The Little Hut

interaction of others. When the Little Prince and the pilot meet, the pilot had just crashed his plane in the Desert of Sahara. The Little Prince asks the pilot to draw him a sheep. Since the pilot had only drawn two drawings in his entire life (a boa constrictor from the outside and a boa constrictor from the inside), he was really confused. When the pilot drew the first sheep, the Little Prince rejected it saying the sheep was too sickly. For the second sheep the Little Prince said, "That is…

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Not even the most stoic person could have contained themselves at the sight of smoke billowing into the air in the now infamous mushroom shaped clouds. People were afraid, terrified, of what had happened, and bewildered by the thought that this new and unfamiliar weapon could destroy an entire city. The chaos was reminiscent of physicist Leo Szilard’s words when a nuclear chain reaction was first sustained, that “this day…

Megan Mincey is a versatile actress, model and philanthropist. Megan Mincey was born in Hinesville, Georgia, on April 2nd, 1986. She was raised outside of Brunswick on the Georgia coast. Very early on in life she developed a love for the arts, entertaining, and especially theater. Mincey was born the eldest of four and a natural performer; her father, Will, worked as a IT Specialist and served in the Air National Guard while her mother, Perry, owned a construction company. As a child, Megan’s…

The Enola Gay is a B-29 bomber aircraft that was used to end World War II. American technological advancements surged ahead in the 1940s and the war with Japan resulted in the production of the 9,700 pound atomic bomb named “Little Boy”. This bomb was dropped onto the city Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by Enola Gay’s pilot Colonel Paul W. Tibbets. Four years earlier Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the main American naval port, had been bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. This killed nearly…

their movies? In Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”, the mermaid is made to be more dependent on males, more materialistic, and more ungrateful than she had been in the original tale. Many authors such as Roberta Trites, Gwendolyn L. Hofmann, and L. Dundes and A. Dundes agree with the fact that Disney completely changed the moral of the story and made it much more sexist than it had previously been. These authors have written articles examining the sexism in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”. The…

Scrappy Little Nobody Anna Kendrick’s goal in writing Scrappy Little Nobody, is to show that she’s not like every other celebrity, she’s different and fun and independent, and because of this, she is also just like everybody else. We’re all different, which is the one thing that makes us the same, and this is the kind of empowering message that she wanted to share with her audience. She wanted to show that she started out, as just a small, wacky, defiant teenage girl, and now she is still just…

budge. As she was struggling with the window she began to hear something crawling along the floor. When she looked down she let herself wonder for a moment if perhaps she was having a horrible dream. Creeping on the floor were what looked like little skeletons wearing elf regalia. They twitched and slunk across the floor, the sound of their footsteps driving Dianna mad. “Wrap the presents, wrap the presents,” they whispered, hopping onto the table and trying to push boxes. She watched,…

Violets Point of View Year: 1864 As I’m sitting here outside of my old family home I think about what led up to this moment. What led me up to this point? What brought me to the point where I killed my best friend, my only friend. Nate my best and only friend who has ever cared for me and the only person I have ever cared for. I think back to the moment I first met Nate. At the time we were 7 years old. We had quickly become best of friends over only a few months…

eat, to the clothes you wear, or to the way your personality is formed. Culture always has at least a little bit to do with the formation of who you are. It comes in different sizes, ethnicities, and religion. There is no limit to what culture can make in you or the others around you. There was a short text in our SpringBoard books called “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau. It’s about two little Indian children who go to a public educational system for the first time, and on their first…

dad yelled, Bernie finally got up. I was downstairs waiting on my grandma. I like her a lot more than them. She understands me and try to see things from my view. My dad just yells at me for everything I do. After my grandma got to my dad’s house a little bit later. We decided to take…