“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad,” – J. Sterling. Hugh Garner’s short story, ‘The Father’, can closely relate to this quote with the protagonist John Purcell who chooses to dismay his fatherly duties of relating to and taking care of his only child, Johnny, and instead … Read more
2390 East Huntsville Road, I was 5 years old and use to my dad never being around always working until 3 am at his work. I don’t remember waking up with my dad being home, but that had been life since I can remember. What I do remember is that I consider it the worst … Read more
My Virtual Teen Reflection Assignment Questions 15 years (17 points) 1. Mia is very active for her age, and seems to enjoy this fact. Mia goes on nature hikes for fun and is not reluctant to doing so. Mia has also showed great skill in all of the sports that she has been involved with. … Read more
Life can have so many challenges a person will have to endure. Some will be making it to the NBA playoffs and others will be perfecting the cheesecake. For me, it would be the most, terrified thing a young person would ever have, the SAT. Know for its extremely dull black and white pages and … Read more
Sylvia, the narrator in the short story, “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is a dynamic character who helps create the theme that the world around her is separated based on societal rank and race. Her mounting understanding of this concept is derived from Miss Moore, whose character serves the purpose to illuminate the differences … Read more
I got a ride home from school just like any other ordinary day in October of 2013. It was more than two years ago but I still remember every unpleasant moment, starting from when I walked in the door. My sister, Kaitlyn, sat on the couch in our living room yelling at her phone, who … Read more
On Saturday, December 12th, 2015, when arriving home around ten o’clock from a long wrestling meet that lasted till around nine o’clock, I got home, then ate dinner, and then went on the couch to relax. My mom complained “You’re always so tired after wrestling and you come home so late. ” After a little … Read more
In the garage of the home were the birthday party was being held, I observed a 9-month-old infant girl. She was sitting in her high chair next to her mother, the mother was sitting at the table with a plate of food eating and socializing with other adults at the table. The mother and infant … Read more
Christina reports having several relationships that serves as meaningful components to her treatment. The most important relationship the patient described is her relationship to her unborn children. The patient has expressed feeling extremely guilty about the troubled relationship she has with her living children, and this is a source of motivation for the patient to … Read more
“Never compromise your culture because you are your culture”. In the short story “Two kinds” by Amy Tan, The Red Headed Hawaiian by Chris McKinney, and The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera, Jing Mei, Rudy Puana, and Frida Kahlo reveals how culture informs the way you view others and the world because it … Read more
Sheila Birling is a character that goes through an intense and rapid character development throughout ‘An Inspector Calls’, transitioning from a naive and privileged upper-class selfcentred young lady to a woman who is able to stand up to her parents and present her own opinions representing Priestley’s ideologies of socialism. In Act 1, Sheila appears … Read more
Single Cruises: The Best Place for Singles to find a Companion Since there is a great demand for cruise lines, there is also a rapid increase for single travelers who would want to spend some of their precious time in the cruise. Usually, single travelers are on its peak during Valentine seasons. During this time, … Read more
During the end of my freshman year I had received an email asking if I could attend a tryout to see if I would make the team that would be heading over to Europe to play soccer. When my mom told me that I had to go to soccer I asked her why, she said … Read more
Belle Sorenson Gunness Case Analysis Early life Belle Sorenson Gunness was the daughter of Paul Pedersen Storset, who was a stonemason, and Berit Olsdatter. She was born on November 22, 1859 in Selbu, Norway, originally named Brynhild Paulsdatter Storseth, and was the youngest of 8 siblings and lived on a very small cotter’s farm. Belle … Read more
In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime, Christopher’s quest to find Wellington the dog’s killer leads to more discoveries than he anticipated. He has to learn how to be more independent and faces lies and betrayal. Christopher’s choice to solve Wellington’s murder leads to his evolution as he must mature … Read more
August 20, 1989 Jose and Mary “Kitty” Menendez were brutally murdered in their Beverly Hills mansion, with no lead suspects at the time. Lyle and Erik Menendez were reported to be the first witnesses at the crime scene, not yet considered suspects because of their physically altered states of mind. At 21 and 18 years … Read more
