English-language films

last summer. I was not as happy as I thought. Instead of screaming and hugging my parents to thank for giving me this chance, I was scared. In my mind, studying abroad was a really awesome experience. I could meet different friends, learn another language and enjoy a different…

Guayabitos is a place that is very familiar to me. It is a beach resort in the west of Mexico that my family used to go to everytime we visited our relatives in Villa Corona. It’s a pretty place with gentle waves, and hot sand, and a lot of people. There are two little islands that you can see from the shore and could be reached via boat (we visited one of the islands once, but it was full of crabs and we weren’t able to get off). I was about seven or eight years old when we went to Guayabitos…

Have you ever wanted to know the entire truth even though it could hurt you? Luna a fifteen year old girl did want to know the truth. You Have Seven Messages by Stewart Lewis is mainly about Luna trying to find out how her mother actually passed away. Everyone has told Luna that her mother died by getting hit by a taxi which Luna doesn 't believe fully. Luna thinks that something different had happened and needs the help of friend and family to figure out what really happened. The main…

First, one incident in my personal life that is an example of Sorrell’s quote involved someone else changing their normal routine to help me and my brother. In 2011, sometime during the colder months, my dad felt extremely sick all of a sudden He felt cold and started shivering, and coughs racked his ailing body. It clearly was not a regular cold and flu, so my mother first drove all of us to the hospital at around 4:00 in the afternoon. Then she drove my brother and I back home so she wouldn’t…

My mind went blank. I did not know what to do. It was as if my whole world was coming down on me at once, and I could not get help. My perfect little family, to everyone else, has been falling off a cliff and now has finally crashed to the ground. The true problems that were hidden to others for years were finally being broadcasted for everyone to see. Overcoming that obstacle was the hardest thing that I have ever had to do in my entire life. Since my parent’s separation, I have become a more…

According to Merriam Webster the term “ungifted” specifically means someone who does not have a talent, specialty, or an ability. It’s simply an individual who does not have a gift within themselves. Someone who is ungifted is something rare that exists in our society. It is true that in our society there are individuals who are ungifted and thus sometimes get mocked or pitied at. That is why as an individual myself if there was a possibility that society sought to have equality by lifting those…

The poem I heard a Fly buzz- when I died by Emily Dickinson dramatisizes the disturbance during the final moments of dying. She writes this poem from a viewpoint after she has died. She starts by mentioning the sound of a fly, in a quite room surrounding her deathbed. then she leaves that image and begins to talk about the room where she is dying. She tells about the people gathering around her as she is in her final moments. She also tells us about giving away her possessions, to show that she…

During “cocoon therapy,” I was in an isolated state separated from the world. It was at this time when my emotions were poured onto a canvas. Every joy seemed to be taken away from me. Reading, television, football, music, school, everything disappeared in blink of an eye. The pain kept hurting every day. No matter the time, it wasn’t getting any better. I wore sunglasses all the time to prevent headaches but also to shield my emotions from others. Appointment after appointment results weren’t…

Diaz covers the theme of home through his juxtaposition of Drown’s character’s dreams of homes (connected to the connotations of the word ‘home’) and the jarring reality of what home is to the characters to show us how awful their homes are and to show that they are trapped in these awful conditions. Diaz mainly covers how the houses of the characters are like prisons, showing the characters’ entrapment, doing this through symbolism and connotation, which juxtaposes with the freedom the…

Alfred A. Montapert once said, ”Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.” What he said completely relates to me, as I learned a very important, and gruesome, lesson. The incident caused me to change my perspective, which was huge in my childhood. I’ll never forget the time that I received stitches, because it made me realize that my parents know what’s best for me. It was an ordinary Wednesday afternoon. My sister and I had just gotten off of the school bus, plum…