Grey hat

hat night, I was restless. I had nightmares that there were terrible rains that destroyed lives, towns, and even countries. Worse, the storm god, Chac, warned me that I had to do something. When morning finally came and pulled me out of my terror, I was shaken, but I tried to forget about it. I pulled on my huipil and wrapped my manta around my shoulders to keep out the morning cold, just like any other day. I looked out the window- and that’s when I knew something was wrong. Instead of being…

me, or the chores they wanted me to do, so I quit. I interviewed to be a clerk at a liquor store where the owner, Mr. G. was an eccentric, retired gentleman who enjoyed flirting with young girls. At my interview, he made small talk, changed his hat several times, and really just wanted to conduct interviews for entertainment, so I didn’t get the job. No big loss. In another case, I interviewed with a doctor in his late sixties who was looking for an assistant for his office in Fort…

Dan Santat’s inspiration for his award winning book “The Adventures of Beekle” was inspired by the birth of his first son Alek. He wondered before his birth how his son would look and feel like. A few years after Alek started school Dan “eased his son’s worries about making friend (Hsu, 2015)”. This book actually reflected the author’s softer side. The name Beekle actually was Alek’s first set of words that he spoke and this really shows how really inspired the author was by the imaginations of…

artist born 21st November, 1898 in Belgium. Magritte created many notable artworks but one of his most interesting paintings was The Son of Man, created in 1946. This artwork was oil on canvas and 116 cm x 89 cm. The painting features a man dressed in a grey suit standing in front of a dull background. The most interesting colours on the canvas is the green apple placed in front of his face, covering all his face except for his eyes which can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. The mans…

To Kill a Mockingbird Epilogue Summer ended and with it, the most eventful summer that I would ever have. Many years had passed since then; I was now a married woman with a son, soon to be attending school for the first time in the fall. “Thomas Radley Harris come here right now!” shouted Dill. “You cannot run away from your responsibilities forever. You have to go to school, now come here and get dressed!” “Never” he shouted back “I’m not goin’ to that rotten school, and you can’t make me!” I…

not exposed to the sun have the potential to develop melanoma. Melanoma differs from other skin cancers by its appearance and colour as it often has an irregular edge or surface, and is usually a combination of brown, black, blue, red, white or light grey colours. Melanoma has the potential to spread deeper into the skin and metastasise into the lymph or blood vessels to form a secondary cancer if left untreated. Melanoma can be detected by a skin biopsy where a sample of the tissue from the…

Hamlet’s and Ophelia’s Madness Madness can be shown in different types of ways. Shakespeare shown madness through Hamlet and Ophelia in his play Hamlet. Hamlet’s madness was planned out while Ophelia’s was spontaneous. Hamlet faked being mad to prove the new king poisoned his father, but there are times it seemed like him faking mad turned him mad. Ophelia seemed like a normal girl stuck between her lover and father until her lover killed her father and he was sent off to his death then she…

Ahlberg, A. (2008). The Baby in the Hat. Somerville: Candlewick Press. Historical Fiction, Grade Level PreK – 3. Can one action change your life? For the boy who caught the baby in a hat, one action changed his life forever! Though the story is simple, the captivating illustrations elevate the sense of adventure and capture the historical London setting. The boy hero takes his reward and the adventure begins! In a twist of luck or fate, he falls from the London Bridge and into a ship where…

Water is a crucial component to sustain human, animal, and plant life. When a problem that puts water supply at risk of depletion is encountered, people should concern themselves with the inevitable detrimental effects of water shortage. California inhabitants are currently faced with this problem. Although all of California’s citizens have some awareness to California’s drought issue, many are oblivious to the drought’s severity. They continue to leisurely use water due to assumptions that the…

The reader who sported a cowboy hat and snakeskin boots "had a way of running his fingers over the crisp pages of his book, almost lovingly" (6), which signifies us of how caught up he is in his own work and his negligence of anything other novelists had to offer. The other bespectacled…