Aisle

involves Liesel’s brother, Werner, aboard the train. While Liesel’s brother is asleep death comes to take away his soul. Liesel was the only person to see Werner die besides Death himself. “I entered the train. My feet stepped through the cluttered aisle and my palm was over his mouth in an instant. No one noticed. The train galloped on. Except the girl” (Zusak 20). Liesel was indeed the only one of her family to see her brother die, death and her notice each other here for the first time. The…

Two Kids on a Plane (This story was written in 2002 and is used here to help explain why it is so important to stay positive about yourself and others. It is also a story I never want to forget, and I always said I would publish it some day, so here it is. You should be able to get some lessons out of it on ways to stay positive when life is not going your way. Try talking to yourself the same way I talk to myself and see if it doesn’t help with controlling your ego and consciousness when…

When I was little I saw an angel. I can see her face in my mind 's eye as vividly as I saw her through my seven-year-old eyes. I was in a grocery store with my mother, and as parents often do, she asked me to run down another aisle to get something for her. To be exact, she wanted tortillas. When I came back, she was nowhere to be found. Scared and panicking, I started to cry. A man saw me in distress and came to my aide. He grabbed my hand and told me my mommy was loading up the car full of…

any grocery store, the first thing a customer is presented with is a vibrant, diverse display of fresh fruit and vegetables. With its inviting bright colors, the produce section leads past the wafting, sweet smells of the bakery and through winding aisles stocked with an assortment of countless goods. Grocery stores present shoppers with a myriad of choices. Though the shelves and displays are filled with a variety of different brands and options to choose from, one of the more important…

The food industry in the United States is full of problems and corruption on the way it operates. While the industry could be used for good and help keep the nation at a level of health that is respectable around the world, it is instead being used to exploit Americans around the nation. Seeing as “more than half of American adults are now considered overweight, with nearly a quarter of them – 40 million people – clinically defined as obese,” (Moss, 473) there is obviously a big problem, and it…

No matter which Justice on the Supreme Court one would pick, each have some sort of both bias and method when deciding their rulings. The overarching term for this is “judicial philosophy,” which ranges from conservatism to liberalism with moderates in-between. There are ramifications to wherever one sits on this scale, for instance, Justice Elena Kagan is liberal Justice, so it is likely that she will vote for something that matches up with her mindset, while a conservative Justice like Antonin…

the holy relics housed in the particular church. This was in part due to the poor layout of the area that housed the relics. Cluny III sought to avoid this tragedy happening again, which resulted in the rounded ambulatory. This, paired with the aisles alongside the main nave allowed for unobtrusive and functional observation of the relics. This is just one of the many examples…

When two people decide to join their life together for the Hispanic community that calls for a big celebration between close relatives and friends getting together to unite during this time of celebration, involving a wealth of traditions, many people say “hay que tirar la fiesta por la ventana” translated to English that the party needs to be thrown out the window, from what it translates it has a different meaning for the Hispanic culture meaning the party needs to be fancy, big and it needs…

A pastor in Nairobi talked about the importance of going through the process of mourning and then forgiving her offenders after she was gang-raped, stabbed, and left for dead on the day she was supposed to walk down the aisle as a bride. Terry Apudo was supposed to marry her then fiancé Harry in a grand ceremony at the All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya. The night before their special day, she realized that some of Harry’s clothes were with her, but a friend offered to help her out. At dawn,…

Americans should start eating a healthier diet, and start fighting against obesity, to prevent health issues in Americans. America is one of the fattest countries in the world. We have to eat a healthy diet and get more physical activity. Children at school should get healthier lunches. We should feed our children vegetables, healthy grains, and fruits to make them healthy in the future. If we feed them junk food when they are young they are likely to get sick older. Parents should also eat…