By David Arthur Walters “For William Blount, especially, a new era had opened. Though his interests in merchandising, trade, and politics continued, the never-ceasing pursuit of acreage, and the search for profit in every acre from town lots to imperial domains became his paramount, life-long interest.” William H. Masterson Vice President Thomas Jefferson presided over [...]
By Harold F. Hester The Morning of the Contest The sun was late this morning, or so it seemed. As the days go further into fall and closer to Halloween, Thanksgiving and the all important family Christmas holidays, daylight is scarce and if you get out of bed before 06:00 AM you should expect the [...]
By: Hart, Melissa Editors want short humorous essays that both entertain and enlighten Wit, satire, camp, wordplay, irony, farce, whimsy. Short humorous essays fairly leap off the page using a variety of techniques, from slapstick comedy to sophisticated repartee. Each of us possesses a particular sense of what’s funny. Fortunately, for every type of [...]
Even the tiniest object in your fiction–a pink ribbon, a cricket, a needle and thread–can carry a lot of weight “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, [...]
Practical solutions for writing problems Deny them their rightful place and your story may suffer You have your hands full with your protagonist. She should be likeable. She should act. Your readers must identify with her life’s crisis. As if that’s not enough, yon have to deal with the antagonist who tries to thwart your [...]
Think Will Shakespeare could change your life? He did for Tracy Navichoque, a 13-year-old from Los Angeles, California. Tracy talked to Scope about those changes and how Shakespeare is part of her life today. Every Saturday I go to “Wake up with Will,” a program that helps students practice for the SATs. We boost our [...]
Plunked down along the southern edge of McCarran International Airport in the heart of “fabulous” Las Vegas, Nev., is a nondescript industrial park whose only saving grace is the view it affords visitors of the skyline to the northwest. There, billion-dollar-plus hotel-casinos sparkle and blink in the chill desert night, neon monuments to gambling and [...]
By Koty Lapid Making my life better, at the same time fighting back, is new to me. It will be a surprise to those who know me. After all, when I realized that I had never done these things for myself, I was flabberghasted. I found myself physcially weak and mentally desperate after so much [...]
DETROIT — Small cars, the boon and bane of the 1980s auto industry, are making a comeback as automakers rediscover how easy it is to sell good fuel economy and low prices. “Small is big in America,” declares Mark Fields, Ford Motor’s head of American operations. Consider: *In the spring, the top Japanese car companies, [...]
Long-running shows find new ways to draw auds while creating a theater logjam on the Rialto Now and Forever” doesn’t just apply to “Cats” anymore. After 18 years, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega-musical “The Phantom of the Opera” surpasses the feline-friendly tuner to become the longest-running show in Broadway history Jan. 9. But shifts in the [...]