Story County

watched and tacitly mused over the oft-exaggerated nature of a sailor’s tales. As time passed the tales slowly lost their novelty, and the town’s collective interest in him waned much like the styles of olden days. Still, a few held fondly to the stories of the vast…

In this essay, am going to reflect on my practice as an early year’s practitioner in training. This will enable me identify the areas I have made progress and the areas that I need to work on to improve my practice. Self-awareness. This aspect of my practice, I have managed to develop a good working relationship and communication with the children and staff. Communicating with children during activities, asking them what they are doing and giving them time to respond while encouraging them…

No two stories are the same, even when written by the same author with similar plot and characters. Raymond Carver covers this with his stories, “The Bath” and “A Small, Good Thing.” Both stories recount a young boy, who was hit by a car and die. There is much more to each story than the analogous plot. Each story develops their characters differently and place emphasis on certain details. With the use of details, there is less ambiguity in one story than there is in the other. These stories…

In the short story, “The Somebody”by Danny Santiago, self-proclaimed ‘Chato de Shamrock’ makes the decision to quit school and become a ‘writer.’ While disinheriting his father’s name, Chato decides to make it big on the streets of East L.A and goes around the city spreading his fame by writing his name on various buildings and street objects. Since Santiago writes in first person, the story is narrated through Chato’s perception of the world and his account may not be entirely accurate. However…

To be successful, to be intelligent, to be a change. Those are the three main reasons I want to attend college. In this day and age, many jobs require a higher level of education to be able to work. Those jobs that don’t require a degree, depend upon more manual labor, backbreaking work and lower wages. I would rather remain in school longer, expand my knowledge, and get a career on everything I have learned, than go straight to the work field to earn less and do more. Radiology is the field…

goal that is to essentially, change the way that clients view themselves you could help in otherwise hopeless situations. For example, let's take a single mom working three jobs, who has barely any time to see her kids.This mom could come with a story that she is a horrible mother and leave with one where she is proud to be working hard for…

he might be taken by the government soldiers. In the middle chapters of Year Of No Rain by Alice Mead, Wol changes throughout the story on how he treats Stephen. On page 33, Wol…

stick out of the sides that once connected it to the cave wall. When I would play in that room, I always thought that it was just some decoration, and I never knew the story behind it. Until one day mw and my dad were sitting around a camp fire and my brothers were asking for a story. I was expecting him to tell the same scary story he tell every time they ask this question, but this time he had something different to tell us. “Ok, I’ll tell you about the ghosts in the mine.” he spoke in his…

York City across the front. Life has been very entertaining since then. I have had a really nice owner who takes really good care of me. I think my favorite thing is being able to see people and places that I have never seen before. anyway back to my story. I remember the chill that could be felt that day. As my owner slipped inside me, I had a feeling that something was not right. It was our first day at a new school, and my owner’s first day of middle school. Neither one of us had any idea…

“Amigo Brothers” What is the Golden Glove Champions? Antonio and Felix both love boxing but they both have different boxing skills. Antonio and Felix are both seventh years old. They lived in the lower east side manhattan in the same tenement building. Antonio and felix both dreamed of becoming lightweight champions. When they work out, they both wear sweat shirts, shorts , towels and handkerchiefs apache style around their forehead. They both dreamt positive. they usually work out at” Boys…