Homesickness

“Mise Eire” Bringing Women into the World of Poetry Eavan Boland is known for her poetry being controversial. The subjects of her poems, most notably “Anorexia” and “In His Own Image”, a poem about spousal abuse, were not wildly discussed at the time of their publication, and Boland believed that this wasn’t right. Most of her poems were brash in their own ways, no hidden meanings behind her words, and meant for discussion. “Mise Eire” also has an important role to play in these…

A sudden Nostalgia in a Yoga class. We, human beings, tend to build intimate and emotional connections towards various things we encounter or have and places that we visit. If, ever, our relationships with these things or places come to an end; we may well mourn their absence or go through an experience of remembrance. This emotional an existential remembrance could include the past; our past experiences, incidents we got through, actions, places we have been to and people we met. Despite the…

Moving out of your homeland and migrating into a different country can be terrifying to people. When moving into a new country, an individual have to adjust themselves on how to live because each homeland is different. It is terrifying because trying to fit in the society that you’re not used to isn’t that easy to adapt, it takes a couple of years to fully be used to it. Despite of all the struggles you’ve been through, the benefits of moving into a new country is for better education, more job…

class was the W curve. The W curve consists of a predictable pattern in which occurs when a person experiences culture shock. Personally, I thought I went through the W curve quickly. One thing I did not experience as described on the W curve was homesickness. As much as I thought being in a new environment on my own would be uncomforting, I surprised myself and was able to adjust just fine. I didn’t feel the need to go home soon or every weekend which made things a lot easier. My biggest…

Madeleine Louise S. Baiño English 27 – K Andre Dominic Peralta Extracurricular activities: One of the pivotal events in a person’s life is College. It encompasses not only one’s education but also his youth culture. College life can be a stressful or a thrilling stage in a student’s life, as it is a stage where one transition from late adolescence to a young adult. Aside from reasons such as the desired school is far from home, parents reside in a remote province, and the long commute back and…

Writing project four reflection The group assignment for writing project four was by far the most creative and fun experience from all the other projects previously assigned. It allowed creativity and a place for broad interpretation which made it interesting. Our project was about the freshman fifteen and its health dangers during the first year and above to a college student. In the essay we discussed the many points on how to prevent this phenomenon and what the university can do to reduce…

This goes to show, that no matter what civilization, love for one another is a common and coexisting concept whether skin is red or white. Moreover, True Son, in midst of his homesickness, recalls memories of his mother as “a spreading sugar maple providing [his family] all with food and warmth…[and] his Indian father...an oak sheltering them from both the heat of the sun and the fury of the thunderbolt”(Richter, 112). The boy compares…

name, receiving a new American name, which if they didn’t comply they would be beaten. Society and education was extremely different depending on the race and social class of the child. These boarding schools transformed the children with fear, homesickness, and disease. Most of the staff either were not adequate to teach or to take care of these children. The textbook mentions, “Of the twenty-five Ute students sent to boarding school in Albuquerque in 1883, twelve died” (Jabour, 2005, p.242).…

In the novel, Giants in the Earth, Rölvaag goes to great lengths to portray the total experience of what life was like for those daring enough to settle it and start over again in the unknown and unexplored regions of the great American prairies. He writes so that the reader can feel just how vast and open the land is as well as the (hardship) harshness of frontier life and the destructive effects it had on the settlers—both the strong and the weak. It is no surprise that isolation, loneliness,…

John Green once said “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have a say in who hurts you”. Emotions are a great factor in everyday life. One of the decision makers based on your mood. They are complex and intricate because it can hold a different meaning to someone else. It can help dictate which hobbies or interest you will enjoy. Emotions are the fuel that can allow anyone to write poetry because it expresses the feelings deeply but on a smaller scale. “In three…