The Cat in the Hat

The Killer Lake It was another year at camp but this year our camp instructor Jeremy was hell-bent on making us piss ourselves. He would tell scary stories around the fire right before we went to sleep. None of them really scared me because I had heard them before or a version of them. But there was one story that kept me up for months. I think the thing that scared me most about that story was the fact that I had never heard a story like it before. The story went something like this: There…

Family We will first be talking about Abraham Lincoln’s family. We will also be trying to support the statement. “Abraham Lincoln was the most important president in American history. Some people might not think that he had an effect on anything, but I think that he had a pretty big effect on U.S. presidents today. I chose Lincoln because I think he’s a great example to the present presidents still today. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th 1809 in a one-room log cabin until they moved…

William Faulkner is a well-known author who has won awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes for his novels “ The Reiser” and “A Fable”. He has written many short stories and novels that focus on certain topics such as the human psyche, violence, and sometimes combines the two together. For example, “A Rose for Emily” which is about a woman named Emily, who is psychologically scarred by her father which affects her later on in life. His next story, “Dry September” is…

Donatello’s bronze David is now his most famous work, and was the first known free standing nude statue produced. Lots have perceived the David statue as having many homo-erotic qualities, and liked to argue that it reflected the artist's own orientation. When Cosimo was exiled from Florence; Donatello went to Rome until 1433. There were two works that testified his presence in the city, the Tomb of Giovanni Crivelli at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and the Ciborium at St. Peter’s Basilica. His…

encounter with the antagonist known as “The Misfit” later in the story. The grandmother’s pride is demonstrated not only by her statements but also by her appearance. She wears a fine navy blue dress with small white dots in the print, a blue straw sailor hat, and she wears white gloves. The grandmother’s appearance is important to her so “anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.” The grandmother’s pride is unwavering; she has made sure her appearance is…

Growing up gay in machismo community had its difficulties. Not meeting the status quo can make you feel horribly excommunicated. Often times I would feel as if it was expected that I partake in "manly" activities that just made me feel uncomfortable. Cat-calling and football just weren 't for me. Because of this, I typically felt like I was a failure as a man. But i also felt uneasy conforming to the stereotypical idea of "the gay male". It wasn 't until i was able to see how other guys my age…

Ophelia, AKA the Witch of Morpheus, sat at a makeshift table, playing at eating her dinner as she contemplated all that had happened since the night she found herself on Morpheus, naked in a bed with a man she didn't even know. A shiver ran done her spine when she remembered how the feeling of unrealness had come over her and nearly destroyed her. She had fought against it and won the battle for reality that first night. The constant fear that the unreality would come back to claim her haunted…

At recess, Mr. Ansel, a German man, was riding to go to the market. Annabelle and her best friend Ruth went up to go say hello and pet the horses. Ruth was a little anxious to pet the horses, because, unlike Annabelle, the only animal Ruth had was a cat. Then, without warning, Ruth was on the ground, blood spilling out of her eye, stunned. When it finally sank in, she was screaming like her life depended on it. She was hit by a rock that came from the tree-covered hill above them. “The rock that…

The intention of misusing or mistreating certain assets has become very common in people. Various beings have different purposes rather than being maltreated and neglected. As far as mishandling beings goes, animals are usually the victims. One of the many reasons for animals becoming extinct is the mistreatment by humans, such as trappers abusing animals of the wildlife for fashion-needs. Thousands of animals are harmed every day so that their fur can be used to produce furry coats. Animal…

In today 's society, some adults have said at some point, “your generation won 't be famous for anything, because your generation is lazy.” Although it 's true that we 're lazy due to many technological inventions, some of us might do great things in the future. Before people in my generation start to make a name for ourselves, we will always deal with this problem. People have always faced being compared to others, whether good or bad. There are situations that can change a person 's opinion on…