Outhouse

Walk on Earth a Stranger is a historical fiction book that takes place in 1849 in Dahlonega, Georgia, California, and in between. It is about a ___ year old girl named Leah Westfall, her friend Jefferson and her horrible uncle Hiram. This all begins with Leah Westfall and her family. Leah is not a normal girl she has a special power. She can sense gold! In 1849 finding gold could save a family from a horrible life. Leah has found a whole sack of gold up until now. She kept the sack…

Sharon Knight is a 68 years old woman, born in Edmond, Oklahoma in a small maternity home. She is the middle child of five in her family. Sharon currently lives in Piedmont, Oklahoma in a home that is small enough for the two of them, but also big enough for their four grandchildren to roam about. Sharon has been married for fifty years to the same man, and they still show each other the same love that they did the day they met. She is a wife, mother of two, and grandmother of four, but she…

Throughout human existence, countless wars have been waged. From the Mongolian invasion of China in 1205 to the French Revolution in 1789, it is clear that war has shaped humanity and morality into present-day standards. There is a no bigger example of war's effect on morality, perhaps, than the Second World War. Not only was it the bloodiest war, but it also plunged the world into a moral dilemma due to Nazi Germany's unethical treatment of the Jewish people. Never before has a war been so…

The essay by Haney brings to light many attributes that I want to address. Is she a professional? Does Haney exemplify effective teaching practices? Lastly, what is one question that I want to ask Haney? These topics are all areas that I will explore in more detail. Haney raises some good points and like most of us, appears to be in education for all of the right reasons. Haney is the true professional in so many ways. She is passionate about her work and her teaching goes beyond the walls…

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back in the Medieval Times, things weren’t as simple as it is today. So how did they do it, having none of the usual amenities? People from nobles to even serfs used the restroom. They had something called a privy, which was also known as an outhouse. All privies would offer little to no privacy and would just be a block of wood over a hole in the ground. If the privy was inside, the waste would fall into a moat and you would never see it again. If the privy was outside, it would be a…

The Suitcases This story is written about 3 orphan children during the Great Depression. The mother dies and the oldest child does not go to school. Their grandfather used to take care of them but now he just lays in bed for most of the day and they do not go for walks anymore. The three children live in Charlotte, NC and before their mother passed away they would go on walks until their legs ached and could not walk anymore. When the kids got tired dad would put them on his shoulders and…

In the essay On Being a Self Forever, Updike reflects on the conception of selfhood and discusses his thoughts on subjects of death and religion among others. On writing about this, he devotes some time to the topic of nothingness: Perhaps there are two kinds of people in the world: those for whom nothingness is no problem, and those for whom it is an insuperable problem, an outrageous cancellation rendering every other concern [negligible].” (Self-Consciousness 228) This idea of the “two kinds…

hell, and experimented with stumphole whiskey, so it was easy to tell Boo was hanging with the wrong crowed but no one had the guts to tell Mr. Radley. Then one night the boys got in an altercation with police and Boo was locked in the courthouse outhouse until they went to trial. At trial all the boys were convicted of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace,…

Jeannine Burk, a Belgian Jew who was only eight months old when the Germans controlled the whole of Western Europe. Born amidst a brutal war, and the worst time for a Jew to be alive. Her siblings were Max, who was 15 years old and Augusta who was 12, she could not get out of her bed as she had osteomyelitis which was an inflammation of the bones caused by infections. Jeannine's parents, Sarah and Isaac were hearing rumors of the execution of Jews and decided to send their children away. Max was…