Cousin

In the article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter, she blames the current structure of American society for the gender gap. Slaughter uses her personal experience on having a high-profile position in the government as evidence that balancing the responsibilities of a parent and a profession is impossible. Throughout the article Slaughter provides four solutions in order to produce a society that works for women. The first solution is redefining the arc of a successful…

object of a sinister scheme. The three peculiar characters; Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, and Marvin Macy lives are intertwined and fueled with love and revenge. Miss Amelia is the owner of a small café in the center of town. She is rich, mostly from her father’s previous endives, but is also quite business savvy herself. A quirky women, the townspeople accept her because of her store, whisky and her free doctoring services. Cousin Lymon is a hunchback who arrives one…

According to Merriam-Webster, family can be defined as “the basic unit in society consisting of two parents rearing children”(Family). But in reality, family often transcends that definition. Families are people who have strong emotional connections with each other. To Live is a story about a man who experiences many misfortunes. Throughout the story, Fugui realizes how important his family is to him, and once they are all gone he has no choice but to live on without them. Hua uses varying tone…

Growing up, my parents spoke a lot of Spanish in our household. My sisters and I would be able to pick up bit and pieces of this foreign language to be able to communicate easier. Our grandmother, who could only speak Spanish, played a big role in my understanding of the language. Her home country is Chile and she had been wanting to go back and visit It with us. During the summer that year my parents and my grandparents prepared a trip to go visit. As a child just hearing the word vacation…

After reviewing the case of Jose the Mexican American, I found that he had been struggling with the following issues. He has been struggling to balance working and going to school and he is torn between having to choose between his religion and getting an education. He feel cut off/out of place from his family because he has become less involved in family activities/rituals and he feels guilty and shameful because he forced his girlfriend to have an abortion. Jose is probably having sexual…

Hey Tagnet, My brother (Ethan Reuter) and I (Ian Reuter), are starting to prep for our semi-annual June trip down to TAG, and as such we are beginning to formulate a list of caves we want to visit while we are down there this summer. We love the caves down there so much, I doubt we will ever get bored of coming down. However, as we have been making trips down for a few years now we have started to exhaust the “TAG classics” list. With that said, there are some caves I feel like we have to…

Steward is 17 he goes by Stew.When Stew gets off of work he has to take the bus home because he does not have enough money to afford a new car after an accident happened. Stew is in the twelfth grade his senior year in high school, getting ready to go to college.Stew can be loud and annoying but also sometimes he can be kind,caring,and silly.Stew is average person's height,extremely fit,also extremely strong.Stew loves playing his trumpet as a hobby when he has time to the only time he does not…

My first advice I would give to my cousin Chez is giving people space. Chez needs to stop getting in people’s faces because it makes them uncomfortable. If he needs to ask them something then he needs to give them enough space. He needs to stay at least arms length away from them so that they have enough space, and it will make them uncomfortable. That should be enough advice for him so that he can give people space. The next advice I would give to my cousin Chez is doing what people…

Cousin Lymon has proven himself to be a sociable person who enjoys entertaining the town's people with his tales. He is an attention seeker who lives the life to the fullest and enjoys being the center of activity at the cafe. He was the one who persuade Miss Amelia into transforming her store into a cafe just for his own pleasure of entertaining people. Miss Amelia allows the transformation to occur out of love for Lymon. Soon, the store transform into the cafe and it becomes a great sort of…

Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, otherwise known as Vinny, is the defending counsel for his cousin, Bill Gambini and his friend Stan Rothenstein. Vinny’s main role is as a storyteller of a specific narrative. Vinny’s acting, attire, props, demeanor on stage (the well), and his relationship to the audience (the jury) are all aspects of the way the…