Here I am on the first plane. I had to ride on two planes to get to Puerto Rico. The first plane is going to San Juan. The plane was huge and so clean that any light that hit the plane would be reflected right back at your eyes. The planes were so white that they looked as if they were doves in ...
Sarah grew up on a farm with a huge family. ... Peer pressure was non existent, since the only "gang- she ran around with was the gang of animals on the ranch. ... She just listened to the sounds of chirping crickets and dreamed of another day on the farm. ... The little girl from the farm was disappearing and being replaced by the grown-up woman in the big city. ... So they began looking for a place outside of the city "a place complete with animals running all around and a garden full of vegetables just waiting to be picked for the supper table. ...
When a Seneca woman's pregnancy ended well and the child was lucky enough to live, the Seneca tribe was often traveling from place to place in search of new, fertile land to farm. ... The European men came from a society were a woman's ideal job was only that of leisure, and here they see that women skin the animals that their husbands kill (84). ...
There was a man who dreamed as a child of being well known and respected throughout his village and neighboring villages. This man, Okonko, worked hard at his goal, and he achieved it. Okonko, a man with great strength and personality, had achieved his goal to become rich and famous, a privi...
When I was a young boy, I would always go to visit my grandparent's farm. I would walk the fields with my grandpa checking on the crops, trotting along all the way to the other side of the farm where the cows were. ... " My grandpa told me "There is no effort wasted here " our walks are about more than just doing routine checks on the crops and animals. ...
There was no worse news, at the advanced age of 7, than to have one of my sisters confide to me that we were going to visit the "bad cousins." Visiting the "good cousins" was an entirely different matter. My father's side of the family was far more enjoyable to visit than the raucous band of Portugu...
Have you ever heard of the expression "black sheep of the family, or the "baby of the family" even if the person is way over their toddler stages? Well these types of portrayals can be associated depending on the birth order. For the people who don't know what birth order is, Birth order refers to t...
