Walking on to artificial turf in an arena that looks uncannily like it was meant to have 250-pound ice skaters with five foot sticks chasing a black disc around was somewhat different compared to walking onto a high school soccer field. My first indoor soccer game was at five o"clock on a Tuesday evening after school. The anticipation building up to this occasion was worse than waiting to open your presents on Christmas morning; and it was finally time to play. The first thing that I noticed as I strutted onto the field was the size of the goals and how they were built. I had been told by a friend that had played indoor soccer the year before that they were eight-feet by eight-feet, but looking at them from forty yards away made them seem like aiming for a shoebox. The fact that the goals were made flush with the walls seemed like it would make the game more interesting. I glanced a couple of times across the field at the opposing team as I walked into the bench-area and they didn't look much different from us, just a little older. The entrance to the field from the bench area was just like that of a hockey rink in that it was a low-wall with a small door leading onto the field.
The fact that we didn't really have a coach, but just one of the player's parents in the bench-area made it seem more like we had control of the game in that we could decide for ourselves who started on the field and when we went in for another player. The game would be played in two twenty-two-and-a-half minute halves. Five players plus a goalie from each team are allowed on the field at one time with seamless play. The substitutions are made just as they are seen in a hockey game. The players "swap-out" as their name is called and a fresh player is exchanged onto the field for a somewhat, refreshable, exhausted teammate. There was one referee on the field as we lined up to start the game. The team that was scheduled as the visiting team got the first possession.
In Jeanette Walls' inspirational memoir, The Glass Castle, her father, Rex Walls, gives his most beneficial advice to her when he hunts for the "Demon.... " (Walls 37). Rex Walls provided his children with beneficial and harmful advice. ... When I raised the stick, it whimpered and slunk off." (Walls 142). ...
Stones fall off all the time and they range in size from loaves to balls. ... For example, "the one wall becomes two walls, the speaker's wall a philosophically differentiated structure, the neighbor's wall a mere landmark of past clichés- (Kearns). ... We keep the wall between us as we go. ... Returning from a visit to Russia late in his life, Frost said, "The Russians reprinted "Mending Wall- over there, and left that first line off."" ... Kennedy's use of the first line, he implied that not everyone loves a wall, as many detested the Berlin Wall. ...
Most people believe that Winston Churchill was referring directly to the Berlin Wall, but he was actually talking about the general closing off of Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe. Even though the wall itself was not built until 1961, the Berlin Wall was the enduring symbol of that "Iron Curtain." ... The wall divided families in half. ... Finally, East Berliners climbed over the wall and began chanting happily with the West, "The wall is gone, the wall is gone!" Then both sides began pounding at the wall with hammers, turning the wall into a pile of rocks. ...
Explication of Edmund Waller's "Go, Lovely Rose" "Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. ... -Edmund Waller "Go, Lovely Rose", by Edmund Waller, is a passionate lyrical poem in which a youthful man expresses his intense understanding of the importance of love.He sends a rose to his beloved to "Tell her that [she] wastes her time and me [him]" (2) by acting shy and staying out of sight. ... Suggesting that his love should throw off her "robe of modesty" and show off her be...
These individuals did this through ways that is what they would call "off the books" meaning they would do everything they could to find a possible loophole in order to save there money. ... Secondly, will be illustrating the benefiters of the inequality of wealth; traditionally these individuals were the wealthy CEO's of Wall Street. ... Throughout the past few years, several revolutions have attempted to bring these issues to light, such as the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011. ... The majority of Wall Streets "players" think of greed as simply a lack of better ...
The Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961. ... The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. ... Behind all of that was a second wall. This area of no man's land cut off one hundred-ninety two streets. ... Even a Huguenot cemetery with entrances on each side of the sector border was closed off, and West Berliners were not allowed to visit family graves in East Berlin. ...
There were many escape tunnels dug under the wall. ... The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. ... Behind the wall was a trench to stop vehicles. ... Behind all of that was a second wall. This area of no man's land cut off one hundred-ninety two streets. ...
Mending Wall by Robert Frost Mending Wall by Robert Frost was said to be one of his favourite poems. ... The neighbours do not share the same ideology about the building of the wall. ... The title itself "Mending Wall" seems to suggest something about the poem. ... Also the fact that it is not called "Mending The Wall" or "Mending A Wall" suggests that it is not just one wall, but it can be any wall anywhere. ... When he says "The work of hunters is another thing", he is actually wandering off his original point, into something else. ...
In Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle, Rex and Rosemary Walls are not "traditional" parents. ... For example, when Jeannette and Brian find a two carat diamond ring, they bring it to Rosemary to try and get her to sell it: "We figured we could sell it and buy food, pay off the house-Mom and Dad kept missing the monthly payments" (Walls 186). ... Jeannette loves her Tinker Bell doll; her face was burned off but it still had sentimental value to her. ... The girls try to jump Jeannette again in an alleyway, but Brian stands up for her: "Just back off now, and...
