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Thanksgiving Day with my aunts, uncles and cousins, my uncle said out loud, “I spy with my little eye a black dot” and while it might not seem like so a big thing, my family knew what he was talking about, he was talking about President Obama. His kids and his wife laughed but I looked at my dad and he looked at me back with a serious face. My uncle lives in Johns Creek, in a neighborhood where I have never seen a single black person in my life. Hanging out with my cousins and their friends I…

I was at Eckert’s over the past weekend and my aunt, uncle, cousin, step dad, mom, and my two sisters, were all getting on the tractor to go on a ride and my other aunt was one person behind us. My step dad moved my youngest sister and put her on his lap so my aunt and other cousin could sit down. This other lady tried to sit down in that spot and my mom said that's for her, the other lady replied and said that she was there first. ( Keep in mind that there was a bunch of open seats in the…

usual and I could not help but notice the nervous group of kids trying to figure out the directions. Looking at them reminded me of the time when I first used the skytrain without any adult supervision. I vividly remember the struggle my little cousin and I faced just to get back home. It was on a sunny August day during my grade 10 summer and we were going volunteering in Burnaby. With the help of my grandpa and screenshots of the google map directions we reached our volunteering…

In “Be American,” Carlos Bulosan reveals the lack of choice a Filipino had at the time through the story of someone’s cousin, Consorcio, and his struggle to gain citizenship in America. Bulosan’s short story shares this idea of no choice with a political cartoon known as “What Will He Do,” which depicts President McKinley deciding whether or not to keep the Philippines or “send them to Spain” while the globe watches for his decision. Through the visual of President McKinley making a decision for…

mothers couldn’t have a baby anyway. So if it fails, they can always try again. My mom personally tried using In Vitro which not only failed, but put her in the hospital because she had an allergic reaction to it. But ART also can help people. My cousin, as it runs in my family, had a lot of reproduction trouble and without ART would not be able to have children on her own. Currently, she’s pregnant with her first child thanks to ART.…

desecrating a body in the land he was born in. Achilles defiling Hector’s in front of the city of Troy showed how Achilles has changed over the war. Because of the mourning of Patroclus he killed and defiled Hector the man responsible for the death of his cousin. Priam, king of Troy came to Achilles camp to beg for Hectors body back for a proper burial in Book XXIV. Priam did not care about the War because he won’t have risk his own life to get the body of his beloved son…

I was with my grandmother and my cousin, Claren, and as our tradition every year my two cousins, grandmother and I would go to our camper in Cherokee where we would stay for weeks at a time. For a few years my entire family has had some bad problems with each other and it’s sad to say, but it has been many years since…

is vacant. The story follows historian Dr. Theodore Faron as he copes with his present reality by reminiscing in the past. Theo has lived a life of misery and apathy having only one true friend, his cousin, the Warden of England. It is not long before he meets a woman who convinces Theo that his cousin is a tyrant and is destroying the hopes for humanity's survival for personal gain. Theo is at first apathetic to the woman’s claims, but after a meeting with the council of England and with the…

The movie “Parenthood” showed me family are the people you know will always be there for you, even if you do not have the best relationship with them. When I was about 5 or 6 years old, my family were the people in my life that I looked up to the most. I wanted to be just like my older brother in everything I did and my Mom and Dad were my biggest role models. Yet as I grew older my roles models and influences changed. My friends at school started to impact my decisions more than my siblings and…

Falling in love with your enemies is never a smart idea.For Romeo and Juliet they couldn't help that their parents hated each other. In family feuds the worst things could always happen. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet demonstrates that the consequences of civil strife include legal, emotional, and physical suffering. When Romeo found out that Juliet was a Capulet, everything went downhill from there. After Tybalt Killed Mercutio, Romeo wanted to defend his friend so he killed Tybalt.…