... in the newspaper about the oldest Texan in a nursing home in Midland, Texas. I had this lady here write to him and he is my brother but not the oldest Texan as I am Jake's older brother," said Larry. Jake did call Larry, either Thanksgiving or Christmas but Larry was not sure which. They enjoyed talking to each other, ... cabin in the plains of Texas. The cabin had two rooms for the fifteen members of the family. They grew their own food; his father and older brother went hunting for their meet. The environment, in the early days of the west, was hard for the families to survive the numer...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... noir are normally driven by their past or by human weakness to repeat former mistakes. Film noir is marked by expressionistic lighting, disorienting visual schemes and skewed camera angles, circling cigarette smoke, existential sensibilities, ... from a book by Dashiell Hammett. It was famous for Humphrey Bogart's cool, laconic private eye hero Sam Spade in pursuit of crooks greedy for a jewel-encrusted statue, and Mary Astor as the femme fatale. ... menacing, father-fixated, unstable femme fatale (Gene Tierney) who would stop at nothing (drowning murder of her husband's younger brother...

• Word Count: 1859
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (E2B) Dear Mrs. Farkas, My book is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K Rowling. It is about Harry Potter, a young wizard who is now 13, and is known by every wizard because he survived from the greatest dark wizard, Voldemort. Harry has had many encounters with Lord ... they want to go. On the bus Harry gives a fake name, his friends name Neville Longbottom. The assistant on the bus Sam gives Harry the newspaper, on the front is on article about Sirius Black says to be the heir apparent of Lord Voldemort. He killed 13 people with one sing...

• Word Count: 1823
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School