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society, and it is also proven to improve one's health. In the story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” there was a man who was found on the beachside face down with huge wings. The man that found him held him captive in his house, unable to barely move, for the day and then decided to keep the man locked inside of a cage for chickens. This man was believed to be an angel, so the neighborhood gathered around the cage and tossed him things to eat like if he was nothing but…

For my act of service, I did three random acts of kindness. I chose to perform this kind of service because I enjoy seeing the smiles it brings to others faces when you surprise them with a kind act. It is especially exciting when those people did not have any idea that you were going to do something for them. For my random acts of kindness, I made lunch for my family, cleaned up dog poop in our backyard, and vacuumed the house. I performed these acts for my family on three separate days to do…

time as possible with my friends and family. I pride myself in living life as simply as possible. I like to evaluate possessions before I bring them into my life because I would rather have a room full of ten things I love and use constantly than a house full of thousands of things I rarely use or care about. I love to help others because I want to see the world be a great place and you have to be the change you want to see. I find meaning in travel because I want to experience as my as possible…

The Big Move After what felt like a lifetime of planning, our family was finally making the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our…

always go to relax and get the stress of my mind, and that would be my humble abode, my home. Because I walked to school on a regular basis, I always knew where to go, even during the renovations. I mean, I could never miss the area, a light blue house right across the street from a Kraft factory. The front yard had a very large pine tree in the front yard, the bottom half full of life and the top bared to nothing but twigs and death. The front porch was white…

This selection was written to describe the conditions of tenement houses, overcrowded slums that filled New York City during the late 1900’s. The first sentence of this selection states, “The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered.” The author means that tenement houses were “cursed,” or were terrible creations from the very beginning, but this was ignored and not tended to…

So I work for my dad in a family business we deal with pinball machines, slot machines, and restored arcade games such as Pac man. So on a day over the summer, I was hanging out with my friend Tyler fixing our cars and such. We went inside covered in grease when my dad came and talked to us about how he just received a call from a lady in Dayton. And that she had a broken Pac man machine that she wanted to get rid of. She said it had been damaged, but was still intact. This was a good deal for…

feed their families. This forced immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds to live in tenement houses. These houses contained multiple families in one narrow room. Each room had little ventilation, no heat, and no toilets (located outside with one toilet for every twenty residents). The tenements had health risks for every resident and were disease ridden for tuberculosis, among other ailments. The tenement house rent cost approximately four dollars a month, or one week’s pay. This was the harsh…

attended, we were required to participate in the annual inter-house sport event. This event was probably the least anticipated event all year, it was dreadful and tedious as there was nothing to look forward because there was no recognition for winners and we always had to clean up the fields after the events. Most students always voted against the inter-house sport event every year. Eventually, the school board changed the way the inter-house sport event was carried out so as to make it more…

Apartments and houses are very different from one another. I lived in an apartment complex for about six years, and there are plenty of advantages and disadvantages from my experience about that style of living. Living in an apartment is sometimes unsafe. When I was 11 years old, and my brother was 16. My brother tripped onto the street while riding his bike. There was a woman driving over the speed limit and ran my brother over leaving him with a fractured arm. My brother was rushed to the…