After reading "Six Days: Some Rememberings" I found this short story to be very confusing. It just felt like I was jumping from page to page and was a little all over the place. At one point I couldn 't tell if that character was talking to another character or if they were talking to the audience. At times there wasn 't really any details where it was needed and at other times there was too much details. I tried reading the story over again to maybe understand it better a second time but was still a bit confused. I couldn 't understand what was happening. I believe her central question was she didn 't have anything to read and they took away her pen and that she didn 't have any paper. She answered her central question by finally
When they would take breaks during the night she would go and collect information. When she got the information she wrote it down. And
While her best friend was on the phone scolding her with nothing but the truth – her mind waffled from the conversation she was having on the phone
“Mother Superior, the detective requests for your presence in the interview room,” one of the elder nuns said after knocking three times on Sister Helena’s door. A quick wave of anxiety came over her as she processed what the elder nun told her. Sister Helena did not expect to be called upon that soon. She thought she would be the last one to handle the detective that day. With eyes closed, she inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly.
One day she received an email from her old friend, Mot, that she had met while working at the shelter. He was a veteran who is homeless and was suffering from some mental health issues. Mot had been homeless for quite some time. He loved his life as a drifter you might say. He was quite accomplished at getting things done for himself as long as he was near a Walmart and a Library.
I asked Natalie the following questions about her reading and miscues 1. Why do you think you made those miscues while you were reading? 2. Does the miscue make sense? 3.
After that year, she brought it back and continued to finish it. While writing it she thought, “What if the girls weren’t just being nice--suppose they had some
Staring at him with confusion, she just stood there. Anna said, “He actually walked out from the bus and I showed him my paper.” The bus driver lead her to the bus, showing her that this is where she was supposed to go and was then driven to a hotel. Anna did not know it at the time, but she was given a hotel room by the airlines and was given a place to sleep. Since she was an alien to America and understood no english, she did not know what to do in New York.
It has been 116 days since we made the Constitution of Independence, for the sole purpose of the people. Its purpose is to give all of us the freedom of religion, speech, and equal rights. It took us 116 days to write a whole great deal for our independence. A lot of wars, sacrifice, and even dangerous task have been made to get here, we all know it was not easy. In these 116 days I have been reflecting on all the things you
“Tuesday of the Other June,” Bullied? “Tuesday of the Other June” by Norma Fox Mazer is a realistic fiction about a girl named June, who goes to her first day at swim class, and would start going every Tuesday. June finds out someone has the same name as her. The other June does not like the fact that they have the same name. In the beginning, June was happy, she didn 't have to be worried about many things. June also had a great and honest relationship with her mom.
The book i chose to read for my book report was The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan. It is a nonfiction book about D-day, set mostly in Normandy, France. It is in the Allied point of view for most of the book. Some of the main characters that it follows are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hitler, and many different Generals that were under both Eisenhower and Hitler’s command.
Donna had texted Shanay and her friend to come home. When they got some Donna had asked where they were. She stalled at first because Tyrone was supposed to come to her house and return the bracelet that she had dropped. Finally she told Donna that she had to go finish homework and she went outside to her porch to wait for Tyrone.
In Eugenia Collier's short story “Marigolds”, the author uses flashback and juxtaposition to create the narrator's voice and present a particular point of view. The narrator uses flashback to show her memories and feelings. The narrator shows in paragraph 1, when she states “ memory is an abstract painting-it does not present things as they are, but rather as they feel.” The use of flashback is to show how her childhood.
The novel Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink gives an inside view of what happened at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina (2005); a disaster inside of a disaster. The lack of preparedness or ethical decision making is quite disappointing, considering Memorial hospital is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans is well below sea level, and experiences frequent hurricanes and flooding. Memorial hospital itself had little to no plan for evacuating patients once the storm hit. Without power, many of the patients, especially those who were ventilator dependent, became at risk of death.
Today's minimum day so we we're dismissed at twelve noon. The squad decided not to go anywhere today as we were going out everyday since last week — going to one's house after another just to have a movie marathon and nap. The first thing I did as I got home from the academy is drop my backpack on a chair in my room. I changed into comfortable clothes and threw my worn clothes in the laundry basket.
A memorable day I my life is when I first found out I was a diabetic. I was scared and didn’t really understand what was happening. I was too sick, and for the most part out of my mind. But, what I do remember is a lot of pain and a few visitors. It wasn’t the best day and I don’t remember every detail.