Even though there were harsh moments in my childhood I was happy to live in Mexico. ... We were instructed to take our shoes and our pants off. ... When I arrived at the other edge, I heard my mother tell the man that was leading us, the coyote, to take my shoes. This man did take my shoes just like my mother had asked him and then thru them back into the river. ... She took her shoes of and gave them to me, but this was no help they were too big for my feet and they only slowed us down. ...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ragged Dick is a boy who lived in New York as a poor, homeless shoe shiner and spent his earlier years struggling to survive off of what few cents he made. ... He works hard and trustfully as a shoe shiner. ... He began to save his money in order to buy other new clothes and also a place to live. ...

• Word Count: 1276
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

But through the power of photography we can for a moment feel what it would be like, using our imagination we can trip out of reality and into the past by trying to put ourselves in the shoes of so many before us that have lived through the ups and downs of this country. ... By stopping time and reflecting on the people you can grasp an idea of life in the shoes of the charters captured. ... Adams photography of physical traits of how we live is a broader than Winnograds work because he completely removes the people from the topic leaving the decision of the significance of the picture to th...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." ... From first glance, it would seem that they live the perfect life, both being rich, young and beautiful. ... Tom and Daisy live without any hopes or regrets because the foundation of their characters is money, living in their faith that money can buy anything. ...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." ... From first glance, it would seem that they live the perfect life, both being rich, young and beautiful. ... Tom and Daisy live without any hopes or regrets because the foundation of their characters is money, living in their faith that money can buy anything. ...

• Word Count: 1307
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She cannot stand being married to a poor man, and resents being tied down to the Garage where they live and work, as her she says: " he isn't fit to lick my shoe." ... From first glance, it would seem that they live the perfect life, both being rich, young and beautiful. ... Tom and Daisy live without any hopes or regrets because the foundation of their characters is money, living in their faith that money can buy anything. ...

• Word Count: 1310
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I know I don't know this but we expect anyone who wants to live here to know everything that has happened in the whole history of this country. ... Candy-pink for the girls in their lace dresses, marching shiny shoes. ... (Divakaruni, Yuba City School page 4-5) This poem shows how many children had to live their lives when trying to go to school. ...

• Word Count: 1277
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I guess there is a great need to be informed of the horrible goings on the world no matter what age you live in. ... There are ads for men's and women's clothing, shoes, medicines, tobacco, and all sorts of other products. ... Poor chaps, I hope most of the fighters live to enjoy many an after-dinner pipe. ...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Grade Level: High School

Fencing Fencing is more of an unusual sport that is played a lot not only in the United States but all over the world. Fencing holds national and international competitions held at the college level and played widely in the summer Olympic and paraplegic games. It is a sophisticated form of du...

• Word Count: 2383
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Indeed, it was one of the harshest conditions in which any Indian could live. ... The Indians were promised that they would live a better life full of peace and love, were no white settlers would trouble them, were they would not claim their land anymore and they would live forever happy. ... Indians wore little to no clothing; the shoes they had if they had any weren't built to make the long journey to Oklahoma. ...

• Word Count: 1598
• Approx Pages: 6
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The people made their own clothes and shoes. ... The main feature was the plantation, a large plot of land that contained a great many acres of farmland and buildings in which lived the people who owned the land and the people who worked the land. ...

• Word Count: 1260
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• Grade Level: High School

Extremely poor peasants lived in every country and Japan had no coal supply, iron ore, or oil; only rice and silk to trade. ... This statement shoes just how strongly he feels about ridding the United States of the immigrants. ... Heterogeneous cultures commonly have a large selection of different types of food, they usually have someone in the country who can do a certain job needed, different cultures don't bother them, since they have to live with it their whole lives and they don't notice as many variations in the people. ...

• Word Count: 1515
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

But these diseases they encountered were generally not due to being in a New World, it was due to the conditions they lived in, and their refusal to try and get help when ill. "The diseases these people suffer from are not due to intemperance or immorality, but due to ignorance, want of suitable food, and the foul air in which they live and work" (Riis, 131). ... They were content to live in filth, and did not make a fuss about being robbed. ... As indicated earlier, he stated that Chinese are inscrutable, "stealth and secretiveness are as much a part of the Chinamen in New York as the cat-lik...

• Word Count: 1875
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Presidents Obama's inauguration speech was not only limited to those who had braved the cold to hear him speech live, millions of people watched his address live stream on their television as well as on the internet. ... For example, his statement of his father being an African-American male, and not being able to be served in a public restaurant, allowed for his listeners to emotionally connect to the fact that they once lived in a segregated world and how much he plan on not allowing the past to manifest in the country he now leads. ...

• Word Count: 2315
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" But the thing viewers didn't see was the life they lived off the court. ... The biggest pain was when we use to walk around and look in different stores; we use to see our jersey's being sold along with a new Nike shoe named after us. ...

• Word Count: 2386
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• Grade Level: High School

Almost half of the slaves, however, live, worked and died on plantations where the owners assigned much of their authority to overseers. ... Children were never issued shoes until they were sent to the fields, usually at the age of six or seven. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. Most of these blacks lived in the Chesapeake region, where they made up more than 50 to 60 percent of the overall population. ...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Roosevelt, President of the United States and Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister) hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want. ... He shoed great flexibility and, together, we avoided disaster."...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: High School

Stepping into the shoes of an American colonist in the 1760's, one would find these unjust laws to be unfair and controlling. ... The colonists believed that fighting for land and for how they wanted to live was justified by the British actions. ...

• Word Count: 1713
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Washington is quoted, "we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour" (41). It seems as though slavery had come to an end, but to survive the Negro race continued to labor in the fields while the white race was finding ways to indirectly control how they lived. ...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

All I have to do is put on my shoes."" ... I didn't answer her question right away because I was surprised to here her say that she didn't speak any English, and that she lived here in Mexico. ...

• Word Count: 2069
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• Grade Level: High School

Newspapers reported acts of family violence which kill or maime. The public reacts to the detailed accounts with outrage, but remain ignorant to the real facts of what is happening in many homes across the nation. Few have a real understanding of what constitutes family violence, what causes family ...

• Word Count: 2032
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was reported that the police who arrived on scene did not take photos or search for possible foot prints around the tree or take soil samplings from Ray's shoes to see how a man who was legally drunk, and may have also had cocaine in his system, climbed ten feet up a tree and then hung himself with a sheet. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

An American Holocaust Introduction Native Americans have been miss understood and ill-treated by their conquerors for over 300 years (Healey, 1997). Believing that he had reached the West Indies Christopher Columbus called the indigenous population the "people of India" (Schaefer, 1996). M...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate