Our religion believes that we have to wait for the Buddha or the Dead people to eat first and then it is permitted that we may eat. ... My excitement caused me to forget our culture's traditions and I talked to my father about my grade. ... If a boy asks a girl for a date, they may go for a ride around town or perhaps for a cup of coffee, but never go to a movie. ... Naturally, her parents called my parents and discussed our situation. ...

• Word Count: 3671
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The first marriage to an ordained minister of the Catholic Church occurred during the conception of our church. ... Many sports have tournaments, which are out of town. ... Going to support family members at out of town tournaments would mean that the priest would have to miss some weekend masses. ...

• Word Count: 2737
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And in a very short time Joe owned one of the biggest shops (factories) in town and became a respected business man. ... The Kellers did not leave town, to the contrary Joe became a distinguished business man. ... He knew that Keller had offered to help him work in the town again instead of going back to New York. He also learnt that Keller had a place for Steve as soon as he got our of prison. ...

• Word Count: 3955
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

She employs the heroine as a companion while she travels from one European resort town to another. ... "We have come through our crisis," she asserts, and exile is the price they must pay for their triumph over the forces that once oppressed them. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

They were very handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others. ... It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and , quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from the period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own impo...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Prior to their discovery at Qumran near the Dead Sea in the 1940's, our oldest Hebrew scriptures are only one thousand years old. ... Deborah and her husband lived on a well-traveled road between the towns of Ramah and Bethel. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School