coal and iron manufacturing but following the peak of that, it had lost several businesses and the downtown became not as busy as it was. Unfortunately, this has remained so and Danville is in need of revitalization.

Fayette kept her head low, hiding her still light pink cheeks as the others talked about the dance. Her dark blue eyes widened slightly with her cheeks growing even warmer when Reyen spoke that she could be his queen. She knew he was joking and messing around with her, but she wasn’t used to those kinds of things being said about her at all. She could hear Ivana state that she doesn’t want to be Queen either and planned on voting for Carrietta and Matthew planning on voting for Ivana. Fayette jumped when Carrietta threw her arm around her to give her a hug and laid her head on her shoulder. She listened as she tried to cheer her up with Matthew joining in to say that she was the cutest member of the group. Fayette couldn't help but smile at her friend, lightly

I was a fine morning when a siren went off in the town of Little Rocks, Arkansas. The people didn’t have a clue what was happening until bulletin papers stated falling from the sky in such graceful manner. The dispassionate community didn’t care if there was bulletin papers flying through the city. They didn’t get influenced that easily by the emotions of the paper. The mayor had thrown thousands of papers out saying to have a garage sale for cancer victims.

Randy and I got ready to go since it was "Free" and I had forgot to take anything out of the freezer for dinner. As we drove up to the church it was cold and raining with some snow mixed in, we pulled into the parking lot and noticed half the town had decided to eat for free that day.