How Did I Spent My Summer Vacation Essay

1. I live with my mother, father, and brother. 2. Parents’ occupation: Mother- She is a writer/poet who published one book and contributed in many anthologies. She is planning on releasing a few books soon. Father- Senior Software Developer 3. College parents graduated from: My father first attended Pusan National University, South Korea and got his Bachelor’s in Physics. During this time in college he was in the Korean army. He then attended Kyungsang National University, South Korea…

hopes of not losing who he thought was the love of his life, devoting five years of his life to a sole woman. Gatsby bought the house so that “Daisy would be just across the bay… he half expected her to wander into one of his parties… but she never did” (Fitzgerald,79). In The Sun Also Rises, Robert Cohn had grown up in a very prosperous family, however in a very anti-Semitic time period, where he was forced to degrade himself, and lose everything. To compensate for this, Cohn would make up…

2 years, 10 months, and 2 days. 24,888 hours. 1,493,280 minutes. That’s how much time has passed since my dad passed away on June 3rd, 2013. And no matter how many times I talk about it, write about it, think about it, I can’t get over it. Sure, the grief has mostly gone away, but there are still these little snippets of pains. Like weeds in a garden full of flowers, veggies, and fruits. These snippets aren’t even necessarily the good kind; they’re the ones that drain the life out of the…

abused by my father I’ll finally be able to prove him wrong. All my mistakes that I’ve made in the past, don’t matter anymore. As I was grabbing my diploma it all hit me like a flash, being abused wasn’t as bad as living my life. All those cold nights shivering in the dark without nothing in my stomach were the painful abuse of it all. Suddenly those memories stopped and I was back to the real world. Hearing my son Angel screaming for me, brought tears of joy to my eyes, and I thought I am doing…

In the last pages of his novel, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the advantage that black people have over the Dreamers: that they know how fragile life is. Ta-Nehisi describes the dream as the suburbs, as treehouses and cub scouts. He says that the Dream “smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry cake” (11). However the Dream rests on the backs of African Americans. African Americans never get to experience the dream because the bedding is made from their bodies and…

the pinnacle of a modern tragic hero, since he did not share any virtuous characteristics, hence, why he died in vain which led to, Biff, Willy's son whom he doubted so much throughout most of the play because he was struggling to figure out his own vocation, figures it out when he confronts Willy right before his death. At the end of the play, Biff finally confronts his own feelings to realize who he really is, takes on the role of a cowboy…

The Discourse of Feminism Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) is about a woman who suffers from post-traumatic depression. Her husband, John, and she moved to a summer vacation house that is in a very isolating place, separated from society. John, who is also her doctor, recommended that she need absolute rest and confinement. This contradicts what she believe will cure her. She believed that being active and having freedom will do her good. This makes her begin to write…

spoke to herself, setting a tense scene, I could feel the lies as she spoke them, nothing she told herself was true. She knew it, I knew it, but it seemed to be the only thing she had left. I listened to her speak; “It was August 31st and the whispering of my parents from the room below me plagued my sleep. Their voices were rushed and urgent as if somehow my parents knew what was happening in…

How are you doing? I have not talked or written to you for such a long time, and I really regret about the lost connections between us. I can still remember playing basketball, soccer, and ping pong with you everyday after school. Although you were always more athletic than me, I was still very confident to challenge you every single game. Do you still remember the good times we spent in Mr. Wang’s English class? We were the troublemakers in that classroom, but Mr. Wang could tolerate our…

In 2004, my country, Iraq, was in war with America. During this war the American soldiers dominated the capital of Iraq, Baghdad. They occupied the place, but the Iraqi people withstood the American soldiers. Iraq converted from a nice, beautiful and safe place to live in to enormously dangerous place because of the war. The American soldiers roamed in the streets. They started killing and taking anyone that was walking on the streets for no particular reason. I perceived a lot of gang violence…