Once we got away from the center of the city, we found a grocery store. It looked like it had been raided for supplies early on and there was hardly anything left. Andrew and I knew that we needed to find food so we looked for anything we could find. That ended up with us leaving that grocery store empty handed. Everyone else in my squad had gotten what they came for but Andrew and I did
War Veteran Interview My name is Ernesto Contreras, and out of my own curiosity have; decided to interview my grandfather and tell his story on his war experiences from the beginning of boot camp, until his last day of service. Arthur Cameron was born in phoenix, Arizona, in 1946. He is a Native American and had been very athletic in high school, playing on sports teams like basketball, track and field and cross-country. In the year 1963, the United States had been drawn into the war in Southeast Asia that would be later known as the Vietnam War. Arthur came from an era where there was a military obligation (draft).
Rumors that the district they live in will be raided when men leave to look for jobs in the barley fields. Short supply of food, they have been traveling for awhile and no jobs have been found yet because no one wants to take in a whole family. Mariam, the oldest of the children at 15, had to tend for the children while the adults were at work. Mariam took the kids to a village to find other children to play with and they made
It made me comfortable to know that I would know at the very least four people when I traveled to a new place. The first flight was only twenty – thirty minutes tops. Because it was short, I didn’t really have any real problem with sitting next to a complete stranger. After we landed in the Newark International Airport we met up with the other groups we would be traveling with over the course of the next 20 days. All of the groups were either from Arizona, Georgia or Texas.
The two had not seen each other in years but yet, lived in the same town. This factor gives the reader a reason to imply that Calixta and Alcee were trying to avoid each other purposely. It seems easy to contradict that if the storm had not come, the two would have not seen or crossed each other’s paths. The environment in which they lived did not provide Alcee with a variety of places to wait the storm out because there was not an ample amount of houses or
Many of the sailors who returned home from the war, took their families elsewhere or moved up north to Los Angeles or San Francisco. As the servicemen began to leave, business along Hillcrest’s tree-lined streets began to suffer. The once blossoming cafes and sidewalk shops began to close due to a lack of sales, and the mills closed down completely. Since those same mills relied so heavily on the local community, there was no sense in trying to stay open without the employees or customers to support it. After the town began to close down after the war, people seemed to just scatter in the wind.
People arriving in these numbers had not been planned for and the roads had just become makeshift parking lots where people abandoned their cars and walked the final distance. Woodstock would come to be a free concert and a financial disaster in the
Making sure I had all my clothes packed and all my equipment packed as well. School was boring that day but luckily I had senior leave so I was able to get out two hours early and get lunch with a friend. Later I went back to school and we boarded the bus and it took us to the airport. Finally after a 4 hour layover we were on the plane headed for Florida. The next day we had a game and we had an interesting day.
“Here comes the carnival,” they’d say. They weren’t able to keep themselves clean on their way into town because they had to go by dirt road. Being ostracized, they were shunned by society as nothings and ridiculed. They worked so hard and tried to keep up with school but would be way too tired, they fell asleep in class and would get sent home with notes about being inattentive. This wasn’t their fault.
He was lonely and poor. He could not come home and have a snack to hold him over for dinner but that is if he even had dinner that night. His earnings from work were barely enough for pay for a meal. He continued to work and pasted a label on the jar. He looked around at the factory he worked in.