She made the decision to create her own. Maddie went to her uncle’s old-fashioned soda machine and found a bucket full of soda bottle caps and sketched Albert Einstein inside the cap. She attached magnets to the back and displayed them in her locker. Her friends saw the Snap Caps and begged that she design more for their lockers. Maddie created different themed designed and gave them to her friends, her sister and her sisters
The BBC NaTioNal ShorT STory award 2010 My Daughter the Racist Helen Oyeyemi One MOrning My daughter woke up and said all in a rush: ‘Mother, I swear before you and God that from today onwards I am racist.’ She’s eight years old. She chopped all her hair off two months ago because she wanted to go around with the local boys and they wouldn’t have her with her long hair. Now she looks like one of them; eyes dazed from looking directly at the sun, teeth shining white in her sunburnt face. She laughs a lot. She plays.
Amusing description is used everywhere in the book. When Joey and Mary Alice first go to Grandma's and meet Effie Wilcox, Grandma describes her as an “old humped-over lady with buck teeth.” Then, when Mrs. L.G. Weidenbach comes to Grandma's house to ask her if she would participate at the church sale, Joey describes her as, “a big-topped lady teetering in high-heeled shoes.” Finally, at the Centennial Celebration when Mrs. L.G. Weidenbach's nephew performs, “his hair was parted in the middle and he'd painted artificial freckles all over his moon face.” These examples help the reader understand how the character looked like. In the book, A Long Way From Chicago, many types of witty, or humorous, dialogue are used.
Therefore moving all activities inside which caused parents to watch their children become couch potatoes. The parents took action and decided to make a skate park 10 miles from their community and allow their children to be outside again. When parents leave their kids alone for a minute anything can happen. Paton mentioned in his article that (Paton, 2012) “Research by the charity the National Children’s Bureau showed that under 15 are now less likely to enjoy outdoor play than in previous generations. It was revealed
Spanking Jamie Carbary University of Phoenix Communication 215 27 September 2013 Rocquie O’Rourke Spanking A mother is standing in a checkout line with her two year old trying to get through the line as quickly as possible before…and then it happens. Her son sees the candy and starts screaming. Ignoring the behavior in public is embarrassing. All the mother wants to do is get her child to the car and make the tantrum stop. Instead, she gives him three quick swats on the bottom and explains that if he does not stop then he will sit in time out when he gets home.
They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting.” ❏ She is excited about having an almond in her cake which is very minuscule ❏ Towards the end of the story she begins to cry, hinting at herself realizing she is alone ❏ Miss Brill in my opinion is a widow ❏ The story was written in 1920 and it was very rare for a woman to not marry ❏ Perhaps the reason she made such a big deal about everything in the park is to help herself forget about her husband ❏ Perhaps her and husband used to go there every Sunday and that is why she attends by herself ❏ At the end of the story it reads, “She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.” ❏ Perhaps the reason she unclasps it quickly without looking is because it was a necklet that her husband and given to her and that is the reason for the
In the hall one day Jamie Jadestone one of the most popular girls in school came over to Julia and tried to start trouble, but to bad Julia is a smart cookie and can get herself out of bad situations she just simply said “Get out of the way” and walked on and that was in between second and third hour time and Jamie was in Julia’s next class. Mrs. Appleseed who taught World Geography and didn’t stand for any clowning in her class, nothing got past her eyes. Jamie was trying to pass a note to get best friend Amy but Mrs. Appleseed saw her doing it and sent her to the principle’s office, Julia thought “She gets what she dishes out” and smiles. The next day was winter break and everyone was acting
Later in 1909, coupons received another boost when C.W. Post began offering 1-cent-off coupons for his Grape Nuts cereal. Now I know what you’re thinking, coupons nowadays are for soccer moms and elderly ladies who bring a Ziploc full of change to the register to pay for their basket of groceries. However, those days are over, well maybe not the latter, with the emergence of TLC’s hit TV show “Extreme Couponing” which hit airwaves in December of 2010 and had more than 2 million viewers glued to their television set wondering how they too could become an economical extremist. “I get inspired on how to save money on items that I never thought of.
Foster Mcfee is a 12 year old girl from Memphis. She is obsessed with baking all types of cupcakes to cakes. She was living a normal life baking and watching her mom perform as a backstage singer with her boyfriend Huck also called as Elvis at least he thought of himself as one. Well one night everything changes when they hear the window crash this is after her mom and Huck have a breakup and he is really mad so he breaks in and tries to talk to Rayka, Fosters mom and he ends up hitting her in the eye so Foster and Rayka run as fast as they could away from Huck trying to find any safe place away from him and his violence. They end up in a small town in Virginia called Culpepper where they find nice people that help them and soon Foster starts
These stories are entitled “Breaking the Habit” and honey work honest pay. It was told to children to from 3-12 yrs of age. It highlights principles of health and character. This is about a 7 year old girl; name Brianna, who wanted to loose weight, because her friend always teased her. She also was over weight do to her age.