Summary: The Story Of Ranklenatch Sparkledort

I'm going to tell you a little story about Lisl Winternitz and about her life.”some non-Jews hid Jewish children and sometimes, as in the case of Anna Frank,hid other family members as well”(myjewishlearning.com). Lisl Winternitz was born in may 7, 1926. She lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Lisl was the youngest of two children born to a Jewish family in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague. Lisl’s family lived on Karlova Street in the karlin district of the city. Liesl's father owned a wholesale business that sold floor coverings. When Liesl's was 12 she went to school and her teacher shouted at her, “You dirty, filthy Jew!” and then spat at her face. They weren’t allowed in any public place and their ration cards were stamped with a red

Being born and raised in an area that was homesteaded by my ancestors has always piqued my curiosity about local legends. This can often leave one biased because we tend to accept things our parents and grandparents tell us as whole truths. Often this is not the case. Sometimes being passed down by word of mouth a few facts get misconstrued. I find this book very interesting because some of my family lived near these places during the time these events happened. I travel the same streets and visit the towns where this took place.

The setting takes place in Hillsboro, a fictional town. This story takes place "not too long ago."

Bang! Bang! “At that instant several gunshots, which sounded like thunder striking the tin-roofed houses, took over town. The sound of guns was so terrifying it confused everyone” (Beah 23). In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah conveys his amazing journey through war and hardship as a child soldier. Sierra Leone--a country on the western coast of Africa--was embroiled in a bloody civil war in the 1990’s. Battles multiplied as bloodshed abounded and as a child in Sierra Leone Ishmael Beah was forced to survive, find food, and face unimaginable dangers. Running from the battle front was also a routine ordeal. At age 13 Beah was captured by the military and brainwashed into using guns and drugs. As a child soldier he perpetrated and witnessed a great deal of violence. At 15 he was rescued and taken to a rehabilitation center. With time and continual treatment, Beah was able to recover, to some extent, and reconnect with his Uncle Tommy who adopted him. He was later chosen to speak to the United Nations in New York City about his experiences as a child soldier. When he returned to Sierra Leone, war broke out throughout in the city where he lived, causing many deaths including his Uncle Tommy. Eventually Beah escaped Sierra Leone and he managed to reach New York City, where he began a new life. Through Ishmael Beah’s book A Long Way Gone, he conveys a central theme of having to survive, at a young age, through the hardships of war with the use of imagery.

“The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” by Ambrose Bierce tells the story of a man being punished for a crime. While he is dying, he vividly imagines his escape, the one thing that urges him on is the thought of his family. “White Heron,” by Sarah Orne Jewett follows a girl named Sylvia who lives in a small country home with her grandmother. She has a simple life: walking with her cow and hanging out with the forest creatures. However, when a young hunter arrives on the scene with a very alluring offer, Sylvia is faced with a tough decision. The setting of the short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, is in northern Alabama during the Civil War. The short story, “A White Heron”, takes place in New England during the summer on a farm. Throughout the short stories both Jewett and Bierce, describe the similar scenes a pond, a forest, and a faint sunlight.

The story starts in Deerfield, in October of 1703 with a time of trouble. The town is in danger of being ransacked and taken over by Indians. The townspeople contemplate reinforcing their stockade but before

The greatest strength of this story was the attention to detail. One of the best described passages in the story was, "They lived in a forlorn looking house, that stood alone and had an air of starvation. A few straggling savin trees, emblems of sterility, grew near it; no smoke ever curled from its chimney; no traveller stopped at its door. A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the bars of a gridiron, stalked about a field where a thin carpet of moss, scarcely covering the ragged beds of pudding stone..." This paragraph makes it so you can actually imagine the house. You can put yourself on the dirt road looking at the

In Sweetwater Hills there was no need for an alarm clock to you wake up in the morning. Or even a clock at all. The resonant church bells in the town’s hall would ring every hour throughout the day and could be heard from miles away, even beyond the vast forests that surround most the city. Either that or the roosters in Norma’s farm would have done the job. But, those. Those were the good days.

1.) What does this movie reveal about politics and/or society of the 1950s? Be specific.

We stood outside a large dark log cabin, the Pioneer Hall, on Disney’s Fort Wilderness property in Orlando Florida, which had a square porch and a log railing that contained a wooden rocking chair. This environment was one of the few places down south that made me feel like I was back in Pennsylvania, with the forest floor visible, the great, tall trees, and the country feeling that was given off from the surroundings. When 4:30 pm finally rolled around, a blonde lady in a greenish plaid long skirt, brown cowboy boots, and white blouse came out and rang the dinner bell of the restaurant, justly named the Hoop-Dee-Doo Revue, due to its hillbilly appearance.

I made my way to my aunt’s house. Her home smelled of fresh cut pine, and she offered me a cup of coffee with a cinnamon stick in it. I accepted, and we went to the kitchen table and discussed our week. As she talked, I looked out her kitchen table. A small oak grew in the front yard. Snow capped the birdfeeder beside her bird bath.

To begin the story, the reader is introduced to a small town gathering,

The story starts out by an unnamed narrator giving brief background information. The narrator describes the townsfolk as trapped in their tedious and unimportant day to day routines. The narrator states, “ The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits….. Their chief interest is in

Being an AED member means that I am surrounding myself with people who are on the same path as me. It means that I am with friends who are facing the same goal and struggles that I have to go through. This will be a society of people who can not only help me when I am down, but they can also guide me in my endeavors. I know that being around a class of people who share common interests will also help me broaden my horizons on the health field. It’s about a cluster of like-minded fellows who share the same desires of going to medical school and making our mark on humanity. To be within a faction that cares about the medical field and those who face medical struggles. Being a member of this community will also help me to be able to become an

The story features child characters who observe, but do not fully understand the uneasiness of the adult world of south Texas. Our young, unnamed narrator sets the tone by describing his home which is his grandfather's dirty, yellow,