Twelve Days of Christmas

defense. Four days after the first German attack General Philippe Petain arrived to Verdun and took command of the French army. The day of Petain’s arrival, the city was on the verge of collapsing and the Germans had taken over Fort Douaumont, which overlooks Verdun. Due to the loss of Fort Douaumont, the French were nearly disheartened as the fort had many fortifications which made it close to impossible to damage. Despite the loss of the fort, Petain was not ready to admit defeat, the day…

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) is the Sheriff’s Department in the United States (LASD 2017). The department has three duties, including patrolling the county, providing security for the courthouses, and the housing of inmates in the county jail system. Sheriffs do have a duty to serve and protect the community, nonetheless, they may also have their flaws. Not to mention, slightly more than a month ago, the Los Angeles Times posted an article about a rookie sheriff who was…

period. Consequently, I went to the Arab American National Museum for some examples of Islamic art that I could photograph. The museum is only open Wednesday thru Saturday and is closed for the holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day. Despite the limitation of the days, there were several staff and patrons of the museum. The outside of the building belies how wonderfully big the museum is and the amazing colors of the floors. The front of the museum looks rather modern with just…

spoil the child.” She said this because I wanted another sibling. She thought this was intended as exhortation rather than warning. The mother’s instinct to spoil her only child was thereby reinforced by a higher authority. I was so spoiled that on the day my parents unexpectedly came to pick me up from elementary school in the middle of the morning. I was about nine at the time I told the teacher that it was probably because that new game I wanted just came out. In fact it was to go to Norton…

attending one of my most despised camps. On Sunday night, Claire and I are as excited as kids on Christmas morning, and we run around the house asking my mom random questions about the…

a house in Black Rock when I was two, which I lived in until I was 18. I went to Black Rock Kindergarten when I was three and four. I then went to Black Rock Primary School from Prep to Year Six and Mentone Girls’ Secondary from Year Seven to Year Twelve. I have some memories of going to kindergarten. My mum tells me that I was incredibly social and was always wanting to ask friends back to play. I established a friendship with a girl called Jess and we were best friends growing up. Our parents…

circumstance that his country was in, and normally started to think about the subsequent stages that would be taken in response to the occasions of that day. As it were, the President understood that his subsequent stages would be, making a move against those that had harbored these occasions, and in fact a presentation of war took after only nine days after this underlying discourse was given. It takes after at that point, that Bramble could set up his assertion in this first discourse, by…

was in college during the Easter break I had to stay an extra day at school. While I was there I noticed that there were still some girls left at school in my sorority house. I asked why they weren’t going home for the weekend and they told me that they were Jewish so it wasn’t an important holiday to be home. There was no reason to go home if their families were not all getting together. I told my mother this on the phone that day and she invited all of them over for Easter Sunday. These…

nothing original or significant to write. Instead of creating, he resorts to pragmatism. He chooses simplicity and concreteness over the abstract and obscure. He saw himself sitting at his table in Bray in the morning after the discussion at the Christmas dinnertable, trying to…

gives interviews as she stays with her sister Alice. Known for her wit and charm, Lee granted a few interviews for her published novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Since then, Lee’s published a few short essays: “Love-In Other Words” in Vogue, 1961; “Christmas to Me” in McCall’s, 1961; and “When Children Discover America” in McCall’s, 1965. When most people wondered “why a writer of such talent chooses to write only one novel?” her cousin Richard Williams, his answer was “When you have a hit like…