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Overall, it just made the game more fun. hen I got into Como Park Senior High School, I joined the soccer team, but not the varsity, not the junior varsity,the C team, where I played striker. That was good because I was only 9th grade, and I needed to work on my skills. I am an eighteen-year-old Somali man…

Preston Lefevre Ms. Comos ELA 11 March 2024. The “Beyond Vietnam” Martin Luther King Essay War is a subject that will always cause disagreements, whether it’s what the country is fighting for, who the country is fighting for or if the country should be fighting or not. But possibly the most controversial war in the history of the United States is the Vietnam War, which Martin Luther King Jr. discusses in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, given on April 4th, 1967 in Riverside Church. King uses…

Luzardo arrives in the llanos as the bearer of modernity” (Henighan 31). For example, when Santos is talking to the local plainsmen and they both agree that a fence would not do any harm to the daily life and ultimately each promised to erect a fence: “Y como no podía ser todo para ambos, se convino en que sería nada, y cada cual se comprometió a levantar una cerca en torno al palmar, viniendo así a quedar éste cerrado y sin dueño entre ambas propiedades” (Gallegos 24). As the novel progress and…

Peterbilt class pulled over the roar of the engine, and the jake brake activated not to say the downshifting melody of the transmission gears declined, and the truck came to a stop it was Diego one of my dad’s friend's from his childhood. “Ke onda wey Como as Estado?” my dad asked. “Bien y tu,” his friend asked him. “Bien ando con los chamakos cargando agua para el baño oye wey me das un ride a la gasolinera. se me kedo la troka sin gas?” my dad asked his friend. “Si wey súbete al camión y…

Counter culture, emancipation and liberation are the characteristics of the Disco era. No complications and a carefree attitude defined Disco. Individualism as well as empowerment were at the forefront of the movement, characterized in songs like “I will survive” By Gloria Gaynor or the Village people “I am what I am”. The age of Discotheques 1974 thru 1981, arguably, originated in the underground gay clubs of New York. it is said Disco is dead, but the music lives on in the hearts of…

The tree of life, wisdom and knowledge is called the Norse Yggdrasil. This tree symbolizes the stages of life. From the roots being the land of death, to the tips of the branches that reach to the heavens. Yggdrasil is “the most famous cosmic tree” (leeming 298). The tree, Yggdrasil, is a source for many worlds that the roots that reach the bottom of the earth to the branches that reach the heights of the heavens. This natural beautiful Cosmic tree is earthly and everlasting. This Tree of…

mother what school was like for her. One morning, I woke up and went straight to the bathroom, made myself presentable and marched downstairs ready to ask my mother what high school was like for her. With a tone of curiosity I asked my mother, “ Mami, como era la escuela para ti?”. That led to the discovery that both her and my father are high school dropouts; discovering that hit me viciously. I had more questions to ask, “we are doing fine, is school really worth it ? Should I even keep…

Ciao!-hello! The culture of Italy caught my attention because both of my parents have an Italian ancestry. My father’s great grandparents emigrated from Rome, Italy during a time of economical debt. Although my family no longer lives in Italy, we have very similar customs to those who do. Italy is one of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever seen with a rather fascinating economical history. I am captivated to learn more about Italy and its customs. To begin, the nation of Italy is a beautiful…

In like manner, within Pêro Vaz de Caminha’s Carta the writing makes a clear statement of the writer’s apparent feelings of cultural shock. Moreover, the written description of the Portuguese’s discovery of Brazil, expresses the disorientation of the Portuguese when they encountered peoples and culture extremely different from that of their own. Fundamentally, this letter is a description, to the king of Portugal, on the ways in which native culture and lifestyle works. Actually, in the letter…

Don McLean was born on October 2nd, 1945 in Rochester New York. As a young boy, McLean gained a love for all types of music and would spend long hours listening to his father’s radio. Having asthma as a child, McLean missed a lot of school but his love for music did not diminish. As a teenager his sister paid for opera lessons for him and along with spending a lot of time in a swimming pool his asthma improved. Around the same time, McLean bought his first guitar. By 1961, McLean’s focus was on…