Mango

When I was fifteen I was a mime for three months. I lived in Taiwan, I was alone, I couldn’t speak more than a few sentences of Chinese, so I had to be a mime. A semipermanent game of charades was the only way to communicate with the people around me. Eventually, as the year progressed, I became fluent in Mandarin, so my mime skills were no longer necessary. However, I did realize that when one loses the ability to speak, they gain more of an understanding of the world around them. Living in a…

Navina Navina Exports was established in 1989 when I came back from the USA after my graduation. My father was running Navina Industries which is the bigger company. I and my brother took the challenge to start a new company for knitwear. We started very small in terms of capital and company size with only thirty stitching machines. From such humble beginnings we have grown every year and today we are grossing hundred and twenty million dollars of export. It has been not been an easy task. In…

(Insert date this happened) was like any other day. I went to all of my classes and hung out with on the swing with my friends. I heard the bell ring telling us it was time to go home. I skipped to my locker, grabbed my backpack and jacket, and headed to the bus. The house smelled amazing when I got home. I found my mom in the kitchen and told her about my day as I do every day. Then she said something I don’t hear a lot. Mom said, “Your dad and I want to talk to you when he gets home”. It was…

1. Cristian Bonilla from Honduras, immigrated at the age of 12: “Being an immigrant wherever I am, and therefore your experience will change, because your past experiences were so much different than anybody else’ here. If you were born outside the country your culture values, your family values everything else changes. And then once you are here, you have come face-to-face to the new culture that is in the United States, the American way… You are always in that constant battle of being like,…

Our name of our culture is Tropic of Magic. We are located at 34*N 25*W. The nearest bodies of water is the Atlantic Ocean. The Nearest Countries are Africa and Europe. Our climate type is moderate. We are in the middle latitudes. Our culture may experience hurricanes and flooding. Day 2 Our culture was first discovered by a sailor and his three friends who got stranded on the island in 1800’s. The people who got credit where Garroth Okasis, Jess Julia, Emmalyn Turtle, Laurence Swan.They…

What African country suffered massive destruction during the Civil War? What country had its capital destroyed? What country is known for its massive murder genocide? The answer to that question is Rwanda, when Rwanda faced massive destruction they had to rebuild everything because it was destroyed. The Rwandans lifestyle is very unique and challenging. People in the rural areas in Rwanda build their houses out of woven branches and grasses (King 80). Also 90 percent of the people who live in…

After reading The House on Mango Street, I´ve encountered two characters that stood out to me the most. One of the characters that stood out to me was Esperanza the main character in the book. The other character was Esperanzas younger sister,¨nenny¨ whose real name was Magdalena. Throughtout the story a relationship was created between the two characters in the book. Within this writing, It includes the analyzation of the relationship between the two sisters. To begin with, Esperanza was a…

Both Esperanza and Sally are attention seeker. They try to find attention from different places based on their social experiences. For example, in “Our Good Day” the youngest of the sisters states that “If you give me five dollars I will be your friend forever” (14). In contrast, in “Sally” the narrator says “ The boys at school think she is beautiful because her hair is shiny black like raven fathers and when she laughs, she flicks her hair back like a satin shawl over her shoulders and laughs”…

There are many opportunities to reduce one’s consumption and to better manage one’s waste by taking advantage of the establishments in Ottawa designed for such a purpose. Bulk Barn is an excellent store for those seeking to reduce, or better yet, eliminate, all plastic products from their life. One need only bring a reusable container to a Bulk Barn location, and then fill it with a large variety of grains, flours, spices and dried beans, all while foregoing plastic packaging. Not only is…

During my infancy my parents have said that at the beginning I had switched day and night. During the day I would be asleep for the most part and at night I would be awake and crying all the time. The way that my dad stopped that was he took off my diaper and hit my butt twice, after that I pretty much slept all night. My mother was the one who took care of me the most. She said that my temperament was easy because while she napped I would always stay quiet while playing and only woke her up…