The Day I Will Never Forget Essay

The Mark of War What is war? When I first started this course, I had a very vague idea of what “true” war was. I have never been in war and neither have I had family members or friends experience war in any way. War is often incomprehensible to people such as me and yet I realized that war carries with it an unbelievable amount of tragedy. I used to always be under the impression that war is an evil that ends once the war finishes. What I realized about war however was that not only is…

background sometimes forget their roots as they get older. I even forget my roots sometimes because, despite the fact that I grew up with a Vietnamese background, I have become so used to America and how they do things differently compared to Vietnam or Vietnamese people, that I simply forget about my culture and traditions. Another thing that I also overlook is the community that surrounds me every day. When I’m so caught up with my life and my extracurricular activities, I sometimes forget to…

The words “Deep down, the witness knew then, as he does now, that his testimony would not be received. After all, it deals with an event that sprang from the darkest zone of man. Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was. Others will never know, “(Wiesel, preface, xi) are very fitting and set the tone for a good reading experience. The author, Wiesel, is a man that bore the responsibility of telling a tale so torturous and inhumane that it even transcends its title. Wiesel grew…

human being, I procrastinate by not wanting to clean my dishes and leaving it for someone else, holding back on doing my homework, and not wanting to get dressed for school or work. Procrastination is in my life just about every day. For example, whenever I cook dinner for my family, I would always hold back on doing the dishes until someone else did them. One time I cooked dinner, and my mom told me to clean as I cooked which I did for the most part. When everyone had finished eating I did not…

to people, even it if is the tiniest thing. Everyday I carry multiple precious memories. Some special memories I cherish that i think back on often are memories with my mema, my grandma. I cherish these memories because it takes me back to a time when everything was much more simple. When all my built up thoughts were about toys and games, but now that I am older my thoughts tend to be more stressful. I love to look back on these times because I like reminiscing on these time of when everyone…

and down life but the lowest of lows any person could ever endure was WWII. But it got worse when he was placed in the most arguable worst Nazi deaths camps ever; Auschwitz. When Elie was growing up as a Jewish boy in Sighet, Transylvania (present day Romania), he was very religious on his own without the support of his family. He studied Cabbala on his own but his faith wasn’t present through his journey of hell. When Elie was fifteen years old in the year 1944 when German troops had first…

This is clearly shown when there are 80 Jews packed into cattle cars with unbearable conditions. Many of the Jews for their life, under the oppressive treatment of Nazis, Madame Schachter finally cracks after three days. “‘Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…’ Once again the young men bounded and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval. ‘Keep her quiet! Make that madwomen shut up. She 's not the only one here…”…

This past summer I had been working on the oncology floor as a nursing extern. There is one patient I will never forget. This patient had come in with stage four brain cancer. I remember the other nurses talking to me about how they remembered the same patient coming in two years earlier. She was diagnosed with stage two cancer on that day. Her husband, her two children, and her five grandchildren came into visit her often. She was getting radiation and steroids to see if that would help with…

elephant is sitting upon your chest, your eyes as big as golf balls, your brain saying, what are you thinking?! That exact feeling of fear is what I used to have until I learned a lesson I will remember for a lifetime. Fear can stand for one of two things; Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. We flashback to the summer of 2011. My family and I decided to begin our first of many cross country family road trips. On this particular year, we would trek to the happiest place on…

have, my senior year I found out that I was pregnant. Something that I thought would never happen to me happened. The senior year I had envisioned for myself was suddenly turned upside down. From the day I found out I was pregnant I would rehearse in my head what I was going to say to my parents, but I never found the right moment until it was to late. The day I told my parents I was pregnant is a day I will never forget, the day I told them I was thirty weeks pregnant. I had been carrying…