Dreams from My Father

My Voting Experience I can remember my voting experiences ever since I registered at the age of 16 in high school. What I mostly remember is when I was a young girl, I would accompany my father to the voting polls. I remember him saying how one of the important things for him to become a United States citizen was for him to vote; to have his vote count. He explained the differences in registering as a Democrat or Republican. Furthermore, he would say, “It is important to vote, because every…

All my life, I had the illusion of traveling and living in another country. It seemed a impossible dream, but I never lost the hope of my dream becoming my reality. Years passed, I got married, and with the birth of my first son, I met my great love and a new illusion. Around this time, it became the end of my marriage and my dream of traveling was meanwhile lethargic between the hidden memories and past dreams, waiting for the time to be alive again. I never thought that I would leave my…

Gatsby's way of living Have you ever thought about the word dream? We all have a dream that we want to live up to no matter what happens. The American Dream, Scott Fitzgerald’s, “The Great Gatsby” shows the American Dream though Gatsby by his love for Daisy and his wealth and attitude. Jay Gatsby has an advantaged life. His life is very more privileged than most people in his life. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven‘t had…

July of 2009. The setting of the novel takes place in the drought and hunger of Malawi Africa. William explains his life and the hardships that not only him and his family faced but what everyone faced. William was a very smart boy who had a dream, his dream changed the Malawians living conditions. William extented is education and successfully built the first windmill giving 2% of the Malawians electricity and running water. William and his family was just like every other family in Malawi…

Well, and much more. The plays, ¨ A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Mid-Semester´s Daydream and Twelfth Night, ¨ each show love, society/law, and friendship, while simultaneously contrasting. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare ” is about love, magic, and fantasies. It symbolizes the difficulties of love and realization of dreams. “ A Mid-Semester’s Daydream by Michael Ruscoe ” is a modernized version of “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ” in which high school students play the characters…

donned with spurs, chaps, and big wide hats. He was full of dreams, fed by the white billowing clouds that danced in the bright blue sky above his house, and he spent his days riding his pony over the big meadows near the edge of town, and as he rode across the meadow, he was anywhere, but, home. William lived in a parsonage with his father who was the preacher, the only ‘man of the cloth’ in his town. His father was Norwegian, from the old country, and had standards which he required…

repressed desires realized from the inner lives. For example, Dreaming, slip of the tongue and writing errors are forms of the reflection of the unconscious. As Freud put it,“…with the whole force of the repression by which those wishes have since that time been held down within us…in which those same impulses, though suppressed, are still to be found” (920). In “The Oedipus Complex,” Freud states that people have…

Embracing my profound cultural heritage has not been something I have always been good at. My story begins in Montreal, Canada when I was born into a newly immigrated family from Morocco. My dad was studying to become a software engineer at the University while my mother took on odd jobs here and there in order to keep food on the table. In the beginning, as such is the case for most immigrants, times were hard, but my poor upbringing taught me the virtue of being humble; something I pride…

who you are today or who you will become in the future. As I am listening to Maria Covarrubias, I can see the pain in her eyes as she recounts her story. The pain that I was not aware of until now. My mother came to the United States of America at a very young age. She came here to fulfill her dreams of coming to California “El Norte” for a better future. However, not all things turned out like she wanted. She faced many difficult situations and life challenges which molded her into the woman…

It was the Wise Man’s beloved German shepherd, Tanja, who had just awoken from her rest. Despite her owner’s increasingly time consuming schedule, there was always that small window of opportunity that the two devoted toward spending time together. When Tanja went to Harold as she moved past the Godmother, her tail was wagging…