There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

that her mother, who he believed dead, was still alive and living in a nursing home in Iowa. Posing as a cop Martin is able to locate Laura to Cedar Falls. From there he follows her home, and he begins to leave little clues making his presence in the home known. A struggle soon follows and Martin tries to kill Laura with a gun, but Laura gets the upper hand, and is able to get the gun away from him. Laura calls the police and tell them that she…

been a topic of the norm, and more often than not derives from the commonplace opinions of fans and critics who either appreciate her strategic opportunist partnerships that lead her to continuous money and fame or find her entire infamy to be based on a single, less-than-classy event gone viral that will not cease to exist from pop culture as we know it. However, to understand why this one woman has maintained such a high profile in the spotlight for almost 10 years, a clear understanding of…

The world when the modern poetry was born was deeply touched by the discoveries of that time, be it Einstein’s theory, or Freud, or the development of a new art – photography. Everything come together and left its mark on modern literature, and implicit, on poetry. On this period, a great influence over the poetry of the world had the American poets. According to Cary Nelson, the modern American poetry is “unexcelled in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity”, and those characteristic are…

relative doesn’t have much longer to live. Many of the most cherished memories are formed and when they feel closest to each other. When people who get the news that they don’t have much longer to live they take those last few moments and actually make them count. They do what they deem as important. For example, one man described by Mezrich and Scalea was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. When he found this out he realized that he did not have much time left and with the little time…

Two Kids on a Plane (This story was written in 2002 and is used here to help explain why it is so important to stay positive about yourself and others. It is also a story I never want to forget, and I always said I would publish it some day, so here it is. You should be able to get some lessons out of it on ways to stay positive when life is not going your way. Try talking to yourself the same way I talk to myself and see if it doesn’t help with controlling your ego and consciousness when…

of that generation was idyllic and reinforced further by shows such as “Leave it to Beaver”, and “Father knows Best”. The facade of peace and tranquility would be washed away in the turbulent 60's. In modern American history, each decade shapes the next, with massive industrial growth and technology. In the 50's a man and woman are sentenced to death for espionage, that judgment is unimaginable…

story of how his parents met. In the process Artie wants to learn the whole story of how his parents progressed throughout the Holocaust. In the beginning it is very happy for me to witness Vladek appear in society as a respected young individual, who has no social bias directed towards him. The streets in which he walks in with Ajya both seem relatively clean and relatively safe. It makes it almost impossible for me to believe that their ever could be any form of anti-semitism lingering upon…

been dating her boyfriend Danny for two years now. Carla is about to start her freshman year of college in August. Everything seems to be going as usual until she notices that she is two weeks late. After taking a pregnancy test which was positive, she knew abortion was the choice. Carla knew her parents will never agree to this. Weeks went by and she researched about where to get the abortion, its risks and how much…

they swear his saintliness” (Anand 1985:19). Steinbeck is a mouthpiece for the lowly and the lost. Like Karl Marx who calls religion ‘opium of the people’ Steinbeck is very often against the religion. His world is “incontrovertibly a human centered world from which God has departed” (Timmerman 1986: 115). His chief concern is not the religion but the welfare of…

It was an eerie autumn night, complete with howling winds and barren streets. Exceedingly few people had been audacious enough to walk the desolate streets of the Bronx, especially not at twilight. Not too far away, a family was in their small apartment. The young boy, Reginald, was huddled in bed listening to the angry footsteps and jaded voices that reverberated through their tiny home, scarring the wooden frame on which he lay. Reginald strained to hear his mother’s barely audible whisper,…