Nancy Drew

In Bronx, Sonia was raised in poor catholic Puerto Rican community and was speaking mostly Spanish (Lewis 2016). At age seven, she was diagnosed with type I diabetes that in some way formed her career choice. As a child, Sotomayor was inspired by Nancy Drew and wanted to become a detective; the health problems and Perry Mason show made her choose the profession of attorney (Hoffman 1992). After her…

months before Lincoln was born, his brother, Thomas, bought a farm that was near Elizabethtown. The farm had a log cabin on the property, which would later be the birthing site of the 16th president. When he was nine years old, Lincoln’s mother, Nancy,…

How much longer must ignorance and pointless violence continue before we will start to change? The answer to this question may appear simple and in Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery” the satire is obvious. By using literary criticisms readers can evaluate more in depth what the story is actually trying convey. Two major literary criticisms that will discussed in detail are Psychological Theory and Historical Criticism and New Historicism. Psychological Theory basically deals with the…

theory was that long ago a loquacious parrot had flown to all the countries in the world, teaching people how to speak and communicate. I thought it was pretty good at the time, and my mom agreed. From there, I progressed to more complex tales: Nancy Drew-style mysteries, a story about a genetically-engineered talking dog,…

Knowing that something special was going to happen that day, because she could feel it deep inside her soul, Charity sprung out of bed. Her grandpa had always said that she had the “gift of knowing,” the same as her grandmother, Mi 'thebe, had. Mi’ thebe was a Cherokee name that in English meant Shadowy Moon. As she stepped outside the old, log cabin she took a deep breath of the cool, fresh mountain air and then stretched her back, leaning from side to side to remove the stiffness she felt…

The topic is “by providing more education on guns to school aged children (aged 5 to 18) the number of accidental shootings will be reduced.” The problem statement is that to many individuals die in shootings every day. Nearly 48 youth are shot every day, including 7 fatalities. By providing children with proper knowledge and training on how to handle a gun the number of incidents will be reduced. The population for research will be the entire United States. Stratified sampling will be used due…

Stepping outside the old, log cabin the young girl took a deep breath of fresh mountain air, then stretched her back and leaned from side to side. Her grandfather had built the cabin some fifty-odd years earlier as a wedding gift for his new bride. The young girl’s name was, Charity. She loved her grandfather and she loved the old cabin, it had been her home her entire life. Charity knew that something special was going to happen that day, she could feel it deep inside her soul… Her grandpa had…

(Pic COVER) MOUSE AND DRAGON By IAN T. WALKER (pic TITLE PAGE) These fourteen children’s stories first appeared in “Lilly and Ian, Mouse and Dragon” which was published by Partridge, Singapore in 2015. That book was inspired by the author’s love of a Chinese woman called Lilly. Of this collection the author writes, “I showed other stories I had written to a publisher in China and he said they did…

Even before Claussen began pushing his architectural vision, others were busy designing the inner workings of the plant. Jan Knau, an engineer, was only 27 when he was asked to come up with a flexible assembly line for the factory. Knau, then just a junior associate, contacted BMW’s top 15 assembly engineers. He invited them to a two-day workshop at a BMW retreat near the Austrian Alps. After a series of marathon sessions that included discussions of every facet of the ideal assembly line, Knau…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…