How I Spent My Vacation Essay

was not written in the history books, something amazing did happen. I was born. Before that day I was only an idea. No one, not even my parents could fathom the person I, Tameika Cutina Jackson would some da become. So who did I become? I was never an ordinary child. I spent a lot of recess time reading and writing short stories or shifting through dirt looking for rocks to add to my collection. And as a grown 22 year old woman I still love to read and write and ill occasionally have to resist…

2. As you moved through your childhood and adolescence, how did the relative importance of your family, school, peers, and the mass media as agents of socialization change? How would you account for these changes? Responses should be in at least 3 paragraphs detailing the agents of socialization in your life from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Double-check…

Prior to this week, my idea of “formal research” was a quick google search and skimming a few websites. I was appalled to learn that I have much more efficient and scholarly resources at my fingertips. It helped me understand how easy it is to fall for complacency. Similarly, many people today have a complacency for social networking being well integrated into our daily routines. Many millennials would deem “old social media” as Myspace; however, the parameters of social media in my recent…

Before this summer, I didn’t know such things as memoirs ever existed. As a bias fiction-lover, I do admit that I was alreading judging this kind of genre by the description. However, what I realized was that how interesting a book is, all depends on the reader and the writer. If a reader is forced to read then the book won’t be as good because the reader has the mental state of unwilling to read the book. This could also happen when the reader wants to read the book but eventually loses…

I am fortunate enough to say that my father and I share a very close relationship. We both have the same morbid sense of humor. The same love for the cheesy acting in the original Star Trek series. Even a mutual involvement in the world of athleticism. But most of all, we share an extreme passion for fishing. We spend all of our time discussing lures, different casting methods and various types of fish. I’ve learned so much about fishing and my dad throughout the years, but I think what I…

call me a hopeless romantic. I have always dreamed and prayed the day would come when I would get married and have kids. I have tried and have had multiple failed attempts. I have tried local online dating sites, meeting men in person and even had the help of some friends to set me up with someone. After all these failed efforts I felt lost, scared, hopeless and the worst of it all heartbroken. This was going on for years I just felt like I was in this never-ending cycle. I was on YouTube and…

When most people find out that my mom grew up in Papua New Guinea, an Oceanian country above Australia, they look confused. I imagine a thought similar to a famous Mean Girls quote pops into their head: “If your mom’s from Papua New Guinea, why is she white?” But of course, you can’t just ask people why they’re white. So, to lessen their confusion, I immediately explain how my grandpa, Robert “Robin” Thurman, and his wife, Ruth, moved to PNG with their two daughters to work as missionaries.…

I was born in Yuma, Arizona but I was raised in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora because of my parents. I was studying there, until my parents took the decision of sending my 3 siblings and me to study in the United States. This is my 5th year in this country and although it has been a little bit challenging, I have faced all kind of barriers such as learning the second language, here I am studying my first year of college. In my family we are 7 members: 2 older brothers, 2 younger sisters, both of…

A few extra things that I can mention about my overall time spent at the ASANTE hospital is that it is very difficult. There are times where I did not know what to do, or who to call to fix certain problems and/or to get extra assistance. For instance, I had an incident where someone threw up all over outside of the South Lobby where I was located, encountered a disfunction with one of the toilets here that had people coming to me over and over to complain to and many angry people who took their…

1. I was born to Latino parents; my mother is Puerto Rican and my father is Mexican. However, throughout most my childhood life I was raised here in California surrounded by my father’s side of the family and the Mexican American culture. Nevertheless, it wasn’t until I was eleven years old that we took a family vacation to Puerto Rico over the Thanksgiving holiday that I was able to experience the Puerto Rican culture. At that time when people would ask me my ethnicity I would always only say…