Not Enough Time

“The Americans. They be attackin”. Time Enough For Drums by Ann Rinaldi is a novel that turns out to be very intriguing. Many events occur throughout the story and a lot with the character Jemima Emerson. In the book it’s in the time period of when war is happening and she is a main part in the situation. Jem in the beginning of the book is fifteen and has a tutor, and she has two brothers and a sister, Daniel (older), David (youngest), and Rebeckah (oldest of all). Jemima throughout the novel…

In the story Time Enough For Drums written by Ann Rinaldi there is a girl named Jemima Emerson. Jemima is a girl who helps her family out and is not afraid to get her hands dirty. She takes care of her family when they need help and she jumps right in at any given moment and ready for any challenge. When the men in Jemima’s family join the war for independence; she is faced with many struggles that define her as fearless, active and above all giving. Jemima Emerson is a girl of fearlessness…

There were many great characters in the book Time Enough For Drums. The most interesting character was John Reid. John was a different character from the others because he was friendly, caring, and bossy. Throughout the story Johns friendliness, caring, and bossiness helps him make his wife smarter and have better manners then she had. John is a friendly character who stays true to all his friends. In the beginning of the story a girl named Jemima that he tutors hates him. But by the end of the…

character has built for itself, stemming back to the 1950s. At the same time, it’s also terribly difficult not to admire the stylistic swagger that the current Bond, Daniel Craig, has brought to the ever-growing franchise. While Craig was a questionable choice when he was initially cast for the role, he’s surely silenced the vast majority of the naysayers by now – even establishing himself as one of the best Bonds of all-time. Thus, it’s not out-of-bounds to declare that the previous three…

they have to care about someone else it is too much effort. Also it is uncomfortable. There are cons and pros for each, but there are more pros to have families. Pros for having families are living happy life, there is someone to help, can earn more time, etc. Pros for not having families are thinking deeply on something, not disturbed by anyone,…

fathers spend at least as many hours caring for their children each week as parents did four decades ago during an era that in the popular imagination was a golden age of family togetherness” (Do Parents Spend Enough Time with Their Children?). It is true that parents are spending a little more time at work, but still mothers are doing housework with fathers coming in behind them. Married fathers spend 6.5 hours caring for children, married mothers at 12.9 hours, and single mothers at 11.8 hours…

loved spending time outside. Whether I was playing sports with the neighborhood kids, helping my grandfather with his garden or talking walks in the park near my house, I realized that I do not spend nearly as much time outside as I used to. With technology constantly being invented and reinvented, video games, television shows and phones are just a few of the technological things that steal most of the joy that nature used to bring to people. As a kid, I begged to spend more time outside even…

can get this from sleep deprivation. What if we could get rid of this problem, of sleep deprivation. There is one way in which we could have smarter, and better feeling students. One factor that is causing sleep deprivation is the early school start times. Says that childrens brains are not funcitioning properly before 8:30 A.M. Studies show that eighty percent of middle and high schools are starting to early. Waking up at the crack of dawn isn't fun for any body not the teens that have to…

Essay on “Where the Gods Fly” There is a reason for everything. By choosing, which path we want to walk the outcome is the consequence of our choices. There are times when people will abandon their home, friends, simply everything they know, in order to find a better life, a safer life, so that they are able to give their children a better future, and a chance to achieve more than they ever could. Some people will travel to an unknown country where they are alone and work like slaves; however,…

Time Between Times. I lounged in the same spot, an old patio chair minus the cushions on my back deck, and watched my kids come and go. They are a flurry of youthful exuberance. Fighting, screaming, yipping, laughing, and talking a mile a minute-- bare feet, bug bites, and snack-hungry tummies—they demanded and took but also gave kisses and breathless hugs. The sun shifted and changed as I watched. Shadows engulfed the yard. The sun and the moon faced one another. The time between times fell,…