Birth order

As I started to think about my topic for my personal essay, I thought of birds. I thought about how I would like to be a bird and how free they are, but then as I wrote that essay I realized that not the one thing I want people to know about me. Growing up I was the baby in my family for 9 years, until my younger sister and brother came along and my family went from three to five. And that made me the middle child. My parents were never on the same page. My mom was passive and my dad was very…

After experiencing the violence of war, it is difficult for a soldier to readjust back into society causing alienation and a strain to return home both physically and emotionally. In Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home” the main character Harold Krebs lies, is incapable of love and he struggles to readapt to his family and community. Krebs is a different person than before the war and eventually accepts the idea that he can never really go home. Hemingway illustrates the…

Problem solving. When a problem arises in this family, they sit down and talk about how they are going to solve it. The main problem being dealt with in this family is with CS and her condition. The one who first noticed her problem was her grandma. She started noticing little things like cleaning door knobs before entering a room and not eating food if it was touching something. Once it was identified to the parents, they started watching for the cues as well. It got to a point where the family…

Tongue-Tastic Rolling For my pedigree project I did tongue rolling. My dad can roll his tongue but my mom on the other hand can’t. In conclusion to my project I figured out that a lot on my dad’s side could roll their tongues, such as almost all my aunts and one uncle. The only ones who couldn’t are my Aunt Rachel and Aunt Becky. On my mom’s side only my Uncle Scott can. I also learned that my brothers and I can all roll our tongues, which is pretty cool. I can use this in the future to figure…

We live in a society where women still struggle to find their place, as evidenced by the Women’s March, a social movement, that took place nationwide this past January. (1) Gender roles are placed upon us from the moment we are born, defined by our society, and enforced by our parents. As most men, I grew up oblivious to the fact that my female counterparts were seen as different despite I coming from a Hispanic household where the phrase “boys will be boys” seems acceptable. Even though our…

Jack Craughton was born in Manhattan to a wealthy family. Jack’s father, Ronald, was a lawyer and his mother, Jane, was a United States senator representing the state of New York. His father’s sister, Betty, was an actress and his father’s brother, Paul, was the CEO of Brooklyn Oil. Jack had two older brothers and a younger sister. Ben was a lawyer, like their father and Bill, the oldest, was a politician, like their mother. The youngest sibling, Ally, was a real estate tycoon. Jack…

IT is the early winter of 2015, a cold, windy Wednesday afternoon. Two of us sit together, side by side, in soft, comfortable chairs on the second level of our home. We wear everyday clothes. I listen patiently to her ramblings. When the talking is over, I sit up in the chair, and I am officially telling her everything, the eldest child of Heather Crawford in the city of Hutto, Texas. For me, the curtain has just closed on lying. Afterward, I look up at my mom, my biggest critic, and apologize…

I have never looked up to, and never have I ever been around, anyone more in my life than my sister. From the moment I was born, we were attached at her hip whether she wanted me there or not - we played with toys, and games, together; I looked up to her; I respected her; she taught me next to everything that I knew about life back before I started school. Once I got a bit older, I reached the point of having the ability to genuinely discover who I was, and find my own identity. Around the same…

Being the middle to youngest Skyleur sister isn’t the best thing with being left out a lot since I’m not the prettiest one like Angelica or as kind as Eliza or as fun as Peggy. My dad Phillip Skyleur doesn’t talk about me much I don’t really like being in the spotlight but he still acknowledges me. My sisters do also but I’m never really apart of their activities they are known as the trio since people forget about me sometimes. I have a lilac dress while my sisters have the pink, blue, and…

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was born in October 16, 1936, in the village of Yablochnoye, a part of Ukrainian state of the USSR during Stalin’s regime ( Serial Killers: Unmasked par 2). Ukraine being the “breadbasket” of the Soviet Union, Stalin’s agricultural collectivization polices brought famine and starvation in the village during Chikatilo childhood (McCarthy par 2). He was forced to eat grass and leaves to stay alive, and had not tasted bread till he was 12 (Goss, Gray & Villalvazo par…