A Home away from Home Getting into Bethlehem university wasn’t one of my initial options of the number of available universities at all. To be honest‚ I didn’t know we even had a university in Bethlehem‚ until my dad told me about it and even then I still wasn’t so sure about applying there... I always had that dream of going abroad to study‚ you know‚ every teenagers dream is to break free and just wander. I so wanted to leave the country and I was torn between whether I should study medicine or
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Joseph McKelvy ENG 1123 Essay #2 Ms. Coleman Moving Away From Home At the age of eighteen I found myself faced with two choices. I could stay in my hometown try and find a job and go to school‚ or I could enlist‚ go see the world‚ have my education paid for while gaining work experience. I choose to enlist. The first step was to find a recruiter. After finding the recruiter I enlisted. I was given an itinerary to follow. The itinerary listed times‚ places and dates. Before leaving for
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make an effort on working. In addition‚ international students usually encounter in many troubles in daily life. Being away form hometown‚ students cannot eat the food they want. Fast food is always the first choice. Nevertheless‚ few students enjoy trying the local food‚ and they think it is an interesting experience. If food is not a big challenge‚ loneliness must be the biggest one. They miss their friends and relatives‚ and their life is not exciting and interesting like other people think. But
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up to the wellbeing of their family. Where is the wellbeing in that when the parent detaches from the family? A lot of things are sacrificed. Alright‚ we talk everyday on long distance phone calls but do we always get to just hangout? OFWs would miss a lot as time would pass especially seeing their son grow. Being a child of an OFW is not easy too. Growing up‚ children ask a lot of questions from necessities to trivial things about their parents. Questions like “What should I do?” or “What did
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Trying to understand the concept of other is a complex one. It is not an easy task to pinpoint exactly what it means. In some way we are all others to someone and everyone else is also other to us. If the other is constantly changing then how do we strive to know the other. And at the same time the other cannot exist without us trying to understand ourselves. I do believe that culture is important and it helps us to understand ourselves as well as the other. I do not believe that culture is
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Why Walk When You Could Run? It has been said by many‚ "Any society‚ any nation‚ is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members”. What if the weakest member of a society is placed in a position to carry the town’s woes? That is true in Ursala Le Guin’s short story‚ “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Le Guin’s depressing tale describes a society that is neither compassionate nor relevant‚ speaks about a culture of people who are corrupt thereby making the characters static. However
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We get all caught up in our pleasures of vacationing‚ that we fail to see things from the perspectives of others. For relatives wanting to travel to different countries‚ saving enough money is no easy task. In the wake of the Vietnam war‚ economic hardship runs rampant in communities with run-down neighborhoods and disheveled street beggars. My Vietnamese cousin‚ Thai Minh‚ doesn’t let these difficulties deter him from traveling. Minh travels not only to search for job offers‚ but also to escape the
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live in this oppressive country any longer‚ and plans to flee‚ "escape". Truong successfully escapes his home‚ in search of a new one. Leaving on a small‚ open boat with his older brother‚ niece and nephew in 1981‚ he finds himself displaced. Without a home and treading dangerous waters‚ he speaks of the tragedies many refugees such as himself faced‚ "Half of the people who left died on the ocean". He considers himself lucky to have even survived on the boat. Mr. Nguyen spends five months living in
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Ronald Reagan once said‚ “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for‚ protected‚ and handed on for them to do the same.” This quote perfectly supports my opinion that you do need to repeatedly win freedom. I mean‚ there is always some new conflict going on‚ someone always thinking that have less freedom than a different gender‚ skin color‚ or maybe even size. New conflicts and issues pop up almost every
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