All the Things She Said

did I know it was my fault. All my life I had anxiety and depression. My parents struggled with taking me to the doctor, and the bills started to raise. My parents argued because my dad would spend money on beer instead or on bills. No one at school liked me because they pictured me as the weird girl that was physco. My brother Joey is popular at school he plays for the football team dates a cheerleader. His grades were good and he was outgoing.…

hours before this interview. She appeared tired, but was very excited to answer my questions about her birthing experience. My intent for this interview was to get a good idea on the quality of care that she received during this birth, and maybe more information on her overall experience of the birth. I started with some simple questions. I asked her how she thought her pregnancy went overall and how it went compared to her previous pregnancies. She responded with she thought it went well,…

little children and adults, a lesson of discrimination. The film has three parts the documentary, a reunion of the third graders, and the exercise with the correctional officers. She wanted to find a way to really get through to people what discrimination is because you don’t know what something is until you go through it. So she came up with this mechanism called the “blue-eye/brown-eye exercise because it played a role in demonstrating what prejudice and racism truly is. The whole idea arose…

1st Speaker: Dr. Patricia Miner- Director of ADA Didactic Program in Dietetics at Queens College. 1. The speaker spoke about how she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 21, and became interested in nutrition. She said to always pursue a job and never wait to be given one. 2. The speakers message related to the quality of life for individuals, because it shows that disease, specifically diabetes can be managed well or even prevented by eating the correct foods. 3. What I learned from the…

in their daily lives, try not to be so sad all the time, try to forget everything that makes people hate their everyday lives. Taz has said in one of her poems,“I so badly want to feel my heart with so much happiness that it takes all the sadness away.” What means by this no matter how hard people try once someone gets infected with this sadness they really can't get away from it, but there's always things to help them and that's why she writes and she pours her feelings into these poems and…

to engage in odd behaviors such as going from being extremely grumpy one second to being unbearingly affectionate the next. They also like to eerily watch us while we pee in the bathroom and knock over things while looking straight into our eyes without a hint of guilt. Cats do the most random things that either make cat haters roll their eyes in frustration or make cat-lovers love them even more. However, there is one cat mystery that baffles even the most feline fanatic in the world, the…

However, I’m not sure if I want to work in the ER like Melissa, but she did give me some great information and stories to get me excited about my career. All of the information I have gained from doing this essay is phenomenal and I am glad I had to research this to make sure I actually want to pursue this. I have learned that I need to complete my AA degree first…

what the women get mad about because when men come home, they have nothing to say or talk about and women think it’s because of them but it really isn’t. Like the guy in Tannen’s article was the life of the party, but he said he said that he was the shy one and his wife did all the talking at home. This caused problems in their relationship. Therefore, the divorce rate is climbing steadily because women think because men have nothing to say that it is because of them so they leave for no real…

snow. I was just about to open my christmas stocking when she arrived wearing a sparkling white dress, black church shoes, and two diamond earrings that went with her beautiful sleek red velvet hair waving swiftly through the air. She came up to me and said, “Dylan I brought you a Christmas gift.” When I opened it I saw that it was a crisp twenty dollar bill. I was so happy. My mom then said to me, “Dylan now go give Nana a hug for what she gave you.” I gave her the biggest hug I had ever given.…

It was 3am in the morning. She was cold, pale, still. She was dead. In the speed of a heartbeat my mother was gone. Her mind was strong, but it had been her body that failed her. It’s been one year since her death and I have gone into this deep depression. I am trying to fight my anxiety, but not succeeding at all. I am alone and I think about her everyday. I have been seeing someone, in my dreams, on my walks in the woods, even in my house. She wears an all black dress and has an umbrella,…