Mariya’s first chapter (Alina): Gasping for air, I woke up from my nightmare with one thought on my mind - I despise my father more than anything in the world. For giving me me these repeating nightmares that come back almost every night to haunt me. I rarely sleep, and when I do, I never sleep for long. I hate him for making me into what I am today - paranoid and afraid. I’m going to get revenge for my ruined childhood, I decided.…
During the semester I was given the task of taking care of a robotic baby. Now I must write my experience of when I was with the baby. While having the baby, I got less sleep than what I usually had at the time. I was easily irritated and stayed in designated sleeping area.…
I started working at a young age, first starting to do little things, such as watering a neighbors’ plants while they were out of town or dog sitting. Then I began babysitting, which soon turned into nannying. My mom taught me how to save my money and she helped me open my own savings and checking account. Every time I would get paid I was taught to put half in savings and use the other half as spending money. Later, on my own I decided to increase the amount I would put into my savings account therefore allowing me to better save my money.…
When I was an infant around 12 months old I would suck my thumb in order to regulate my emotions. At 18 months old I used distractions and active attempts to regulate my emotions and change the situation. I always sought my mother during upsetting events and my mother’s response was always loving and positive. My mother described me as an easy baby when it came to my personal temperament. She claimed I was cheerful, relaxed and predictable.…
Even though the two paragraphs the author writes differ in communication, both had one clear point - attempting to change the North Carolina education system. The purpose of this essay is to examine the effectiveness of using informal or formal writing when communicating to two different audiences, a close friend and a respected senator. The writer effectively uses her critical literacy skills to understand the audience’s need for informal or formal writing, and use descriptive language to fit the social codes required for each audience. In order to communicate effectively, the writer efficiently shifts social codes in order to interact in the best possible way to one’s audience.…
The door slams. Angry voices pervade throughout the house. Fear, fear of what was to happen next lingered in my mind. It became a part of my daily routine. At a very young age I realised that life was not all sunshine and rainbows.…
The alarm goes off at 5:45 A.M. and I wake up and I go wake up Nathan to do some deer hunting. We walk out to the elevated blind and climb into it at 6:15 A.M. At 7 A.M. we spot two magnificent twelve point bucks. We pick up our guns and aim the guns and count down from three and pull the trigger. Two bucks drop and we field dress them and take a picture. By the time we load the deer on the back of a brand new 2017 Ford F-150.…
Technology has developed so much over the years that we have relied on it so much. Technology is used in pretty much everything we use nowadays. Living in a neighborhood was the greatest advantage, but having kids the same age as I was even better. There was never a time we weren't outside: rain, shine, snow, miserably cold, or even scorchingly hot. There was 4 of us: 3 girls and 1 guy, all around the same age.…
Where did you sleep? Describe your typical sleeping pattern during the first months (e.g., How many naps did you take? When did you begin to sleep through the night?). December 4, 2000 was the day Emily was born,she was a healthy 7 pound baby after she was born the next day she went home with her parents. She doesn’t remember her first year of life but this is what her parents told me.…
Life started getting rough for me around the time that my dad was terminated (11/10/2016). Everything seems to be coming at me all at once. Asides from studying for finals, I was also focused on working two jobs because everything in the house became my responsibility. Mortgage became my responsibility, bills became mine, car loans became mine, expenses in the house became mine as well. I became the support system for my family, both emotionally and financially.…
Over the duration of my senior summer I was allowed to experience many wonders as I transitioned out of one segment of my life to a new one; however, possibly to greatest experience out of the entire time period of my summer was my family's trip to six flags. We began planning for the trip months in advance saving money, gathering supplies, and making reservations. We toiled through this segment of planing making sure that all of the details of the trip would be perfect. Once all of our details were lined up ducks in a row and bags packed as if we were to stay for a month, we began travel on the an interstate that was as busy as an ant nest just before winter, as in when they begin to store food, but I digress we weaved through the traffic,…
This tendency in the infant is usually not a concern so long as the typical environmental time cues are instituted to maintain the major sleep episode over the nighttime…
For as long as I can remember, as a child I was raised to believe that a man should be the king of his castle. When I was five years old, that statement became a fable to me. I felt the Judas kiss the day my dad left. His reign has ended as king of his castle. He relinquished his crown and abandoned his kingdom.…
I am the second youngest of 5 children born to the 13ers generation. My father was born in Mexico, while my mother lived her life in the United States. My parents crossed paths unexpectedly and gave birth to a new generation. I lived my early years in a house that exceeded its capacity; 7 squeezed into 2 rooms,1 bathroom, and a basement. My grandparents watched over my siblings and I as our parents went to work while still managing jobs of their own.…
The walls that hold me together were caving in all around me as I found out that Netflix had logged me out, and they completely crumbled when I realized I couldn’t remember the password. The air seemed to turn colder as I frantically walked over to the phone to find out the password from my dad. My bad day has come to the point that I have become so upset about forgetting my Netflix password. My day at school started like any other day. Terrific but today was special, it also was one of the worst days of my life.…