Gary's House by Debra Oswald

Nellie Bly was born May 5th, 1864 in a small town called Cochran Mills in Pennsylvania. Nellie’s real name is Elizabeth Cochrane. Nellie was a Journalist; she began her newspaper career at the age of 18. Nellie got her pseudonym from her editor, who refused to openly allow a female to write for his paper.

Whilst reading Hal and Me, I've started to recall things that has similarly affected me in the past. When the author, Nicholas Carr, began to describe his story about his experience with the internet, I began to relate to it. First, I would like to say that I completely agree with his description of his brain being even more hungry for the net even after feeding it. Towards the end of the story, he mentions "..it was hungry. It was demnading to be fed the way the Net fed it- and the more it was fed, the hungrier it became." I was born in the generation of technology, maybe a bit earlier, yet it became a strong hold on American minds for as long as I remember. My experience with technology has overpowered my ability to do anything. It has also

Mrs. Fox, by Sarah Hall was published in 2014. Mrs. Fox is a short story by Sarah Hall about a woman who turns into a fox during her pregnancy, much to the dismay of her husband. Mrs. Fox describes a woman who is not satisfied with her life with her husband, Mr. Fox. They both remain detached thorough the story. When Mrs. Fox turns into a fox, Mr. Fox does not understand why his wife was not happy or satisfied in her human life. Sarah Hall does a wonderful job of displaying out an unusually intriguing setting, a breath taking characterization of the two main characters Mr. and Mrs. Fox, and she displays a dark and modern theme, rightfully earning the BBC National short story

Loneliness is a complex and usually an unpleasant emotional response to isolation as well as separation; it is a product of the lack of contact experienced with another individual. Moreover, it includes anxious feelings due to the absence of connection or communication with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future. Some describe it as emptiness or hollowness inside of one’s being. In the narrative The Bloody Chamber (1979), Angela Carter’s characters deal with the emotion of loneliness by taking action and intervening through any circumstances. In contrast, in Zadie Smith’s Hanwell in Hell (2004) the main characters Clive and Hanwell deal with loneliness simply through hope. While over twenty years apart, these two narratives explore how an individual deals with the notion of loneliness through the use of the colour red, the symbolism in animals, and the condition of blindness. However, Carter illustrates the refusal of the protagonist to simply accept any circumstances; but the interference in any situation. On the other hand, Smith demonstrates the acceptance and balance of the existing situation at hand through hope.

Throughout the years the concept of home style, which was coined by the political scientist Richard Fenno in his book titled “Home Style”, has been investigated by several other political scientist’s. I believe home style should be consistent and continually reinforced. As an inconsistent home style would not produce a good image of a member of Congress to constituents. I believe home style may contain many different components, some of which are: A member of Congress’ image, trust with constituents and Washington, as well as communication with both parts. How many times a member of Congress goes back to their home district to discuss matter’s in Washington is part of this idea of home style. When members make trips back home they usually

In the essay “Hal and Me” written by Nicholas Carr, he describes two very different kind of minds. The first being the linear mind which he says is described as calm, focused, and undistracted. He states the linear mind is a product of the printing press which made book reading a popular pursuit. The new mind he describes is a product of the internet. It is described as one that skips around, gains info quickly, has a short attention span, and enjoys a lot of graphics.

The book Blue by Joyce Mostetter had several things that were historically accurate. Many people in Catawba County got polio. They were very sick. The ironlung was used to help people with polio breathe. There were two types of polio. One type affected their lungs and the other type affected the lower half of their body. In the story, Ann Fay is the main character who tells us about her life when her daddy was sent off to war and her brother contracted polio. Discrimination was also an issue in the story.

What do you think of when picturing a swamp? In “Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver, the speaker views the swamp as challenging and difficult but gradually realizes the beauty of it as well. Using imagery and parallelism, Oliver focuses on how the speaker feels about the swamp and how that changes over time. The parallelism in this poem points out how confused the speaker felt.

Shirley Jackson writes We Have Always Lived in the Castle in 1962, and Constance’s awareness that her sister has killed her entire family and says nothing, is the most dysfunctional behavior within this novel.

In the vignette “My Name” in the book Mango Street the author, Sandra Cisneros, uses imagery in a very influential way. Sandra Cisneros doesn’t use imagery in just this vignette; it ties into many of the other vignettes, but in the vignette “My Name” she uses it to emphasize her sorrow toward what happened to her great grandmother. The vignette begins with Esperanza explaining what her name means in English and in Spanish. Also, she clarifies how she was born in the Chinese year of the horse. Sandra Cisneros also talks about how Esperanza’s great grandmother was born in the year of the horse, same as Esperanza. Esperanza then goes on to explain what happened to her grandmother.

In the book of All But My Life: A Memoir it follows the author’s life from her early youth years to later on her life. The author Gerda Weismann Klein is the main focus on this story which is her autobiography on which details her life around that time. The book is a memoir in which it is greatly detailed on certain key events in her life. During the book she describes many of the horrors that she had to witness and as well as the obstacles she had to face in her lifetime. The author is herself and she is writing based on the details she remembers from later on her life. The memory could be considered for a consideration since the time could of change her memory during the specific time she was talking about. The book provides vivid details from the beginning of her describing the atmosphere when the Germans arrived and the tense atmosphere towards the end when she gets out of the concentration camps.

“The hiding Place” is about two middle age sister's name Corrie and Betsie ten Boom who works for their fathers watch shop in Haarlem, Netherlands. The ten Boom family is a committed Christian whose engaged in daily Bible. She and her family risk their lives to help underground employees and Jews escape the cruel ways of the Nazis and from that they were sent to concentration camps. within the end only corrie ten Boom among her family survived to inform this story of her life and the way faith eventually defeats evil.

As a child, Sandra Cisneros thought she would house bums in her attic. Now, she is a successful author. She most likely has a decent house. I doubt she would let bums into her house like she thought she would.

Sometimes, home is not that place where you feel safe, but the place where you experience the most tremendous adversities. This is the case of Paula O'Leary, Roddy Doyle's main character in The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. Paula meets Charles Spencer, an elegant and sexy man at a disco, and starts dating him: Paula knows he has her going there since the (very) first time he met her gaze. As time goes by, her love towards him grows, and it only takes her short time to realise she is head over heels in love with him. Consequently, they decide to get married with the prospect of starting a family, although this is not what Paula's father wants for her daughter, since he considers Charles a waster, a criminal and a skinhead: “It wasn´t just to

Stephen Frear’s film, My Beautiful Laundrette portrays the struggle of intersecting sexuality, ethnicity, class, race and power. Omar, son of a Pakistani immigrant, is attracted to Johnny, a white English male. Their attraction and the subsequent relationship is looked down upon, both in England and Pakistan. Omar works for his uncle who lets him take over a laundrette in London while Johnny is initially unemployed and eventually works for Omar. Together, they make the laundrette a successful business venture and a place where they can freely express their desire for each other.