Nicholas Hammond

in my senior English class when I received a text from my dad: “I got us two tickets to the Nicholas Sparks movie premiere for The Lucky One tonight, and word has it that there’s lots of celebrities coming to town.” Of course, I was ecstatic and could hardly wait to get home from school and get ready. For my small hometown of New Bern, this was a huge deal. It only happened to be here because it’s Nicholas Sparks’ hometown as well. I drove home from school that day and immediately started curling

An important monument from the revolutionary war is Fort Stanwix, also known as Fort Schuyler. The American force’s march to Fort Stanwix inevitably led to the battle of Oriskany. The fort itself not only served as an important military post, it also allowed for an alliance with the Oneida Indians. Fort Stanwix was built on higher ground by General John Stanwix. The Fort was looking down at the Mohawk River; it was built in 1758 between the Mohawk River and Wood Creek. The British General, John Stanwix

As human beings, we are changing each and every moment as we are introduced to new ideas, values and challenges by our surroundings. In Alistair MacLeod 's short story, "To Everything There Is a Season", the author depicts the anxieties and reservations of the narrator 's transition between childhood and the adult world. This story also allows the reader to understand the importance of change in one 's life. The story is set on Christmas Day and the weeks preceding, when the whole family was awaiting

Frustrated with the numerous calls about the same problem around town, the officer said, “Brian, we’ve received twenty calls this morning about the same problem. Along with another fifteen calls about someone opening the doors on unlocked vehicles and throwing trash on the seats. We’ll send an officer to your house to make a report.” Jeremiah and Harold’s favorite activity during school was teasing the younger students until they cried and then called them ‘cry babies.’” Jeremiah stopped to go

hits them. On September 1, 2009, Nicholas Sparks released his fourteenth book, The Last Song which is about a young girl named Ronnie Miller, who spends the summer with her father at Wrightsville Beach, where he’s been living the past few years. In the beginning of the movie, she’s a rebellious seventeen-year-old girl, but soon changes her ways when she meets the boy of her dreams, Will Blakelee, who is played by Liam Hemsworth (Goodreads). According to Nicholas Sparks, he came up with the idea

Shops are bursting with toys, mince pies are on the menu and radios are blasting out Christmas tunes -- so it's time for another festive favourite: lying to children. For millions of children, Santa is an essential part of the Christmas magic. But if parents persuade their children that Santa is real, that lie may harm them, according to psychologists First of all, you’re setting your child up for inevitable disappointment when they realize the truth about Santa. Everyone remembers that moment they

interest of mine. However, that changed the summer of eighth grade year going into my freshman year. I was finally able to take sometime that summer to willingly sit down and read a book of my own interest. That book happened to be The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It really brought out a different perspective on reading for me, not only because the storyline, but to come to the realization that authors really do speak to their readers. I was never able to understand what that meant until I read The

is Santa. The Santa Clause story stretches all the way back to the 3rd century. The legend can be traced back to hundreds of years to a monk named St. Nicholas. It is believed that Nichola was born sometime around 280 A.D. in Patara, near Myra in modern day Turkey. Nicholas became the subject of many later told legends. It is said that St. Nicholas gave away all of his inherited wealth and traveled the countryside helping out the poor and the sick. One of St. Nicholas’s best story is that he saved

into a sweat and her hand began to feel clammy against her bouncing knee. Her conscious begged her not fabricate any false myths to her young and gullible child. The legend of Santa Claus can be followed back hundreds of years by a priest named St. Nicholas. And since then, millions of children have been lied to about a “fat man that comes to one’s house to steal cookies and brings people presents.” Parents have argued that telling one’s children is not harmful at all. And they are just carrying a tradition

The word ' money ' sums up a theme that Dickens has been preoccupied with in many of his novels . Dickens has studied the nineteenth century commercially-oriented England and observed the corrupting influence of money on members and deplorably , suggesting how material possessions have become the criterion of evaluating a human being . Dickens's critics are well aware of this devastating influence . Humphry House confidently tells us that Dickens's plots and characters are , " constructed round