The Girl Who Played with Fire

had just heard that we were the 2006 graduating kindergarten class at Elgin Elementary. For all of us, this was the beginning of everything we’d wondered about. Quickly, I find my mother, the photographer, and hug her excitedly. She is a tall woman who never falters, as if she were a building, never moving, she stood soundly. In her shiny shirt, she looks like a real professional and a proud…

SCRAPBOOK (A Collection of Poems) Rubene Maria Cesar de Avellar ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rubene Maria Cesar de Avellar was born in 1950 and raised in Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil. She graduated as a Librarian and at 21 years old was married and since had six children, and four grandchildren. The child of two teachers, she was an avid reader and loved poems and novels. She also loved the arts and was talented in porcelain painting. Her passion for reading and her experience in raising six…

Bates’ of the novel and the movies share multiple similarties and differences with one another, and with Ed Gein. Bates is played by Anthony Perkins, a tall, slim, handsome man, differing greatly from Ed Gein’s short, effeminate figure. The childhoods of the Norman Bates and Ed Gein differ greatly, according to Psycho IV. In that film, Norman’s living mother murders a girl who wants to have sex with Norman. Later in life, Norman murders his mother and her lover, along with two local females,…

A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Mood Disorders Depression is a discussed in depth in this chapter. The discoveries made throughout the years is astonishing. It is great to know there are people who study these illnesses and try to find ways to cure them. I knew Depression was something more common now than it has been in a couple of years but I did not know it was known as “the common cold of psychiatric disturbances” (Burns, 1980, p. 9). As I have grown, I have come to realize how much…

Cheryl Green was killed December of 2006 in her tiny Harbor Gateway neighborhood. My cousin was outside in broad daylight with several other African Americans, which were her friends when two Latino men approached them and without word one began to open fire. Hitting my little cousin in the stomach and wounding several of her friends. After these incidents that’s when my stereotypes towards Mexicans became negative. On the other hand, I began to change my thinking and attitudes towards Mexicans.…

the back of the four trucks and see who was inside. When it seemed that Action Andy might be telling the truth, he instinctively allowed Action Andy entry, before instructing him to park the truck in the general position of where he was pointing. As Action Andy drove further into the central square inside this fenced-off internment camp, the sentry repeated the same operation with the other three. Once they were in position, everyone in Action Andy’s outfit played out their parts in the most…

My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.” ~Bob Marley In the late fifties the scarcity of jobs forced Bob and his mother from their home to seek employment in the big city of Trenchtown. Trenchtown got its name because it was built over a huge trench which was used to drain…

Serial killers are as fascinating as they are horrifying. As much as we fear them, we are intrigued in learning about them and knowing their story. Today our society is filled with shows like “Dexter” and “Criminal Minds” that gives a glimpse of serial killers. We enjoy watching it on television or reading about it in books or on the internet. Scholars take hours out of their day to studying these murders and crimes. When we watch these shows we are filled with these fantasies of killings and…

Game over I used my last fake dark, and missed. She dove behind the wheelbarrow at the last moment. I cursed under my breath, knowing I would lose a point for that. I heard her giggle, and I picked up my foam knife. The anger in me, that gave me the strength to fight these games, made me grit my teeth. I always gritted my teeth when I went in for the winning shot. But this time I missed, and my rival beats me. She smiled, and I glared at her in defeat. We shook hands and walked out of the game…

Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Rapunzel, what do these things bring to mind? An old story that was told, a campfire story, or something that was heard along the way through the different people? No matter how it was heard, or where it was heard. Whether it was old or new, or even told by the young or the old. These stories that were heard were most likely fairy tales. They have been around for centuries and have evolved in many ways. These tales have made their way from B.C. to 2016…