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Who knew mid April could be so warm. She was already sweating as she started hanging paintings on the walls. Maybe the heat was getting to me. Maybe that’s why I got so angry. I think maybe even the whitewash walls were sweating. “What is the matter with you?” she said with mild irritation. I screamed back with extraordinary force, “EVERYTHING- this house, him, you, me, us!” “Don’t be dramatic”, she says while rolling her eyes, patronization leaking from her pores like sweat. I couldn’t…

Lynna Hong Amy Dickinson English 99 13 September 2016 Go Get It. Period. “[They say] if you want something go get it. Period.” Growing up I was quite the introvert. I was a shy girl who didn’t have many friends and I didn’t go out of my way to make any either. In fact, I actually found myself to be really sad and lonely. I always assumed it was always going to stay like that and there was nothing I could possibly do to change it. I had this mindset that I was just suppose to stick through it…

Snatching my cell phone from the nightstand my eyes bugged at the site of the time. "Shit! Shit! Shit!" Pulling the covers back I swung my legs over the edge of the bed. Instantly I felt Goosebumps permeate my skin as the cold air from the central air system battered my naked body. My clothes-where were they? I was sure my dress was somewhere in this vicinity. I mean, I was vaguely sure I'd tossed it to the left side of the bed. No, it was the right when I considered that I was upside down at…

Why do I GIVE? I GIVE because I am frightened and worried I don’t want him to feel tired all the time I don’t want his ankle swollen anymore I don’t want him to become progressively confused I want him to play soccer, get detention, mend his broken heart, land his first job after college… I GIVE because I am a father who loves his son I GIVE because I have two and I only need one. Why do I GIVE? I GIVE because I grew up with love It breaks my heart to see her have high fevers It breaks…

Undeniable Bond In the heat of the moment we can say things that can cut like a knife and leave a scar that will never completely go away. Instead, with time it will fade and so will the pain associated with that scar. Amy Tan explains this with her relationship with her mother in “The Most Hateful Words.” excerpted from her memoir, The Opposite of Fate, published by Penguin Books in New York in 2003. This is a story of a woman and how her relationship with her mother was of one that included…

The Boardwalk Muse I followed the ancient, rickety boardwalk through the rows of corn that went to the ends of my Earth. The early summertime dew had a perfume of light magic that hung in the air like the fireflies that danced in and out of my vision. Pounding against the decrepit boards, my bare feet were getting tired from the running I was doing, but I couldn 't stop now. John was waiting for me near the ocean at the end of the lane, our little spot. Nothing more than a puny fishing…

Branscum Ethics movie essay I Love You, I Love You Too Have you ever just sat or laid somewhere thinking how sweet and romantic it would be to love someone so much that nothing or no one else in the world mattered at the time? If so, the movie called The Notebook is a great movie to lay there alone or with the person you love and have all those feelings just fill your heart and soul. It is a love story from 1940 about a young couple who are totally opposite from each other in the way that they…

This is a difficult letter to write, I want it to be perfect, but it obviously won’t be. It can’t. There’s no words that could possibly express how much I love you or how amazing you are to me. So I guess I’ll start this way… A few years ago, before I met you, I thought I had my life all figured out. I would be a lawyer and meet the man of my dreams in university. He would be tall enough so that I could be smaller than him even when wearing heels and he would have curly brown hair with bright…

America is the country that has a lot of immigrants, so there are many people with difference culture and religion. I come from another country and not much people from my country go to church; therefore, my family keeps our culture and do not want to go to the church when we came to America. I met a lot of people who asked me why I do not go to the church, but I just remain silence and walk away. One time that I learned how to deal with the problem of the difference in religions when other…

College Experience The college experience is my initial step into finding my future career. Leaving home for the first time in my life and finding out if I have the skills to make it in the real world. Continuing my education in hopes of finding a great career and making lots of money for a leisurely lifestyle. Leaving my home and city for the first time and opening a new chapter in life. Not seeing people that I’m used to seeing everyday and adjusting to a different kind of lifestyle. It is a…