The water was cold on our legs and tired feet. ... All the teens were really nice and we got to hang out the rest of our stay there. ... Whoever thought of the quote that "time flies when you are having fun" was completely and utterly correct. ... This trip was planned also as a good bye for our whole class. ... That there is a lot more beyond our towns, there is a whole world out there to discover. ...
The first line of this quote says so much in one sentence. ... So many things come into play when it comes to social class such as History perhaps of the town that he lives in or maybe the race of him and the people that surround his family. ... It is beyond naive to think Race no longer effects society and the way our world works. ... It is the small glimpses that keep us striving and help us to drag our tired bodies out of the comfort of our beds in the morning. ... Our individual rollercoasters of life will always have drops, but it is our attitude and outlook on life that decides if we ...
Dunstan's home changes from a peaceful town of Deptford into the violent and killing fields of World War two. "It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. ... Joel Surgeoner, the atheastic tramp who had an intimat encounter with Mary Dempster at the town's "pit" changed his way of life and became a servant of God. ... It was as if I had gone right down into Hell and through the worst of the fire, and come on a clear, pure pool where I could wash and be clean...they turned me loose the next morning...
This quote is relevant as death associates moments with color, and in this instance death uses colour to portray an entire race of people which is relevant to modern racism in todays society, and how colour is relative to life and death in historical periods like Nazi Germany. In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red, plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, it was so severe that death has no color to associate with it. ... This quote is also ironic, as in one half it explains how summer was going nicely for Liesel the German child...
There are many moments in our life that that change the complete course of our life. ... Although, I had stayed out of town since my collage, this homesickness was the worst time of my life. ... After the passing of half semester, our class teacher asked us to make a presentation regarding our future goals in life. He further indicated that this was a very important part of our grades. ... She quoted my teacher verbatim at one point, He has great potential but he needs to focus and concentrate on his studies. ...
John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." ... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... Does memory provide a means to integrate ourselves into a future of our own devising or does it chain us to an unchangeable past? ... Stated by Kotre, this quote allows us to recognize the long lasting effects we hav...
