Cousin

miniature scrolls attached reveal the news of their engagement to guests upon their arrival. Those attending are Ralph’s parents, Fred & Eleanor Stauder, his uncle and aunt, Ralph and Ethel Gruenewald, his brother and sister, Clete and Dorothy, and his cousins, Leo Stauder and Jean Gruenewald who is attending with her boyfriend, Jim Richter. Gwen is currently employed at the St. Clair County Highway Department and Ralph is the editor of the fund-raising magazine for the Missionary Oblates of…

Sometimes in life, a person's trait can be their greatest help and hindrance. In “Born Worker” by Gary Soto, main character Jose is a victim of this situation. Jose is a low-class boy of Hispanic descent which causes people to stereotype him. Jose has a cousin Arnie who is a middle-class boy. Arnie receives all the luxuries in life and instead of accepting and appreciating his life, he takes it for granted and brags about it to Jose. Despite all the things against Jose, he is still able to…

their rooms.About an hour after we got settled,I went to go get my cousins so we could go swimming before we have our meet and greet with the whole family. We made it to the pool but the exact moment we were about to step foot in the pool the ship alarms went off,luckily it was just a drill. After the thirty minute drill,we finally made it inside the pool. The pool was clear, salty, and packed to the max with little kids.My cousins and I probably stayed in the pool for five minutes, before we…

haunting throughout the story, each author efficiently portrays two separate types of a haunting: one being a ghost, and one being a past. Braddon’s short story “Eveline’s Visitant” tells a tale of a young man in France named Hector. Hector strikes his cousin, Andre de Brissac, across his beautiful and adorned face. With rage and anger, Andre lies on the floor near to death, and says to Hector, “It is my will to haunt you when I am dead.” (Braddon).…

Warren is close with most of his extended family, but he is extremely close with his grandfather and his oldest cousin. Warren has been close with his grandfather since he was a kid, they only lived several miles apart so they were always together as Warren grew up. Warren’s grandfather showed him how to play football, and ultimately developed his love for the sport…

catch what person’s feeling. When I was in high school, I was seriously bad at hiding my feelings, therefore, most of my close people noticed my inner feelings right away, even though it’s good or not. Mostly, when I heard advice from my aunt or my cousins, I did not know how to hide my embarrassed feelings and showed irritated face. I did not recognize that I was showing annoyed face to people, however, after my aunt told me revealing inner thinking with irritated expression is inappropriate…

I left her home was at 7 am to make it to my aunt’s home to help her babysit my little cousin. After all, I made plans with her and I wasn’t going to just break a promise because I had partied…

The clearest illustration of this was when my cousin, Lauren, became pregnant while she was still unmarried and in High School. My grandmother happened to be visiting us in the States when we received the news. I could tell that my grandmother was very upset, and it felt like there was something we had all done wrong as a family. My grandmother was a mix of furious, and sad. Immediately she demanded that we disown my cousin Lauren because of the “dishonor” she has brought to our family…

My gold is yours whenever you wish it, not only is my gold but my merchandise.” Since the young monk is not the merchant's wife, the merchant is willing to give money to him since they’re ‘cousin.’ Not only the young monk pays to the merchant the money and his wife in bed, it’s a greedy magician character like the young monk that lies to the merchant in the beginning to get close to the merchant’s life just get at his wife.The archetypal theories…

after I made that decision. It was a sunny day, here in Burlington, WA, I could hear the birds chirping,and I could feel the cool breeze outside coming into my room from the open window. Today was the day that me and my whole family, including my cousins, were going to go to Deception Pass State Park. Deception Pass was about 25 miles from our house, so we had to leave a bit early to get there at 12:00 pm. So I got up and hurriedly changed my clothes, so that I would be ready for the trip. At…