Pull Quotes

Delta Winds: A Magazine of Student Essays
A Publication of San Joaquin Delta College
2012

Pull Quotes

• A Moment Most Sad
  . . . a hotel that stood on a block where drug dealers, drug users, and other destitute souls congregated.
• Epiphany
  As the alcohol kicks in, I start to daydream and manage mostly to ignore my father's heckling.
• Hamlet: Anti-Hero
  Though Hamlet's courage is a bit more present in this scene, true heroes do not take revenge, and surely do not encourage torture or gratuitous suffering.
• Ice Cream Cone
  I was excited because I thought that they might tell me someting funny, but the next thing wasn't funny at all. It was heartless.
• Parent and Child Communication
  Other parents might find it helpful to remember being young and how it felt to be a wiggly, little kid.
• Sister to Sister
  You are thirteen years old for crying out loud, and you shouldn't even know what some of those things are.
• The Invidious Nature of Competition
  However, competition still has the ability to bring about the worst behavior in many of us.
• The Little Girl Once Called Faith
  I knew what it was like growing up not knowing my mother; I didn't want to know what it was like not knowing my baby.
• The Peripheral Canal: What It Means for the Delta
  The Task Force promotes a dual conveyance facility or peripheral canal . . . effectively diverting water before it enters the Delta system.
• The Tenth Muse
  Sor Juana writes that men are like spoiled children who are quick to judge and who don't know what they want.
• What's So Beautiful About It?
  So I'd try to educate them about how the G in my name is pronounced as an H, but that made them even more confused.