They had to dream in boxes on the street in Hell's Kitchen. ... Hell's Kitchen is beneath the poor and Mott Street is the next best thing. ... Alger made the character, Ragged Dick, who was a very honest and hard working poor boy that lived in Hell's Kitchen. ... Alger told stories of young poor males who made it to middle class through Frank, a boy that was being toured by Dick. ... He also was a poor boy, but also has ambition and will most likely succeed. ...

• Word Count: 712
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

" He turned around to enter the kitchen again. ... I'm going back to the kitchen.... Rob returned to the kitchen and his brother Dave looked at him. ... Jack, my boy, how's the dessert going?... She walked over to the kitchen. ...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A Child Called "It" is a story based on a real life boy's tribulations with his mothers shocking abuse. ... Another incident was when David was cleaning the kitchen floor for his mother. She all of a sudden stormed into the kitchen and started yelling at him. ...

• Word Count: 792
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Maybe you wrote a coming-of-age story about a young boy and you wanted to make your reader feel nostalgic. ... RALPH MARY BOB Bob stirs a big pot in the outside the bagel shop and kitchen of the bagel shop, sighing and thinking about how lonely he is. ... Mary runs into the kitchen while Ralph is distracted by the falling bagels. ...

• Word Count: 1128
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I was down stair in the kitchen talking to my mother about my math class. ... My parents are looking at me like I have two heads, they are like what is wrong with you, you have never talked this much about a boy you liked in ages. ...

• Word Count: 587
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The first to call was a boy by the name of Alex. ... He floated into the kitchen, where his friends were partaking in an alcoholic game. ... "This boy was severely lucky to come out of this alive; however, it has been just about a year since the wreck, and he is still showing no signs of consciousness." ...

• Word Count: 1066
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Rudy Rudicker was a small town boy, with big town dreams. His whole life he had been told that he wasn't smart enough to attend Notre Dame University; and he especially wasn't good enough to play football. Rudy's trip to Notre Dame wasn't just a trip it was a journey- a life lesson. Because of his i...

• Word Count: 1161
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Communication Theories within American Beauty The movie American Beauty is about a family who is coming apart at the seams. It uses many of the theories that we have touched on in this class but mostly the Interactional View. This theory is more prevalent then others because the core principle...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After Jane goes to the kitchen, Lester makes the comment to his wife about Jane, "you treat her like an employee." ... The scene resembles a teenage boy looking at a beautiful woman, not a grown, married man looking at a teenage girl. ...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

During one of the opening scenes of American Beauty, "horny geek-boy" Lester Burnham says of his perfectly detailed and structured wife, "See how her clogs match the colour of her garden clippers? ... As he sits at the kitchen table, a luminous glow cast over his face from the black & white photo of his smiling family, a gun slowly appears behind his head. ...

• Word Count: 1983
• Approx Pages: 8

About the Author Quijano de Manila is the pen name of Nick Joaquin. He started writing before the war and his first story, "Three Generations," has been hailed as a masterpiece. He has been recipient of almost all the prestigious awards in literature and the arts, including the National Artist Awar...

• Word Count: 5098
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School