Aerosmith

Growing up in Vietnam was the same as with any typical Vietnamese family there. My parent divorced when I was five. My mother, brother and I lived with my grandma, aunt, uncle and their 3 children, My grandma, auntie, uncle, and my mother did not finish 5th-grade. I was fortunate to finished grade 11th. My brother and cousin could not make it to high school. In Vietnam free public education was not available. I, like so many young Vietnamese, had to drop out of school for two common reasons:…

The most serious problems at Marlboro Middle School is that people feel left out of a certain group, people disrespecting each other, and stress. The first issue is that people feel left out which is one problem in our world that cannot be fully solved, but at Marlboro Middle School we can start including people from around our school and include them to feel safe in our school environment. Another issue is that people disrespect each other sometimes on purpose, others unintentionally. One…

Susan Wolf‘s theory on how one live their lives is one subject that will be talked about in the days to come. She explains that the meaning to finding one’s happiness is through giving back to others in need and finding your passion. Although her statements may be true, she fails to mention anything about personal satisfaction. What is it about our personal satisfaction that would help us find meaning into our lives? Can our own personal success in life be sufficient enough to live a…

The Road, a post-apocalyptic, bleak and overwhelmingly daunting set novel, which conceals a deeper rooted message of overwhelming love and the connection as well as the true meaning of father and son even through the darkest of times. This iconic novel was written by the world renown Cormac McCarthy, who typically writes out of the ordinary, dark, and menacing books and is also known for several other of his works including Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men. McCarthy published this novel…

It all started one week into my junior year. All my life I have loved to do hair, my mother was never very good at doing it, so from a young age I would do my own hair. I remember days where I would show up with half of my hair in a ponytail because my mom “put it in too tight.” Days would go by where I threw fits when she would try and do it for me, but one day she didn’t. Then days after that, still nothing. I was pretty sure that she had given up on trying to do it! “Yes!” I thought to myself…

Lucy and Jesus After “First-Time Flyer FAQ” on page 189 I was restlessly sitting in my Coach class chair, as Olly was asleep like a baby. The flight was surprisingly very calm except for a bit of turbulence here and there. It’s remarkable how mankind was able to find a way to get big hunks of metal to fly through the air. I wish I could do something like that with my life, except that I’ll never have the opportunity to do so. “How are you doing Olly?” I say while he’s sleeping. Olly just grunts…

A lonely man named Dave lived in San Diego, where he had 3 hard working jobs. Dave wanted to take a break from all of the work. He decided to take a vacation to Arizona, specifically the Grand Canyon to go camping. He decided to go on this trip by himself because he wanted to enjoy his time off in peace. Dave has always wanted to go to the Grand Canyon to go fishing and hiking. Dave took off 3 days of work so he could enjoy the weekend. He left friday morning in his Jeep Wrangler. It took him…

Stage One: Your reading history and practice Besides what you had to read for school, how much did you read growing up? I did have any habits of reading. I have not done that much reading when I was growing up, even in French. As I mention before, I started learning, speaking, reading, and writing in English on the second of September 2014, when I went to South African. Even before that, reading was not something I really like to do. My reading experiences are from the past two…

The Fire I remember that day well, I was in the house as usual and I heard the Finch children playing outside in the snow. That was the first snowfall in Maycomb that had occurred in many years. I wished that I could go out and play in the snow, I wondered what they would do all day. Surly they would try to make a snowman, but their was not enough snow for that. To my surprise I saw them making a little man, out of dirt, he had a strong resemblance to Mr. Avery. Then the brought basket loads of…

I was raised in an Afghan household where the language everyone spoke around me was Farsi. Going to school was one of the hardest things for me. My parents didn't get far in school which resulted in them not knowing english. I couldn’t talk, speak, or write in English, yet I was forced into going to this world where it sounded like everyone was talking gibberish. Feeling scared and confused as to why my teachers and peers don’t respond when I tell them I have to go to the bathroom. All I ever…