| Mother Hood | | Mother Hood | 2/10/2013 | Maya Phinizee | For my narrative/descriptive essay I chose to write about becoming a mother. There are positives and negatives about being a teenage mother but I choose to always look at the good. My son wasn’t planned but he isn’t a mistake either. I only have one child for the moment but from this experience I’m still debating on having more. This had been one long
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K THOMPSON 1/12/13 OPINION EDITORIAL 1ST DRAFT YOUR FREEDOM‚ YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR GUNS On December 14th‚ 2012; 20 year old Adam Lanza‚ entered Sandy Hook Elementary School to carry out the mass murder of innocent staff and children of the school. This shooting as well as others‚ such as the "Batman" shooting in Colorado‚ have sparked the emotions of almost everyone in our local communities. Members of the media as well as government have been left asking how did this happen in our
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In the essay “Mother Tongue”‚ the author Amy Tan presents the process that she turned the negative impact of her mother’s “limited” English to the positive influence of her writing style. First‚ Tan introduces herself and her writing. She is a writer who uses all kinds of English that she is familiar with in her writing. Furthermore‚ she mentions that she realizes lately that the way she talks with her family is different from the way she communicates with others. Tan goes on to write about
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Every person did‚ especially during your childhood‚ but still cared more about less important things. Everyone‚ no matter‚ what age has a lot of challenges and problems to solve or overcome every day. The poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is one of the examples which explain how difficult climbing the up in the life is. Hughes uses a hidden metaphor-meaning in which he compares the living a life and climbing the opposite of crystal stair. In the poem‚ mother to son says “I’se still climbin’‚
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Mother’s knows best Our mother is playing a very important role in our life. She’s always there to guide and support us. She can be our best friend in difficult situation or problems. Our teacher in reminding us to have good manners and right conduct and our doctor when we were sick. She’s always showing her love and protecting us because she don’t want us to be harmed. She took good care of us when we were babies. And she knows the best for us. She have the biggest and heaviest responsibility
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In the essay ‘Mother Tongue’ (Tan 1990) it is portrayed that Amy Tan is an Asian American writer. She comes from a cultural background where English is not the main language spoken. This reflected her upbringing as she was raised in a country where English was the first language. This experience reflected her relationship within the language and her daily life. Amy Tan perceives language as ‘’The way it can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex ideal or a simple truth.’’ (Tan‚ 1990‚ pg.1) This
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Losing a loved one is always hard‚ especially a parent the one person who was there since the beginning. That unfortunately is one of the challenges I am facing. I recently lost my father and it has been very difficult to adjust to a new life that no longer includes either of my parents. When I found out I remember not caring about anything I lost interest in everything and in everyone. I cried everyday and each passing day was more depressing. Everyone I knew kept saying it would be okay and every
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America’s Talent: Gone “Are We Losing Our Edge”‚ an article published in Time‚ written by Michael D. Lemonick‚ discusses the competitive edge that America has against the rest of the world. The thesis that Lemonick conveys are future scientist and engineers around the world moved to America for its enormous resources‚ academic freedom‚ and history of excellence. However‚ the times have changed‚ and these scientist and engineers are now moving to their native land to continue research and development
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Song of My Mother Towards the back of a closet‚ in the corner where the dust tends to linger and the light shies away‚ hangs a brown suede leather jacket right next to a pair of old jeans. A jacket that--in its newer days‚ when the zipper still worked and both pockets were hole-less--a young woman wore on occasion. But‚ both the jeans and jacket are a bit faded now‚ the threads have turned awry‚ and the zippers have lost their shine. The woman has now passed it down to her daughter‚ but her
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Prudent Mother Squirrel “If I ask you directly: is there one mother among thousands of mothers‚ one wife among thousands of wives‚ who could be have as Nora behaves‚ who would desert husband‚ children‚ and home merely in order to become ‘a human being’? I answer with conviction: no and again no!”‚ says theatre manager M.W. Brun on the world premier December 21‚ 1879‚ in the anthology “Readings on A Doll’s House” by Hayley Mitchell‚ where essayist Elaine Baruch responds to Mr. Brun (32). Mr. Brun
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