Got to Give It Up

in “Inside Out & Back Again” relates to the universal refugee experience because life started out okay, gradually got worse, and then got better. “Every Tet we eat sugary lotus seeds and glutinous rice cakes. We wear all new clothes, even underneath”(Lai 1). This explains what their family usually does for Tet, which is like our New Year’s. “Last September she (Ha’s mother) would give me fifty dong(Vietnamese currency) to buy one hundred grams of pork, a bushel of water spinach, and five cubes…

Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Rosa was born on February 4, 1913 and died on October 24, 2005. Rosa Parks was an African- American Civil Rights Activist and was involved in civil right issues in 1943, when she joined the National Association for the advancement of coloured people (NAACP). The United States congress called Rosa Parks "The First Lady of Civil Rights" and "The Mother of the Freedom Movement". The predicament that got Rosa to be named these…

banned. Malala loved school so she got her dad who was running the girls school keep it open and the girls snuck to school. Reading I am Malala changed my perspective on school and even life. One lesson I learned from the book was to believe in myself. In I am Malala even after the Taliban had school for girls banned she did not give up. After she got shot she still did not give up. If she could go through all of that without giving up then why should I give up on ideas that I believe in?…

offer to give her kidney to me and mine went to my mom the transplant went very well I went to school but as a weak kid I got sick alot so I was in and out of the hospital because of my weak immune system. But there was a good and bad thing about being in the hospital I kinda like it only because I got see the whole family and got gifts but the worst part of…

1. “The shade climbed up the hills toward the top.”(2) Personification is used in this sentence. The shade that covers the hill is described as an action by using the phase “climbed up”, which adds vividness to expressions as we always look at this environment from a human perspective. 2. “On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.” (2) Metaphor is used in this sentence. The rabbits are compared with gray and sculptured stones, which gives us a vivid image of…

a child, he grew up watching the college football team Notre Dame play. Rudy and his dad’s favorite team was Notre Dame, and his dad’s dream was to go and watch Notre Dame play. Rudy’s dream was to go there. As Rudy got older he was the smallest on the football team, but was willing to try his hardest even though…

of an obstacle by trying to complete the marathon without giving up. I felt like walking away, it was a real obstacle because I was tired and thirsty plus it was hot outside. An obstacle in my definition is to get over something and that’s what I did when I finished the marathon, I got over an obstacle that didn’t seem impossible it was possible but in my head it was impossible. I liked how I finished the marathon without giving up and that makes me feel proud of myself. This was the obstacle I…

Title: Never Giving Up Softball Have you ever played a sport and you felt like your team would never win a game? Well that is what the whole 8th grade varsity felt like by the end of the softball season. I first started playing softball because my dad played in our church league. One game he shattered his knee so he couldn’t play any more. When I watched the games, I thought it would be fun to try. So when I was six years old my dad signed me up for SVGSA (Spokane Valley Girls Softball…

alarm blared! I got up from my bed and took a shower and got dressed. “Ruff ruff,” the sound of my little dog Mia made as she ran to me. I love her more than anything in the world. I picked her up and gave her a kiss. “Alright now I got to go to school, but you be good when I'm gone.” I said to Mia as I ran out the door to only catching the bus a couple seconds before it left. “Ding!” the school bell rings. Finally, school is over. My dad picked me up and we went to the movies. We got to the…

Public Services In Ancient Rome there was a lot of positives and negatives. One of Rome's elements was their Public Services. I would give Rome's Public Services a B-; I would give it a B- because they had a great idea for finding water and getting it to Rome but water that got to Rome wasn’t healthy. On the other hand their roads were great! The Romans had citizens that went and looked for water, they would find springs, ponds, lakes, and other bodies of water. They looked at the inhabitants…