for families through the recent years. Each family approaches this situation differently. For my family‚ this event happened in 2006‚ when I was just six years old. Looking back‚ I do not recall anything that stood out as a red flag in my parents marriage up until the day that my dad left. My sister‚ who was eight at the time‚ and I sat on the stairs as we suddenly watched our father bring a suitcase downstairs and begin to walk out the front door. As a child I felt lost and disconnected. My mom
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My favorite holiday memory was Thanksgiving with my family in 2010. As soon as I stepped foot into my grandmother’s small townhouse I said hi to everyone shaked my uncle’s with a firm grip‚ kissed my grandpa and grandma’s hands‚ and my aunts all left a huge red spot of lipstick on my cheek acting as if I was still a kid. When I was done doing with business I gave my four other cousins around my age that look‚ which was to run to the basement and wrestle or do other wild things until my grandpa would
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My family has always been the most important thing to me. I feel very fortunate to have this big group of people supporting and loving me throughout my life. I’m from a big Italian Family. We spend most of our time at family parties in the kitchen. We tell the same stories over and over again‚ and somehow they are still funny. I have around 30 cousins and around 20 Aunts and Uncles. There is always someone to call and always someone to help out‚ when it’s needed. We were raised to put family first
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just two weeks of school left. My high school coach had told us that we can play in soccer class the next day if we brought our cleats. My teammates from my club team told me they weren’t going to bring their cleats because they didn’t want to risk getting an injury before the tournament that weekend. They told me not to play‚ but I wanted to so I brought my cleats the next day. It was a really nice day to get better and have some fun. We started playing the next day and it was going well and fun
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Core I Essay: Literacy Narrative Megan Smith ENC Valencia Students Prof. Phillips ENC 1102 02/16/15 My Love for Reading The first books I ever started reading were Winnie the Pooh and Dr Suess books. When I was young my parents were really good about getting me started with reading different books and for a long time I loved reading‚ as long as it was books I got to choose and enjoyed reading myself. Once I got further along in school and they started mandating what books we had to read I got
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Taking into consideration my Libyan heritage‚ one might say I was able to experience the best of both worlds as a first generation Libyan-American. They wouldn’t be wrong‚ growing up‚ I was influenced by the cultural aspect of a Libyan as an American citizen. I partook in many common Libyan traditions‚ for instance‚ I would eat couscous most nights for dinner and learned how to play the darbuka‚ a Libyan drum held sideways and played with the fingers. I was convinced that everyone lived this way
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Our family car was a very reliable bronze Nissan Murano‚ this car had been part of the family for at least 5 years‚ it had taken us to Mcdonald’s trillions of times. However much we loved this car for it’s design‚ it would not save us from what was in our fates on that particular day. My mom‚ brother and I were on our way to one of my friend’s house and he lives approximately 15 minutes out of California‚ Missouri if you take the highway. We were driving approximately sixty miles per hour and we
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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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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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I feel as if I grew up in a pretty normal family‚ I had two siblings one brother one sister‚ my parents were together the entire time‚ and I feel very lucky because some people were brought up in unfavorable situations. My families beliefs I guess you could say are pretty traditional which I’d say has influenced my life in a way. By coming up this way the way I judged whether something was right or wrong I judged based upon my beliefs and by what my parents would consider to be right or wrong. An
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