Mother Tongue Essay

origin of the child. If it were truly adopted, she could give far more details about what led her to adopt the child and what she endured going through the adoption process. She would also describe how she felt when Sister accused her of lying to her mother about the child. Stella-Rondo would suggest that the reason she didn’t want to talk about the adoption was because she didn’t want her child to focus on the fact she was adopted. Stella-Rondo would accuse her Sister of making up lies, and…

My family consists of my father, mother, two elder sisters, myself, and my younger brother. My parents are married; however separated since we immigrated here in the United States in 2005. My father, myself and my younger brother are currently living in California; though, we live separately. My father, Cornelio Jimenez lives in Hayward. My daughter, Kirrishea and I live in Oakland and my younger brother, Jaycee lives by himself in Union City. My mother, Lilian and my eldest sister, Leigh…

upbringing, she rushed over to help. The boy was frantically crying as his mother was inspecting his finger, she began to show my mom where his finger was red and swollen, my mother with a concerned voice asked, “What happened? Did he stove his finger?” The boy’s mother looked up at my mom with an irritated look in her eyes, and sarcastically came back with, “ No Ms. West Virginia, he didn’t stove his finger, but he’s fixin’ to.” My mother felt completely shut down and deflated.…

Most songs on the radio today consist of lyrics. When an artist sits down to create music they are channeling a certain experience they may have had in their life. Whether that experience is heartbreak or a new relationship, even something that happened in the past. They put their feelings and experiences into the lyrics of their song. Some lyrics may have multiple meanings. In Kelly Clarksons song “Piece by Piece” she sings about the pain she felt toward her father leaving when she was young…

Over the years of scientific advancements, people have gained access to the sperm banks where sperm gets frozen in liquid nitrogen to be used for later use. One of the most famous banks was The Repository for Germinal Choice created by Robert Klark Graham which was publicized in 1970 (Plotz 1). Although there are many men who can’t have biological children due to many reasons including; low sperm count, poor sperm motility, and abnormal sperm shape (Simon 1), the main question still stands.…

years of family drama. A few days before Thanksgiving my parents shared the news with my grandparents, wanting to keep the pregnancy between them until my mom saw the Dr. and made sure everything was OK and a true pregnancy. Unfortunately my dad’s mother, Sharon, decided to tell the entire…

Janae KopetJanuary 17, 2016Adult Studies Seminar Block1 Kopet.Session1.Journal As far back as I can remember, I have always had a desire to understand people and why we do the things we do, to understand and evaluate the human condition. If I were to reflect on an experience in my life that influenced me in this direction, I could go back to growing up without a father and always having an awareness of how this affected my life, and the life of my brother. I could go back to the years of…

purpose of the research was to identify ways the parents interactions affect the way the boys handle their emotions. The mother in the clip gave more suggestions and more solutions when the girl is talking about her emotions. The mother dealing with the boy child doesn’t focus on the feeling of anger itself, but the actions performed when he acts out. In conclusion, the mothers encourage the girls to provide details about their feelings and emotions, but boys don’t give much detail about their…

elderly people, but not much of people that play an important role in one’s life. Especially not your immediate family, such as a child 's parent and so forth. In the lines 25-28, visually you can imagine a grown young lady sitting besides her elderly mother while drinking some tea. These lines, then go on the illustrate how the narrator is grown up and reminiscing on how easy it was to be a child. It was the time where she had not fully realized that people do pass on even parents that have…

citizen, a daughter, a sister, a wife and so many other things. But this endless list boils down to one main thing – my mother is a human being; an unbelievable one human being. This is ordinarily where an author boasts on about their mother being the best mother out there as everyone contradicts against this by shouting out on about how admirable and awe-inspiring their mother is. In my opinion, I would like to argue we fight for our mums in the midst of a crowded yet empty void is because…