Blarney Stone

back about a dozen rock friends, just like he did this morning. As Steven was walking, he found a beautiful, shiny, bright green Petoskey Stone. He did not have one in his collection, so he decided to take it home with him. Little did he know that in a few hours , this rock would change his life forever. Legend says, that whoever holds the “magical” Petoskey Stone takes a very unexpected trip everyday at noon. This trip starts their life everyday, and then one day ends it in a heartbeat. This rock

AMULET Once upon a time there lived a family who were returning from a ceremony on a curvy mountain route. In the car, the family was chatting very loudly. Suddenly the father was distracted and didn’t notice a sharp turn in the road. The car flipped and drove off the mountain, as the family screamed. Emily, the daughter in the family noticed that her father was unconscious. She started waking up her father, but he was the same. She called her mother to see what happened to her father. Then she

Throughout life people find themselves in tough situations. Situations that change them. In Don Aker’s novel The First Stone, we are taken through Chad Kennedy also known as Reef’s journey of how he went from being a young offender that couldn’t have cared much about others to becoming a person who shows kindness to others. We are shown that by being around certain individuals people are able to change, people are also able to change from doing certain actions, and people can change from learning

friends and family mentally when they physically aren’t there. When Lina gets seperated from her boyfriend, Andrius, he gives Lina a stone to remember him by. While feeling alone one night, Lina says,”’I will see you...I will.’ I reached into my pocket and squeezed the stone” (336). This stone symbolizes their love and hope to just see each other again. Without this stone to hold onto, Lina would probably give up. Then, soon after Lina found out her father died in prison, which built onto all the stress

The novel All The Light We Cannot See, was written by Anthony Doerr. The novel was set during World War Two era and features two parallel stories with characters from opposite points of view. Doers tells the story of how both characters grow up through adversity and how they overcome their personal struggles. Marie-Laure is one of the main characters. She goes blind and has to learn how to navigate life alone after he father leaves her in the care of her Uncle Etienne. Werner, the second main character

The story, “A Jury of Her Peers”, took place in a time where men were perceived as the more dominant figures. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters take different approaches to this topic. Mrs. Hale feels belittled and takes offense to this. On the other, this belittlement does not affect Mrs. Peters too much. Mrs. Peters is a soft spoken, gentle woman who is married to a sheriff. While Mrs. Hale is a strong-willed woman from a farmhouse, the gender roles really affect Mrs. Peters decision making a lot. Mrs

Never had I, Scarlett Cole, encountered a murder case quite as perplexing as this. Not only had my emotions interfered with the solving of the case, but each piece of evidence seemed to turn to a dead end. That is, until the discovery of the Connemara Stone- a piece so discreet, yet so telling of the connections between the murderer and the victim. What is the case I am speaking of? It surrounds the death of one illustrious individual with perhaps a thousand connections and a thousand secrets. It was

Ferric couldn’t remember the walk home from school. Perhaps because his mind was too busy planning or maybe, it was the urgency he felt in collecting every smooth, flat stone along the hillside. But before he knew it, he was in front of the hut with an assortment of rocks knocking around in the apron of his shirt. He couldn’t go in and let his mother see that he intended to stockpile the slingshot pellets, so he found a stick and dug a small trench along the outside wall and buried his prize. “Ferric

not make the mistake of trying to cover interior stone walls. Instead, try these creative ways to enhance their natural beauty. Use these creative ways to decorate interior stone walls, and add to the old-fashioned charm of the space. Use Open Shelving to Let the Stone Show Through Beautiful interior stone walls should not be hidden away. Use open shelving instead of something with a full back when striving to beautifully decorate interior stone walls. This includes kitchen shelves, living room

Knapping is a when two rocks collide until they create a sharp edge. To knap you need two rocks one to be used as a hammer and the other is called a core rock this is the rock you’ll make sharp. Bluestone Bluestone is used for hand axes and other tools similar. It is a fine grained ballast this makes it stronger because the particles are all close together. The rock being fine grained means that it will sustain any edges that it will eventually have for a long period of time. It can be flaked so