Creative Writing: The Yellow Fever
The once lively streets of Pennsylvania couldn’t hear shoes clicking against a creaky wooden staircase. The only noise that could be heard in this abandoned ghost town was the sound of a long dress sweeping against the floors of a once prosperous journalist’s home. Only the locked up homes would listen to the drawn out sigh from Mother Smith. But the only person who could hear her thoughts was herself. The town was so alive then. Even after the fever, many of the citizens still bounced back, ready to take on another bout of the epidemic. No one would know of polio yet, of course. But this cousin of the Yellow Fever seemed more alarming, since no one knew how it was spread. It would steal your limbs and leave you unable to move. Polio would
Summary Of Five Days At Memorial By Sheri Fink
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2177 Words | 9 PagesThe grandmother took cat naps and woke up every few minutes with her own snoring. Outside of Toomsboro she woke up and recalled an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (O’Connor 45). In Toomsboro, the grandmother initiates the chain of events that will soon lead to the family’s demise. Here, she makes the false realization that the plantation she visited was in Georgia, when really, it was in Tennessee. “Just as she said it, a horrible thought came to her.
Creative Writing: The Cubs
605 Words | 3 PagesIt was a beautiful day for the beautiful game of baseball to be played in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, Chicago: breezy, sunny, but not a scorching hot, sweat-bead kind of day. Merely six miles south of Wrigley Field, we boarded the CTA purple line el train, along with clusters and clusters of Chicago Cubs fans also getting on each and every rail car from who knows where. But, let me tell you, I was in awe; I have never been with so many true fans who knew, not only baseball, but knew the Cubs! “Who’s ready for the Cubs to crush the Astros!”
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
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Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
199 Words | 1 PagesDear Mother, It’s has been indisputable here in the trenches, I’m in dire need of new socks. The doctors say they might have to amputate my foot if my trench foot gets any worse. Also if you could provide me with some next time you send me a package I would be beholden to you. In addition to the already gruesome situation, the rats have begun to eat the dead in no man’s land, and steal my bread when I’m not looking.
Jonas Salk's Polio Epidemic
619 Words | 3 PagesIn the summer of 1916, New York City was struck by a terrible epidemic. Beginning in Brooklyn, it quickly spread to the other four boroughs. At the time, nobody knew how this disease spread or how to prevent it, so the New Yorkers were sent into a panic. Knowing that diseases lived in filth, the mayor ordered that the streets of New York City be kept clean and to dispose of all garbage quickly and effectively. He also ordered that sick people be quarantined, because that had stopped the spread of sickness in the past.
Martha Ann Lillard Essay
1564 Words | 7 PagesHealth officials thought it had to have been due to the crowds of people contributing to it being spread. These crowds were at movie theaters and swimming pools. As a result of this Health officials closed these places and told parents to keep their children away from everybody. This epidemic led to research on how the disease is spread. In the summer 1921 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was on his yacht when he fell over and fell into the water this made his body feel like it was paralyzed.
Creative Writing: A Hero's Journey
487 Words | 2 PagesThe old woman had been gone for weeks, but passing through the front walls, he saw a vehicle driving down the worn dirt road toward the house. The grounds had been visited twice since the old woman’s death, officials of one sort or another, looking the grounds over, inspecting pipes and furnace ducts. But this ‘car’ towed a trailer behind it, packed with boxes and odd pieces of furniture. The driver of the car was a lone young woman, and as he observed her features and form, he felt something he had not felt for decades: the desire for her companionship, her
The Role Of Yellow Fever In Colonial America
300 Words | 2 PagesLife was hard at the Cook’s Coffeehouse, there was little to no supplies left to cook with, and little to no food for ourselves. At one point we ran out of food so we had to close the coffeehouse which made it harder to live since we were no longer making any money. The word of fever spread through town quickly as there there were many deaths to an unknown miasma. There has been rumors spread all across town that Yellow Fever has come back, and they say it is coming from the refugees that are coming in from the colonies.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
818 Words | 4 PagesIt was the beginning of World War One. The sun just started to dip behind the horizon. The sky is murky and grey. The clouds are black, surrounding us like symbols of death, reminding us soldiers of our mortality. The war planes whizzing through the sky were flying at rapid speed compared to the clouds that moved at their own pace, that has been given from God and it did not matter what else was happening beneath them.
Creative Writing: The Battle Of The Bulge
735 Words | 3 PagesDecember 2nd, 1944 - Belgium Forest 'The Battle of the Bulge ' I awoke to the deafening sound of gun fire in the distance, "Just another day," I said, I looked around to watch if anyone was there. " Mornin ' sunshine" said the Sergeant, "You 're on watch duty today, hope you don 't plan on going anywhere," He joked. I watched as the Sergeant began to wake the rest of the company. I quickly hurried, trying to find my gear, I grabbed my gun and rushed out of the fox hole. "Hey Sarge," I said, "wheres the watch tower you found yesterday?"
Creative Writing: The Odyssey
405 Words | 2 PagesAfter escaping from Polyphemus’s cave, Odysseus, and his crew were looking for their ship. “Oh, Captain!” exclaimed the worried men that stayed on the ship. “Are you alright sir, where have you been?” “Calm down my loyal men”, said Odysseus calmly. I’ll tell you what happened to me.
Summary Of Lee Smith's Oral History
1631 Words | 7 PagesOral History, Lee Smith’s fifth novel, was published in 1983 and garnered national attention due to its status as a “Book-of-the-Month Club” selection (“Biography”). Oral History opens at the base of Hoot Owl Mountain, home to the remaining descendants of the almost mythical Cantrell family. A younger and somewhat estranged family member, Jennifer, comes to the Appalachian setting to gather information about her unknown past for a college assignment, appropriately termed “Oral History.” She is drawn to the small, now coal-mining community due to a legend surrounding the Cantrell family and their former home, Hoot Owl Holler. The legend morphed into a ghost story involving a haunted cabin, witchcraft, and a supposed curse on the family at hand.
Summary Of Embalming Mom By Janet Wally
691 Words | 3 PagesMemory and imagination are central to story telling. Janet Burroway’s non-fiction piece, Embalming Mom, juxtaposes between the present, in which the author is writing, and into the realm of memory and imagination. This short work of creative non-fiction, utilizes memory and imagination from the author’s past in order to cope with the memory of her mother’s death. The author starts out speaking to her mother that she is going to write her into a story. Janet and her mother argue about her role in the story.
Creative Writing: The Ruthless Murder
191 Words | 1 PagesIt was one, creepy, dark and cold halloween night. The pumpkins were out, the trees blowing in the wind, the decorations on the houses. It was all quiet. It all started 2 hours ago. Kids were trick or treating and getting candy, while Donald Trump was giving a speech in town.
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