ROSH HASHANAH Significance: New Year Observances: Sounding the shofar (ram’s horn trumpet) Length: 2 Days (Some: 1 Day) Customs: Dipping apples in honey; Casting off "sins" into a river Greeting: L’shanah tovah! (For a good year!) Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew‚ Rosh Hashanah means‚ literally‚ "head of the year" or "first of the year." Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. The Jewish New Year is a time to begin introspection‚ looking
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street‚ you might get run over. But in the sidewalk‚ you just get up. 3. Which is smarter? A clock or a calendar? A clock is smarter because it tells time‚ it tells the day‚ and it tells the number date. 4. Which is like a contest? A cloud or a sunset? A sunset is like a contest because both night and day are trying to take over the sky. 5. Which is more fearful? New or old? New is more fearful because you don’t know the result of the events. 6. Which is more difficult? A dream or a nightmare? A dream
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Father and Child This poem has two parts to it; I Barn Owl and II Nightfall. Both poems revolve around the relationship between father and child. In the first part‚ Barn Owl‚ the child is young and foolish and needs to be protected by the father. In the second part‚ the father is old and weak and needs to be protected by his middle-aged daughter. The ‘Barn Owl’ opens at daybreak‚ with the young persona creeping through the house with her father’s gun while he sleeps thinking that his daughter is
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Leslie Tseng 10/4/12 Period: 5 Final Book Report Raskin‚ Ellen. The Westing Game. New York: Scholastic‚ 2002‚ 216. Setting: Sunset Towers‚ Westing house‚ Lake Michigan‚ Wisconsin Characters: (List 5‚ and label the protagonist and antagonist. Use 2 adjectives to describe each character.) 1. Sam Westing: weird‚ secrety 2. Flora Miller Baumbach: unhappy‚ quiet 3. George Theodorakis: creative‚ rich 4. Catherine Theodorakis: cool‚ nice 5
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The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ is a coming-of-age story that compels readers to question society’s stereotyping of people and expresses the need for people to always have hope. Based on two rival teenage gangs‚ the poor‚ east-side Greasers‚ and the rich‚ west-side Socials (Socs)‚ The Outsiders is told through the eyes of sensitive‚ 14-year-old Greaser‚ Ponyboy Curtis. The novel explores the choices people make when faced with adversity‚ sending an important message to readers that everyone is an
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see the sunset. I watched it as it slowly peeked up from the clouds‚ and appeared as though it was playing a game of hide and seek. Appearing then disappearing through the clouds. I enjoyed the sun’s rays as it sparkled in the distance gently caressing my skin as if inviting me to come out and play. We would always stay until the sunset because it provided the perfect end to the day‚ with the opportunity to relax after a day full of activities and watch the creative beauty of the sunset. This was
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for reading and watching sunsets because those are some things that only these two members have in common. The sunset‚ in particular‚ has a major impact on Ponyboy. He says to Cherry‚ “We aren’t in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too” (Hinton 46). Ponyboy questions society in this concise statement because to him‚ it does not make any sense that there is a social class difference between the two gangs if they all look at the same sunset and have many similarities
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Through this he says how we may have once saw the beauty and fun in life through which we actually see in our day to day lives but given time everything is routine and more ordinary to us. Twain also said‚ “I still kept in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steam boating was new to me” (438-439). We should rather like a child enjoy those things that we had with a passion and to never let them go. When loved ones die do we just forget about them and never remember‚ or do we move
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Riding astride the breeze was a light‚ refreshing scent evocative of sunset‚ more alluring than any earthly perfume. These twin sensations‚ mingling in the radiant warmth of the evening‚ embraced me; and‚ like a siren’s call‚ beckoned me towards the world that lay beyond the confines of my chambers. Even though I was weary
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this told me that how important was Sodapop mean to him. When Ponyboy said that he and Cherry saw the same sunset he meant that they were in different position‚ in the different place of the world‚ but they still saw the same sunset. In some ways‚ Socs and Greasers were not that different‚ as all the people thought. However they were really not that different‚ such as they saw the same sunset.
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