The Snowman

heard the Finch children playing outside in the snow. That was the first snowfall in Maycomb that had occurred in many years. I wished that I could go out and play in the snow, I wondered what they would do all day. Surly they would try to make a snowman, but their was not enough snow for that. To my surprise I saw them making a little man, out of dirt, he had a strong resemblance to Mr. Avery. Then the brought basket loads of snow from their yard and Miss Maudie's yard. They plastered their…

screaming. I am in the middle of the street screaming for what seems like hours. There I hold what was once my best friend sonny. My face was getting hotter and hotter. I can feel what seems like millions of tears running down my face into my lap. My snowman pajamas are the only thing keeping me warm in the cold dark night. I had just lost my world and my heart was shattered. My little brother, being too young to understand what was happening, tugs on my shirt and says, “Brianna, what going…

COVER This story is about three kids who were playing outside and saw a strange house where an old lady lived. The kids heard about the poor old lady who is ill, lives alone, and nobody cares for her. Then they decided they wanted to visit her. Before visiting the old lady, each child planned to bring gifts for her to make her feel better. At fi rst, they were all nervous and scared to come to visit her because they thought that the old lady would be terrifying. But one of their friends, Daria,…

Free will, the idea that we are able to have some choice in how we act and assume that we are free to choose our behavior. However, even Phil overlooks that he is not by any means the only one equipped of changing from day to day. While making a snowman with Rita for the countless time, he assumes the series of events to go generally as it had before: children toss snowballs at them, they reciprocate jokingly and in a way which reveals Phil 's playful side, and they wind up growing closer.…

called The Mitten by Katalina Page, a retold Ukrainian folktale set in the winter (See Appendix). On a chart paper, I wrote the word winter, then asked the student to tell me everything she knows. The student shared that in winter it snows, can make a snowman, snow angels, snow on tress, snow on the ground, and drink hot cocoa. To get the student to think further, I had her compare summer and winter. The student was able to tell me that it is hot and it does not snow in the summer. Her answers…

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is chalk-full of symbols. A symbol is when an object represents another to give a deeper meaning. From instances like Scout finding the roly poly bug to Atticus shooting the mad dog each symbol means a different thing or describes a different character in the book. Some symbols may be hard to find but there are always hidden symbols relating to the characters. For example, a small detail readers might have looked over like the red geraniums in the…

In the third stage of the behaviorist school of thought we have the neo-neo behaviorist who are also known as socio-behaviorist. Sociobehaviorism began around the 1960’s and lasted until 1990. The leading figures in socio-behaviorism were Albert Bandura and Julian Rotter who incorporate a cognitive approach to the study of behavior. Although Bandura and Rotter were considered behaviorists, they were different from Skinner and other behaviorists before them in that they focused on cognitive…

that are an essential part of his job as a mixed martial arts fighter. He is also nearly twice the age of many of his rivals at the top of his harrowingly brutal profession. Yet, as happens whenever Jeff Monson, a 45-year-old American known as “The Snowman,” visits a town in Russia — or, in this case, Abkhazia, one of the pro-Russian enclaves in the lands of the former Soviet Union — he was greeted with whoops of delight last month when he limped from the Dynamo Stadium locker room and…

of the novel is about exploring one’s inner truth and facing the darkness that is inside every human. In this sense, Conrad has a more focused attention on the nature of man. In Margaret Atwood’s novel, Oryx and Crake, though the plot focuses on Snowman, and the events that led up to the near extinction of humanity, she uses the characters as symbols to represent the many different facets of man. In Heart of Darkness, at the beginning of Marlow’s long yarn, Marlow mentions that humanity has a…

Frozen! One of the best animated movies of 2013. It included everything anyone would want to see in a movie and so much more. From the opening of the movie a very calm mood was set that really set the plot for the entire movie. After the opening scene it shows Anna climbing on her sister asking her to go play. After giving in to a non-deniable beg, Elsa and Anna take off the picture room to have a snow fest which soon turn bad after Elsa strikes Anna in the head with her powers leaving Anna…