...I could not sleep. I was ready and prepared to leave. I was done with my parents. Done with shouting, munching noises, and overall uncomfortableness. Staring at the ivory ceiling, I pictured myself with friends on the beach of Bali as the soft white sand tickles our feet. For the first time, I would go on a trip without my family. As I silently went over my packing list for the millionth time, I slowly fell asleep. Yes, goodbye to embarrassing family trips. Growing up in a second-generation entrepreneurial family, parental affection was an issue. With a father constantly traveling between continents and an overly strict mother, my childhood was not filled with warm embraces and bedtime stories. I was loaded with extracurricular activities since kindergarten, from piano to drawing classes to Chinese calligraphy. These were "jobs" to me where I was required to sit for hours on end, trying to fulfill my parents' expectations and bearing reprimands when I failed. Love was a distant word, and family vacations seemed meaningless because of the uneasiness that filled every moment. This time, travelling was different. With a flexible schedule, I was able to visit places that my parents would never go. From flea markets to acrobat shows, my friends and I diverged from tourist attractions to experience local life in Bali. I also encountered a trapeze team that performed nightly shows at our hotel, and since then, my life perspective had somewhat changed. It was almost midnight, and my eyelids...
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...His breathing becomes heavy and sweats flowing down his face. The forbidden act of breeding his mother, gives him an adrenaline through his veins. "I'm going to come soon mom, where do you want my seeds!" Martha's vagina gush out on David's cock. "In my pussy sweetie, fuck me harderrrr! Ughh...Who gives a fuck about the consequences, just impregnate me!" David is shock by the words coming from his mother's mouth. She's always been modest, but now she's just a horny, sex crazed, careless slut. David rapidly penetrated her more forcefully. The sexual sensation he's been building up with his mother for the last 30 minutes -drive him wild. His cock ejaculated it potent seed like a slingshot -deep within his mother's uterus. Martha roll her eyes backwards and moan. She can feel the warmness of her son's seeds blasting deep in her cervix. Her body shiver tremulously, as her son flood her cunt to the brim. David collapse on his mother's chest and Martha realize the situation she's in. "Oh my god, I can't believe I agree to let you fill me up so carelessly...
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...Imagine waking up to sounds of boxes being moved around and your parents telling you to help put stuff away because they are kicking you out of the motel. Having a stable life with my parents was unheard of; until my mother passed that my brother and I moved with my older sister. Once I moved with my sister it was like a whole new world. The change to a stable environment transformed my life. Most children would brag about their parents’ great job and how they would get whatever they pleased. I was nowhere near proud of their occupation. My mother and father would go around Miami knocking down coconuts from trees and selling them to shops illegally. The money they’d receive would be spent on drugs. Not having enough money to maintain an apartment; we would usually stay in motels. Every night I’d pray to god to make sure my mom won’t get beat so we would not have to call the cops again. My mother getting beat wasn’t anything new, until one night that we left to my grandmother’s house after the beating that we last saw my father. My mother kept her breast cancer a secret, it had spread to the rest of her body; she dead two years after she got diagnosed....
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...anyone, nor do they remember me. I’ve developed anxiety and an exaggerated fear of death. I cry in bathroom stalls and forget to pay attention in class. I meet my best friend. My mom gets sick. She spends her days in and out of hospitals, vomiting and crying. I spend mine waking up for school. I’m fifteen years old when I call 911 for the first time. I finish my freshman year happy, despite my mom’s health, because my best friend is someone who has changed my life. We start sophomore year together and it feels like we’re on top of the world. We attend our first school dance. A month later, I move. I finish sophomore year alone and angry at the world. I refuse to participate; my mom is still sick, and I spend most of my time worried about her life. Over the summer, I watch as she deteriorates. Junior year, I meet an English teacher that changes the way I think. He forces me to recognize my faults but does not rush me to fix them. I become more interested in literature than ever, I begin to fight through my anxiety, and I yearn to improve. I begin to trust my peers. I forgive the world. I move. As I’m writing this, I am seventeen years old and a senior. I’m getting ready to graduate with my best friend. I’ve spent my life jumping from county to county, house to apartment, and getting ready for Christmas alone. I have witnessed abuse and experienced life with only enough money for one more night in a hotel room. I have learned from this life: I have learned to work hard...
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...Life is all about learning. Learning from your mistakes, failures, or even successes. AVOID SENTENCE FRAGMENTS. You don't just learn from your own experiences though, AVOID COMMA-SPLICE RUN-ON SENTENCES you learn from those around you. The biggest challenge in my life was when my parents got divorced. Being only five at the time I didn't exactly grasp what was going on or why. One day my dad just moved out and didn't come back. There was no big family meeting to discuss what was happening or what the future held. All I knew is that suddenly I went from seeing my father everyday to seeing him for an hour or two sporadically throughout the month. My parents separating hit me hard but it hit my older brother much harder. He was thirteen when my dad left so he...
