He believed that he could not die, without coming clean. But Simon felt strange because the SS solider was confessing his crime to a man who perhaps tomorrow must die at hands of the same murders. ... In the summer of 1946 while on a journey with his wife and a few friends to the neighborhood of Linz, Simon was on the hillside when he stumbled across a sunflower. It reminded him of the concentration camps, the Lemberg cemetery, the Lemberg's hospital and the vision of the dying SS solider. The vision of the dying solider was especially hard to forget he suddenly remember the soldier&#...

• Word Count: 597
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Long before man applied reason to his thinking, he tried to think of ways to describe the indescribable. As our primitive relatives, Ug and Thora, sat in their cave, Ug probably compared his feelings in Thora's presence to the elation he felt tearing meat off a bone, or wallowing in mud. Modern man...

• Word Count: 562
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The summer wore away, and autumn set in with rain and an unseasonal frost at night. ... When I heard his voice coming at me, saying that the hospital appointment would probably be for the next Thursday, I was relieved a little; he could not be expecting her to die before next Thursday. ... It seemed that, in comparison with this moment, the whole of my former life had been a summer afternoon....

• Word Count: 738
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Summers. ... These people have been growing up in this village for probably their whole lives and each year they take the chance, live or die. If these are grown men in their thirties, forties and fifties, that's quite a long time if there's a chance that you maybe picked to die in the next year. ...

• Word Count: 519
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Even though she was willing to die for her actions she still could have made some sort of attempt to escape the punishment. ... Another reason why I feel Antigone was foolish came through her validation for dying. ... A reason for her dying for her brother is that since both her parents are dead there is no way to replace Polynices (lines 995-1005). ... Sure you can always find another husband or have another kid if they die but there will always be that person missing in their lives. ... Every summer it's us three together all the time. ...

• Word Count: 716
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Sticks and Stones Today seemed like any other summer day in the eyes of a seven year-old. ... At first I thought I had died and gone to heaven. ... I then realized that I would be confined in an inescapable prison of boredom, wasting away as the summer passed my by. ...

• Word Count: 1206
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She started to believe in this idea when her fiancée died. ... He never really understands this concept until Catherine dies after having the baby. ... "All summer and all fall I've operated. ... The only way to understand the war is to understand that men will die and villages will be destroyed. ... All my family died very devout. ...

• Word Count: 1242
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the summers there were more children, as we would go to sleepaway camp in Maine and she would be in charge of the youngest group of campers. ... Over seven years ago, my mother died after a long battle with melanoma. ...

• Word Count: 780
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

If learning from your mistakes is a true thing, then the entire world is made up of mistakes. Everyone and everything around me is one big mistake. Last summer I started working for a law firm. I would start out doing simple secretary stuff, it was a walk in the park. Until the next month when Ms. V...

• Word Count: 925
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School