American Girl is a retailer that brings young girls' imaginations to life by offering dolls in a variety of ethnicities stylized from major time periods throughout American history. Complete each doll's story with clothing, accessories, furniture and activity books found at AmericanGirl.com. Be su...
Miyhan, a young Korean woman, goes to high school in America and is befriended by a black girl named Bernice who teaches her about jazz. A Cambodian woman adjusts to her new life in America, amazed at all the modern conveniences. However, her previous life comes back to haunt her in ...
Leroy Anderson was born on June 29, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents were Swedish immigrants who had come to the United States as children. They lived at 269 Norfolk Street in Cambridge. His father,Bror Anton Anderson(B.A. Anderson), came from Övarp, Norra Strö, nearKrist...
I know I say that every American Girl doll is gorgeous, and I’m not incorrect in that assertion. But, even keeping that in mind, Joss is still pretty special. Her long brown hair and brown eyes are unique in the doll world, and I love it. She arrives wearing a swimsuit, hoodie, ...
Birthplace: San Jose, California, USA Dig Deeper Celebrities And Rockers Who Worked in Record Stores Also ranks #9 on 12 Stories About Rock Stars That Sound Made Up, But Aren't And Deeper 15 Photos of Makeup-Wearing Male Celebs Without Their Makeup On Joe Escalante Age: 61 Joseph Patric...
“It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.” Thus concludes Virginia’s Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. The prompt: write a one-paragraph narrative prose poem that begins with these two sentences. “Give me a girl at...
Though there were efforts that were still made to make them interesting. In Ridgecrest, California, the playground was designed to look like spaceships and a place of adventure. That was the theme in the nearby China Lake military research center. In Hattiesburg, Mississippi, there was a playgro...
This practice was also found in California by folklorist Wayland Hand, where “[o]n occasion of a miner’s first trip to the mine after the arrival of the firstborn, his comrades simply seize his hat and burn it despite any resistance or protests offered” (Hand 52). This act functions...
sheets, the mirror in the ceiling where I opened such a sudden furious blue, her eyes bruised shut like mine. The pigeon's eyes are orange, unblinking, a doll's. Mother always said I wanted to touch everything because I was a child. But I was younger than that. ...
excavate a rural spot that was supposedly the site of “an orgy of human sacrifice.” The digging turned up a headless doll and a rusty knife, but absolutely no bodies. The sheriff still proceeded to describe the doll as “decapitated” and indicated that the knife was somehow proof that ...