I D Rather Laugh Than Cry

If you love oldies music, old cars, and good stories, you’ll love Small Town Big City: When Time Stood Still, a screenplay script. It is about the way it used to be in ’63. This nostalgic look back in time will take those who experienced it on a memorable journey to the times of simple living, old-fashioned ways, cool cars, good music, and teenagers trying to become adults, living for the moment and looking forward to tomorrow. Those who were born after 1963 can see and feel themselves in 1963. Back in the day, small-town people were usually outdated by the lifestyles of the big-city folks. They were kind of behind in the times, but they wouldn’t exchange it for the world to be a part of a close-knit community and for the love and commodity, which was priceless.

At the age of 13, she became the Luo Family's child bride. The noble him lifted her chin and only said, "You are worthy!"They had been married for many years now, and had only been separated from each other on a strange path, living on the other side of the world, for years and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and months and years and years and years and years and years and years, and now they had been married and years and years and years and years and years and years."Within a month, you must be pregnant and help the Luo Family to grow up," she said.After sleeping on the same bed, he used all sorts of methods to humiliate her.He purposely made things difficult for her, mocking her for her inexperience. "Tang Wanyang, is this all you've got? If you want my seed, it won't be that simple. "She almost bit off his vitals, but she did not hesitate to say, "I'm sorry, I'm not good at martial arts."********Every member of the Luo family was ambitious, openly and covertly fighting with each other. Even after she had calculated everything, the old gramps still gave her 50% of the shares."If you promise me one condition, I will give you all the shares," she looked at him firmly, "and allow me to break off my relationship with the Luo Family."At that moment, he was stunned and his heart ached.A year later, she started her own planning company, and news of his remarriage was common. He came to her with a beautiful bride and asked her to plan the wedding for him personally.In the swimming pool, he forced her into a corner, "Tang Wanyi, do you think you can escape?"Luo Juntian had always thought that she had never come close to his heart, but he had no idea that she had already set up camp in his heart and could not be pulled out.

Eleven-year-old Manxie just wants to believe in herself. Known as the odd duck of the family, Manxie is hiding a dark secret. She is the victim of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Manxie somehow survives the abuse by making friends and achieving a place on the honor roll at school. But when someone offers her drugs during the tumultuous teenage years, Manxie succumbs to the temptation, welcoming the temporary relief from her pain. Forced into the working world at age fourteen in order to support her family, Manxie soon learns that the only one she can depend on is herself. But it is when she becomes pregnant that Manxie finally discovers the power of unconditional love. Desperate to break free of the chains of her upbringing, Manxie seeks out a better existencefor not only her son, but also herself. Breaking the Chain is the story of one womans courageous struggle to find confidence, stay focused on the future instead of the past, and never again let anyone take her beautiful spirit away.

Two Nurses - Two Experiences - One Civil War Blue, Gray and Red presents the hard reality of the Civil War. There are no stirring bugle calls, only the calls of the wounded. There are no battlefield heroics, but there is also no lack of heroism. It presents the suffering and courage of both sides, as written by two people-two nurses-who lived through it. Not many people realize that Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, was also a Civil War nurse. While serving at the Union Hospital in Washington DC, she wrote a series of letters to her family describing her experiences. These were published in Commonwealth magazine. and eventually became the basis for Hospital Sketches-the book that is presented here. In 1862 Kate Cumming volunteered to be a nurse for the Confederacy and saw duty until the end of the war in 1865. During that period she kept a journal, which was later turned into a book called A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. This was later re-edited and published as Gleanings from Southland, which is the version used here. Her account is made all the more tragic by the fact that she was not only reporting on the horrors of the battlefield, but on the horrors of a country that was literally being dismantled around her. No understanding of the Civil War can be complete without appreciating this side of the war as well.

The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made readers and scholars increasingly aware of her accomplishments beyond her most famous novel, Little Women, one of the great international best-sellers of all time. This anthology brings together for the first time a variety of Louisa May Alcott's journalistic, satiric, feminist, and sensation texts. Elaine Showalter has provided an excellent introduction and notes to the collection.

The present book titled 'Hospital Sketches' is a collection of some of the rmarkable sketches drawn by famous writer, artist Louisa May Alcott. It was first published in the year 1863.