2011 Pull Quotes
Delta Winds: A Magazine of Student Essays
A Publication of San Joaquin Delta College
2011
Pull Quotes
- Letter from the Editors
- Changes in Life
When marriages cannot be salvaged, they are usually dissolved by the same elders who represented the bride and groom at the wedding. - I Have a DREAM
Lastly, the DREAM Act should be passed because it would allow young individuals the opportunity to get an education and to further benefit the community. - My Mother=Me
They made me change everything about myself. They were the Goths, the freaks, the loners, whatever you choose to call them, but they were my friends. - Small Asian Woman
She walked through miles of battlefields and jungles, treading carefully around mines, so that one day I might walk freely on the paved streets and sidewalks of America. - The Bused In Kida
We were seen only as a problem—ten buses of baby-making, ESL, underachieving gangsters. - The King Dead on the Throne: An Analytical Comparison of Elvis Presley's and Kurt Cobain's Legacies after Death
When Elvis died, . . . a new legacy began: that of the overweight has-been who spent the last minutes of his life on the toilet. - The Proposal
The proposed DREAM Act would also provide unjust tuition favors that law-abiding foreigners and out-of-state students are denied. - The Truest Gift
Our home was prone to spontaneously become a war zone, in which the main combatants were my daughter and I. - Treating Members of the Disabled Population as Our Equals
All etiquette involving communicating and interacting with people with disabilities revolves around respect and courtesy. - Where Does It End?
Eventually because of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, her family migrated to Stockton. They left everything else they ever knew to start a new life, but they kept their racial bias.