Heroes for today

Article Abstract:

There are many ordinary Americans who can be considered heroes in their own way. The stories of a black washerwoman who established $150,000 scholarship fund, a ten-year old boy who saved his classmates from injury, a janitor who found and returned $612 and aging veterans who serve as honor guards for departed comrades are presented.

Humor and anecdotes, Heroes

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Charlie & the river rat

Article Abstract:

An excerpt from "Ava's Man" is presented. The relationship which developed between an elderly man named Charlie Bundrum and a reclusive man named Jessie Clines is discussed. The characters of the men are described.

Behavior, Men, Excerpt, Ava's Man (Book), Bundrum, Charlie, Clines, Jessie

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A place of her own

Article Abstract:

A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist buys a house for his mother as a childhood promise kept. The house is the journalist's 'reward' to his mother, who toiled endlessly to give her son's the life they deserved.

Psychological aspects, Personal narratives, Parent and child, Parent-child relations, Mothers

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