Garrett Hutson, Historical mysteries and WW2 spy novels Garrett Hutson is from Indianapolis, where he’s lived most of his life. He’s 46, married to David Lee, and have one adult daughter. He is an HR/Benefits specialist, “which I like about as well as I can like any day job.” At the age of nine when he was in the fourth grade, Garrett entered a story in the Young Author’s contest. “I got a ribbon both years, which I think was the sole prize--you either earned a ribbon or you didn't, there wasn't
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Activity 4 For my personal choice book I have chosen Helen Keller: The Story of My Life. I chose this book because it was very interesting to read about how her education developed throughout her life. It was also fascinating to know how she learned to understand what people were saying because she wrote how sometimes she would place her fingers on their lips and would discover what they were saying from the movements of their lips. At other times people would spell into her hand what they were
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continued to expand my worldview, while allowing me to both express myself and understand my introverted brother more. I found literacy to be the key to an enriched life, full of learning new perspectives that previously I was unaware of. I feel as if reading and writing marked a turning point in my life as I developed the skills to understand myself and others in greater depths. From listening to stories from my parents, to being inspired to express my thoughts through a journal, and my brother being
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Tortoise and the Hare I remember hearing several little stories as a kid and I was having a hard time deciding which one to share. I decided to choose the “Tortoise and the Hare.” Once upon a time there was a hare that kept bragging about how fast he could run and that he was faster that everyone else, he also was harshly teasing the tortoise for how slow he was. Then one day, the irritated tortoise answered back: “Who do you think you are? You sure are fast, but you can be beat!” The hare
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My Son the Fanatic My Son the Fanatic is written by Hanif Kureishi and was published for the first time in 1994. It is a short story based on philosophical viewpoints of life and how valuable it is to tolerate and compromise with each other. The short story is also being contemporary because it’s concerning conflicts and difficulties with religious aspects, which are the main – and most complicated – conflicts existing on this planet. Basically it’s related to the issues of religion and intolerance
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My Response to the “Story of an Hour” The story of an Hour is a story written by a female writer, Kate Chopin. It describes the emotion changes of a woman Mrs. Mallard, who was afflicted with a heart trouble. The clue that “Mr. Mallard was dead” driving the development of the plot. The story begins with the bad news of Mr. Mallard’s death. People around Mrs. Mallard told her the news in great gingerliness in order not to deepen her heart trouble. After hearing that, Mrs. Mallard had an internal
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Short Story vs. Film: My Left Foot To each its own, the film and the short story, “My Left Foot”, give audiences a different view on this story written by Christopher Brown; however, because of the unusual context that the story unfolds on, the written version, which contains the first-person narrative, reigns supreme. In the beginning, Christy Brown was diagnosed with, at the time, an unknown disease (which was later discovered to be Cerebral Palsy). As a result, he was unable to speak for a
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I have chosen to respond to my chosen stimulus of a boomerang that I bought back from my gap year in Australia, through Art (Please see document 2, Visual journal- image 1). The boomerang is made from wood and is decorated with an abstract painting of a kangaroo on the top of it. I am curious about the abstract drawing on the boomerang and intrigued to find out more about where it has originated from. When I purchased the boomerang, I had a choice of many, all were uniquely crafted and abstractly
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as well. Fifty years ago the thought of two people of the same sex getting married was un heard of, the topic of mental health was a taboo subject which everyone believed to keep secret….but now it is encouraged to share our stories. Not only our people sharing their stories with their friends, they are sharing them on a global scale and starting a conversation. Demi Lovato has been an active advocate for mental health for the past few years. When she left rehab she decided to make a change, that
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the hardships of life are. As this story progresses, the viewer will see a various amount of themes, but the generation gap is visibly present. With her mother nearly dying,
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