The Way Up to Heaven: Spoiler Alert – only read this if you have already finished the story. “The Way Up to Heaven” by Roald Dahl is focused on two married old folks, Mrs. and Mr. Foster. Mr. Foster treats his relationship with Mrs. Foster like a mean sibling would, purposefully using Mrs. Foster’s fear Read more…
In the short story “Afternoon in the Jungle”, Albert Maltz revealed the society under the Great Depression with an absurd fight between a thirteen-year-old child and “a small, shabby man of forty-five”. Everything started with imaginative play: Charles Fallon threw imaginary missiles and picked up imaginary money, but then his dreams were interrupted by a Read more…
The Job Janice, a rich wayward child-woman, recently kicked out of her parents’ mansion, struggled to pay rent and to balance her priorities and necessities. Being raised in the palm of her father’s hands and cushioned at every fall proved to be a terrible way to prepare her for life. Her parents finally had had Read more…
The Long Game Molly Maguire, a 40-something researcher from Yale University’s staff of Zoological Studies, stepped off the portable staircase at Pemba Airport in northeastern Mozambique. It was the fourth airplane she’d disembarked from in the last 35 hours, having left New Haven what seemed like a week ago, and while she was extremely fatigued, Read more…
Skiing began thousands of years ago, first as a method of travel for people living in snowy areas. Early evidence suggests that skiing first appeared in parts of Russia and Scandinavia, where heavy snow made other forms of transport incredibly difficult. People there would find wooden planks and use them as early skis. Archeologists found Read more…
Myla’s Maryland American editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland had a mission: uncover America and all its richness, one state at a time. The project grew from a hunch and a conviction. The hunch was that for one to truly understand America, they must learn it state by state, and to acquire an accurate understanding Read more…
How Nancy became the Drew Prologue “Look Molly, I drew a picture of you – doesn’t it look just like you? Brown eyes, she has brown straight hair and wears a yellow plaid dress and has a blue bow.” Molly was my best friend for it was always a joy to look into her felt Read more…
Rather than saying Larry’s essay is a pure reflection on the Idaho chapter of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, saying that it is a guide that leads readers to understand the history that is behind this chapter would be more reasonable and accurate. The series, WPA State Guides is the starting point of this history: Read more…
Midwinter The snowy backyard, with a grey stone patio, on top of it a puddle of blurry ice. With a great orangish yellow sunset beginning, the tree, all leafless and dead, stands there still with tiny bits of snow on its branches. Grey stairs, chipped and chiseled throughout many years, have a tiny finish of Read more…
The mice got to the lake by first Miss Bianca decided to resign from Chairwoman and to keep to her private life. Bernard decided to throw her a party, so then they had a water picnic to celebrate with no speeches on Miss Bianca’s . The mice danced, “The Dashing Brown Mouse, Roll out the Read more…
