These words represented importance to my grandfather, Marcus Balll, because this was the way he lived his life. ... Even after his family members had passed away, he valued preserving and rebuilding the old homes and farms where he had once lived. ... As he often said to my father "Would you rather be in his shoes, or your shoes?" ...
Rarely do we contemplate how lucky we are to live in a world with health care, technology, automobiles, and other conveniences that are mostly contemporary devices today. ... They had been stripped down to a barbaric lifestyle, where shoes were more important than any rug or lamp could be. ... Sturdy shoes, food, clothing, blankets, and safety were now the most essential components of life for the Jews. ... What once could have been worth a few hundred dollars was now exchangeable for a second helping of soup, or a sturdier pair of shoes. ...
My experience at the holocaust museum was great. I live in the area of the museum and ever since they started building it I could not wait to go there. I actually expected more then what was presented to us. I have heard about other holocaust museums where they actually have shoes, clothes, etc. ...
Last week, the show featured a gruesome killer named Karl Krickstein who strangled his victims with their own shoe laces before cutting off their arms and legs. ... People should live the way they want to live, especially Americans who fought for their independence hundreds of years ago. ...
For the everyday wear a certain sporty style grew out of utility dress styles, and platform shoes were high fashion. ... Born out of a relatively short-lived anti-fashion street cult, it ended up representing bondage trousers, kilts, T-shirts with offensive slogans and mohair sweaters in Spiderman weave, huge boots, chains and spiked leather jackets, crazy colors of hair and hair jelled into impossible shapes like horns and spikes, body piercing and safety pins. ... Everything real and graceful in women was suppressed by dirty jeans, torn running shoes, and crumpled T-shirts. ...
Hiroshima started the day like any other normal city; people were trying to live their lives like there was not a war going on. ... Civilian who lived in Hiroshima knew the risk of a bomb attack, so some evacuated. ... The doctors wanted to save everyone but there were so many victims they had to play god and choose who would lived and who would die. ... This book put one in the shoes of the victims. ...
There were four brothers and five sisters, including my grandma, that lived. ... My grandma remembered during harvest season that some Mexican families would come and live in three small houses on the land. ... They also had a pair of shoes for school or church and another pair for play. ... My grandma and two uncles lived there while my grandpa was recovering. ...
For the rest of Stalin's childhood, Joseph and Yekaterina lived in the home of a priest named Father Charkviani where the hard-working woman attempted to make sure that her only son would be educated enough to escape the drudgery of a lower class life. ... The Church played a strong role in his early life: he lived with a priest and his schooling was religious. His mother enrolled him in the Gori Church School in September 1888 when her son was nine and he graduated six years later, despite various interruptions as when Stalin's father took the young boy to Tiflis to work alongs ...
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. ...
Pilgrim's clothing was insufficient, his feet were being torn apart in his shoes, he hadn't enough layers, and he was constantly dragging himself through snow and icy wind. ... At the end of Beau Geste, John ends up back in England, able to peaceably live his life in the presence of his sweetheart, Isabel. ...
The Nazi forces the people who lived in the area to moved and took their land to make room for camp's settle. ... In the warehouse, the Soviet found 350,000 men's suits, 837,000 outfits for women, and large amount of kids clothing, they also found ten of thousands pair of shoes and 7.7 tons of human hair in paper bags, pack for shipping. ...
The treatment of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled during World War 2 was inhumane. Do any of you think it's a thing of the past? It's not. Look at the news. Look at the beliefs of ISIS; who believe in a global Islamic state based on its beliefs, and will ki...
Social and Economic Policies of Nazi Germany in the 1930s When the Nazi regime came into power in 1933 it sought to change the German society to fit the Nazi ideology and to create Adolf Hitler's super European state and master race. Over eight years the Nazis, through their social and economic p...
But there are expected cultural differences, simple things like, taking shoes off in homes and restaurants where you sit on the floor, placing chopsticks at the side of the dish or resting across the top of a bowl when not using them, not blowing your nose in public, and not littering. ...
