Sam and Marilyn Sheppard

On Friday February 1, 2002, in Sabre Springs, San Diego Brenda Van Dam went out with a few lady friends of hers. Damon Van Dam stayed home with the children; seven year old Danielle and her two brothers. At around 10 p.m. Damon sent the children to bed and then he also went to bed. Brenda returned home around 2 a.m. with a few friends. Her husband got up at that time to socialize with her and their guests. The friends all left around 3 a.m. At that time both Brenda and Damon went to bed without checking on the children. They assumed all the kids were in their beds asleep (Perry, 2002).

During the summer nights of 1972, in Savannah, Georgia, an African-American male named William Henry Furman broke into William and Lanelle Micki’s residence. Furman broke into the Micki’s residence by unlocking the back door through a screened in porch (Hatch & Walsh, 2016). Upon Furman entering the residence the Micki’s suddenly awakened by a sound coming from a nearby hallway. Thinking it was one of their children wandering the home in the middle of the night Micki got up to check on things (Hatch & Walsh, 2016). In the midst of checking to see what the noise has he spotted a man in the hallway. Astonished that he awakened Micki, Furman began to run towards the back door that he just broke into. Micki took pursuit after the intruder only

Of Mice and Men is a story written by John Steinbeck. The book is about two migrant workers named George and Lennie. George is mentally stronger than Lennie and Lennie has the mind of a child. John Steinbeck is successful when making Lennie sympathetic when showing that Lennie is loyal and caring because of his dialogue and actions.

The book is written on the third-person point of view and mainly focuses on George and Lennie. George Milton, an intelligent man but lacks education. Lennie Small, a big man but has a very little mental capacity and he likes to touch soft things like rabbits. These two men shared a dream of buying and owning their own land to settle

It was early one summer afternoon, shortly after lunchtime, when I heard my mom scramble towards the door. There was little noise, besides her loud stomps and faint cries through the drywall. The wind whistled faintly through my slightly open windows. Suddenly, the air conditioning kicked in startling me. It sounded as if it was a faint boat in the distance. I could make out the sound of the air conditioning through my vents. My brother’s television powered on, as well as my dad’s. They whispered silently through the insulation. Eventually, it all turned off and once again there was my mom’s loud stomps and faint cries.

In 1956, on December 28 Barbara and Patricia Grimes went to see an Elvis Presley movie called “Love Me Tender” and they never made it back home. Their mother, Loretta Grimes first knew something was wrong when they didn’t show up before their curfew like usual and the didn’t show up at all. Loretta then sent her other daughter, Theresa and her son Joey to the bus stop to watch for them. Theresa and Joey went home after three buses stopped and there was no sign of Barbara or Patricia. Loretta then started to contact family, friends, and the police for any signs her two missing daughters.

It had been three months since the incident and every day Hollis woke up, opened his left eye and stared into the void of shadows he could make out on the tunnel walls. His mouth tasted like he tried to eat copper, tangy and metallic, almost like blood. And there was still a large knot in his chest, pushing and squeezing his heart, trying to force it somewhere else so it could occupy the cavity in Hollis’s narrow chest. Hollis would lay for a minute, sweat drying back onto his grey skin that glowed eerily in the lack of light, and count to fifty while his heart stopped hurting and the knot receded back to a more manageable size. After awhile, Hollis would stand up and feel his way around his bag until he drew out some form of food, usually

On Sunday June 9, 1912 all of them attended the Children’s Day service at the Presbyterian Church. The Children’s Day service was an end of the year Sunday school event. The Moore family left when the service ended around nine thirty that night with Lena and Ina. They walked to their house since it was only about three blocks from the church. Around seven thirty in the morning on June 10th one of their neighbors noticed that the house was strangely quiet. She went over to the house and knocked on the door but she heard no noise in the house and no one answered the door. She called Josiah’s brother Ross and told him something was strange and that he needed to come check on his brother. Ross got their around eight that morning and had to break the lock on the door because it was still locked from the night. When he walked in he saw two bodies with a sheet covering them and blood on

E.E. Cummings is a famous American poet who is the author of “maggie and milly and molly and may.” The theme of this poem is that a person can find one’s lost innocence and true self again by reconnecting with nature. In this case nature is represented by the beach. The tone of this poem is child-like and fun, although it has a much deeper theme. Cummings uses alliteration, rhyme, and similes to help convey both theme and tone.

A person that behaves in a way that is not genuine is a actor. Each actor portrays their character in a way that is so believable that they make the audience feel that is how they act after the curtain closes. RENT’s actors had to pull out inner insecurities to portray the characters, and succeed at being very convincing. Characters Angel Schunard and Tom Collins had to probably be the toughest characters to portray, but they both created a relationship on stage that was very convincing and heartfelt. The actors of Angel Schunard and Tom Collins were Nick Brown and Clyde Moser, their characters were in a relationship and they both had AIDs. Angel Schunard was drag that had a bubbly personality no matter what he/she was going through. Nick Brown

It has a beginning, middle, and an end. The beginning is the first stanza – “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / went down to the beach (to play one day),” – the middle is the next four stanzas – “And Maggie discovered a shell that sang / so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and / Milly befriended a stranded star / whose rays five languid fingers were; / and Molly was chased by a horrible thing / which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and / May came home with a smooth round stone / as small as a world and as large as alone,” – and the end is the final stanza – “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” It has characters – Maggie and Milly and Molly and May – and events occur – “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / went down to the beach (to play one day).”

Hello Ali Benjamin, thank you for taking the time to talk and have this interview with me, let me start by asking you questions. Before we start I would like to tell you that I thought your book was great, so how do u feel about writing a book that was a national book award finalist? I feel very grateful for everyone that has helped me to get this far and extremely happy that my book made it all the way to the finals. That's beautiful Ali so through the book how did you try to fit Franny's death into everything that was happening in Suzy life? Since Suzy and Franny were best friends I felt like I should of put franny as memoirs instead of having her be in the present. So why did you decide to write the book in Suzy's point of view? Since Franny

Morrie and Charlie have a lot of things in common with each other. One reason why Morrie and Charlie are similar is that they both have jobs that are similar. Charlie's job is working at a factory. Morrie's job was teaching college students as a university teacher before the ALS got really bad. The ALS affected his teaching job by it being difficult for him to work with the ALS making him difficult to walk. The jobs are similar because they're both jobs. I'm surprised Charlie has a job. I'm surprised he has a job because he's not very intelligent. Another reason Morrie and Charlie are similar is there both determined. One way Charlie is determined is by wanting to be much smarter than he is. One way Morrie is determined is by being happy about

Ellie and I lay in our beds, neither one of us knew what to say. In the other room, our host parents were arguing. We didn’t know what about, but we knew it was serious. Then we heard a “THWACK” followed by silence. Ellie and I sat up in our beds and looked at each other, I could tell she was as scared as I was. “Was that? Did he just?” she asked me. Then the arguing started back up again. We calmed back down until we heard it again. “THWACK” We knew then, the noise we heard, was him beating her. We got up, our hearts racing; neither of us knew what to do. We got our nerves together to go get help. When we opened the door to our room we saw the children sitting on the couch crying out for their mother. I could see the fear in their face and I knew something needed to change.

When Alex woke up his head still felt like like it was going to explode and he reached up to feel a small cut on his forehead that was probably caused by some glass from the breaking windows. Other than that he felt intact but something was wrong, he couldn't see. He felt his eyes and discovered that they were full of mud, he scraped the mud away. He opened the eyes and looked around afraid to sit up, he just lay there gathering his thoughts trying to feel if anything in his body was broken and that's when he felt that he was gripping something in his left hand. Alex slowly turned his head to look at what he was holding, he couldn't tell what it was because he himself was half buried in sand so he carefully lifted his arm and it surprised him how hard wit was because he was so weak after the crash.