Shakers

“Many thought the manual labor as spiritually inhibiting.” The members of the group did not all agree that people should do all the hard work instead of animals or machines and thought they should have more time to pray. “Younger members left the Shaker community.” This means that they did not agree with everything, so they left. “Pullman demanded more and more rent to offset company expenses, while union sentiment grew among employee residents”. The boss (pullman)kept wanting to collect more…

(248). If Max and Liesel had not bonded the way they do, Liesel would not have looked for Max in the parades of Jews. While Liesel looks for Max she thinks about the books he gave her, The Word Shaker and The Standover Man. She tries to match the faces of the parading Jews “to the Jew who wrote The Word Shaker”(309). It proves that, because Liesel is interested in books, she begins to learn about Max and they begin to care for each other. So, Max gives her books that he writes for her. It goes…

I couldn’t wait for the season to start. I was so excited to play basketball that I told my best friend who was on the girls’ basketball team. Since I was going to play Unified basketball, I needed to practice. My best friend gave a basketball to me for my birthday so I could practice for the season. Since it was so cold out, I had to practice in my garage. Once it got warmer out, I went to one of my friends house to shoot on their hoop. At the time, I didn’t have my own hoop to shoot on. At…

reading lessons every night after she wakes up from her terrifying nightmares. Through teaching her how to read, Hans shows Liesel that words can bring solace in times of chaos and uncertainty. The power of words is also highly emphasized in “The Word Shaker”, the story that Max gives to Liesel for her birthday. In the story, he argues that words are the most powerful force there is by declaring that Hitler uses words to manipulate and monopolize an entire nation. In addition, words play a…

It was a beautiful day with an amazing location Niagara Falls, Canada. We were by the water falls and we walked a long way to get to the boat tour. And I was super scared because I do not like anything that floats on water. I was trying to recede from the boats. And there was a super long line and in my head I was saying thank you. But my dad finds another line by so much shorter so we got to the other line. And we had to go down a lot of steps and we get on the boat eventually I definitely had…

have been into the wilderness, disrupted the temple, and now we are staring at a cross and the impending arrest, betrayal, and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. However, even with this reality, in this passage this evening, we find a Jesus, the mover and shaker that he is, flip that script one last time of what it means to serve God. In the Gospel reading, Jesus starts to wash the feet of his followers, and the man who will come to betray him. Let’s for a second digest this, Jesus, the Son of God, is…

An essential part of any novel is having characters that provide any sort of basis for a story. Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner, for example, represents a strong illustration since the world, or story, rests on David, Anne, and other characters’ shoulders. The novel’s foundation is from the city of Cleveland, particularly in the 60s, and is the key background for the comprehension of the city’s lively past. To summarize, Cleveland was a hangout for the Irish and Italian Mafia groups,…

The chief, armed with a drum and a gourd shaker, declares that their forefathers have danced on these occasions, beats the drum and sings the war song. The people involved in the war party then stripped almost naked and danced! Most people, aside from the warriors, began to disperse at the sight…

expressions of gratitude to the creator for providing food. Seminole stomp dancing is a methodical single file line dance led by a medicine man who chants questions toward the men who will answer in a chant, while the females move in silence while shaking shakers attached to their ankles. Some favorite stomp dances include the catfish, any crow, and the…

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