Mother Teresa

My literacy history began when I was in preschool. I cannot not say I remember every detail in my past. However unlike me, Richard Rodriguez seemed to remember most of his literacy history. Rodriguez describes his past in his essay, “The Lonely, Good Company of Books.” Rodriguez explains how he grew up disliking reading because he did not understand why it was important and he had a reading disability. Once Rodriguez finished his reading program he wanted to read as many books that he could. I…

The authors referred back to the observations they made regarding the gender roles at first, emphasizing how the mothers’ position as the caretaker and the “stay at home mother” resulted in a relatively safer environment for them to be exposed, as compared to the father who would have to leave for work everyday, literally dodging bullets sometimes, as mentioned from previous interviews. They also…

He refused to assist himself in the proper treatment to help his issue which led to the disease becoming more severe than it coulf have been. Additionally, he grew up with a schizophrenic mother, a father who left him early on, and a nurse who would hurt and molest him (A&E). These situations were the key reason why Byron was viewed as a depressing, yet full of love writer. The sadness and lack of proper guidance from adults led to the…

Oh and Mother Teresa, Macaulay Culkin, James Harden, and Keke Palmer were born on that date, as well. But most important is me. This is MY narrative- after all. In the year 2000, our parents and older siblings all survived Y2K, the first bluetooth earpiece was invented…

The symbol was of women who took up less traditional female occupations during the war, because the majority of the men were away at battle. Most of the women were mothers, which is why it was unusual for them to be working. In the movie The Best Years of our Lives, Fred was unable to find work when he returned home, this is because more women were working during the war. In fact, during the war more than 6.3 million…

I spent one year training at Ginásio Clube Português which is located near a refined square where a beautiful garden stands. My ping pong teacher took me and two other colleagues into somewhere in a white Renault 4; later I met Canina there at the football field. I have met two Canina´s. Canina means a boy which is short in analogy into dogs. The first Canina scored a good goal at my elementary school while the second was traped in our high school though he could fought back and around 1995…

What comes in your mind when you heard someone saying “family”? Most likely, people have their own definition of family because we all are raised in different environment. It is difficult to define family as in one word because in today’s generation there are many types of families. Such as, single parents, same sex parents, unmarried couples, and etc. Culture plays important role in defining family as well. For example, some general public might believe that there needs to be a male and a…

Four thousand miles away along the coast of Chile in outside of the port city of Mejillones, a young man sat with his parents in their small European style home eating dinner. Dinner was fish as usual but the young man’s mother could work wonders on the little they had. The young man’s father was a fisherman from America that brought his wife and business to South America after adopting Andrew, the young man. Actually he found Andrew while porting at small uncharted island on a trip from North…

fact that they are teenage mothers, which suggests that teen mothers are not a cause of poverty but more so a consequence of it” (Mirsa et. al 53). One could gather from his study that teen mothers are a product of their surroundings. As the national Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy states, “two-thirds of families started by teenage mothers are financially poor” (7). With two-thirds being a high percentage, this statistic alone makes it seem impossible for young mothers to ever be…

Most people on this earth, at one point or another, has had either a biological father or maybe even a “father figure” in their lives, whether for the entirety of their lives or maybe for a short period of time. Many have had fathers that have stayed with them, while others may have left their families for financial or other reasons. There are good fathers, but sadly there are bad fathers. Two stories we read in class involve fathers, “Powder” by Tobias Wolff and Amy Hempel’s “Today Will Be a…