Essays Tagged: "tents"

The Jewish Holiday Succot

SuccotThe Jewish HolidayAfter the Exodus from slavery in Egypt, the wandering Jews lived in tents or booths,called Succots. They were pitched wherever they happened to stop for the night. Toda ... Torah."SuccotThe Jewish HolidayAfter the Exodus from slavery in Egypt, the wandering Jews lived in tents or booths,called Succots. They were pitched wherever they happened to stop for the night. Toda ...

(3 pages) 38 0 4.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Religious Meaning of the Birthright Story

ame a skillful hunter, a man who lived in the open; whereas Jacob was a simple man, who kept to his tents. Isaac preferred Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah preferred Jacob. Once, when Ja ...

(5 pages) 58 0 3.5 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Nonviolent Criminals - Is Incarceration the answer?

her nation in the world. Due to prison overcrowding, prisoners are currently sleeping on floors, in tents, in converted broom closets and gymnasiums, or even in double or triple bunks in cells, which ...

(6 pages) 198 0 4.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

This essay is about the war in Iraq and how i'm being a patriot to the soliders in Iraq.

they are supporting their country. They are not even having agood night sleep because they have no tents or cots the are sleeping on in mud bunkers,and sand craters. The soldiers families should have ...

(1 pages) 104 0 3.7 Jun/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

The scariest trip I've ever had!

, drinking and cracking jokes in the bus all the way up there. After making all the arrangements of tents and taking a quick look around the camping place as soon as we got there we went on tracking e ...

(3 pages) 72 1 4.1 Aug/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

"Sound the Retreat".

kind of programs to train executives with outdoor activities, such as balancing on planks, building tents blindfolded and stepping through complex webs of ropes. Some other more violent programs will ...

(3 pages) 33 0 2.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

A fun look at the western way of life.

f me informing us we were all in need of a bath. Our company had an enduring smell as if instead of tents we had been living in a pigsty. My forty-pound knapsack weighed heavily upon my back and shoul ...

(5 pages) 44 0 3.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Lord of the flies analysis

e looking for the boys. Food and shelter are the main means of survival, so the group of boys build tents and learn how to hunt and fish.In the beginning of the film the boy's, for the most part, are ...

(3 pages) 38 0 2.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

An essay about a trip to Mexico

my house with a tiny, red Jeep that was packed to the roof with camping gear including two enormous tents, an immense colorless ice chest, a hoard of canned groceries, a monstrous sized boom box, and ...

(5 pages) 105 0 3.9 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Reaction Paper to The Three Kings

f violence and shooting. The director tried to get the feel of the war by using uniforms, vehicles, tents, and scenery that the military might use. The dialogue in the film also tried to have a combat ...

(1 pages) 55 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

An 8th grade paper writen on womens involvment in the American Revolution.

d, and even hospitalized. They helped a lot besides that. Women made homes of hovels, hunts, tents and lean-to's. They built them just to have a hot meal for the men returning from their battle ...

(2 pages) 19 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The War Has Begun

es and the most important thing lots and lots of Chocolate. We loaded all our Sleeping Bags, Swags, Tents and everything else that would not fit in the Prado into the Paddock Bomb.When we got to the t ...

(6 pages) 11 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Great Flood in Mississippi of 1927

round and waited. The Red Cross arrived and set up refugee camps for African Americans. They set up tents, kitchens and sanitary facilities and gave shots to prevent diseases. African Americans could ...

(1 pages) 1309 0 1.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Being Part of the Vietnamese Eucharist Youth Community

s, competitive games, and knowledge contests. The first night at the camping grounds, we set up the tents, and then we have a midnight game or storytelling after dinner. In the morning, we have the ph ...

(2 pages) 1158 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Great Gatsby Book Vs. Movie

arties were almost as the book described them, with the orchestras preparing for the night, the big tents being placed on the garden, the tons of food being brought for the dinner, the grass getting c ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Polotics Of Drug Use

morning at five thirty a.m. I get up to start getting everyone out of bed and start setting up the tents. I usually get awaken by the buzz of my alarm clock, but this morning I was awakened up by a p ...

(1 pages) 883 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Arabians

the horse always drank first. If a mare was about to foal the whole family would move out of their tents just so the mare would have enough room.Only a fool would sell his horse, but to be given one ...

(4 pages) 1235 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Red Badge of Courage: Written between the Lines - Essay on the Symbolism in Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage"

the regiment. The 304th regiment had been stuck in camp for weeks and was ready to get out of there tents and pick up a rifle. When Henry Flemming looked across that river every night and saw the bril ...

(5 pages) 12 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Living Conditions

e diggings is far from easy. When the diggers arrived, they had no other choice than to pitch their tents wherever they could and settled down to the hard work, determined to find every speck of gold ... their own. But for those who remained at the same field for several months, they established their tents to be more solid and comfortable to build more substantial homes.But still out of all of these ...

(1 pages) 1071 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Donner party

ge Donner injured himself trying to make the repairs. The family was forced to endure the winter in tents at Alder Creek. Apparently, none of the family or other members traveling together had the wil ...

(2 pages) 1874 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis