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        This story, 'A Christmas Memory,' is a nonfiction reminence of one fond memory of Capotes'.         A distant relative of Truman Capote's, Sook Faulk, took care of him through his childhood. Sook dubbed Truman…

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desperately for some way to give her husband a nice Christmas present. Her present comes from the heart, and that leaves the story ending on a happy note. Both stories convey love and warmth in their own ways. "A Haunted House" and "The Gift of the Magi…

Only a few days before Christmas the shelter was all decorated, a façade of Christmas bliss meant to bring joy into the lives of the worlds less fortunate. I, along with a few of my friends, was serving food through SOME (So Others Might Eat). As I stood…

God's Gift to Women In her song, "God's Gift to Women", Jewel takes an interesting and indirect approach in disparaging popular and chauvinistic views on women's role in heterosexuality. Instead of directly attacking these ideas, she takes a sarcastic…

"The Gift Outright" was the poem recited for the presidential inauguration on January 20, 1961 for John F. Kennedy. In January 20, 1993 exactly thirty two years later, Maya Angelou read her inaugural poem for Bill Clinton's inauguration. These poems…

The greatest gift is one that comes from the heart. In my case, this statement applies in a very literal manner. The greatest gift of my life was receiving three pints of blood from an emergency volunteer donor. This event took place shortly after…

Some psychologists believe that a gifted child's social and emotional development is not adversley affected by their being gifted, whereas other psychologists believe they are affected in a negative way. Early research using highly gifted children…