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...obviously I wanted to move to a city and not get stuck driving behind tractors every morning. Many people have felt this before, including the author of Home at Last, David Mengestu. What people don’t realize, however, is that moving away to a different location is not going to change where your home is. Mengestu finds this out in the essay, through chronological events of his childhood and early adulthood. In his personal essay, Mengestu writes about his journey of moving to the neighborhood of Kensington in Brooklyn, New York, and uncovers his epiphany of the meaning of home to the reader. Mengestu believes that you can recreate home while moving to a new location, while I believe that home is where you believe your family is, and that becomes part of your background....
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...problem of sweatshops remains prominent in our globalized world. Tara J. Radin and Martin Calkins explore this problem in “The Struggle Against Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business” by breaking down their essay into two primary sections. The first describes the difficulties of both external and internal forces in permanently discarding sweatshops while the second division highlights the complexity behind any plausible solution. While the content of this article is of elevated interest, more important for our purpose is the success behind their rhetoric. They utilize the emotions of an audience on an already sensitive topic while simultaneously providing evidence from a variety of environments and sources to point out that their conclusive recommendations are of great value when the urge to change the manner in which we get products finally sets in. In their essay “The Struggle Against Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business”, Radin and Calkins both inform and persuade their audience at an effective level through their credibility, emotion, and logic—ethos, pathos, and logos, respectively—to conclusively come about at more fully understanding the need for reform in global labor markets. I will first define ethos followed by an analysis and illustration of the rhetoric as it is used in the essay. That will then be followed by pathos and logos, both sharing a similar format of define, analyze, and illustrate. Rhetoric is, of course, a powerful tool...
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...Frederick Jackson Turner is most successful at analyzing American history through his essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”. This piece examines how life was first created here in America, as well as how the first frontier set the stage for numerous civilization advancements that would occur in the near future. Many Americans today seem to forget about the first settlements that served as the basis for what the United States of America has become. This essay accomplishes the goal of reminding those people of how majorly important each step was on the American frontier centuries ago. What was once just an enormous area of free, unoccupied land, is now the home of billions of people as well as numerous buildings, businesses, and modes of transportation....
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...of sky”, by Anna Hope, is about how youth often is characterized by life, desire and a feeling of freedom and invincibility. The setting is in today’s London and the author starts in medias res “It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark” (l.1). Because of this the author establishes, by his use of words such as not just dark but the wrong dark, a rather gloomy mood. The story is about how being young and, although freedom is within reach, responsibility and expectations are right behind you, reminding you of reality. The youth is a vital part of your life providing background for what the personality of the person concerned ends up to be. Every person has different ways of looking at freedom. Some people like to take a run in the nature, open their minds and others do drugs to escape from reality. In “A Gap of Sky” the girl called Ellie deals with the issues of drugs, freedom and responsibility. She does a lot of coke and seems to be addicted and needs it so she can write her essay. “and then more coke arriving”(l.20) “Coke. Does she have any left? … Yesssss! Clever Ellie. Little bump just to get things started.” (l.30-33). Ellie also likes to party and the night before seemed to be pretty rough with booze, smoking crack pipe, taking drugs and ending up with some bruises. “rests her swollen cheek against her palm” (l.3) “her chest hurts.”(l.11) In the morning of this wild night, she wakes up and realizes that she has an essay due to the day after and...
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...exciting things to do there.’’ So what relation does it have to urban living? Well, in the essay Living with strangers, written by Siri Hustvedt, we get some insight into the life of a person living in a larger city. In this essay, we get to know how everyone is a stranger and in New York City, there rules a special unwritten law, which is the law of PRETENDING IT ISN’T HAPPENING. An aspect of living with some complete strangers that Hustvedt is completely fascinated by, is the aforementioned ‘’law’’ pretend-it isn’t-happening-law, and that is an interesting way to get some insight into this urban living. It is a peculiar occurrence because you would think that moving to the cities would affect the amount of people you socialize with, but most of the time you actually spent indoors and isolated from the big world around you. When you finally move yourself out in the big world, then you spend half of the time looking into the ground and straying away from eye contact with strangers. Interactions between humans in our modern world is quite a complex subject to debate and it will be almost impossible, to find an exact answer to how one should act. Should everyone say hi to each and not really mean it, as they do in Minnesota or should they just mind their own business, as they do in New York? Hustvedt does not have an answer therefore; she tries to come closer to the answer by writing an essay. The essay is a subjective collection of her thoughts on this particular issue that she has chosen...
