Kitchen Cabinet

1 I really dislike the idea of walking my dog alone in my neighborhood, simply because he does not like other dogs and nearly all of my neighbors own dogs. Although I have done it before, the whole time over and over in my head I am pleading, please don 't let any dogs come to the gate, please. PHEW! We made it! I said this once we approached the last two houses on the street before mine, but I had spoken too soon. As soon as we passed the old run down house beside mine a cute little fluffy…

Childhood Trauma to a Problematic Adulthood Zadie Smith portrays Samad Iqbal as troubled man. With all the life changing events that could put Samad’s life on hold, Samad chooses to let the little things dominate him. Samad has the idea that he is the head of the family, but with all of his decisions there comes big consequences. In White Teeth, Samad Iqbal distracts his family’s “destiny” by his selfish actions impact Magid and Millat’s psychological behavior into different paths following into…

Everybody has an Uncle Leroy. My Uncle Leroy shows up at Thanksgiving and touches on the drumstick before the turkey makes it to the table. He prefers the drumstick on the right side as the creature faces to the south with cornbread stuffing packed firmly between its legs. In general, you try not to look at my uncle’s face and big belly when he grins or laughs. His eyebrows are uncontrolled, bushy and seem to have a life of their own. Once you look, you stare and find yourself stuck as he…

coming towards the Gulf Coast and was going to hit all coastal states directly. Afraid of what I was hearing I turned the television off. The television was going to be no use during the hurricane. I saw dad run into the kitchen and grab pill bottles and medicine from the cabinets. I didn’t want to say anything but I had no choice but question our safety. “Dad where are we going to hide out during the storm?” He looked at me as if I was the dumbest person in the world. “The attic if the house…

Samantha thinks that she will never find love, that is until her sister, Diane, sends her on a vacation getaway to an exotic island, where she meets this hot stranger. Problem is, she discovers that Christian is a spoiled billionaire who is a super womanizer. At first Samantha tried to deny her feelings for Christian, but she discovered that she could not get him out of her mind. Christian knew he was head over heels in love with Samantha right from the moment that he first saw her, and he could…

“that’s what girls do”. When a girl is seen playing with boy toys, they are automatically thought as tomboyish or masculine. However, that is not the case. The toys that are created for girls to play with are very sexist. Most toys are like vacuums, kitchen toys, dolls while the on the other hand, boys have engineering games, Legos, math and science kits (Miller, 2013). For this reason, girls grow up thinking that they can only do certain things. Their way of thinking is being molded into the…

Family Assessment of Shelby Eatenton Latcherie Family does not have a universal definition, and over the years the definition has changed from a traditional mother, father, and children to several variations. Examples of these are parents that are unmarried, are of the same sex and those that do not live in the same household but do what is called co-parenting. The definition of family according to Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson (2015) is "Family refers to two or more individuals…

Sol walked over to the kitchen. It wasn’t until they reached up to the cabinet for a bowl did they realize that they’d been using their powers subconsciously. Sol hoped Anja never noticed. Glancing up at the TV, Sol watched as the news played a clip. It had a man making a vaguely red, almost crystal-like shield to protect himself from the cops. The reporter droned on, “The mysterious man is calling himself ‘Blout’, and several eyewitness accounts describe him as having a distinct scar across…

“ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give ” by Winston Churchill. Giving is what will make you happy. I would like to give three gifts for Christmas. To begin with, I would like to give my Great Grandpa Grogg back to my mom’s side of the family for a month. I would like to get answers to the questions I have and learn more about him. We can talk about his stories as a team physician on the Mahomet Seymour football team. There was the one time when one of the players…

When the communists rose up against the bourgeois aristocracy, the new government preached against the evils of western social conventions which plagued other capitalist nations. They ridiculed the polluted image of the meek western female and raised up a powerful icon of the freed Bolshevik woman. To the rank and file Soviet political theorist, the October Revolution removed the diminutive status of the working class, ethnic minorities, and women. Furthermore, the establishment of the Soviet…