Unit 3: Part 3 Vocabulary

old man,
grandfather,
wise with time
running rivulets on face,
deep, rich furrows,
each one a legacy,
deep, rich memories
of life...

old man,
who knew earth
by its awesome aromas
and who felt
the heated sweetness
of chile verde

My mother remote My father
A wearisome farmer
With heartbreaking
Nails.

We always had some authentic Sioux article to show our listeners.

I watched the group as it slowly came closer and saw that in the center of the strange procession was a man wearing a tall black hat.

She checked her move to embrace Grandpa and I remembered that such a display of affection is unseemly to the Sioux and would embarrass him.

He was a middle-aged, long, slim, bony, smooth-shaven, horsefaced, ignorant, stingy, malicious, snarling, fault-hunting, mote magnifying tyrant.

If I had two heads, I would have spoken; but as I had only one, it seemed judicious to take care of it; so I kept still.

So I slipped out of the pilothouse, and down the steps, and around to the texas-door, and was in the act of gliding within, when the captain confronted me!

"But you put yourself in contact with me," said the woman.

You might run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable.

The boy wanted to say something else other that "Thank you, m’am," to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the foot of the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door.

Roughly 2,000 volunteers currently work with about 20,000 students, but the Experience Corps—buoyed by positive feedback and encouraging research—hopes to double its scope within five years.

The program's concepts have seemed promising ever since it was founded as a pilot project in 1995, but new academic studies have validated the optimism that it's a boon for the volunteers as well as the students.

"This tutoring gets people engaged in doing what the brain is supposed to do—the brain is a social organ."

The multi-generational American family household is staging a comeback— driven in part by the job losses and home foreclosures of recent years but more so by demographic changes that have been gathering steam for decades.

With these changes came what amounted to a new intergenerational social contract within most families—namely, that older adults who had the health and resources to live independently should do so.

Another possible explanation is that cuts to Medicare enacted in 1997 have increased the financial incentives for those who are elderly and infirm to move in with a grown child who is able to take on the role of informal caregiver.