06/20/11 Essay 2: Rough Draft My Life verses My Parents’ Lives I thought I always had a perfect life growing up because we went on family vacations together; we went on picnics as a family and had family movie nights on the weekends. But‚ as I am becoming older and trying to start my own stable family‚ I look back at my parents’ issues they had as I was growing up for example‚ their financial issues‚ which ended up resulting with our family moving at least twenty times in my childhood
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My strengths aren’t really much‚ because I don’t have lot of them. My strengths for writing include staying on topic‚ using examples‚ being organized‚ and good at explaining my problems and how I will address them. I was never good at staying on topic but I started being more careful with my writing. I make sure I never go off topic and talk about things that do not belong. I make sure that I am organized in my essay. For example‚ when writing my essays I make sure that I write about one thing per
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at the same time. Overall with the progress I have made I feel confident about my writing. This is because I have put effort into trying to improve skills that I lack in‚ take more time to read and pay attention to what we are reading in order to remember details about the book‚ and have taken more care in my writing compared to years past. I also made progress with poem analysis. This can be seen in my Midterm Essay. This piece proves that I have made progress because when we first started the
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Every family has a different approach in how they deal with the conflict. As a class we have read and discussed Caroline Hwang’s essay “The Good Daughter.” as well as Janna Malamud Smith’s essay “My Son‚ My Compass.” There is different approach illustrated by Hwang’s and Smith’s essay as they choose their own lifestyle and confront their parent’s arrogant behavior. Hwang essay explains how immigrant children are living a paradox‚ forcing her to keep her Korean culture and adapting to the American culture
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immigration in my family goes all I know is that my paternal grandmother’s parents came to the United States from Ireland. Once in America‚ the two of them had three daughters: Catherine‚ Mary‚ and my grandmother‚ Anna (though she went by Ann and we always called her Nanny). They raised their girls in Jersey City‚ New Jersey until their passing‚ at which time their eldest daughter‚ Catherine‚ took over looking after her younger sisters before joining the convent. At the age of nineteen‚ my grandmother
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My childhood The first feeling I can remember is wind rushing through my hair. I was five‚ riding a bicycle on my way to the park to meet my older cousins and friends so we could play baseball. At least that is what I think I was doing; it is the first thing that comes to mind whenever someone asks me what my earliest memory is. However the most vivid thing about that memory is the wind and the fact that I was wearing a light blue shirt‚ the brain is weird that way. Though whenever I think about
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to the world and/or someone who possesses admirable qualities. If any aspect of that definition applies to you then there is a great chance that you are a hero to somebody. Alyce Putnam‚ my great grandmother on my mother’s side‚ is my hero. At 94 years of age‚ she is the oldest grandparent that I have. She’s my hero for a multitude of reasons‚ some of which include the qualities she possesses and her daily actions. She inspires me due to how she has handled complex and different situations in her
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(600) ENC 1101 Mr. Temple 29 September 2010 My Place of Comfort There is nothing that is more comforting to me than a cozy bed with crisp‚ clean sheets. My bed has always been my place for rest and relaxation. The only thing that could come close to comparison would be a shower. Both my bed and a shower seem to help me wash my problems away. On my days off‚ I love to stay in bed as late as I possibly can; I can also‚ sit in the shower until my fingers and toes are pruned‚ leaving me without
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My Personal Place To descibe a special place‚ you have to be able to descibe the person that it belongs to. To describe my special place‚ you would have to know me and the things that I like. Myself I like many things. That’s why my special place is my bedroom. It has many things that I love and enjoy. Just to name a few‚ my walls‚ bookshelf‚ my bed. Each shows every aspect of me! In my bedroom‚ my walls show freeze frames of moments‚ special times and places that I’ve been
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have my grandmother still. There was always that time before things got bad‚ when I had thought she was going to live forever. I can remember that day‚ like it was yesterday. The sun was glistening‚ the birds were chirping‚ and the wind was whispering. I had gotten off the school bus to go to my grandmother’s house. It was my usual routine‚ every Wednesday I went to see her. When I got to my grandmother’s house I was greeted by Dennis‚ one of the mentally challenged guys that lived with my grandmother
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