A hot July day in Missouri is just a few degrees of humidity away from truly feeling like death. You aren't able to step onto your front porch to pick up the newspaper without coming back inside with a few beads of sweat on your brow. I was staying with my grandma and grandpa in St. James Missouri, a true southern cow-town with beautiful hay and cornfields for miles. Queen Anne's Lace and Black-Eyed Susans framed the old dirt roads with the beauty that comes with being a wild flower. Just a little house near the highway with a barn in the back and sunflowers that grew over six feet tall wrapped around the frame of the barn. This was bliss, and I only was able to enjoy it one week a year. I don't know about you, but there's something about Midwest sunsets and the sweet tune of your grandma humming George Jones as she dozes off to sleep holding the hand of your grandpa as he sits there and savors every moment. That's a snapshot I want to remember forever.
It was an early morning when I woke up that day. Saturday morning cartoons, and the smell of bacon and eggs filled the house. Salt, butter, toast and preserves, can't forget the pepper, grandpa would it eat by itself if we'd let him! We held hands and said a prayer. We began eating and nodded our heads in appreciation to grandma for making breakfast. .
"I can't take all the credit, Anree broke the eggs and didn't get one piece of shell in the bowl!" She boasted as she took a bite of toast. After we ate, grandma and grandpa wanted nothing more than to sit down and relax and let their food settle, but I wanted to play! Sometimes entertaining an eight year old little girl without her older brother can be quite the challenge. .
"Can we go for a walk, please, please, please?" I pleaded with my well-rehearsed puppy face. .
"It will be way too hot as soon as we step outside, you know that." Grandma replied as she did the dishes.
"But the sun is being lazy today and isn't awake yet so we should go for a walk now so that way you won't melt into a pool of granny goop!" I replied with my biggest smile.
After a short five minutes, I hear my mom say "she's crowning" and I know its close. ... I impatiently say yes and take the precious child in my arms and look into his beautiful little eyes as I go down to kiss his forehead I think to myself "That's what its like to create a precious life and experience the miracle of it all....
Miracle of the Divine? For years James Madison worked avidly to find a solution to the political and economic impasses that plagued America. State constitutions were the law of the land, and the Articles of Confederation that were approved by Congress in November of 1777 did nothing to keep Amer...
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In Another Country Portfolio In Another Country is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. This story is based upon American soldiers that were wounded in World War I, and that by using some new machines that were just brought out to the market; they were supposed to do miracles with people. ... I liked this short story because is realistic, and shows the struggles that soldiers go through when all they want is to be normal again. ...
This occurrence is less about the miracle itself, but more about the meaning behind the transformation. ... Knowing Gomez was short in finances, Jeromo requested assistance from him believing in his good character. ... Fray Gomez not only served as a miracle worker for the people, but as a symbol of hope as well. ... However, the story transitions from the miracles themselves to the amount of faith people in his town possess. ... This story shows that they believed in the strength of their God that can only be revealed with the people's powerful faith. ...
I never knew my father. He left when I was only five. My mom brought me up, and now we live with my grandparents in Philly. My mom and I have never had a real "mother/son" relationship. I lived most of my twenty-two years without parents and their supervision. At the age of fifteen I dropped out of ...
Analysis of "A Good Man is Hard to Find- The short story by Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find-, is about a family that takes a vacation to Florida and somehow along the way manages to get murdered by a man who calls himself "The Misfit-, and two of his friends. Flannery O'Connor's story has many important elements, but what makes this story special is the combined use of character development and irony. The short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find- by Flannery O'Connor was written in 1955 during a time when most people in small communities...
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short fiction story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1955. There is much to be interpreted in such a short story with a quick beginning and quick ending. There is more than one way to interpret this story I choose the more spiritual and biblical way. ... Most people who came to see the angel would come to laugh and throw things or come to him just for a miracle, and then have nothing more to go with him. ... This story has many relations to the bible and spiritual beliefs. ...
