Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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A New Year of Hope
A New Year is a new year of hope and gaining more hope in what a person would like to accomplish before one disappears one way or another. In living and preparing for this new year I plan to continue to keep learning whatever I can and then sharing what I am learning even if it is through reading old books with ideas from a bygone era that still seems to work even today. In this new year I plan to publish more eBooks as mentioned in a previous drabble as well an more color art and publishing them too.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Writers
Ideas from Yahoo 3
Once again glancing through that page of Yahoo News I came across 10 School Punishments that would fly today for there would be lawsuits galore if these were done without permission from the parents. The first one listed was 'The Dunce Cap' I really do not remember this one used except on television on certain shows or pictures in history books. I do remember writing lines on the blackboard for some, and I do remember actually copying dictionary pages as a punishment that I had to do once, and I cannot remember what I did though. There was 'The Paddle' in the principal's office but he or she had to have permission from the parents to use it on whomever, ruler on the knuckles I heard of when but is a form of corporeal punishment and I do not remember any of my teachers using doing this at any grade level. There was students standing in the hallway, and I think I remember someone standing on one foot for some reason in the classroom and to go along with this I remember one teacher made a student sit under his desk this would be a form of public shaming and I did feel bad for this student even though he should not have been passing notes. The last few were extra homework and physical drills/exercises.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Ideas from Yahoo 2
After I turned on my computer and it booted up and before logging onto the Internet sites that I 'work' for the first thing I see is various articles on Yahoo and I browse for ideas. The first was on weird foods from the 7o's and this one will be on famous books that they say everyone should read sometime during their lives. I have to admit I have read most of them and three I plan to get one day. I am going to just list them here.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Ideas from Yahoo!!!
First article idea from Yahoo is weirdest food from the 90's you forgot existed. Even though I was not a kid of the 90's but a young adult of the 20's they listed the following foods. The first was Hubba Bubba bubble gum that came in a container like a detergent bottle I wonder if this could have been the start of some people trying to eat detergent pods? Other weird foods that I did not think as weird were the Nestle's Magic Ball that I can of remember and I do believe it disappeared for it posed a choking hazard for the little toy inside the candy, there was Crystal Pepsi that did taste the same as the original, Butterfinger BB's, Jello Pudding Pops, and Dunkeroo's that were like those snacks of cheese/peanut butter with crackers. I really liked Jello Pudding Pops, but I wonder if they would sell now for Bill Cosby was the spokesman for Jello products of the 80's. Bart Simpson was the cartoon figure for Butterfinger BB's and is line was you better stay away from my Butterfingers/BB's. Bart wasn't the best role model back when.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Happy New Year!
With the Lord looking after me this new year starting today will be a good one and wishing the same for all. What does a new year mean? A new year is a chance to learn and grow for me. One project that I forgot on the previous drabble I wrote is one that requires me to review an old skill I learned years ago for I am planning on re-writing some classic novels in shorthand. Also, a new year will allow me to begin to understand more about new subjects that seem to be coming about around me now.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Another Year
With the Lord's help here are my plans for 2025. The first is to continue writing here on Vocal for I really like the people I met on this site, and the drabbles entitled 'The Mission' I am thinking about putting them together in a eBook and publishing it on BN.com along with a few other book projects that I was working on during Christmas. Planning on once again working as a transcriptionist and writing articles and educational materials for another online site. I am also going to try to critique some short stories from some old textbooks I have.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Mission part 11
Beta Team heard the screaming and the gunshots, and they all started to scan the area. Sarge started to scurry on his belly to get to the sidewalk so he could get a better view of the scene. The other members went in different directions to form a perimeter, and they all studied the area looking for where the shots could have come from for the echo of those shots made it confusing to see where the shooter was located. It was a small town with only a few somewhat tall buildings and each soldier made their way to them.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
The Mission part 10
Beta Team received their orders and headed home. They came to empty village and in the end they were leaving a town full of people. They had to ask someone. "Hey! Wait a minute. Where were all you people a few hours ago. We were all in our basements wondering what to do, and we heard on our radios that the war was over. Beta Team noticed smiles, tears and cheering and hugging all around for Beta Team joined in before heading back to headquarters. All of the sudden a gunshot out of nowhere and everyone hit the dirt. What...
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
The Mission
Beta Team made it to cover and while they were waiting for further orders they began to hear what sounded like a town coming to life. There were people hollering all around them and they thought that they also heard crying from somewhere. They looked out the window and from a town that seemed deserted all of a sudden became a town full of terror for Beta Team looked to the West and they were not sure who was coming their way. Sarge's walkie began to buzz, and it was headquarters saying the mission has been cancelled. Come back now.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
Jimmy Carter
Just read that President Jimmy Carter has died at 100 years of age. He was a man of integrity and caring and the smile that would not quit. He was an American serviceman to politician to farmer for his life has run the gambit of professions in one way. He was a humanitarian volunteer constructing homes for whomever may need. Jimmy Carter and his wife are now together again just smiling away and waving to all from their new home in the sky the greatest habitat for humanity that there could ever be for anyone and everyone who so lives.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
