Basement

For many high school students, home feels like a permanent safe haven, but Elizabeth Welch’s house in Winchester, Massachusetts only feels like a temporary destination for her. Andover has usurped the position of primary residence in her life, and her sojourn home on every Sunday never lasts long enough. In her old neighborhood, a new generation has displaced Elizabeth, her twin, and her three older siblings; neighbors put on a façade of kindness as they wait for her family to leave. As…

Detectives found the body of 47 year old Leonie Rutherford hanging in her basement and the body of her nephew 12 year old Cole Wellingham with self inflicted knife wounds in the closet. It appears through the suicide note found with the boy that an intruder had staged his aunts death to appear as if she committed suicide, and after…

“CRASH!”, “BANG!” went Pompeii and everyone living in it. August 24th, 79 C.E. Pompeiiś volcano erupted and sent million lives, to death. Pompeii was a Roman city were tons of people lived and called home, But then, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy erupted, leaving the beautiful city buried under a thick blanket of volcanic ash. In the story “the dog of Pompeii” by Louis Untermeyer, it tells you about a blind boy, bimbo, and his dog, tito, and how it explains that tito was bimbo's…

Can you remember a day in your life where the colors or lack of colors seemed to seize your eye’s attention, the pigments formulating a specific story that dances on your retina? To a normal person, this may seem a little strange to have the colors tell a “story”, but not for Liesel Meminger, a 10 year old girl whose perceptiveness and mind will make you question her age. “The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud and it’s stretched out like, like a rope. At the end of it, the…

One night a father walked down to his basement finding his seven year old daughter dead. On December 26, 1996 in Boulder, California, Patsy got up from her sleep to get a glass of milk, on her way down she found a ransom note indicating that someone had their daughter, Jonbenet Ramsey and to get her back safely they would have to pay a fee of 118,000. Patsy ran upstairs and woke up her husband John and they called the police immediately because, they thought Jonbenet had been kidnapped from the…

In your class, three out of four conforms to the leader of the group, one out of four does not. Conformity means to agree to the group leader’s opinion through pressure of agreeing to the majority’s opinion. Conformity helps to conclude the meeting, conference, and argument quickly no matter what decision it made, the group made a “decision”. But that decision would not always be right. It could be innocent to what the argument should conclude. The wrong decision can lead to worse consequences…

2015). In this case, Buie and an accomplice had committed an armed robbery wearing red running suits (FindLaw, n.d.). A warrant was obtained, then executed at the residence of Buie where he was subsequently found hiding in the basement. The officers on scene searched the basement following the arrest of Buie where they found in plain view the red running suit. Buie attempted to have the evidence suppressed, citing that his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated by the officers conducting the…

to ask what happened. I couldnt find a bandage anywhere in the first floor of the house. I threw myself into attic searching for anything that could repair the doodle. I dropped back down to the first floor and went into the basement. I rustled through everything in the basement and I found a white bag with a symbol on it. I looked into the bag and I saw it. An entire medical supply with…

mistreatment of Jews. The Hubermann’s in particular might have felt pity for Max and his family because Hitler took Max’s parents away. Max was hiding in their basement, and if the German soldiers were to find him, he would probably be taken to a concentration camp with the other Jewish citizens. The Hubermann’s did a good job hiding Max in the basement. There are numerous reasons why the townspeople of Sighet would have remained complacent. They may have feared Hitler, or did not anticipate…

In the mysterious short story, “The Conjure-Man Dies” by Rudolph Fisher, a popular and mysterious doctor and recent African king, N. Frimbo, is discovered dead one evening in his chair. The plot becomes more complicated when Frimbo’s body is called missing and comes back to life. Fisher who was one of the greater archetypal and distinguished novelist, who wrote short stories of the Harlem Renaissance. Fisher describes the backdrop of the events in the story and hoe adjectives play an enormous…