MILLERSBURG — A fund to benefit the family of April Rogers has been established at First-Knox National Bank in Millersburg. Rogers died in a Sunday morning house fire. She leaves behind husband, Volley, and children, Jace, Samantha, Savannah and Seth. In addition to losing a wife and mother, they lost most of their material possessions and many memories to the fire, according to Rogers' aunt, Pam Deal, who said the fund was established to receive monetary donations to help the family begin to rebuild. “They have absolutely nothing.…
Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old boy who lives in the neighborhood of Meadowbrook, with his mom and dad. Johnny’s parents are abusive, and he takes his parents’ abuse to him personally. On top of that, he doesn't quite get enough to eat, and he often sleeps outdoors. According to Ponyboy Curtis, one of his close friends, he says he “looks like a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers”. To make things even worse, Johnny was brutally beaten by the “Socs” last spring and now lives in a constant state of fear.…
read the book Beneath by Roland Smith full of action and adventure. In my book, the story began in Edgemont Montana when a teenager named Christy is with her sister Vanessa Locke. On her fourteenth birthday, Christy asks Vanessa to drive her convertible, but she has a car accident, hits a rock and is thrown off the seat; but Vanessa is trapped in the car that explodes and she survives even though being totally burnt. Christy is sent to Pine Bluff Psychiatric Care Center for emergency treatment while her sister is treated by her husband Dr. John Locke at home with his assistant nurse Claire Wells.…
There once lived a girl named Bessie that lived in Prattville, Alabama. She was 19 when she died. Bessie was the type of person that loved her family and friends, and she was very sociable. The only things that Bessie didn’t like was liars and apples. Bessie birthed two kids, in which were twins.…
Title to be decided By, Yeremi Navarrete & Maxwell Cline Prologue It was the year 1957 on a cold and snowy night on the dock leaving the ship that took them across the sea. The Cardson’s great grandfather Joseph Cardson and his two sons Jack Cardson who is 13 and Jeffery Cardson who is one year older than Jack landed in New York City harbor and traveled inland toward the city of Philadelphia. The Cardson family was immigrating from England and was very rich so they decided to build a mansion in the city of Philadelphia. Then the price of death came and their father died falling off the roof putting shingles on his newly built mansion.…
A few months later the family would have to leave their home and get on the road because there were people after them, mostly debt collectors, and from then on they moved around, living for a while in a multitude of small towns in Arizona, California, and Nevada, and every once in awhile staying with her mother's Grandmother, and for the most part their parents being the children's educators. While…
The house at 122 Cottage Dr. was hidden by so many trees it was hard to see the chipped siding and faded paint. If it wasn’t for the neighbors to the right, the house would have been completely isolated. 122 Cottage Dr. belonged to the Pitchler family. The Pitchler’s were a nuclear family with a mom, dad, and one daughter. They didn’t have all the money in the world, but they did everything they could to survive and make their little girl Amanda’s wishes come true.…
Once upon a time, there was a young boy named Jack. Jack lived with his poor widowed mother in New York City. The year was 1978 and it wasn't a very joyful time for New York. There was a devastating hurricane that hit Long Island. It killed nearly 500 people and injured about 2,000.…
This paper is about the analysis of the radio segment “This American Life”, the episode titled “Didn’t Ask to be Born”. The episode is based off of the show American High, where a teen; Morgan is fighting with his parents about which car he can take out, the good car, the corolla or the bad car, the acclaim. This episode portrays how different families fight. Based on the concept of family, symbolic interactionalists state that family is a social construct and it is created, changed and maintained in interaction. This family reveals that their way of fighting is through entertainment.…
In the aftermath of Winnie’s eventful life, she soon found herself wrapping up high school, seven years later, and beginning her preparations for college. She had guiltily decided on her 17th birthday that she wanted to pursue an educational life. As much as she would have liked to become immortal at 17 and then marry Jesse, she knew that she wouldn’t have much of a future as a member of a family of wanderers and travelers. She loved the Tucks very dearly, but what would become of her whole life if she chose to drink from the spring? Winnie remembered Angus Tuck’s words, “ But dying’s a part of the wheel, right there next to being born.…
Charlie was an 19 year old fisherman from a religious family. Charlie's family were blacksmiths, but he decided that he wasn’t interested in doing that. Charlie always liked going to the pier and watch the fisherman come off the boat with their catch of the day. When he was 10 years old he decided to become a fisherman. Ava was an 18 year old baker and grew up in the house next to Charlie’s.…
Close call on Current River In the small town of Popular Bluff, Missouri, sun was brightly shining down on this hot summer morning, making it the optimum day to go tubbing down Current River. That morning there were about eight of us going tubbing, my stepfather Larry, two uncles, an aunt, my sister, my two brothers and I. We loaded up the car with the essentials that would be needed; then we loaded up into two vehicles and headed for the river. When we finally arrived at the water’s edge my brother John and I were so excited, we basically leapt out of the car before it came to a complete stop.…
Getting here was awful, not because of the weather, or anything like that. Young Caleb Adams was playing with Rose when it happened. The two young children running and chasing each other around the wagons and then poor Caleb tripped over his feet and a stranded stick. He fell and there was absolutely no way that the wagons were able to stop so fast, so abruptly. The wheels ran over his tiny frame, the only sound heard were his shrilling cries for help.…
You always hear about great legends, no matter where you are from. All my life I had heard about a great monsters who used to roam The Great Plains in Texas, but none of the stories matched the monster I had found. I lived in a small quaint house right outside of a town in the middle of the Texas Plains. Most of the townsfolk were superstitious. My mother was a carefree and spirited woman who let me roam the flat land, not troubled by the hideous monster myths.…
The girls were having a wonderful time planning on how to give their mother her Christmas presents, when "Marmee" March, informed her daughters, "Not far away from here lies a poor woman with a little newborn baby. Six children are huddled into one bed to keep…