The disappearance of my dad changed everything. It all started with a phone call. The message‚ echoing in my ear like a gunshot‚ was clear: my dad will move to China without us. At the time my father did not tell me the exact reason for his departure‚ but I read recently in a magazine that he was escaping from a group of lobbying businessmen‚ or more specifically‚ a group of gangsters. He was gone for a year‚ and‚ my seemingly perfect life was completely destroyed. At least I thought that was the
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Dating back generations‚ my family has worked in a cotton mill. College was never discussed much. Rather it was just the unspoken assumption that you go to high school and just after graduation‚ if not before‚ you would start work at the mill. Going to work is just what you did to take care of yourself but many times helping to take care of the previous generation. Manual labor took its toll not to mention the constant financial uncertainty. Lack of education has inhibited by father from many
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What is your name? My full name in english is Andy Chang‚ and my chinese name is 张滔(Zhang Tao). I do not think there is a meaning behind my english name. My parents told me that the reason they gave me the name “Andy” is because they wanted a name to be easily remembered and called. How do you define yourself & WHY? I consider myself as a Chinese racially‚ culturally‚ and ethnically. First‚ I am racially Chinese because my genetic is pure Chinese. My physical appearances are black hair‚ black eye
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asked me? Yes! I have been. My family.I could begin the book pf my life with a picture of my parents. They are important because of the gift of life they gave to me. All that I needed to grow up in the moment I was born‚ they gave me everything‚ great love‚ care‚ understanding and so much patience. And now I will show you our family picture. I am the fourth among the six. I have three elder brothers‚ one younger brother and one younger sister. Out of my eight family members there is one I particularly
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cultures or ethnicity to diversify the community. A Hispanic family living in such an isolated community takes a toll on the way we view the world. This environment has indulged my curiosity. Being the second youngest sibling of my family of seven has allowed me to learn from my older brothers‚ and have the privilege to be a leader to my little brother and serve as a role model to him. Though none of my family members went to college‚ and my parent’s highest education being a high school diploma‚ it
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My understanding of the poem was to figure out if I was going to go through with killing my step-brother or the neighbor’s child or my last chose‚ to sacrifice myself. This poem had a lot of meaning. The poem meant the world is a beautiful place without continuous violence‚ people being unhappy‚ people stressing‚ some people dying‚ and even some people being on drugs or people starving or people striving to do good things. This meant to me that I need to take life and my education much more serious
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In the movie “A Beautiful Mind”‚ a university scholar called John Nash is facing severe brain disorder called “Schizophrenia”. This brain disorder can be chronic and severe to the patients and they couldn’t differentiate reality normally. They tend to hear voices nor see people that doesn’t actually exist. They may also believe that there are people controlling their thoughts and plotting their life to harm them. Schizophrenia patient may talk things that doesn’t make any sense‚ they often stay quietly
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Well I had a rather sheltered life as a child‚ my parents were well off. Actually my family has the royal line in it. Through my father I am‚ in fact‚ a descent of Prophet Mohammad‚ and my Grandfather was the Head of the Sunni faith in large parts of Iraq and the Moslem world. The leadership is handed down through family but neither my father nor his older brother would take on the role when he died. Instead it was passed on to a cousin. Through my father I am also descended from the most traditional
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Have you ever met a family as adventurous as mine? We’ve been to 2 different countries‚ Canada‚ and Australia. If you like adventure then you’ll want to meet the Grahek family. To start of the first on the list is my dear old grandma. Her first name is Maribeth‚ and last name Knoble. She was born in Los Angeles‚ California. She grew up in Iowa. She likes to sew‚ read‚ and shop. She has 2 daughters‚ 2 grandsons‚ and one granddaughter. She also has 3 step grandsons and 5 step-granddaughters. She has
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The autobiography Beautiful Boy is about a father going through his son’s life finding that he gets addicted to drugs. In the first two chapters of Beautiful Boy we learned about Nic as a young boy. I found that he was just a normal kid when he was growing up. He had parents that were divorced‚ but they both loved him. Nic would spend the school year with his dad and then he would stay with his mom during the holidays. Davis didn’t like that he would get to see Nic around Christmas and Thanksgiving
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