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...create some fun for them. The computers could seriously help the kids with their homework and for upcoming tests. They can search up things on Google, write essays for their classes, and create study guides using various software programs. Also many times when kids are given major projects or assignments from school it usually requires some kind of work to be done on the computer whether it be a essay using Microsoft Word or it be using PowerPoint to create some slides to present in class. The computers can also provide entertainment for kids who are in serious need of a break from school. They can use the computer to play games, watch movies. And even use social sites like Facebook, twitter, and even e-mail. Many times the kids are overworked from so much school and need a serious break from the school life. The computers would also be perfect for that. This is our mission statement. Getting more into the software to help kids out with school; one of them would be Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word can be used to type up essays for school projects or assignments that were assigned in school. Microsoft PowerPoint can be used to create PowerPoint’s to present projects and assignments in class. Without this valuable software kids will have a hard time creating good PowerPoint’s to present in class. This is what I am talking about when I say this software will help kids out majorly in school. My last example is Micro type. This application can be used to properly teach people how to...
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...reality by ingesting drugs or drinking alcohol which could be their way of protesting against responsibilities and a search for freedom, or maybe it is just because they are in that age where they are open to all kinds of experimentations. This is what the main character Ellie is facing, in the short story “A Gap of Sky” written by Anna Hope in 2008; Ellie is wandering around in the streets of London and in her own mind as well. Her walk around London’s streets becomes a walk through her own mind. Crisis, confusion, changes, responsibilities and fear, are the main components of a short story by Anna Hope. A story which is intriguing, and will take you one step closer, to understand what a ‘typical’ teenager can go through. In this essay I will analyze and interpret Anna Hope’s short story A Gap of Sky. I will characterize the main character Ellie, and analyze her behavior as a teenager. I will also focus on the narrative technique in the short story and the importance of the city sitting. Though an analysis I will conclude upon my discoveries and determine the theme of the story. The main character of the short story, nineteen year old Ellie, is a university student and lives in London. She has...
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...Adverse reactions to food Review Peanut Allergies The essay is being reviewed by the following criterias: Format and structure Clarity and precision Quality and reliability of sources Evaluation of sources Presents a clear and substantiated arument Provides clear and applicable recommendations for hospitality industries The reason for choosing the above lies on judging the essay whether or not it provides a clear and consise range of information. It will help the author to know the range of sources used and whether it had been properly evaluated or not. The detailed evaluation of information and wide range range of conclusions which derives from the evaluation of the sources will help to review it according to its 'usage' by the author. Finally recommendations for action which derives from conclusion will help to review it based on its relevance to hospitality and tourism industries. Brief overview of the essay The essay starts off identifying different types of nuts or peanuts. The essay then discusses the facts and figures of illness which creates a sense of feeling that peanut allergies is a serious issue to be considered. It discusses the outbreak in UK and US where peanut allergies are a serious issue. It then goes on describing the causes of the alllergies while moving onto the consequences of how it might affect peopleThe author brings in the dilemma that occurs in the hospitality industry with giving a examples as cited in Hearnes, (2003). The author describes...
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...Favorite Essay Of the many styles and topics of writing my English course has reviewed; the reading I found most interesting was “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux. The essay was over Theroux not liking the masculine identity or being a man in general. I enjoyed Theroux’s essay because he goes straight for the point and the topic was very controversial. Theroux’s essay is about how difficult it is to be a man in America. Men are generalized to be tough, sport crazy and unemotional. I believe that generalization is still common but has deteriorated over the decade. Theroux thinks the way children are brought up is wrong, just because a boy does not like sports does not mean there is something wrong with him. From personal experience, I know that not every little boy likes sports or has the opportunity to be active in sports. I grew up in a small apartment with my father, mother and sister. Living in a room with my sister was very hard to deal with. I had a Nintendo 64 and she had Barbie dolls. There was nowhere to play sports and no place to keep the equipment. We made do with the things we had; I sometimes enjoyed taking the Barbie dolls clothing off and she would play the Mario Brothers. Eventually moving into a house allowed me to be active in football, soccer and baseball. I believe the child’s surroundings can change their path to adulthood. Theroux expresses many things that I find insulting. According to Theroux, to be a man is to be “stupid, be unfeeling, obedient,...
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...know that partying and hanging out with friends is more fun than studying and doing homework. That is a part of youth. It is not always easy to be young. Sometimes you escape the reality by taking drugs or alcohol and end up unsuccessful. Nowadays young people have to think about their own life and school to become successful and not be distracted by their surroundings. Last but not least, not to be afraid to failure in life because anything is possible if you want to do the effort it takes. This is the case of Ellie in the short story “A Gap of Sky” written by Anna Hope. The short story takes place in London. She lives in the epicenter in a modern society. It symbolizes a city of noise, filled opportunities, and people. This is an urban environment which affects her daily life. In the city there are plenty of places to get drugs and go to a nightclub or something like that. As described on (P. 2 l. 57-58): “There are people moving together, here in this part of London, moving with purpose, with meaning and Ellie is one of them.” With that she means that life in London and the big city is very intense and especially fast moving; there is no room for being lost in this environment. Ellie knows all about the behavior in the city, and all the street-names and buildings. But it is also a dangerous environment as we read on (P. 3 l. 90-91): “She dodges her way through the traffic, clotted like blood in the arteries nearing the heart of the city”. It is like she has a dangerous lifestyle...
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