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Are Women Truly Property? Throughout two short stories, “Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin and “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, both the women protagonists and the male protagonists are married and live with one another within their own homes. The spouses, Armand and Désirée, from “Désirée’s Baby,” live during the time of slavery, and in a farm like area with open fields all around them. When Désirée gave birth to their son, they realized that their son was not fully white. Because of this horrific news, Armand sent Désirée and their child away due to the fact that he believed Désirée was black and this lead them straight to their deaths.
A delicious smell wafted from the kitchen of the little house on Dauphin Island as I stepped inside the door. My friends Sarah and Selena Sweeney were already crowding their mom against the stove, plates pushed out in front of them like a medal they were showing off. “Enfrijoladas!” they exclaimed, fighting for the first of several of the strange-looking blobs folded onto their outstretched plates. I timidly tasted a bite of the blobs, and I soon was devouring my fourth plate of the Enfrijoladas right next to them.
Then the caucasian men start to light the village on fire, they captured the children and elders. They were taken to the Americas. That was the day their life had started. But during this tragic event when the caucasian men were rummaging through the town Kwasi was standing helplessly by Amari, but then was suddenly speared, “Amari sank down beside him and held him to her. He died in her arms.”
Commander Brayzack paused, not exactly sure of what words were about to cross his lips next, but when he did finally speak the only words he could utter were, “N-No, sir.” The governor gave one last stern look at the commander before getting up to leave the room. But before having reached his office door there was a sudden knock. “Come in,” the governor called out, and a young man wearing a state trooper’s uniform entered the office.
The world does not end with a whisper, or with a bang, but rather with a chorus of sirens that build up into a dull roar. The ground quakes beneath Sofia Brown’s cot and the air is hot, making her tent feel like a oven slowly cooking her alive. She’s up in a second, heart pounding and skin already soaked in sweat from the heat. There 's shouting outside as the rest of the soldiers in her tent start to wake. Charles, the commander of her unit, is already shoving on his boots with a calculated hurriedness.
After refusing to help the man and having a small argument, she was seen going off with him, never to be seen alive again. (Source
The author of this story is Elie Wiesel a survivor from the holocaust this very brave man is receiving the Nobel peace prize for not only surviving but also speaking out loud a lot of people don’t speak out or even remember the holocaust even happened. But Mr. Elie Wiesel is the brave voice to speak up for the fallen and living. He wrote his novel for the remembrance of the holocaust he was not able to stand up to the Nazis back then but now that it is over and is alive and well he stood up to them people think it doesn’t matter since it happened but it is a real big deal because lots of people forgot or just don’t care but he made sure his voice was heard over the other survivors who made it through the holocaust which was a good move he did
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The Murder of Wendy Cardwell The story starts off with a man named Carter, Carter was a U.S. attorney. He was working a huge case about a Georgia governor when the top of his head began to pound from the countless nights of no sleep, and the endless stress over the case. He decided he would head in and go home to catch a least an hour of sleep. On his way to the house he passed by J and J’s bar and thought he would stop to try and relieve all the stress.
A 12 year old kid named austin archuleta killed his entire family. his step dad sleeping in the bedroom. his sister on the couch sleeping with her boyfriend. His baby sister in her highchair. the put on a clown mask and crept up stairs.
Minutes after that the police showed up and asked her what happened. She told them that her husband swerved so hard to dodge the other vehicle that she flew out of the vehicle. They believed her, so they let her go. She noticed that she actually liked to kill. She went home, but she couldn 't tell the kids so she told them that their dad had to go on a business trip.
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The idea for The Enchanted Forest: Tears of a Unicorn came to me when I was brainstorming story topics for a school writing assignment with a 12-year-old girl. When I said: “A unicorn's tears create a wish-granting lake”, her eyes widened in wonderment and I knew I had stumbled upon a great theme for middle grade audiences. Oliver Elmswood, a ten-year-old boy who can’t read, vows to unravel the mystery of a lake that appeared over night. Dana Hemlock, an accident-prone girl by day and a star-gazer by night, only cares about the magnificent horse that wandered into her barn. After a swim in the freezing water, a broken ankle and a gift from Dana’s dad, Oliver and Dana realize that their obsessions are very much intertwined.