Sibling duos

One day i was with my three best friends Josh Cervantes, Josh Rivera, and David Cervantes. That day we did a lot of things first of all it was just me and the two josh's we woke up then we decided to make our own breakfast we did that then went to the mall. When we were at the mall we met my dad there and he had bought us sodas at gameworks, after we had drank our drinks me and my friends decided to go walk around the mall and just look at stores. We went to many stores like cloth stores and…

“Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. That’s just how it is.” (Backman 1). Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven and crazy. Granny is Elsa’s best and only friend. Elsa’s grandmother is someone that is continuously making Elsa’s life brighter and always picking up Elsa when she falls. Every night Granny takes Elsa to the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where no one needs to be normal and everyone is different. Then one day, Elsa realizes her…

Netflix. My family had a practice of watching Netflix shows together in a way that was disobedient to the principle of wholesome recreational activities. We were in the same room together but we were not interacting or connecting as a family. This disobedient practice of choosing to spend our time together watching Netflix instead of engaging had an individual negative outcome of dependency on Netflix. When my family was tired and wanted to relax, we would turn on the show we were currently…

A parent’s word or actions leave behind an astounding effect on a child. Whether positive or negative, those are moments that shape and alter the child’s life. In Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy, the story tells how the narrator copes and continues her life after her father dies. Even after his harsh treatment and rude demeanor while he was alive, he is still an entity that she herself lives her life by. Plath conveys the narrator’s feeling of confinement with the use of metaphors, repetition, and…

ACTIVITY 3 QUESTION 1 Theme – Cultural Customs One of the themes that was explored in the book Mao's Last Dancer was the theme of their cultural customs. Because of their culture, women had to leave their family forever when getting married and forget the past (At half way point one of the carriers will shout ‘flip your mirror!’ and she should forget the past and look forward to the future). Another theme is that the family is usually very sad when the daughter is getting married and happy at…

Summary “You don’t hurt Arnie, you just don’t.” said Arnie’s older brother, Gilbert, who takes care of him on the daily. Arnie wasn’t supposed to make it passed a young age due to his mental disabilities, but they are celebrating his eighteenth birthday in the film. Their father passed away years ago and their mother is so fat that she can’t get off the couch, let alone out of the house. They have two sisters who claim they do more to take care of Arnie than Gilbert, but that is false, and it…

“Aqoon La’an wa iftiin La’an (Without knowledge you are without light)””Waax (Pronounced Waa-H) Barta aan Barwaaqo Garne (Learn so we may acquire freedom)” These two Somali proverbs have been with me through thick and thin and have been engrained in my mind from an early age. My mother would always remind me or rather encourage me to be the best I could be. The best student, the best coworker, the best sister or daughter. I was to excel and debunk any stereotype that would come my way. There’s…

Eric & Jessie: Game On is a docu-soap structured television show about a country singer and football star who are married with two young kids, Vivianne and Eric Jr. (Bubby). Eric and Jessie are both professionals in their careers and face challenges dealing with their successes and failures within their professional work. Eric and Jessie are portrayed as a couple that is extremely in love with one another and have very little interpersonal conflict. While both Eric and Jessie are trying to…

“Poem for My Sister” written by Liz Lochhead, is a poem describing the relationship between two sisters and their experiences. As with almost all siblings, the younger sister looks up to her older sister and strives to be like her whereas the older sister in this poem has been through many hardships and troubles in her life and warns her stubborn sister to not follow in her footsteps. The reader can relate to the poem as they are either an adult or a child and both ages apprehend the feelings…

Family are the friends we do not pick by ourselves, but are born into. “The dress” by Julia Darling is a short story about the sisters Rachel and Flora, and their mother. The story focuses on the deterioration of the sister’s relationship but also on their relationship to the mother. The story also focuses on what happens to a family when it is missing love and communication. Throughout the story, the main topic is a certain dress, and this leads to a dispute having immense consequences. In the…