Facts William E. Story, Sr. (uncle) promised to pay his nephew, William E. Story II $5,000 if he refrained from drinking, smoking, swearing, and playing cards or billiards for money until he reached 21 years old. Although, it was legal to drinking and play cards for money during the late 1860 's; the nephew agreed and completed his part of the bargain. The nephew also wrote a letter to his uncle about the agreement. The uncle replied and told him the money would include interest under the terms and conditions of the letter. Twelve years later, the uncle died without paying his nephew any of the $5,000 with interest.
Paul was in the garage heard an engine start and remembered something. Paul remembered riding his bike home one day and getting his in the head by a man in a ski mask, holding a metal baseball bat with two hands in the passenger seat of a van the looked familiar. Paul ran home to tell his parents. He knew it was his brother Erik that did it, but they didn’t believe him. Well, because There Erik was sitting on the stool in the kitchen of their old home doing homework.
One night at exactly ten o'clock Ella Chesterman, a fifteen year old, heard a loud and strange noise. She looked around as scared as a mouse trying to see where the sound originated from. She heard the noise again and arose her parents and her brother, Brayden. After her family arose the sound occurred again and her family rushed outside to find out where it was coming from. There appeared to be nothing strange outside until…
Narrative: James. R. Mead I came to Kansas wanting land and a new business. My name is James R. Mead. I created several trading posts in Kansas, and one became Wichita.
Joe A Story of Drinking, Possibly Death, and Cows Joe was not the brightest person, but he was smart about one thing. Except for in this story. He was being very stupid, and drove off a bridge. He did not do it intentionally, so you may be wondering, “Why are you calling him stupid?”
As a was running down the hallway I heard footsteps and I turn into a classroom that was big as two rooms put together. The room was not filled with joy it was a whole nightmare, all you could see was a light switch that was glowing at the top of of the stair case, so I went up there to turn it on and I saw peple without mask they where screming my name and i knew that was my friends they where going into a trap and it was a net at the end of the hallway. I ran after them “waspppppp” the sound of the net scared me and my friends where smart enought no to go in there and something set it off I do know what did nut i was out so i whould not get
Hi I'm Milkman and I'm going to tell you about my life! I was born on February 19th, 1931 and I was the first black person to be born in Mercy Hospital! My mom, Ruth, stopped breastfeeding me at four years old and thats how I got my name Milkman.
Two men had put sacks on our heads but just now are taking them off. We both started freaking out. We had no idea where we were but it was very dark. The only light was the one shining down on us. This big, heavy man who looked to be very tall can into the light.
We snuck in the building it was trashed and there were shards of broken glass on the floor and all the tables were flipped over,Just then I realized this was my dad's store the same one who'd been robbed 4 days ago. Then the police started to leave so we got back on the police car and went back to the police station. After we got back we were running some errands for the police when I heard voices “Come on theres gotta be something we can do”said voice nombre uno “sir we just can't catch this guy he's always gone before we get there”said voice 2. Then the door opened and all the men came out.
There are many different views on the Vietnam War (1945-1975) and to this day America’s involvement is contentious. Source 1 clearly shows the fear the US had over America potentially falling to the ‘domino theory’. America’s fear of communism had increased after World War Two once it began spreading worldwide through Eastern Europe, Africa, Cuba and East Asia. This fear is what would lead to America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. America claimed they would help South Vietnam put an end to the ‘dangerous conditions’ the war was causing.
Milk served on a silver platter Unhappy with how her life was leading, First Corinthians was determined to give her life a purpose. After many attempts at finding a job she finally landed one as a maid of a white woman. She kept her identity a secret, and started building a life of her own. But, after revealing her concerns of Porter dropping her off closer to her house than usual, she gets reduced to a “Doll-baby,” someone artifical that does whatever their daddy tells them, when Corinthians only wanted to build an independent life for herself without losing her family in the process.
Many families have many traditions, but one tradition that is common among all households is that they read fairy tales to their children right before they put them to sleep. They do this to fill their minds with good positive thoughts and leave them with something to think about. Religion dictates the characteristics of familiar fairy tales as religion provides a moral and ethical framework for having a good life, an ideal goal parents want their children to have. On the whole, fairy tales are constantly changed to adhere to cultural or social beliefs that are deemed important by diverse people in a community.
A Stolen Sibling The words of my book looked as if they were sliding slowly of the pages, the teacher called out “Just a couple more minutes.” How long could that be? I just couldn’t handle it. Finally, that high pitched elementary school bell rang after a whole painful two minutes.
Everything was black until my rude awakening. I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock shrieking like no tomorrow. I throw myself out of my bed trying not to fall back asleep. I think to myself, Great, another day of school, and that was my first thought, the first thing I thought about the day, but what I would be thinking later would be much worse. Tomorrow I have my first geometry unit and next week I would be having my first geometry quiz.
“Class we have a new student here, joining us today,” said my teacher. My mouth dropped open as I saw her walk in the room. Not only was she African American, but she also only had one arm. A hundred things ran across my mind that could have happen to that child. Mrs.Lucy, our teacher babied her all day long and she got all the attention from everyone.
