Nancy Drew

Quite often, authors draw from their own personal memories when writing. Sue Monk Kidd is no exception. Kidd is a feminist and a writer-activist known for writing fiction reflecting the context of the civil rights movement in The United States. Combining the best aspects of fiction and broad conceptual ideals, Kidd used narrative as a tool for igniting social change. The significance of Sue Monk Kidd’s life, work, and legacy will last for years to come. Sue Monk Kidd was born and raised in the…

was similar to the characters she wrote about. I also used it because in all my research that was the word that people used to describe her as well as the characters she wrote. In my research. I also found out that Mildred was the one that gave Nancy Drew her personality that she has in the books. I knew I wanted to use the word spunky in my poem. When looking in the Oxford English Dictionary I learned that around the time of 1805-1875 spunky meant mean, irritable, and irascible. This is not…

Ellsberg, M., & Heise, L. (2002). Bearing witness: Ethics in domestic violence research. The Lancet, 359(9317), 1599-604. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/docview/198969537?accountid=13158 In this article, Mary Ellsberg, and Lori Heise, focus on the basic moral principles of decision making regarding domestic violence. The main purpose of the moral principles is to help counselors maximize the safety of all clients in an ethically appropriate manner. The…

I have loved reading books as long as I can remember. As a toddler, I spent hours quietly looking through books by myself. My mom also read to me and my sister often, probably every day. I remember starting to read on my own around age five. Reading was one of my favorite things to do in my free time. My mother read to me and my sister regularly until we were in our early teens. Before bedtime we would curl up in bed with her as she read. It was something I looked forward to every night, a time…

I am Alexander K Davis and I was born in Pensacola Florida. My parents decided to shorten my name so I just go by Alex. I have to do silly chores like cut the grass and put away clothes but at least I get paid five dollars every time I cut the grass. I am a pretty athletic guy, I have played soccer, football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, and the swim team. I have also been on the math team. I love games like checkers and chess. I have always liked watching Scooby Doo and I have recently…

It’s sort of like playing detective, and I’ve loved mysteries for as long as I can remember: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew were all veritable staples of the literary canon that defined my childhood. I think that, were I accepted into the honors program, I might actually enjoy looking at a couple of other texts I loved as a child: C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy, for…

While Perry Smith and Dick Hickock’s murder of the Clutter family from Holcomb, Kansas in 1959 shook the nation, the graphic reports of the murder scene resulted in tremendous anxiety and the devastating loss of trust amongst families. A nationwide hunt for the cold-blooded murderers began, but the lack of clues from the crime scene stumped the best of investigators and encouraged a growth of uninformed, panicked claims about what the criminals were like. In the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood,…

The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, is an interesting, dark short story. Shirley Jackson fills her short story with imagery, irony, suspense, symbolism, and foreshadowing. The story is about a town full of villagers holding a lottery. However, the story has situational irony due to the normal idea that the lottery is a prize of joyfulness. However, Shirley Jackson creates a new, not typical lottery that has a deeper and darker meaning. As the story continues, word by word, the…

died the next day” (Cat fishing as a Form of Cyberbullying). A few weeks later after her daughter death, they found out the boy named Josh Evans never really existed (Cat fishing as a Form of Cyberbullying). It actually was a profile created by Lori Drew, a neighbor and the mother of one of Megan’s friends (Cat fishing as a Form of Cyberbullying). “She…

Art became a political statement (and a way of protest) in a way to share their opinions about the war (WWI and WWII). While millions of young men were killed in battle, the ideas of traditional Western art had changed. Artist such as George Grosz, Miné Okubo, Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollwitz reshaped art perception, and forever changed the perception of who we view war. Though, WWII had a bigger effect in the world, WWI’s classical dispute of the modern-day, not only politically but culturally as…