The ethical dilemma is that the children of the woman with cancer are not being cared for adequately. The nurse must decide if it is ethically and morally sound to tell the school nurse about the daughters’ situation at home. Since the nurse is the caretaker of the mother and knows that she needs to … Read more
What is life without hope? This is a theme that we have seen over and over again in the YA novels that we have looked at in our young adult literature class. I would like to look specifically at how Edge of Ready and Unchained by L. B. Tillit, Looking for Alaska by John Green … Read more
Where’d you Bernadette by Maria Semple is a novel about a woman who has a daughter and a husband. She seems to be a weird person at the beginning, but as the story goes through you find out why is acting that way. She ends up by going away and leaving her family, but at … Read more
Movies are a special tool that can keep one company when they are in a moody situation. It is a contrivance that is being used almost all over the world by different types of people for a particular purpose. There are diverse film genres like comedy, action, family, musical, and romance that are being produced … Read more
Petersburg, West Virginia is a small town in the eastern panhandle with one stoplight and where everybody has some type of connection or recognition to everybody. I travel to this area at least three times annually for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Independence Day. Petersburg is not a vacation spot my parents, sister, and I go … Read more
The novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie’s was such an inspiring powerful book that left a profound impact on me. One thing the book helped me realize is that everyone that I meet and run into has their own personal story and you never know what it took for … Read more
Have you ever heard of the word Sherpa? It might not be a common name in America, but it sure is in Nepal! A Sherpa is a name for a group of Nepalis that live high in the Himalayas. A lot of them have jobs carrying supplies and equipment up treacherous mountains to climbers. The … Read more
In “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” by Ann Brashares she develops each character through their tone in their letters and their thoughts. The book is about four different girls who are all best best friends and have to spend the summer apart. As they each write short letters to each other the reader learns … Read more
“Let’s make the world a softer place, let’s snuggle. ” The commercial uses a father and daughter doing the laundry at home like any other ordinary day, the first said ten seconds and then the five seconds after comes up an enthusiastic talking bear named Snuggles the face of company selling the product. This commercial … Read more
Tabsolutely had to use a photo of Princess Diana because I was a huge fan of hers. I remember watching her wedding on television when I was a young child, and I cried like a baby when she met her untimely demise. I don’t recall every crying like that when a celebrity died, but she … Read more
Last weekend, I went to Suwanee, GA to see my father and stepmother because it had recently been my stepmother’s birthday. In celebration we chose to dine out at a restaurant called Gulf Coast Grill. It was the first time my family had eaten at the restaurant, but will not be the last. Once stepping … Read more
All people are different and the characters in “The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-TIme Indian” demonstrate this. The main character Arnold “Junior” Spirit shows that even though you may be born in the same place and time as others you are different. This is the case with Junior and his best friend Rowdy, while … Read more
In my early childhood, my parents moved numerous times back and forth between the Untied States and Iran. Eventually, my family ended up settling in North Houston, where my father bought a traditional two-story home in a typical gated community. Throughout the years, the house preserved many struggles, and witnessed many successes between my family … Read more
Throughout the course of its text, the book Red Earth follows the life of Tran Tu Binh and how he was able to transform and organize the workers of a Colonial Rubber Plantation under French rule. In order to organize and gain the trust of the workers, Tran uses many methods of protest and resistance. … Read more
Families throughout the country face challenging situations on a daily basis. Even though it can be tough, sticking with one’s family, they can make it through any situation. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, both authors use family relationships to show that even through difficult situations, they manage to … Read more
It is often said that every man is born equal. I disagree, however, some are born into more luxurious lives, some are born disabled with no way to recover, and some are born with a special “ticket” through life called talent. In fact, the only time that we are truly equal is in death. No … Read more