Amanda Stivala Composition 1030-72 Summary and Response 9/24/12 Growing up in America one doesn’t really question our customs or the daily lives of the people here. Everyone kind of has a precedent for our everyday live and no one really tries to break the mold on that. Poranee Natadecha- Sonsel argues that Americans are unlike many other countries because they have a certain individualism about everything they do in their culture. In her article‚ “The Young‚ the Rich‚ and the Famous: Individualism
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Growing up in Canada‚ I had a certain view of the world. In other words‚ I had lived in a bubble my entire life until I was 14 years old. Not long after my fourteenth birthday‚ my parents settled on the hard choice to move to Bangladesh due to a family emergency. However‚ I was not looking forward to move to a different country as I always hated change and the thoughts of meeting new people from a different culture provoked a deep plethora of sadness within me. I began to marginally tremble as I
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values are repeated in poems and songs such as the Pledge of Allegiance and have become somewhat of a logo for the country. Sadly enough‚ there is still debate over who is deserving of these basic rights. An example of this inequivalence is shown in Growing Up Asian in America written by Kesaya E. Noda. The text states‚ “The police were patrolling the road‚ interested only in violators of curfew. There was no help for them in the face of thievery. I had not been able to imagine before what it must have
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always wanted to be older‚ we wanted to grow up and do grown up things. We spent our whole childhood imagining what it would be like if we were older and grown up. Now here we are‚ almost grown up…. and I can tell you‚ its not as fun as I thought it was going to be. Sometimes I wish I had never grown up. It is just too sudden. Sometimes I still wish I was a little kid and not a teenager. I think growing up is the worst thing in the world. Growing up means we have to become responsible‚ mommy
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Being the youngest sibling of three has always been hard on me. I was the only girl and growing up with my two brothers has always had its downfalls. I not only had to be around my brothers at all times‚ I was also surrounded by too many male cousins. Quite frankly‚ I can count how many female cousins I have in one hand. It is a real shame what a girl had to do just to be one of the guys. I was seven years old at the time and I still remember what happened like it was just yesterday. For
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socially fifty or more years ago. Society gives us two choices: to conform or to rebel and escape from society’ restrictions. In the short story “A&P” the author‚ John Updike‚ shoes that growing up is a mixture of being rebellious‚ discovering maturity and the search and desire for individuality. Sammy‚ the first-person narrator and main character of “A&P”‚ quits his job for the reason that he seeks to rise above others’ expectations and find himself a career he sees as worthy and sophisticated because
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Forum # 5 In the documentary “Growing up Trans” the main conclusion is that there is another way to battle certain issues. “In the film‚ Alex who is a transgender boy was born a girl who felt uncomfortable with her body and decided the best option was to become a boy”(Growing up Trans) It demonstrates just because a person is born a boy or girl‚ it does not mean their sexuality has to be confined to society’s standards. He same concept can be applied to sexuality because a person’s sexuality does
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Growing up in Rwanda one of the smallest and fast emerging nation in Africa has inspired me to take part and be the change that I want to see in my country. Rwanda is under African average of physician per persons‚ where one physician is accountable to more than ten thousand people and of course that could be a different case in villages where I grew up. I grew up in village near the local hospital‚ and I could see people going there but never come back alive and many of those were my friends or
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believe that the environment one grows up in and the people we surround ourselves with can shape who we will be for the rest of our lives. I grew up in a small neighborhood in the suburbs of a relatively big city. I enjoyed growing up in this setting because being near the city granted me many opportunities to do exciting activities – such as going to parks‚ nature trails and festivals – while living in a more small-scale neighborhood allowed me to grow up in a community with a strong sense of family
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computer shops are on sale‚ besides‚ we can pay with a credit card‚ so many people can afford it. Most college students have their personal computers now. It’s spectacular that most students use their personal computer in the library. But the growing up of a personal computer has two sides. On one hand‚ the personal computer is useful for students to make full use of the Internet to study the knowledge. And I love the Twilight Saga episodes‚ I enjoy the theme song‚ the plots‚ the settings and everything
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