Fireplaces

I was younger I sat in a deer stand with my dad. I started at the age of nine and I loved it. Every day during deer camp I woke up early to walk out to the field with him. We would get up around 4 or 5 in the morning. I always lite a fire in the fireplace to get rid of the chill in the cool morning air. Then I would get dressed up for the cold weather to come and prepare for the great hunt we were about to receive. I could not shoot a deer legally I was twelve. Once I could legally harvest a…

King Lear is a story about a king who slowly descends into madness while his daughters fight amongst each other and him for ultimate power. My group, which includes Victoria Oser, Dominique Gibson, and Dominique Geraci, decided to reimagine a scene of this play into a sorority. Geraci played the part of Pledge Mistress Leah who mandates that the pledges, played by Oser, Gibson, and I, announce our love to the sorority to become official members. A lot of thought when in to the decision of the…

In “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, a boy named Billy tries to find a place to stay after first arriving in Bath. He is making his way to a pub when he’s drawn in by a local Bed and Breakfast run by a sweet and seemingly innocent old lady who later turns out to be a homicidal human taxidermist. As the story progresses, Roald Dahl uses the ominous mood of the environment, the strange quirks of the seemingly innocence of the landlady, and the frustrating naivety of Billy. First of all Dahl uses the…

Eilert one of her pistols (her pistols are her prized possessions) and tells him to do it "beautifully". Only a sick individual considers shooting one’s self a beautiful action. After Eilert leaves, Hedda takes his manuscript and burns it in the fireplace, while maniacally ranting: "Now I’m burning your child, Thea!" over and over. It is as if Hedda enjoys seeing others in pain, she twistedly gets satisfaction from killing Eilert’s and Thea’s child, the…

PS11Q Rudaiya Akhter Class 601 April 30,2017 The Giver : Alternative Ending They went down the hill on the sled. Faster and faster they went, the small cold crystals stinging Jonas’s face but he didn’t care because he knew that everything was going to be alright in a bit. Jonas looked around when something caught his eye. It was small and hidden but he had seen it and knew that it would bring…

Valley Forge and the not re-enlisting people In the nine months I have been a soldier at Valley Forge sickness has claimed many deaths among the soldiers. The quarters were cramped, with twelve soldiers sleeping in small huts that measured 16 by 14 feet. Scarlet fever is ravishing the ranks on a British soldiers, who caught terrible disease from local girls. Befor this war we had already lost Boston and New York and we have a great chance of losing what we have left. In 1777 at Valley…

Her grey-blue eyes rimmed with red stared out of the window, watching the trains chug passed as the rain fell. It was as if the sky was crying, crying for her. She saw her reflection in the window staring back at her. She was weak and scared; worry had infected her thoughts and spread through her veins as if it were venom. A single tear rolled down her cheek, staining the envelope that she was grasping onto, turning her cold knuckles pale, pushing it to her chest. The fear of what the truth held…

world. From mall visits, to putting cookies and milk under the tree, Christmastime is a child’s favorite time of the year. Christmas carols, the smell of cookies baking in mom’s oven, it all just, you know, makes you feel warm inside, sitting by the fireplace with your family. Recently, Macy’s Department Store in New York is starting to hire women to portray the role of Santa in the workshop where families can bring their children to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what they want on Christmas…

Paige Pettengill History per.2 Slinger 11-10-16 The Footprint of the Industrial The Industrial Revolution had a great impact on the world in both positive ways, and negative ways. The negative impacts left on the world, from the Industrial Revolution, outweighed the positive and damaged our environment, animal production, and technology. The environment changed over the course of the Industrial revolution. The world saw…

In the fairy tale, The Three Sluggards, a king must pass on his kingdom to one of his three sons. While on his deathbed, he summoned his three sons to his room to discuss who was going to be the new king. However, he decided whatever son was the laziest would rule the kingdom. He gave his sons a chance to explain why they are the laziest. The eldest son said "... for I am so idle that if I lie down to rest, and a drop falls in my eye, I will not open it that I may sleep." The…