English 111 A 10/7/12 Imagine if you had a dreadful disease that took away your memory and you could no longer remember familiar people‚ places or events. This is what is happening to my Grandma. She has been diagnosed with vascular dementia and it has been detrimental to her life and her mind‚ and I hate to think about what it will do to her in the future. She is 80 years old and is still able to live alone‚ however her son lives across the road from her. Other than having dementia‚ she is
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night. Or the feeling of always living in fear and knowing that the next day just might not come? In the novel Room by Emma Donoghue‚ a little boy named Jack and his ’Ma’ are stuck in an endless circle of constant fear and living in the unknown. Jack and Ma are trapped inside room. A place where Jack calls home‚ but where Ma calls a prison. This novel is truly inspiring. In the novel Room one of the main characters is Jack’s mother who he calls Ma. I believe that I relate and closely identify with
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Many times‚ my family can be hard to get along with‚ constantly teasing and humiliating not just me‚ but each other. We are much like any other family... except we’re Mexican. We have uncles‚ cousins‚ relatives we don’t even know of; we call each other weird names like Pollo‚ Prieto‚ and Gordo; but mainly‚ we always find a reason to get drunk. Whether it be for a baptism‚ a wedding‚ a child’s birthday‚ parties don’t end until three in the morning. When my family gets together‚ either it ends either
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Heated Room of Sweat This room was my domain‚ my escape from reality‚ my room of hard work and determination. This overly heated room was one of my favorite places to be when I was in high school. I let off a lot of steam in this sweaty room. This giant room was where the best and most athletic athletes in the school came to practice and put in work to put a poster and their name of themselves on the wall next to the previous posters. As I open the door to my old high school wrestling room‚ I get
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My favorite place is sitting on my back porch on an early summer morning. The small concrete back porch sits in the back of my home near the woods and the garden. The area is very isolated and peaceful. There are no sounds of human life‚ cars or anything to alter nature. After awakening in the mornings‚ I remove the everlasting sleep from my tired eyes and walk to the small warming porch. I enjoy this time alone to gather my thoughts and feelings for the day. The old iron furniture squeaks
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activities like hunting‚ fishing‚ and hiking‚ the Frio River has created my best summer memories. I have enjoyed countless summers burning my skin under the hot southern sun. Tradition calls my family to Frio County each summer‚ along with hundreds more families looking to escape their daily lives. Driving in‚ cell phone reception dies and people get the chance to look up and see the wondrous nature provided by the Texas Hill Country. My first view of the river makes me breathless. Shallow water washes
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explain how things went wrong we know what went right/ in a sense‚it was tight/ now those days are gone/ no words‚only silence/ waiting on things to come/ meanwhile we hope/ and I know someone heard that/ But I pray it wont get us in trouble/ I followed my heart/ Its led me to you/ admit there’s been a few/ I would call it 2/ Y look back at what Ive been through/ I feel like I grew/ closer to you I love that girl so bad‚ i hope that she knows that. But she aint pay any attention‚ all i want is her
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My Favorite Room Walking through the front door of my apartment‚ I enter my favorite and most relaxing place to be: the living room. Sitting in my living room I feel relaxed and stress free. The first thing I see when I walk in is my wife’s shoe rack. To the left is her creepy monkey picture. When I look to the right I can see the whole room. I try to keep it nice and clean‚ but with school work‚ it doesn’t always stay that way. As I sit down on my big comfortable couch‚ I look up at my huge three
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This is a parent’s basic guide to properly child-proofing a home room by room. In this guide to child proofing a home you will find instructions to do it yourself‚ a safety check for new babies‚ car safety‚ and safety tips for older children as well. My purpose for this guide is to help parents keep their children safe at home and on the road. Bathroom Safety Toilets and bathtubs – You must always be careful when it come to the risk of drowning and when it comes to your child. Your child should
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Throughout the memoir‚ Bragg has applied many forms of descriptive imagery to display an important message. When Bragg started working for various different newspaper companies‚ he suddenly realizes that many of the articles they write mask the true darkness of the real world. He makes it his duty to unveil these horrors‚ as he thinks people should have the right to know what is going on in other parts of the world and face reality. In 1991‚ Bragg decides that he wants to go visit Haiti to observe
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