Happy Days

Fastest? “The black, submissive sky recedes when the influence from the white, imperious moon disrupts the balance of candid humanity,” my brother always said. “There are too many big words, Damien. I don’t get it,” I would respond. “One day you will, Uriah. One day.” He loved talking with the bartender who lived down the street. Damien made sure to visit Mr. Caver after the full moon each month. What do you think of black skin? Is it dirty? Is it clean? Before I understood anything at all, I’d

which the speaker seems to be content with. The reader sees a glimpse of his perpetual depression on a habitual night time walk. He starts by saying he is “one acquainted with the night” (line 1). He feels a sort of companionship with this time of day. Ironically enough, while most everyone else is asleep and quiet, he feels a sense of belonging. The speaker personifies the city through parallels of his own lonely depression. Having walked “out in rain-and back in rain” shows that despite the weather

“Mama Wolf, will you tell us a bedtime story?” asked Little Wolf, as Mama Wolf tucked him in with his brothers and sisters. The den was warm and snuggly, but Little Wolf wasn’t sleepy yet. “Of course,” answered Mama Wolf. “Listen closely, pups, and I will tell you why we howl at the moon.” Mama Wolf settled down next to her puppies and tucked one paw into her chest comfortably. Little Wolf and his brothers and sisters snuggled closer together and perked up their ears, waiting for Mama Wolf to start

Matt was alone. In a cabin in the woods all by himself, he was keeping house till his parents came. He met an Indian boy who invited him to his village. Should he go? Matt should not have gone to the Indian village for these three reasons. They were not familiar people, it was not his usual trail, and he was not the expected champion. The first reason Matt should not have gone to the Indian village is that they were not familiar people. He did not understand their ways, their speech, or their dances

Goodnight iPad: A Parody for the Next Generation Modern day society has a hard time saying “goodnight” to their technological devices, a problem that Ann Droyd explores in her parody picture book, Goodnight iPad. Through witty illustrations and a rhythmic word scheme, Droyd follows the nightly routine of a colony of rabbits engrossed by their gadgets and gizmos. The story opens with an exaggerated description of all of the appliances within the household. The mother rabbit, trying to sleep, quickly

Owl Moon written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Schoenherr, takes the reader for a winter walk through the woods on a moonlit night. Father and son trudge slowly and silently through a snow covered forest in hopes of finding owls. It is a story of patience, perseverance, but most of all hope. “When you go owling you don’t' need words or warm or anything but hope”. The illustrations for Owl Moon are done by John Schoenherr. The illustrator chose pen with watercolors on d'Arches paper.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind.” - Ghandi. The story of Dawn reinforces this well-known quote by demonstrating the heavy silence of murder and it’s feeble justifications. A few years after the Holocaust, one of it’s victims, Elisha, is recruited from his home in Paris as a terrorist in the city of Palestine. In his short time there, he has participated in violent group retaliation against the British, yet has never been forced to kill individually- until now. This story documents

joking, I actually really enjoyed it. Most of the kids just came for the free pizza and goodie bags at the end, but didn't we all at one point. I remember one time a group of me and my friends went to this B- day party of a girl we all hated… and avoided her the entire time! Ahhh, the good old days where every kid was a bull, even to their fake friends, and no one got in trouble. Back to what I was saying, so my party was all yay yay glitter, pink, sparkles, etc. until my brothers came. Okay, so I have

direct the band. I got chosen because they put up a picture of me from BEAST on the projector and asked that I please come to the podium. When I went up there, they asked me to conduct the band in playing the Happy Birthday song. Coincidentally or not it was the First CPT’s birthday that day. When I ended the song the real conductor asked me why I left off the last note. I didn’t even realize that I had left off the last note but in that moment I decided to say something to the effect of the corps

forward to celebrating their birthday. Some people may wonder what did happen on their special day throughout history. I have wondered about if any significant events that could have happened on my birthday, and through my research, I have discovered several notable events that happened on February 2nd. On the day, Friday February 2nd, 2001 I was born in Asheville, North Carolina. The high for the day was 49 degrees, and the low was 22. There are approximately 19 million people I share a birthday