Amazing Stories

A hopeful snowboarder must hide that fact that he’s homeless from his new girlfriend, as he prepares for a championship competition. STORY COMMENTS ZERO GRAVITY is a sports-romance script. The script has a strong hook in the idea of snowboarding. While there are certainly elements to like about the script, it would also benefit from further development. First, the opening scene nicely sets the tone and introduces the audience to the world of snowboarding and the concept of “zero gravity.”…

The Giving Tree “Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy” (Silverstein, 1964, p. 1-3). This is the first- line of the very controversial children’s book, The Giving Tree. This story starts with a young boy and a full grown tree. The tree loved the boy and gave everything she had for the boy until all she had left was a stump and the boy was an old man. Yet, in the end, “the tree was happy” or was she? There are many different ways this book could be interpreted and there are many…

Prevention and Social Change can often be very daunting words and ideas. However, Jack Pransky’s book Modello: A Story of Hope for the Inner City and Beyond provides a narrative about the simplicity of social change. Pransky is very knowledgeable about the inside-out model of prevention and has written numerous books on the subject. He is well-known for this style of prevention and has shared his view of prevention with many individuals. Pransky may have biases about the way prevention should…

Shakespeare in the bush was written by Lauren Bohannan an American Anthropologist and furthermore was published in August of 1966 by Natural History Magazine. Lauren Bohannan story depicts when she traveled to the Tiv, a homestead of some hundred and forty people in West Africa and by her surprise, she was taught the true meaning of Hamlet. Before Bohannan departed from Oxford she was asked by a friend if she needed guidance interpreting Shakespeare since he was "a very English poet, and one can…

Even though "Hills Like White Elephants" was written in the 1920's, the topic of the story continues to be a controversial subject. The word abortion is never used throughout the story, but it is obvious early to the reader that the American is persuading a woman named Jig to undergo the procedure. It is evident she does not want the operation, but the American ignores her subtle hints. He pretends to be concerned with her thoughts and tries to moderate the difficult operation she is about to…

The Running Dream, written by Wendelin Van Draanen, is a story about a girl named Jessica and an event that changes her life forever. After setting a record in the 400, Jessica’s bus gets in a tragic accident that not only causes Jessica to lose the bottom half of her leg, but also causes the death of one of Jessica’s teammates. Jessica must relearn daily tasks, including how to walk. Because running is all Jessica wants to do, her team has to come up with $20,000 to buy her a running leg. After…

outlook on things, conflict can decreases in your life, and help get rid of the conflict you currently deal with. There are many individuals that have dealt with conflict and told a story about how they dealt with their conflict. One example of a story with some positive conflict is” The Boy In The Wooden Box” This is a story about a jewish boy who dealt with discrimination and torture by the nazis. No german kid his age would talk to him. Jews…

There is speculation on whether Adnan did do it, but a witness named Jay has a story of what happened that day. Due to Jay’ knowledge of the situation, which doesn’t add up with his friendship with Adnan, Adnan did kill Hae. The way Jay’s story matches certain parts of Adnan’s cellphone’s call log can’t be just a lucky coincidence. He would not be able to pinpoint and describe certain situations and evidence if his story was not true. There’s an outgoing call to a girl named Nisha about an hour…

The idea of Betrayal is one of key major points in the story, as Miller presents all the characters (even the citizens of red hook themselves) to place it as the biggest taboo that one should not cross. It can be as simple as snitching, or going back on one’s word on whoever he promised. Whatever one’s definition of betrayal is, everyone in our modern society, or even the old one, know that betrayal is one of the more heinous acts on earth. No one tolerates the idea of getting betrayed, but what…

second exploring her psychological counter measures that give her story credibility. First, I disagree with Hamel’s claim because Alisoun’s tale has too much cynical information to be authentic. For example, before Alisoun begins her tale, she addresses a disclaimer to her audience as a way to grant immunity: “If that I speke after my fantasye,/ As taketh not agrief of that I seye;/ For myn entente nys nat but…