All That You Can't Leave Behind

Specifically passing and tagging portion of rugby tag Participants: 8-10 Activity space: Half of a basketball court. Or a quarter of an oval. How to position the group: Make sure that you are in front of the group so that you can give off a presence to the group and also so that they can here and see you without distraction. For example, no other groups visible and sun out of eyes PREPARATION There is half a basketball court of space. In which there is a need to set up two activities…

this jail cell for 472 days. I haven’t seen a single soul for longer than I can remember. I can’t help but sit by this window waiting to catch a glimpse of a bird taking flight. The white bird that I used to see so often. Have you left me here to fend for myself, bird? Have you found paradise beyond these discolored clouds? I close my journal and wrap my arms around my long legs. It seems that they can’t help but getting longer while I will them to shrink. A monster like me should not take up…

to insult them. Jordan states that people who are homophobic are actually gay themselves. The gang members feel insulted and they shoot Jes. In the hospital Che threatens Jordan to leave his son alone, but Jes won’t let his dad push him to be someone he isn’t. After some time Jes accepts who he is and if his father can’t accept him, then he doesn’t…

off the book by S.E Hinton. Where a group of kids from the east side of rural, Oklahoma have hard lives. From their parents being dead or not even caring about their kids, Because of this these poor kids from the east side have made friendships that can't be broken. Which the soc’s are jealous of because they don't have any feelings or emotions going through them because their parents are barely home. So basically The movie started off when Ponyboy got jumped by the greasers after he was walking…

Imagine being plagued with internal conflicts, so strong that you no longer want to live, but your religious beliefs prevent you from doing so. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the main character is tormented throughout the play with inner conflicts of whether he should commit suicide or murder his uncle. Due to the internal conflicts, the reader can see that those conflicts influence how Hamlet acts (or doesn’t act) and how he feels, leaving a sense of excitement and suspense for the reader to…

wrong; dedicating one’s self to community service is great and all, and I know that the time I’ve spent doing so has been instrumental in my awareness of privilege and human compassion. In fact, I believe that the knowledge gained in actual volunteer work is a hefty piece of the puzzle that comprises the Volunteer spirit. Without a proper understanding of the roles we play in the lives of others around us, we might as well be walking robots, all steely and apathetic and such. Volunteerism goes…

It’s that time of year, the leaves are starting to turn and the weather is still scorching hot outside. Fall has finally arrived and I’m back at school for another semester. Fall baseball has just begun and it’s time for the first scrimmage. I walk out of the locker room and put my hands over my laces, and step out on the concrete and hear that first crack of the spike hitting the ground. I head to the best spot on the field the third base dugout. The field looks great the grass is cut with a…

individual forward and backward simultaneously. In the 1920s, especially in the urban areas, mainly focused on in the novel, there was a major pursuit to move forward; the future was just around the corner and those who couldn’t keep up were left behind (Hutchins). “The novel, beautifully spare in its prose style, is famous for capturing the mood of the 1920s, especially the moral vacuity of a postwar society America obsessed with wealth and status” (Cregan). Most of the characters in The Great…

Have you ever wondered what social class do you fall into? Do you consider yourself as rich or as poor? These characters are trying their best to make a decent living. Everyone knows the saying “If you try your best you’ll succeed” we heard it all the time from our parents when we don’t think that we can do it. This saying doesn’t seem to apply to the characters from the Cost of Living by Carlos Fuentes and the main character in Sweat by Jorge Amado. They are trying to do their best to make a…

lose more than just their lives. In All Quiet on the Western Front a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, war means soldiers go to die, losing more than their life. By the end of the book Paul foretells what happens when he is gone he says "Ah! Mother! I know what these underpants have cost you in waiting, and walking, and begging! Ah! Mother, mother! how can it be that I must part from you? Who else is there that has any claim on me but you? Here I sit and there you are lying, and we have much to…