Travis Young is calling his father to come and eat, Ruth Young, Travis' mother told him to sit down and eat his breakfast. Later Travis asked is the check was coming tommorrow, his mother didn't want him to think about money she told him to finish up. Travis explained why he was asking, he told her that this was the morning that he was supposed to bring fifty cents to school. His mother replied with an attitude she told him she did'nt have fifty cents, but Travis then replied with saying his teacher said they must, but his mother didn't care what the teacher said. Ruth just wanted Travis to eat his breakfast. Travis asked if she thought grandmama would have it. That made Ruth mad, she told him no and to stop asking grandmama for money. He told her he never did anyways. Ruth said his full name in…
Did you know I recently moved from Tennessee to Nebraska? When I moved to Nebraska, everyone told me how flat Nebraska was, how it was full of fields. In my mind I was reminded of Tennessee with its family owned farms that could stretch for several acres. I realized that though Tennessee and Nebraska are hundreds of miles away they are very similar.…
One Halloween there were two grandpas they were at their houses.Then out of nowhere there was grandpa jimmy.Grandpa jimmy and grandpa jake were best friends.Grandpa jake was at the door giving kids candy and grandpa jimmy was refilling the candy bowl.Later that night grandpa jimmy thought it would be funny to pull a prank on grandpa jake so he did.Grandpa jimmy put a remote under the rug.One hour passed and grandpa jake has not notice.”Time to act” said grandpa jimmy.Grandpa scremed and said “there is something under the rug” and grandpa jake run so slow to his bedroom.When he got their he almost passed out.He got up and scremed and almost passed out again.…
In 2008 I moved to Bluffton to help start a new aluminum remelt facility called Alexin. I was one of three invited to make the move from western Kentucky by the presidents of Alexin because of my knowledge of the industry, my reputation as a hard worker, and my positive attitude. In the past nine years a lot has changed. Even though I know longer work in the aluminum industry, I still pride myself on my knowledge, reputation, and attitude. The job has changed, but what it takes to be successfully in any occupation has not.…
I am a godparent of an 8-year-old little girl. Before I moved to Houston our bond was tight and still is even though we are miles away. Every day we talk or Skype on the phone. When she has homework that she does not understand she will Skype me and we will do her homework together. Every summer for two weeks she comes to see me or I will go home to see her. As much as I can, I step in and provide when her mother needs help. As she gets older I am sure our connection will continue to grow.…
Before I moved to NC , I lived out west. The demographic and food delicacies are far different than here in the south. My taste aversion was fully loaded hot dog with chili and slaw. I never heard of that type of combination on a hot dog. I was raised eating a hot dog with just ketchup, mustard, relish and sometimes onions. I have lived in NC for about 23 years. I finally tried eating a hot dog Carolina style and love it. Since I have gluten allergy, I skip the bun and still eat it that way.…
About 90% of teens that live in Nebraska have always said that anywhere is better than here. Melanie would be part of that 90%. She has lived here for all her life, which sums up to be 18 years. Now look at it from a military child's perspective. It could be the best place they have ever lived. For Sydney, this is the case. Moving from Kansas to Nebraska, she struggled to find a place to call "home." But for the both of them, they later find out that "home" was with them all along.…
Scott’s dog waits every afternoon in the front room for Scott to come home. He knows that when he hears the garage door open, Scott will come in and take him out for a walk. One evening Scott leaves to go for something at the grocery store. As he is leaving, he hits the garage door opener and the dog starts running around like crazy.…
Harte makes good use of dialogue to emphasize the crude, rough, and uneducated characteristics of the men of Sandy Bar, particularly Tennessee's partner. However, the dialogue alone is not the only portrayal of their crudeness. At the beginning of the story, Harte tells of the townspeople's crude manner of giving newcomers new names--those names often being offensive to the newcomers. Harte tells us that Tennessee is known to the townspeople to be an obsessive gambler, a fact the reader knows to be true by Tennessee's excessive use of gambling terms and situations in his everyday speech, and a thief. Tennessee also runs off with his partner's wife. Later in the story, Tennessee's partner's lack of education and common sense is reflected in his