My Wife and Kids

couples. One couple was engaged and had been together for 4.5 years; where as the other couple had been married for 27 years. The younger couple was a family friend and the older married couple was my aunt and uncle. My aunt and Uncle would fall in the traditional family realm because they are married with two kids living at home. Where as the engaged couple have no children and live in the same home. During the study I found differences and similarities in both couples most likely due to the…

Lahiri Usually when I’m looking for something new to read I go off of titles, I don’t read the reviews, I don’t read the blurb on the back, if the title catches my eye then I will more than likely pick it up and see what goes from there. So one day during my LIT 224 class I was going through the contents of our book and one story caught my eye, Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, I turned to the page the story started on and began to read. The story wasted no time getting someplace interesting, in the…

Throughout my childhood, I’ve watched many famous fairy tale movies that I still admire until this day. One of my favorite fairy tale movies tells the story of a young maiden girl named Cinderella who lived with two horrible stepsisters and one evil stepmother who found her way to her true love and happiness with one fairy godmother and one glass slipper and lived happily ever after. However, many people, rather than getting the magical ending like Cinderella, do not get the happily ever after…

soccer. After all, every other kid in the neighborhood was playing baseball so that's what he wanted to do. Ironically, it was Jim's younger brother, Chad, who became a soccer player (sabr.org). Jim Abbott said, “I have never thought of my birth defect on liking terms. I disliked it some,…

his marriage. He does this in order to find a better sense of his own identity and heritage. It seems from the very beginning that Runner would have issues with his race and identity. He described his mother by saying, “Velma, my dark-skinned mother, was overjoyed by my choice of mate. She’d always wanted me to marry a white women and beget half-breed children who would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us”…

for my great-grandfather and his new wife in Italy. Just like Michael Corleone in The Godfather, he is wearing his military uniform. I pass by their wedding pictures whenever I visit him, lining the cracked wallpaper of his room in a local nursing home. He has Alzheimer’s now, and the majority of his speech consists of horrifying swear words, translated through my grandfather's constantly wincing face. I cannot understand him anymore, not like I used…

Some learned ways to cope with it all, from what I have learned from my readings they stop believing that someday everything will stop and they will be free from their abuser, so they just decide to accept it all and stop caring about whatever might happen to them. Most start wishing that they should just die and stop the…

Three weeks later on a rainy day at the bungalow in India, Rikki is worrying about Teddy. Teddy, the kid at the bungalow, has been sick for two days. There’s not much that Rikki can do, though. The next day Chuchundra the muskrat has bad news for Rikki. “There is an egg Rikki in the snakehole.”, He says. So Rikki goes to look for himself but finds nothing. “I thought you said you saw an egg, there's nothing down there.” “I did.” Said Chuchundra. So Chuchundra and Rikki go back…

tensions and segregation between white and black people. My most liked character was the narrator. This story was definitely fun and enjoyable to read I thought it was very entertaining. This story resonated with me the most and not because of the plot but because of the rich character's, that felt relatable and real. The connections I made to the short story was the connection between being African American and getting the shorthand of the stick. My favorite character would have to be the…

It was about 9 years ago when I decided to first become an EMT. Little did I know that during my clinical time, I would have a moment that would change my life and the way I see it. I was doing clinical time with a local Fire Department, which basically means I was doing their job for free in order to practice my learned skills in a real world scenario. We were returning to the fire station after just completing a call and dropping a patient off at the hospital. I sat quietly alone in the back…