Not exact matches
So now the
most basic goods of
life come to them only
with pain, as they learn
in their own bodies how valuable these goods are by how much they are willing to
bear —
in effect, what price they are willing to pay —
in order to have these good
things.
Perhaps the
most interesting
thing about the film is how
bored the teens seem to be
in having to play such adult roles, only really coming to
life when they can do
things that teens like to do, such as hang out
with their friends, drink, party and frolic.
Where else can someone who is working at unskilled
things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some
boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real -
life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the
most expensive and
most important financial transactions of their
lives in trade for big fat commissions) often
with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?
... i have always had maps
in beautful frames hanging
in my
living room... they are of where my husband and i were
born (mobile and atlanta)... where our children were
born... where our sons now
live... and the
most important map of all... destin florida... where our grandson was
born... they all looke beautiful and old... all i did was simple... went out to the car and tore out pages from the state road maps
in the glove box... wadded the pages up... ironed them... dunked them
in mixed instatnt coffee (anyone who has ever been a scout leader knows how to make those pirate maps look old)... blew them dry
with the hair dryed and placed them
in the frames...
in my kithcen i have a framed google map from our grandson's house to our house... that was so at christmas santa would know where to find him... did the same
thing with a map showing atlanta
in 1873 (100 years before our first son was
born)... it is large... on an easel... everyone thinks it is an antique... all too long i know... but i love to tell about
things i love... and i love families and maps...
in that order!