... the story of "Sky-High", where an old lady remembers her youth, but different in many ways, of course - we couldn't afford steel. I remember leaving my home with the bullets spraying over my split ends, not daring to look back. Everyone was scared. I was thinking of the great poet Peter Skrzynecki crossing his Red Sea, we were all "shirtless, in shorts; barefooted ... ? I"m by myself now in my new world, I have a plan to tackle life like Hannah did her washing-line. I cannot, must not linger any more with sex, drugs and mindless distractions. I know what I must do. I struggle to leave th...

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... NFTY, The North American Federation for Temple Youth, and they took groups to Israel every summer. We watched a video and I saw some of the most amazing sights I had ever seen. I remember thinking to myself that this might actually be something I would want to experience. I didn't really think about it too much until a few months ... York City, where I would meet the rest of my group and get on the airplane to Israel. At that moment when I stepped into the airport, I had never been so nervous and scared. I was all alone and I had to walk in and make friends with people I have never seen...

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• Grade Level: High School

... development of acceptance and endurance through an emigration experience. The speech "I Have a Dream," by Martin Luther King, Jr. utilises an imaginary journey to enlighten of a vision for a united country. Great moral change is frequently caused by the obstacles in a journey, physical or inner. Alan Paton's "Cry ... Promised Land from a life of slavery. They were to receive a new life like 'Lazarus' whom Jesus raised from the dead, but at the cost of their pasts. In first person, the personal statement 'I remember a field of red poppies', highlights the positive memories that ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate