Little Owl

In the first short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce writes an interesting story about what happens to Peyton Farquhar, a well-to-do plantation owner of a highly respected Alabama family. In the story, a soldier from the federal army warns Farquhar about the order of hanging if the yanks find anyone interfering with the repairing of the railroads, bridges, tunnels or trains. Despite the warning, Farquhar found himself at the creek where he experienced an extravagant but delusional

I reluctantly took a step back as I stared at the commodious bleach white building towering above me. I have not been here for years and I instantly feel my stomach erupt in butterflies. Today was the first day of my volunteering program at the University of Florida. I stand outside in the clammy incalescence Florida weather dredging to go inside the enormous superstructure that reads HOSPITAL in big red letters. My first impulse is to turn around and whisk back home, but all I can hear is my mother’s

It is then I wonder how I even ended up in a job that requires one to be compassionate and charismatic all the time. Those days when you can’t seem to pull yourself out of a funk I remember. I remember the little blonde head of a stubborn, talkative child. She never seems older than five and she is always, always clutching a tiny Snow White doll. She has incandescently blue eyes and she smiles regardless of what has happened. The kind of kid who can’t seem

Ghosts by Naomi Wood The short story by Naomi Wood was written in 2012, and is about Pia, who is a middle-aged woman and the day where the short story takes place, is her 40th birthday. In this story we meet Pia, her partner Daniel and random people from the streets and of course Pia is our main character. The short story starts in the middle of Pia’s day, she just finished working and she is about to leave the car park at work. She is on her way home, where her partner Daniel waits to take

Elle McGinnity 4 November 2014 Mrs. Siragusa Period 2AC Paper #2: Personal Narrative Pain is a funny thing. Sometimes it strikes suddenly, a lightning strike in a quiet blue sky. It tears through you and for a few seconds you cannot breathe; cannot think. This was different. This pain was patient and slow. It crept up on me; starting as just an annoying dull ache in my hip. Gradually growing confidence, steadily growing until the roar of the pain became so loud, I could not focus

On August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 Japan time, the United States dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. Little Boy was dropped from the Enola Gay, from 31,000ft and detonated at 1,900ft above Hiroshima. Dropping the atomic bomb destroyed the city, ruined and negatively changed people’s lives, and killed thousands of people. Some say it was necessary to drop it because of the lives it saved. It didn’t save lives. It was unnecessary to drop the atomic bomb because of the amount of

Alcott’s novel “Little Women” displays interesting qualities from her characters that represent aberrance and independence; Alcott challenged conventional beliefs about how women should behave in the 1800s. Similar to Alcott herself, the main character was determined to become a writer “despite the fact that popular portrayals of working women during the era often pictured them as socially deviant” and was considered unfit to become a motherly figure (Alcott, Louisa May). She wrote Little Women as a “‘moral

As a person ages, their perspective on life changes. A person eventually develops the ability to analyze, understand the importance of lack thereof of things, and not take offense at all the little things in life. Your perspective also changes through the dropping of preconceived ideas and by experiencing new situations. As you age, your ability to analyze a particular situation develops drastically. When you are young, you think that there is one plain cut, simple, black and white answer, but as

The classic tale of “Little Woman” has taken a place on many bookshelves throughout the world. The story follows the March girls through 15 years of their lives and is written in a very pronounced omniscient voice. Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy live with their mother in New England. Their father is away serving as a chaplain in the war, and the sisters struggle to support themselves and keep their household together. In the process, they become close friends with their wealthy neighbor, Theodore Laurence

Not even four feet tall the stocky, little man in patchy, homemade overalls was every bit of invisible behind the massive haunches of Tiny, the circus’s eldest, and in his opinion, smelliest, African Elephant. Muttering obscenities beneath his breath, never missing a beat, Puppet shoveled heavy scoopfuls of dung off the boxcar's floor and into an old wheelbarrow, pausing only long enough to lean the shit stick against the wall before he grabbed the handles of the wheelbarrow, his dark complexion