Amazing Stories

Bartleby, the Scrivener Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville, is a story that takes place on Wall Street, in New York, New York. The narrator of this story is the Lawyer, whom he describes himself as “a rather elderly man”. The lawyer is the epitome of a conservative that conforms to the societal norms and expectations. He has the idealism that “the easiest way of life is the best”. Running a law firm, he has multiple employees: Ginger Nut, an ambitious twelve year old son of a cab…

Care Unit (NICU) for five months and three days. I was born at twenty-four weeks and one day, four months before my due date on January fifth. I was not alone, however. My twin brother was born on January fourteenth—we were nine days apart. See, my story is not a difficult one to tell, but it has changed slightly over the course of my seventeen years. I could go on to discuss how I’ve had sixteen extensive surgeries. How I only have one working vocal cord. Or even that I was given about a ten…

pilgrims stopped at Red Lobster on 281 for an appetizer, the adventurer decided to tell a story. He was determined to win the prize for the best story. The year was 2080, man had already colonized Mars and made it into a second Earth. It was very futuristic it looked like it was straight out of “Star Wars.” Most people acted like one, but there was some people who had different ideas. That's where our story begins. Nick had somewhat of a significance in the Martian Air Force. He was a mix…

Much of the story does follow Tayo’s life, but it also follows the journey of the Laguna people as a whole, and more generally, the Native American experience. Multiple characters in the book discuss the importance of Tayo in an interesting way. It’s not so much that Tayo himself is an individual that’s any more important than any other, Tayo is important because of what he represents. Ku’oosh and the others are so interested in hearing Tayo’s story because it’s a story of redemption, an…

narrator came from a Puerto Rican family and she would look at a two story home that jews used to live in but one they another family moved there and that was Eugene’s. Which the narrator fell in love with…

watched and tacitly mused over the oft-exaggerated nature of a sailor’s tales. As time passed the tales slowly lost their novelty, and the town’s collective interest in him waned much like the styles of olden days. Still, a few held fondly to the stories of the vast…

In this essay, am going to reflect on my practice as an early year’s practitioner in training. This will enable me identify the areas I have made progress and the areas that I need to work on to improve my practice. Self-awareness. This aspect of my practice, I have managed to develop a good working relationship and communication with the children and staff. Communicating with children during activities, asking them what they are doing and giving them time to respond while encouraging them…

No two stories are the same, even when written by the same author with similar plot and characters. Raymond Carver covers this with his stories, “The Bath” and “A Small, Good Thing.” Both stories recount a young boy, who was hit by a car and die. There is much more to each story than the analogous plot. Each story develops their characters differently and place emphasis on certain details. With the use of details, there is less ambiguity in one story than there is in the other. These stories…

In the short story, “The Somebody”by Danny Santiago, self-proclaimed ‘Chato de Shamrock’ makes the decision to quit school and become a ‘writer.’ While disinheriting his father’s name, Chato decides to make it big on the streets of East L.A and goes around the city spreading his fame by writing his name on various buildings and street objects. Since Santiago writes in first person, the story is narrated through Chato’s perception of the world and his account may not be entirely accurate. However…

To be successful, to be intelligent, to be a change. Those are the three main reasons I want to attend college. In this day and age, many jobs require a higher level of education to be able to work. Those jobs that don’t require a degree, depend upon more manual labor, backbreaking work and lower wages. I would rather remain in school longer, expand my knowledge, and get a career on everything I have learned, than go straight to the work field to earn less and do more. Radiology is the field…