Homesickness

War, something that can cause immense heartbreak and grief to people. There are several wars that have broken out through the course of history and generally, caused a lot of casualties and losses. Soldiers sacrifice themselves for the sake of their country and their people so that people can have better lives. The novels Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens portrays the sacrifices that the characters go through for the ‘greater good’ of others. The…

The Disasters of Official English The chinese kid and the kid with the Indian accent play with their classmates, everything seems great, all laughs and smiles. However, these two children can no longer speak to their families from back home; they do not even remember the customs of their culture that they once practiced. These boys feel lost like they do not belong with all of their friends. The chinese kid and the Indian kid came to America with their parents and were forced to assimilate to…

C.S. Lewis and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, but has many other well-known novels and series. The best known book in the Narnia series is The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the first book of seven. By looking at The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, one can see that…

“Mr. D, how do you say this (holding a pen) in English?” It was my first day back to school in Dubai. As I looked at my seventh grade student whom I knew I was going to be teaching history and geography to, exclusively in English, I realized I was in for a long semester. But, I empathized. “It’s a pen,” I said patiently. She nodded with understanding. Eight months later, my socially acclimatized student was conversing fluently in English with her peers. And, she had become one of my top students…

In the poem, “I cannot live with you”, by Emily Dickinson, the narrator expresses her love and despair for lover whom she cannot be with. The narrator suffers immensely because of her lover, hence why she cannot be with them in present time or in the afterlife. She is in great agony as living with her lover would be a disgrace to the world and to God. Forcing her to believe that the only way to actually live in this world is to live apart− loving each other from afar. Throughout the poem, Emily…

Synthesis Essay - Abraham Lincoln MSgt Daniel M. Endris Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy Abraham Lincoln It is difficult for any of us to imagine what this nation would look like today, had President Abraham Lincoln not understood the implications of leading the Union through the Civil War and worked to abolish slavery. Would all of us in our class be sitting in the same room together as one unit, serving in the United States Air Force? Likely we would not, let alone…

Gibbs model of reflection 1 Introduction College life turned out to be much different than what I expected and I was not ready for it even when I thought I definitely was. I was raised in a closely-knit family comprising of my father, mother and younger brother and me. All my life, till the day I left home to start a new chapter in my life, my parents had monitored my every move and essentially spoon-fed me because they wanted the best for and therefore I never really understood what…

Written around the attack of September 11, and the effects it had on a Pakistani student, Changez who studied and worked in the United States. Author Mohsin Hamid doesn’t simply tell his tale The Reluctant Fundamentalist, but delivers it in such a matter where you can interpret several meanings from the simplest things. From the names, their conversations and even to the way the book was composed gives this book such an extraordinary style. From the beginning of the book the reader is drawn…

The novel of Giants in the Earth gives us knowledge of how life was like for an immigrant to start all over again in an unfamiliar, unknown, and unexplored area. It also talks about the hardships and consequences that the unknown settlers dealt with on the prairie land. It takes place in the unsettled Dakota Territory in the 1870s. Some topics in the novel are the mental state of each person after living in the total desolation of the wilderness, along with the manual labor of survival. Per…

The American dream is the is an opportunity for people to have equal right to succeed in life regardless of one's ethnicity, religion, or gender. Many people immigrate to the United States looking for the American dream, but the price to pay is often very high. Reyna Grande is an immigrant who in her book The distance between us narrates her own experience about the struggles of coming to America and all the challenges she had to overcome in order to become successful. In search for the…