Brief Summary Of Makenna Olson's Story

When I think about the person I am today I think about the people that have helped raise me. We all grow up with different experiences, environments, lifestyles, and people in our lives who help shape who we are. One person that has made a big impact in my life would be my nana and her name is Bea Wilson. She has been in my life since the moment I was born. My nana has shown me that you can make something good out of bad situation.

Over a year ago my Aunt Bernadette and my Uncle Glenn got divorced. My Aunt didn’t take it very well, but to the rest of my family it didn’t come as much of a surprise. They were always fighting with each other over petty things and didn’t get along. However, my Aunt couldn’t accept that she was part of the problem, so she decided to push the blame onto someone else. That someone being my Grandmother. She said that my Grandma was too involved in their relationship. My Aunt thought that my Grandmother calling them and wanting to see them was driving a fork in her marriage. My Aunt accusing my Grandma is similar to when the girls were screaming out people they claimed to have seen walking with the devil in Act one of the play. The girls were all watching as Tituba was giving up names of people she saw with the devil. Seeing her being praised for gave Abby the idea to confess and then accuse people as well, which caused all the other girls to do the same. Tituba and the girls accused others to make themselves look better, just like my Aunt did. My Aunt blamed my Grandma because she wanted to make it look like she was the

Authors use literary devices to help the reader understand the message or theme. Literary devices are a key hint as to what the author is trying to tell the reader instead of just flat out stating the lesson or message. Throughout "Live to Tell", "Refresh, Refresh", and "Man From the South" the author 's use suspense to show the emotions the characters are feeling.

Eileen Nearne joined the Special Operations Executive in Britain as a radio operator. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename “Rose”. In occupied France, Eileen was dropped by parachute to relay messages from the French resistance and to arrange weapons drops. She talked her way out of trouble several times, but was eventually arrested by the Nazis. She was tortured and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Yet Nearne stuck to her cover story. She was transferred to a labor camp and escaped during yet again from another transfer. Once again, Nearne talked her way out of trouble when confronted by the Gestapo and hid in a church until the area was liberated by the Americans.

Three-time Olympic champion Gail Devers once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Devers ' words illustrate the sturdy determination of Louis Zamperini, which carried him through everything from his track career and time as a prisoner of war in Japan, to his life after World War II had ended. In all, Louie’s unfailing willpower to continue through life’s hardships outshone all other traits throughout his haunting story.

Margie Nell (Keeton) Guerra transitioned on June 13, 2015, with her family by her side in Dallas, Texas. Margie was born on January 24, 1956, in Fort Worth Texas to Willie and Betty Keeton. Her father was a blue-collar worker. Her mother worked in the medical field.

For the past two years, thirty-year-old Freya Larson had lived vicariously through, of all people, herself. Knowing the death of her fiance, Rookie Officer Ian Larson, had prompted dynamic changes in the prosecution of repeat drug offenders in Barrington city did nothing to lessen the impact of his devastating loss.

She wanted to believe that her hardships were only temporary, so she looked to story book characters as her friends and a refuge from reality. She is very good at vivid description and dialogue as well as her prose- using ordinary language without meter and making it sound beautiful. It creates a mental image in the mind of the reader. She also describes things abnormally, which makes the reader think of whatever is being discussed in a different light. It is very colorful

one day there was a girl named emily she was a very tall girl. she was about 6ft tall and

Today we would like to congratulate Ethan Figert and Hope Kleeman, of Pine Creek neighborhood for being in our “Kids To Kids” article. Ethan is 13 and from a family of six and lives with his parents, Mark and Christie Figert with his younger brother Oliver (5), younger sister Lily (8), and older sister Emily (15). Ethan loves going on vacations with his family, but his favorite is when he went to Michigan. Ethan loves animals and has a fish, a gator, and ducks that he loves, especially the ducks.

Considered to be one of the most important and prominent figures in trans history, Christine Jorgensen was a pioneer in her own right. Jorgensen first garnered major attention when she became the first American to bring attention to gender reassignment surgery in 1952, after travelling to Denmark for the procedure. Going on to become an actress and a writer, Jorgensen’s story was what brought trans issues to the forefront of America’s mind, and opened up a national conversation, framing many aspects of how future generations would come to think of the transgender community.

Arne Carlson’s personal story begins with his birth on September 24th, 1934 in New York City. He was born to Swedish immigrants who struggled economically, largely due to the Great Depression. In 1947 his family moved back to Sweden in hope of finding better work. However, their economic situation didn’t improve so they return to the United States a year later. During his teenage years, Carlson attend Choate High School in Connecticut, in which he earned a full scholarship. He was successful in highschool and went on to attend Williams college in Massachusetts, also on a full scholarship. He graduated in 1957 with a bachelor’s degree in History. Once he graduated he immediately moved to Minnesota, where he attended graduate school at the University

In this book she writes her early years in life. She recounts events in her childhood that shaped the way she saw the world and what she

She felt that she was more than capable of raising her son on her own, along with the love that she could give to him. This began to factor into some of her work, as she began to write children’s books. This of which was used in her public readings and gave her the opportunity of writing albums in the form spoken word. One of her albums, was nominated for a Grammy.

In the early 90s, Sarah declare she needed a desk. That’s all she had to say, and I started looking into building one. My last project was solid wood, and since I hadn’t done a project in veneer, I thought I would try that. I decided to make a drop-front desk and called a company in Pennsylvania that sold veneer. He said he had just gotten in a bookend piece of veneer that would make a beautiful front, and I bought it immediately.