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June 9, 2004 by youngwriter
After watching the humor filled Shrek 2, curiosity began to envelop my mind – who created this character? I made a research in this what I discovered. The man behind the creation of Shrek was William Steig, an illustrator for The New Yorker who was known as the "King of Cartoons" for his award-winning, best-selling children's books including "Shrek," Steig was born Nov. 14, 1907, in New York, the son of a house painter and a seamstress. He began drawing cartoons for his high school ...
June 9, 2004 by youngwriter
"I'm sorry for what I've done. I love you mom, thank you for everything..."Just a few months back, I've read this snippet from a newspaper stating that a young man took his own life in a hotel, just a few kilometers away from my dormitory. Never have I read a suicide note, even just a part of it gave me an uneasy and eerie kind of feeling. The question of why came hovering over me. It just bothered me why would some people take their own lives if they know that someone still loves them? Why?...