Dirty Little Secret

Before the story I…. (what you did to prepare the children for the story): I read the title of the book and author then I asked them what they think the book or story was going to be about. The one little girl in the group answered that she thinks it was about dogs. Then I turned to a random page with a scared dog on it and ask them why they think the dog is scared and they answer with they don’t know. So I said why don’t we find out. During the story I…… (how did you engage/keep their…

Single Sea Foam to Married Mermaid The original The Little Mermaid, written by Hans Christian Andersen, and the Disney version are closer than I had first thought. It turns out that Disney had only changed the ending to fit the Disney-fication process, besides adding music. The original piece isn’t as sad as thought. I’m glad I got to actually sit down and read Andersen’s version of The Little Mermaid. Both versions of The Little Mermaid follow the six-step formula for a Shakespearean comedy.…

In the second stanza the narrator witnesses Tom’s loss of innocence: “There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head / That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved:” (Stanza 2). The image of Tom crying because he was losing his hair is so vivid. We often take little things like that for granted. Losing his hair wasn’t about vanity; it was a choice being taken away from Tom. The word ‘independence’ is very interesting because…

six years to stop and question why my sister was already awake that night. Little did I know that six years later, we would be switching roles. Instead of me being the annoying younger sibling, now he is and I am the older sister. Flashback to sophomore year. Another year of various changes. New teachers, classes, friends, everything was changing again just like freshman year. None of that worried me. It did a little bit I guess, but not like I expected. This year was different. Full of…

The Ultimate Experience: Life in Color I. Introduction In what may seem a harsh generalization, I would like to begin by considering the likelihood of a Christian committing suicide to gain an early entry into heaven? On first inclination, we know this would not happen because they perceive suicide to be a sin. Even with a less nuanced version, we know that in spite of the belief of heaven and a perfect afterlife, there has not been a wide scale mass extinction of Christians any time lately. If…

What is social media? Social media is a way for people from around the world to communicate with each other without ever seeing each other face to face . It’s way to express our feelings without the fear of public humiliation. This new fad has become a popular invention that can be used to many advantages or disadvantages. Some of the advantages are that it’s a way to hold a social relationship with someone that you may not have frequent contact with such as family, friends, or people that start…

Committing the crime of debt in the Victorian era was considered no less of a crime than that of murder and while you could not be executed for the crime of debt, the use of torture devices was known to have killed countless inmates. Debtors were imprisoned indefinitely or until their debt was paid and unless you had the means to pay the debt off, it was possible to spend your life imprisoned. Death was more plausible than release. While debtors’ prisons were thought to have been abolished in…

He saw deserted cars that had rusted almost all of the color off of them with no life within. Old blood stained the streets along with filthy rags of cloth and unburied bodies on top of the dirt as if no one had the time. He continued to walk with little energy and he thought to himself if he couldn’t find fresh food before the dark comes, he needed to at least find…

it is a way of freedom. He says, “I will be there chasing sound waves riding them like two-dollar pony ride horses that have finally broken free and wild” (Brown). Brown talks about his freedom in the afterlife as if he were reliving his life as a little kid again. He reassures that his lover knows that he is not gone and that she shouldn 't feel anguish because they are going to see each other again. All she has to do is hold up one finger and she will see him there “darting behind amazing…

with another intervenor. However, on the first day with that person, the camp leaders had decided to send them home because it was noted that the camper’s health seemed to be deteriorating. So I ended up having the first half of my week off. It was a little bit annoying to me because I went to Seabeck expecting to work and ended up not being able to do enough. On my free time though, I went to their PTASL workshop and participated in the activities there. It was at the workshop where I learned…