inability to comprehend the judge's refusal of his bribe. However, despite these crude qualities, the townspeople of Sandy Bar, including Tennessee's partner, had several finer qualities. Most of the finer qualities are revealed towards the end of the story; however, one of Tennessee's partner's finer qualities is revealed throughout the entire story: his complete devotion and loyalty to Tennessee. His loyalty is most evident when he welcomes Tennessee back with open arms after Tennessee had run off with his wife, and when he attempts to save Tennessee from the noose by attempting to bribe the judge. At the end of the story, Tennessee's partner is portrayed as a loyal friend whose self-reliance causes him to refuse any help in removing and burying the body of his partner. Harte also portrays the townspeople as being quite sympathetic and kind as they accompany Tennessee's partner to the burial site. Harte also tells of their attempts at kindness in the time following Tennessee's death and burial. I believe these qualities surfaced due to Harte's apparent love for the West. His story reflects his views that although the men of western towns were often crude and uneducated, most of them were capable of loyalty and kindness when…
Moving to northern Wisconsin as a young girl was a scary and confusing time. Having been born in Chicago, all I knew was a big city, the crowds of people, the nonstop traffic and all the noises. My home, it was the only place I knew. How could my parents make a decision like this? How could they make me move to a place I had only visited once before -- but barely remembered? The sadness I felt was so overwhelming during that transition that I told myself that if I ever had a family, I would never make them move. As an adult, many years later, I look back and almost chuckle. My family and I have moved many times, for work or family and even adventure. Now as an adult, I push my children to find adventure in every move…
6 year old Hughes and his friend had a game where they would invent a language. They wouldn’t understand each other, but who cares it was fun. Hughes and his friend would spend hours just pronouncing random syllables. Sometimes Hughes would practice his language while walking to school. One day Hughes started to speak his language while walking to school and he just blocked out all outside sounds. After ten minutes of nonsense Hughes realized that his classmate, a small but very cute girl, had been listening to him for the past five minutes. She was laughing so hard she started to cry. Hughes felt so embarrassed that he never did that…
Mark and Bryon were in the bar playing pool for money one day. They made quite a bit of money. They were playing two people for Texas. When they were finished, they left. The Texans made Bryon and Mark go into the back alley. One guy pulled out a gun and the other put on a set of brass knuckles. Charlie came out of the bar with a shotgun and ordered the Texans to put their gun down. Charlie had Bryon and Mark come over to him. They started talking. One of the Texans jumped for the gun and shot it. Charlie pushed Mark and Bryon down. Mark got Charlie's gun and shot for the one who shot the gun. He missed. Bryon and Mark both got up but Charlie didn't. They look at him and he had a hole in his head were his eye was. Charlie was dead.…
A washer man had a donkey and a dog. Both the donkey and the dog helped his master in many ways. One night, few thieves broke in the house of that washer man. The dog heard them and started barking. The washer man got up and so did the neighbors. “What is that? A dog. Let us run,” said the thieves. They feared some dangerous consequences. By that time many people gathered in the street. They tried to run away but they were caught by the people.…
The store owner smiled and whistled and out of the kennel came Lady, who ran down the aisle of his store followed by five teeny, tiny balls of fur. One puppy was lagging considerably behind. Immediately the little boy singled out the lagging, limping puppy and said, “What’s wrong with that little dog?” The store owner explained that the veterinarian had examined the little puppy and had discovered it didn’t have a hip socket. It would always limp. It would always be lame. The little boy became excited. “That is the little puppy that I want to buy.” The store owner said, “No, you don’t want to buy that little dog. If you really want him, I’ll just give him to you.”…
The first day of the class had fifteen of us. Then, our teacher, Madam Susan, came in with a radio, a ping pong ball, and a small case filled with small paper strips. Can you imagine what mysterious activity we were going to do with those items? When the music was turned on, Madam Susan asked us to pass around the ping pong ball. Zp! The music stopped. Oh, my goodness! Guess what happened, the ball was in my hand, and what was I going to do?!…