Honor Thy Father

The Beautiful Accident It was Saturday afternoon, as I step out from my house the skies were bright as the sun. I wasn’t so excited to leave the house as I knew that the trip will not be amusing. I made a phone call to let my friends know that I will be at the airport half an hour and as I arrived at the airport, I still was not eager to go to Langkawi Island. It was backpacker’s trip with my group of friends. I still remember our flight was MH5365 depart at 3.45PM, as we arrived we checked…

Tanay Bartwal Core ½ First Time Adam: I watched my mom putting my clothes into my suitcase, as I was getting ready for the big trip; the warmth of the clothes bursting out into the house; the neatly folded clothes finding a new home: my new Star Wars suitcase. It was September 16, the day before the big field trip. We were going to an overnight camp to learn about science and nature. The part I wasn’t forward looking to was, since I have came to this new school I haven’t made a…

In the short story, “Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes,” Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a large and kind old woman. In the story, Roger, a young fourteen year old boy, tries to take Mrs. Jones purse. After snatching her purse, he falls to the ground where she picks him up and asks him why he is so dirty. After making him pick up her pocketbook, she takes him to her home. There, she makes him wash his face and eat a good meal. While making his meal, she asks Roger why he tried to steal…

I realize that I have not appreciate things and the loved ones that surround me. I had wasted valuable time and looking back, I wish I could have spent more time with my brother David and my father Adalberto. Since I joined the military my family and I had been distance for several years at a time. The first personal account I choose was “Confluences” by the author Jennifer Sinor. This essay reminds me of my brother David. We spend a mass of time together camping and enjoying the wilderness…

the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in… her eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome her (W.H., P.45). Catherine has changed from a “savage”, mischievous girl who used to play and spends all her time with Heathcliff, into an adequate young lady with a manner of gentlewoman. She becomes fond of the life style of Linton family and has an attraction to Edger. This transformation is…

three year old child, Akash. When she is pregnant second time, she felt isolated without her mother. Ruma is not as happy with her father as she told Adam about her father’s visit to America: “It’s her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs for Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes,…etc but akash was born, her father cliamedan armchair in the living room .. And he is waiting for the time to pass.”(P6UE). Ruma needed to move to Seattle, an…

Narrative Holiday Bell I had sat on the shelf forever, nobody wanted to have me because of my “unique” marking, a black smear on my right side. Whenever someone picked me up, I got excited and started to jump around inside my smooth, brass shell. Day in, and day out people picked me up, but I never learned why nobody wanted me. I was about to fall asleep when a normy picked me up and dropped me into her basket. I was so excited that I rang longer than I was in the lady’s hands. As the tall,…

After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Not only is this sudden grieving moment life-changing, but he is also thrown into a new environment: “There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. No, there was nothing but land…” (Cather 11). This use of imagery to describe this landscape is also a form of symbolize. Furthermore, Jim’s description of himself feeling “erased, blotted out” represents…

I was born December 12 2002. I was born a twin to my sister Trinity. She is older then me by 9 minutes. When I turned 10 years old the date was 12/12/12 that only happens every 100 years. When I was like 5 to 8 me and my dad worked out. I do not any more but when I did it was very fun. This was a big thing because I wrestled and it helped a lot because I was bigger and stronger than anyone in my weight class. I join gymnastics when I was in 1st grade but then soon after quit. I joined the…

I never really thought too much about racism when growing up. Maybe that is due to my upbringing. I was raised in a small diverse country town where, for the most part, everyone got along. Not to say that there was no racism; it just was not seen very often. Some would call me lucky to have been so naïve in my microcosm. Innocent to what was going on outside of my own little world. Because everyone knows, the world revolves solely around every high school teenager. I first experienced racism in…