My Uncle Ross is a person I admire greatly. His life has been a continuous struggle. He is a person who has faced much adversity and yet remains positive. When I hear about what he faces on a daily basis‚ I can’t quite imagine how he handles it. When I hear about his struggles‚ mine seem so insignificant. He is someone that I can look up to and find inspiration from as I face struggles of my own. Uncle Ross is my mother’s brother and the youngest of four children. He grew up in a quiet neighborhood
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“Eat some more food.” Everyone surrounding me was telling me to eat more and more. Aunties‚ uncles‚ and cousins that I never even knew I had were telling me to eat. Even though I was already full‚ I picked up another plate and started to eat again. Every time I go to a Filipino party‚ I find myself eating more and more. Growing up Filipino‚ I have always been accustomed to going to a big Filipino family party at least once a month. Usually‚ my family would all get together at an auntie or uncles
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Raegan (Sunny) Blaisdale - the protagonist in the novel "A little Ray of Sunshine" by S.T. Hogan. * Sunny was a small town girl‚ living up to noone’s expectations. * She lost her family in a terrible homocide when she was four ‚ leaving her traumatized and shutting herself off. * After that‚ she moved into a nearby foster home‚ taking the foster family’s surname and ever since then she always tried her hardest to fit in but never really succeeded. * When she turned eight her Uncle took
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The little girl ran into a wall. This was not an unusual occurrence but it was a painful one and the young child began to cry. Her mother didn’t help her‚ nor did her father – they were on a business trip to Peru. The wall felt sorry for the girl but (being an inanimate object) there was not much it could do to help so it just sat there. “Poor soul” it whispered‚ the sound of its voice melting into the waves of the wind‚ never to be heard again. The girl (Maasaman Beef) felt hopeless. “There’s no
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sample essay on birthday celebration of my friend. Last week‚ it was my best friend’s birthday. So we all planned a nice birthday party. He asked all of us to come to his house three days before his birthday. It was supposed to be a small tea-party with a few friends and family members. As he is the eldest in the family‚ he asked me to come and help him with the preparations. A day before‚ we went to the market and brought the necessary decoration articles. We decided for a few minutes on the
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Smith (Bessie Smith) Elizabeth Smith was born on April 15‚ 1894 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. Her parents were Laura and William Smith. She was one of the second children. She was born into a poverty stricken black family in the segregated south. Her father was a Baptist minister he died soon after her birth leaving her mother to raise her and her siblings. She was about nine when she lost her mother and two brothers. Bessie and the remaining siblings were raised by their aunt. At the
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Dear Aunt Bessie‚ Thank you forgiving me the chance to spend a good amount of money on the things that matter in America. Although some people may think this an easy task‚ I would like to let them know that it was quite difficult. However‚ after a long time of thinking‚ I have decided that women’s suffrage‚ child labor‚ and deforestation are the problems that need to be helped the most. Women’s suffrage will get your first offering of 600‚000 dollars. Jane Adams made a valid point in saying
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BESSIE SMITH 1894 – 1937 Bessie Smith‚ known as “Empress of the Blues”‚ was born on April 15 1894 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. She was one of seven children to a part-time Baptist preacher and his wife. However‚ by the time Bessie was nine years old both of her parents were dead. Bessie and her brother Andrew were already singing on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. Bessie’s older brother Clarence had joined a travelling vaudeville1 show as a comedian and dancer and in 1912 he
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St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith and St. Louis Blues are two legends in the blues world‚ separately as well as together. When placed together one could not find a better example of classical blues from the 1920’s. St. Louis Blues is one of the most popular blues songs ever written. William Christopher Hardy wrote this song over 80 years ago. While on a trip to St. Louis‚ Hardy met a tormented black woman. She spoke to him in her deep southern broken English about the loss of her husband to another
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Bessie coleman was the first African-American to earn a license to fly a plane. Many people of all races were inspired by her ambitious drive to accomplish her goals. Queen Bess did not just wake up and become an inspiring historical figure ;she first had to overcome the obstacle that life threw at her. Bessie Coleman was born on January 26 1832 in Atlanta Texas to Susan Coleman and George Coleman. Her parents were sharecroppers that worked making sure that their thirteen children were fed. It became
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