One day Tanemahuta was strolling in the forest when he saw that his children were starting to get sick because bugs were eating them. So, he asked his brother Tanehokahoka for help. Tanehokahoka called all of his children the birds of the sky together. Tanemahuta told the birds that someone was eating his children. He also said that one of the birds needed to come down so that his children could be saved.…
Tom was sitting on his couch at 10 p.m. on a Friday. He was watching Shrek and eating popcorn. Tom’s wife was asleep so he was awake alone. He thought he had heard a loud noise at his back door so he went to the door and opened it and nobody was there. Tom went back to finish his movie when he heard another knock, this time at the front door and the knock was louder. When he went to the front door there was nobody. Tom returned to his movie once again. After finishing the movie, Tom was eating Taco Bell. There was banging on the window and the lights went out. He ran to the window and opened it and the devil was outside. The devil told Tom he had killed Tom’s wife because he wanted her soul and she refused to give it to him. The devil told…
The members of the Scarecrow People came together in 1991. A man named Tim and some friends of his formed the band. The group began as a reggae band and adopted their name “Scarecrow People” from a song by XTC. In 1996, the band reformed into a rock band. The format was changed to an unusual blend of “B” sides, soundtracks, 80’s, retro, and more. After sixteen years and eighteen different band members, the Scarecrow People have been through many phases. The band is considered a tradition, rather than a set band. As of now, the lead guitarist and lead vocalist is Tim Russell and the lead vocalist and bass guitarist is Pete Duarte.…
There once was a boy named Jerks, he was a normal boy who did normal things normally. One day his mother momma Jerks wanted him to go to the market to buy a cow but when he got to town there were no cows to be seen anywhere. So Jerks being the smart young lad he was decided to trade the money for a “magic shovel” Jerks was obviously very happy with his trade because after all who wouldn't want a magic shovel? When Jerks got home he proudly held up the shovel to show his mother what he had gotten, however his mother was not as pleased as the boy was with the purchase, so logically she decided to make the boy go dig his own grave in the back yard. As Jerks dug he grew tired and went inside to get a drink of water. When Jerk…
Okay, so there's this place called the Sky World, and there lives a man and his wife who is expecting a child. And there's a tree in the center of the Sky World that no being is allowed to eat from. *sounds familliar?* Don't touch the tree, don't eat from the tree, don't pee on the tree, don't look at the tree, don't think about the tree! Well guess what? The wife is having her weird craving as most pregnant women do and she demands of her husband to get the tree's roots so she can eat them. He's like "But we's not suppose to," and she's like "GIMME FOODZ!" so he goes and starts digging up the tree roots and he breaks a hole in the sky and he's like "OMG" and runs away and then the wife is like "FINE I'll get it myself" so she goes to the tree and sticks her head down the hole to see what she can see, and she sees the sea. The she falls down the hole, and birds carry her onto the back of a turtle and she offers to plant the roots she got from the tree for them to grow foodz but there's no dirt on the giant flying ball of water we call Earth, so all the little animals start swimmin' down to reach the bottom and find dirt but none of them can do it, and then the Muskrat is like "I can do it!"…
Concise, authoritative and fascinating, this book was originally published in 2006. The paperback edition was updated to 2007.…
Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King – the creative genius behind the holiday of Halloween, designing each year to be scarier and more horrible than the one before. However deep inside he longs for more than the horror and scares of Halloween Town, a longing he cannot understand until he stumbles into Christmas Town and sees happiness and cheer the likes of which has evaded him all these years. Having finally worked out what Christmas is all about, Jack decides to kidnap Santa and make himself the new king of Christmas Town so that he can have the happiness of Christmas all the time. But the others in the towns realize the significant consequences that this disruption of the norm will have as Jack's evil nature proves harder to overcome than…
In 1900, 41% of the workforce were employed in agriculture, 100 years later this diminished to 1.9%; astonishingly, during this timeframe, the U.S. population exploded from 71 million to 273 million. In the 1980s, the American family farmer once the backbone of the U.S. economy now faced dire straits, plagued by corporate consolidation and economic hardships. The family farmer was dying. In times of hardship, many families gather around a table of food, couple food with the force of music that unites and a powerful partnership can amplify a voice and a cause. Panderer, actor, artist, rock star, cultural icon were some terms used to describe John “Cougar” Mellencamp, not necessarily attributes that conjure the image of a savior for the farming future. However, Mellancamp was also deemed a “Heartland Rocker” which he claimed to never understand yet liked anyways . Regardless of how people may have viewed him, it is undeniable that Mellencamp’s music had a great impact both culturally and socially. His politically relevant and heartfelt anthem “Rain on the…
