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She asked me to sit on the kangaroo next to her and told me how Kylie sat on the kangaroo before. She sat next to me and told me what she did while waiting for the rest of the children to settle down for story. Skylar sat down and began to read “Llama Llama Red Pajama.” Overall, I think story went okay. It seemed as if the children were listening, but they could barely answer the questions Skylar was asking at the end.They all liked the stuffed animal and were happy when it was passed around.…

Do Ho Suh is a sculptor and installation artist known for some of his creative artwork, such as Public figures and Some/One. Majority of his artworks are located in environments such as sculptural spaces for which viewers can visually explore. One of his interesting artworks, some/one consist of thousands of dog tags that are assembled in an interlocking pattern that are used as building blocks. It is quite interesting because Do Ho Suh used to be in the military, and I think majority of his…

your cabin door. You open it to find a man, dirty with disheveled clothing, and he offers you some apple seeds. He tells you that he has been walking for days, and asks for nothing as restitution for his seeds, but that he may be able to tell his story. Despite his appearance, his tenderness comforts you and you invite him inside. Seated by the fire, surrounded by your children listening diligently, the man begins with his name: Johnny Appleseed. Long ago, a boy named John Chapman was born into…

What is the meaning of Alternative Facts? One has to wonder what alternative facts are. Honestly, I never heard of this phrase before, so I did what I always do. I take the words apart, search for the meanings of the individual words and then place them back together. The word alternative means, there may be one or more things available as a possibility. The meaning of facts is, something that is truthful, or reality. The word oxymoron enters my mind when these two words are placed together.…

Boyle develops a story of an astronomer, who is constantly devoted to his work of discovering what the heavens may hold, his wife, the recipient of his lack of affection, and a plumber, who is used as a contrasting piece to the astronomer through his down-to-earth methods…

very different stories with differing themes, settings, characters, and summaries, however much of the symbolism that is portrayed through the two can be connected. While “Sonny’s Blues” discusses the struggles between a heroin user, Sonny, and his brother, “The Red Convertible” is a story about the shaky relationship between brothers Lyman and Henry. The obvious connection that is made relates to both sets of brothers that long for acceptance and approval of each other. Both stories show the…

The Reality Behind the Greasers A deeper meaning lies within everyone that is not often revealed. The Outsiders is a fiction novel by Susan Eloise Hinton that conveys this message. Throughout The Outsiders, the characters outer shell is broken down, and it's easier to detect their inner selves. An author from Horn Book wrote, “ This remarkable novel gives a moving credible view of the outsiders from the inside--their loyalty to each other, and their sensitivity under tough crusts, their…

The plot of a story is the sequences of events that help a story reach its end. A story will always have events in it that are used to propel it forward. While some events are used to provide information about the setting and some background information, other events can help the story reach its conclusion. The plot of a story usually has 5 parts: beginning with the exposition, then the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution which is the ending of a story. The…

After reading and analyzing The Century Quilt by Marilynn Nelson, the reader can interpret that the author is telling a story about her cultural background and the significance of a family heirloom that has been passed down for generations. The narrator was sharing her feelings on how she felt about not getting a family heirloom over her older sister and she related that to her grandmother. Nelson used theme, symbolism, and point of view to showcase her feelings about being an outcast in her own…

Greasers’ parents are dead, indifferent, apathetic or abusive. Most of them have to learn to live with poverty and violence The Greasers share the feeling that they don’t belong anywhere. As we have seen previously, The Outsiders, does not only tell the story of the Curtis brothers, but it also describes the life of disadvantaged young teenagers from broken families and who are also struggling to survive in this world. Some of them are young men abused in their own home. Instead of finding…