Hurrying

Kat watched Levi slouch in the saddle. He put on a good face, but she knew he needed to get to a doctor. With some coaxing, he agreed. They’d be discreet. She didn’t any want gossip to reach Jake. They arrived in town an hour later and found the doctor’s office. She dismounted. No sooner did her boots scuff the ground, than her ankle rolled. Pain, hot as fire, shot through leg. She tied her horse to the hitching rail and limped over to help Levi down. Although he swayed on the dismount, he…

The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a story that follows a young troubled Amir into his adulthood. It first takes place in Kabul, Afghanistan where Amir grew up with his father Baba and his servant Hassan. Amir had a constant jealousy of the relationship Hassan and Baba had, which led Amir to betray Hassan ruining their brotherhood. As Amir grows into a young man his past mistakes seem to always haunt him no matter how hard he tries to bury them. Finally, as a man a chance of…

1 How have you demonstrated a more culturally responsive environment for your tamarisk? Through: Documentation – I have moved from just using singular Te Reo words in my learning stories to full sentences and brief paragraphs. Leadership – I have been modelling the behaviour I want to see i Practice – I have been making a big effort to use more of the Reo in my everyday practice. This includes using singular words, simple sentences, singing the children songs, counting, and reading cultural…

Friday, November 22nd, 1963 began just like any other day in the United States, except this day would change the history of the US for decades ahead. Our 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, woke up that day with a few basic goals planned on his visit to Texas, including to raise more democratic party fund contributions, mend political fences of the Texas Democratic Party fighting amongst themselves, and begin his journey into re-election of 1964. Kennedy began his day…

Could’ve been faster but the cab driver complained to me about the traffic this morning. As we passed through the city, I was amazed on how many people were wandering around. Some were just standing around, while others were dressed up in suits and hurrying along. I have never seen this type of diverse…

Living in the moment. The infamous line, which we heard at least once or twice in our lives, derives from the notion of the Latin word carpe diem. The 21st century took a tremendous turn when Drake came out with a song called “The Motto”, ultimately having a varied influence on people’s lives. The rapper shoved down the word “YOLO” in everyone’s head, implying to not live by any pressures dictated by contemporary society. But what does carpe diem really imply? Think about it. If we live by…

The use of alliteration ‘sun and shade and the wet and weak and the strong and the stone’, ‘hurrying housewife’ this rhythm almost musicality Nabokov creates when describing a most gruesome accident paints it as something much more beautiful. The abstract description distancing us the reader from the direct impact of the car crash. The repeated…

the reality you called as absurd and untrue. But it was. The efforts you Spaniards have made to keep my books from the eyes of my audience have shown that I really had struck a nerve. And I would want to strike another. The fact that you all were hurrying to burn my books and imprisoning those who have read them was more the reason to say that you were threatened by my actions. You didn’t want more of your slaves to know. And what was deemed impossible, that someone had the ability to stand on…

The Declaration of Independence says that “all men are created equal,” but where does this apply to women? Women are considered inferior to the male race; it has always been that way. Not only do they receive fewer opportunities than a man, but even their payroll has been affected because of this. In 1963 John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This act requires that both male and female employees must be given equal pay for work or you are breaking the law. Sadly, this hasn’t stopped…

A beautiful day in strawberry, Mississippi, walking down the sidewalk, seeing folks past by. Seeing the green trees dancing in the little wind, and seeing more folks` passing by. With my older sister, Lillian Jean, and my two younger brothers, R.W and Melvin, they awfully quiet today. we was walking down to meet our papa. He was selling our crops to get money. My sister was taking but it don’t matter to me, so I doze off. “You even paying attention to me Jeremy?” she snapped at me. “ Yes,…