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hand and acculturation on the other? The lack of public voice, the silence, the secret kept, formed the loose threads of the story of the aunt who committed suicide and whose name was erased from the collective memory. “You must not tell anyone, my mother said, What I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had…

On March 19th, 2016 at 4:22pm, I became a Mother. That was the most critical life event I’ve ever experience in my life and it will always be something I will never forget. It was the longest 9 month ever, it was also extremely hard. I was going to school and I was also working. This experience was extremely positive and negative at the same time, the positive part is I gave birth to a healthy baby boy but the negative part was I was in labor for almost 20 hours, my sons heart beat kept on…

When I was in 5th grade, at the mere age of 10, my mother left me alone at home with my 4 siblings to go to divorce court. To her dismay the babysitter cancelled at last minute. I remember her crying and asking herself what she was going to do. She had no help to watch me and my four younger siblings and she needed to attend court. It made me sad to see her so upset, feeling so helpless. Without hesitation I put my arm around her and said, “Don’t worry mom. I can take care of them.” Being the…

highlights the emotion of the mother watching her daughter as she grows and eventually leaves home. The audience is able to see the relationship between the mother and daughter as she helps her daughter learn how to ride a bike into watching her daughter wave goodbye, the progression of childhood to independence. There are many uses of literary devices in this poem which helps the audience break down each word that the author expressed. The voice of the poem is a mother who explains how special…

means of providing more than food on the table. When, I was at the young age of 8 my whole life changed. My mother just disappeared! She just walked out the door one day and never came back. Representation of the the typical poor black fatherless stereotype was a reality in my life as well, some times he was around but most times…

It is needless to say that parents, especially the mothers, play a huge role in the life of a person, be it in a good or in a bad way, especially in the first years of life. They do not even necessarily have to be biological parents and just be some kind of parental figures. This is why they also might appear as archetypes in the fictional world as well. Most of the time we follow the…

work”. The only thing Gregor heard was the cry of his mother on the floor sobbing with eternal despair, and his father yelling at him with complete aggression. “ Oh why, why… my dear Gregor, what happened to you… is this the way you vex us heaven what did we do wrong; what can we do to get our Gregor back!?” whaled on Gregor’s mother. “ If this is some kind of JOKE because it isn't very funny, come on now CHANGE back… do you not see your mother in complete rue over here, well do you; DO YOU……

scenery. An representation of the refugee experience is the story of Ha.Ha is a young protagonist Vietnam who family was affected by the Vietnam war in the early 1700s. Her family was forced into moving to the states where her mother was promised a better life for her 3 son and 1 daughter .In crisscrossed packs Ha talks about how her father has been missing due to the war. In the story Ha…

On February 16, 2016, I, Officer McMillon #135, of the MISD Police Department while assigned to Mansfield Legacy High School located at 1263 N. Main Street in Mansfield, Texas 76063. At approximately 3:09 P.M. I was dispatched to Nancy Neal Elementary School located at 280 Nelson Wyatt Rd in Mansfield, Texas in reference to a Child Custody situation. Contact was made with Principal, Patton, Tameka, B/F, DOB 12/08/1975. Principal Patton stated that Allen, Leah, W/F, DOB 10/09/1975 biological…

out on his son. “The whiskey on your breath / could make a small boy dizzy” (1-2). The father had drunk so much that the stench of whiskey made the boy feel the effects of the drink. “A primarily negative text portraying a “drunken father, angry mother, and desperate child” who have a “desperate hope” for some fun in the face of “a real fear of violence and disruption” (McKenna 34). Although the little boy is getting dizzy and his ear is getting scraped by the buckle, he still “hung on like…