Daddy

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, 5 And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. And so it piled up to the ceiling: Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown bananas, rotten peas, 10 Chunks of sour cottage cheese. It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door With bacon rinds and chicken…

apologizing for my loss while I am to dazed to respond, and today so far has been the same as the phone call. “Adam it is time to go, let's get in the car.”I told my son, with fake happiness. “Is dad coming with us?”Adam questioned. “No honey, let's go home daddy can't come with us.”I said on the verge of tears. “How long will he be gone for?”Adam asked, sounding confused. “Adam I’m sorry to say this, Dad is going away forever.”I say as tears run down my cheek. “WHAT!!!!, no he promised he’d…

As we know, Anna has had a troubled past. Her father died, her stepmother is equivalent to the evil stepmother in “Cinderella”, and she has had a recent change in culture and scenery. In the novel, Anna has made questionable life choices that could be chalked up to her lack of knowledge about the workings of society. We see this when looking at her relationship with Walter. Walter buys her nice things (like the pantyhose), he always gives her money (as an exchange for her services), and he…

Billie Jo was born and her dad thought she was going to be a boy and she was a little kid in the Dust bowl that's why dad named her Billie Jo and then their was a very bad drought and the Dust storms it was coming very fast and they was scared so daddy went outside and tried to work on some things and he could not see anything and then Billie Jo friend Mad Dog was moving to CA and Billie was very sad because she was one of her great friends till they was little and Billie Jo favorite thing to do…

popular center for rich ethnic cuisines. Every year, new ethnic and gourmet stores and restaurants have opened in the neighborhood, adding to the good eating and cheap prices. The Ninth Avenue Festival, which Evelyn Romano refers to as the “grand daddy of all street festivals” (she said Mayor Koch referred to it that way one year).The Ninth Avenue…

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” the author uses the bird as a symbol for doodle to foreshadow what's going to happen at the end. When they first see the bird the dad says “”It looks tiered,” daddy added. “Or maybe evan sick”” When the narrator is teaching doodle to run he says “I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up,his face turned red”. This relates the two through being tired and worn out. The bird had flown from florida to North carolina and doodle was pushing himself harder…

Despite all the financial difficulties, Janisse Ray embrasses her childhood. Her family went through a lot of difficulties, that had an enormous effect on Janisse and her sister. At that time not every family had a lot of financial sources, so most of people were living in the same conditions. What made Janisse’s and her sister’s life different than others was their father’s strong religious believes. He was a really strict man under the influence of Apostolic church. Due to their father,…

Since the beginning of time religion has always been a hot topic. For years and years theologians have taken hours on end attempting to figure out the literature and actual meaning of the bible, yet can humans really comprehend it all? People throw questions such as, how do you think worship should be constructed, should women lead the church, was Jesus even a real man who walked this earth, and furthermore. Unfortunately, all the questions about Christianity cannot be answered perfectly.…

start rubbing her eyes. "You sleepy baby?" I asked. "Mhh," she said. "Come her," I told her. She came over to me and I picked her up. I carried her up stairs and put her in her bed. "No! Momma no bed," she said. "Do you want to sleep with momma and daddy?" I asked. "Mhh," she said. I carried her to Sam and I's room. I put her in our bed and crawled in there with her. She snuggled into me and I played with her hair until she fell asleep. I stayed in bed with her, just enjoying time with her.…

You’ve most probably heard it somewhere, may it be in school, in the television, or maybe even in your workplace. It’s a single by a Puerto Rican singer, Luis Fonsi (real name: Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero) and a rapper of the same nationality, Daddy Yankee (real name: Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez) which was first released in January this year. The song was fairly popular on the first three months of it’s release, but it really started booming when one very popular singer worldwide was…