Name: For Better or For Worse
Author: Lin Johnson

Synopsis: In this comic, it is about a girl who realizes that she and a friend have acne but to her, it seems like no one else does. When her mom offers to get her some acne treatment she screams "Don't Say That Word! I Hate That Word!" By the end she does end up going to get some treatment.

Name: Why I Write
Author: George Orwell

Synopsis:
In this story, he talks about obviously why he write but more importantly, what made him want to and what lead him to it. In the beginning he says " From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer." Right from the start hes had an interest in writing. He mentions that no matter what he did, he was always drawn back to writing. He never thought his writing was good he just wrote when he felt he had an idea. He wrote about things like the Spanish War, Poems, made up stories and his all time famous "Animal Farm", an allegory about the Russian Revolution. He says " Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." That is what his writing was. It was how he personally understood things like that. He also says how he wanted to make political writing into an art. He ends this story with how he is still uncertain of what motives are his strongest but knows which of them deserve to be followed.

Name: Chicks Story

Author: Charley Bennetto 

Synopsis:

In "Chicks Story" there is not much to tell. He talks about why he attempted suicide and how he lost everything which lead up to this decision. What he really puts emphasis on is how after his mother died and how he just lost from there and kept getting worse. He worked less, Drank more, it got tho the point where he and his wife got a divorce. In later years he didn't even get invited to his daughters wedding in fear that he would mess something up and embarrass the family. All he got was a letter after the event saying that she was married and what here name was changed to, nothing else after that. All that was what I think lead him to attempted suicide and what he described leading him to it. 

Name Yellow Lines

Author: Sylvia Olsen 

Synopsis:

In my book "Yellow Lines" it is about a town. The "White" side and the "Indian" side. The conflict arises when a white girl and native boy start liking each other and then start dating. Despite their parents negative opinions, the two keep it a secret until one day the girl didn't return home. After finding her, her boyfriend (the native) walks right to their front door, confronts her parents, takes blame and apologizes for the inconvenient problem. From that point on, the relation between the two sides of town was a whole new beginning. 

Name: Living to 100 is not all in your genes 

Author: Ken MacQueen 

Synopsis:

In this article, Ken talks about the facts about living to 100 and beyond. He says it isn't necessarily in your genes but how you live. One statistic he provides is that the "Seventh-day Adventists of Loma Linda" have an average life expectancy of 85 and researchers believe that this is because of their religion and how it forbids smoking and drinking while encouraging exercise and a vegetarian diet. Ken also mentions how women will live longer and men shorter because of their higher rates of death by accident and misadventure in their early years. It is easy for me to believe this article being a male and understanding how some of my actions aren't very safe and how someone like my mother is so cautious and safe. That is my understanding and thought on this article. 

Name: Running the Table
Author: Frank Conroy

Synopsis: After hearing what the real meaning of the story was, I realized my understand was very irrelevant. After I finished reading this story I thought that it was about a childhood memory that he had along with a great experience in the time of its occurrence. The way Conroy described how he felt as he progressed and all the time he had put in to practicing new things he had learned. It turns out, this story was actually about his troubles in school and at home, and by using the game of pool in compensation while describing the precision and tranquility of the pool, it was relevant to the real world outside as he seen it.

Name: Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias

Author: Steven Leacock

Synopsis:

In the story "Marine Excursions  of the Knights or Pythias" it takes place back in the olden days and

is about getting on a boat on time. While been on this boat people are having drinks playing cards, conversing and overall having a good time. A little while into the trip, the passengers start to notice that the boat is sinking. While in panic, a wealthier passenger, Mr. Smith, has made a bet with a man who isn't on the boat. After paying a boy he is familiar with to help him get the boat running again, he successfully wins the bet and after, highers the boy to work in the bar he owns in town. The boys takes the offer in consideration to his father and brother been out of town for a while with their uncle. After his mother, who despises of Mr. Smith, finds out her son is working for him she takes him back home and tells him and Mr. Smith that her son is no longer aloud to work or have anything to do with him and his work.