Sibling duos

Living in Texas is not what people portray it to be. I have never been to a rodeo, I have never owned a pair of cowgirl boots, and “Howdy” is nowhere in my vocabulary. However, I do have big hair and have a slight Southern accent. I live in a big suburban city called Arlington. I love my state and my city. I think that being a Southern belle has shaped me into being the woman I am becoming but I do not think that where I came from plays a significant role in my upbringing. I believe that it was…

Narrative Essay When I was 10 I when to the Dominican republic for my grandparents 50th anniversary. It was fun, it all started in 5th grade we had to pack our bags that was annoying we had to pack everything my mom wanted in our bags and as a 40 mother a 10 year old hates what your mom likes. For instance my mom wants dress clothes for special dinners I bring out some tan shorts and a sport shirt, but my mom has different plans, she makes me get a collared shirt which I hate to wear and then…

Distracted driving is a dangerous and common problem today. My mother is especially terrible about staying focused on the road. It’s understandable that a mother of three is busy and -has to learn to multitask, but not when it comes to driving. She’s had countless fender-benders, traffic violations, and close calls. One of her most famous incidents happened a few years ago. On this day, my mom had forced me to go grocery shopping with her at Wal-Mart. It was the summer before my parents had…

Playground Problems I should have never done what I did that day. I should have just walked away or made a sassy comment. Instead, an unfixable mistake was made. My mistake caused my first and only grounding and all of it could have been avoided. It was the summer of 2011, I was inside the house reading my favorite book, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie mythological allusion. It was as hot as a volcano outside, but my neighbors wanted to play outside Simile. We played with a ball for a while…

When reading The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson, keeping Jandy Nelson’s life and times in mind is essential as it gives the reader a deeper understanding of the novel, shedding light onto the grander theme of loss of innocence. For example, Lennie expresses her feelings in free-verse under a stone in Gram’s garden “Grief is a house/ where the chairs/ have forgotten how to hold us/ the mirrors how to reflect us/ the walls how to contain us/ Grief is a house that disappears/ each time someone…

gymnastics, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, yoga, and ballet which helped develop into being Claire. Now I am sixteen and still figuring out who I want to be. Sometimes you don’t have a choice of what tribe you want to belong to. In my situations both my siblings belonged to this type of tribe so I was born into it. Belonging…

After reading every essay in the booklet, I’d have to say that Jorge Villalobos’ essay stood out to me the most. The reason I chose it is because I was able to relate to him. I was able to learn a few things about him that I wouldn’t have been able to know just by looking at him. By reading Jorge’s essay, I was able to learn about the relation he had with his mother. He and his mother butted heads at times but in the end, he knew that he will always be his mom’s baby boy and both will always…

1. What did you learn from the short story? At the beginning of the story, is a relationship of friendship between Simon and George. They both have known each other for so long. The both of them were considered as siblings and their families. Then what I learned from the short story is a family relationship that was built by the family of Simon and visits are also reviewed by the George. Simon decided to get married and build a family of his own, he studied to become a husband and father also…

At some point in our lives, we all have that “aha” moment. That is the moment where you feel like you’re on this earth for a purpose. The moment of sudden insight and clarity, where you gain a real understanding- an understanding you can use to change your life. Have you ever had that “aha” moment? A family moved to a small town in hopes of finding someone to care for their 2 kids, Tara Rylee and Tripp, within the community. This family, had one not so typical child, and had a very hard time…

suicide act that his mother whom he loved dearly committed resulted in Artie being consumed by grief and insufficiencies, one of them being Arties feeling of not possessing the ability to surpass his parents expectations of Richieu. The loss of a sibling is nearly the same in the book The Catcher in the Rye. Holden had lost his brother Allie to leukemia nearly three years before Holden begins narrating his story. Holden had loved his brother as Artie had loved his mother and likewise developed…