Summary: A Merchant came to a small town and brought a giraffe to attract people.He dies while he's there. The Giraffe is left to the town to take care of,The people Wanted to kill right away,but a group of young boys step up and take the Giraffe into their hands.They lead in Through town all day Letting it peak its head through windows (not wanting to know what it sees) ,They brought the Giraffe to a public park and it ate the leaves off a tree the mayor planted (Even though the Winter would have cleared all the leaves) The people were still pissed at the Giraffe,The police came (Due to the Mayor) and Threathed To kill the Giraffe if it didnt leave. Soon it got dark and The giraffe got cold and need a place to stay, The Three Boys (Rolandino,Flavio,Boddo) brought it to the Church seeing as it was the only option. The next morning they discovered That the Giraffe has eaten all the flowers and candles,This makes the people furious and decides to Kill the Giraffe,The boys Quickly run out of town and to a open field nearby,Where they try to feed it hay. This does not work and the giraffe ends up Dieing infront of everyone because in this town There's No room for anything but the Things already here.…
The opening chapter of the book, “Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose”, provides a historical reading of the many fairy tales we were told as young innocent children. These fairy tales had everything but happy endings and sweet morals. The gruesome truth is revealed for each fairy tale including Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty,…
One day King Minos was a very powerful man. This one town called Athens and every year he would go to war with them. So they made a deal with the king that if he stopped the war with them they would 7 kids every year to his maze where he had his monster very hungry for humans. So the King liked the deal and went on with it and said yes. That was a very sad day for the Athens and cried every year when they had to send 7 kids who tried to kill this monster but never came back. So one says the Kings son had asked him that why do they send young people every year to the maze and never come back? The King had to explain why to him and also because the monster would start something with them and kill them all. So the king's son wanted to stop…
Owl was a very quiet, but lazy bird. He was very different from other birds though, and he was always treated unfairly just because of his appearance. He had a beak that curved in towards the bottom, a very wide body shape, big eyes, and a large rounded head. The only thing that made owl and the other birds alike was the way they lived. He ate just like them, bathed just like them, and slept just like them, but one day something strange happened. Millions of years ago, there was no darkness, only daylight. The birds still slept, but they slept in nothing but daylight. One day, Owl wasn't feeling himself anymore, he asked all the other birds if they noticed anything different about him and they all said no. Many hours later, all of the birds knew that it was midnight, and that it was time to go to sleep, so they did. All but Owl, he did not feel like he needed any sleep. He stayed up for a few hours and all of a sudden the sky above him turned into pure darkness. Owl was confused but scared at the same time, so he told all of the other birds to wake up, and they did. They thought and thought, but could not find out what had made the sky so dark. Soon after the darkness went away and daylight came, they found out that Owl had not slept from 12am-7am. Every night after that, Owl would not sleep, so the sky would remain dark throughout the whole night. Owl's lack of sleep is the reason why it's dark at night, and will forever remain that way until Owl decides to sleep at night again.…
Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of…
In this story, there is an “angel” that lands in Pelayo’s and Elisenda’s yard that was said to have fallen out of the sky. The neighbor determines that this is an angel because of the wings on the old man. As the story unravels, the couple then takes the old man in and places him into their chicken coop to sleep. This “angel” is a fictional character, but as the story goes on, the “angel” teaches many moral lessons, which makes this a fable. (Marquez 340)…
It was October 8 since my boyfriend’s grandpa passed away. He died in his sleep with ninety two years old; in the spare bedroom of bard’s house, where he was living for the past two years. I’m helping brad to pack everything, weird books, his writings, and many horror stories he write , one of his book was named Lucifer , that had many strange language, and had words invoking the devil. We were frightened when we saw all this books and writing invoking the devil’s name, but brad wanted to take those books with him. Ater all I help brad to pack up everything and to start remember the good moments with his only grandfather, he was like his father and the only family he had alive. While brad was packing up he finds a ring that remembers him, in an essay he made he describe the power of this ring.…