Be Here

In Tillie Olsen's “I stand here Ironing”,the narrator, Emily's mother, finds it difficult to explain Emily to other people. Throughout the entirety of the short story the mother often questions herself, and produces jumbled thoughts while explaining her daughter. As a reader it is hard to follow, but this is the point. She is not only trying to explain Emily to whomever she is speaking, rather she is also trying to explain Emily to herself. This is evident in how she struggles to string two…

Thesis: Coming here as an international student, I faced a great challenge in language barrier, and illegal immigrants are experiencing the same difficulty; that is why, although the United States government’s policies toward immigration change over time, I support current actions to be easier on undocumented immigration. Why I am here? I decided to study in the U.S because of its superior education system, compared to Vietnam’s. The education system in Vietnam is very obsolete, and…

“We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story” Abortion is a very emotional and controversial topic for most people to discuss. For some individuals, it means correcting a mistake and for others, it means murdering an innocent developing infant. To have an abortion means to end a pregnancy to avoid giving birth to a baby. It’s a highly questionable issue to debate which concerns the rights of a woman to make her own decisions. In “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story”, Sallie Tisdale describes the…

Summary: “Why Does the Taking Here?” In Deborah Tannen’s article “Why Does the Taking Here?” published The Washington Post, she discusses current research that men and women who talks more. The article demonstrates there are differences between women and men that the terms of when and where they speak. Tannen claims that these new studies about women and men talks, its more focus on counts the word that they use. She argues that this is not right research because it did not consider how each…

used in this poem highlight the theme that the family nurtures, cultivates, and strengthens its members though all of life. As one can see, the details, nondescript imagery, and metaphors and personification used by Harjo in “Perhaps the World Ends Here” emphasize the theme that the family nurtures, grows, and encourages its members through all stages of life. A person cannot grow by themselves. To solve this problem, one is placed in a family. The family encourages each other to grow and…

How Did I Get Here? As a child, the youngest of nine, I was always a nurturer. I was afraid of animals, so I loved On babies and my mother. When seven years ago my mother was diagnosed with dementia, I stepped in. To some, this was a death sentence, but for me it was a chance to be to her what she had been to me for 41yrs, a caregiver. Then I did not know just what I was in store for. The first 3 years were not so bad, but the last 4 years were very trying. Being the youngest of nine, I thought…

Professor of Economics, Paul Krugman speaks of solar power in the United States and it’s rise above fossil power in his New York Times op-ed, “Here Comes the Sun.” Is solar power really better than fossil power? Even though solar energy has a variety of benefits such as being abundant, environmentally friendly and also is declining in cost, it still has a few issues. One case of these issues is implementing that solar energy into the US electrical grid. According to the article “Green energy…

and will never be enough to be seen as equal. Inequality among the genders has been an ongoing issue since the beginning of humanity, and British singer Lily Allen decides to shed light on how it affects her line of work. In her hit song “Hard Out Here”, Lily Allen addresses and forwards the issues of misogyny and sexism in the music industry through her lyrics used in the song, the ironic use of black dancers to make a statement, and imagery in her…

essay titled We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story. After reading her personal essay about her job I concluded she doesn’t necessarily propose her opinion. While her opinion does not seem clear, I believe that Tisdale wants the readers to form their own opinion on the situation. As I read We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story, my opinion began to regenerate on abortion. I believe that there are certain situations that do call for abortion. In We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story, Tisdale…

Tillie Olsen, author of I Stand Here Ironing, writes about a mother struggling to make ends meet with her eldest daughter, Emily. Recently approached by a school administrator (one who has asked for a face-to-face meeting discussing Emily), the mother uses the time while ironing to revisit the memories of when she first had Emily and was left to raise her alone during the Great Depression. This was a time in history when poverty and hardship accumulated and became an economic crisis. The…