Three Cups of Tea

It was quite interesting growing up in a house filled with three generations of O’mara women. My grandmother, my mother, and myself living under one roof taught me to cherish my background and heritage. While I was the spitting image of my mother, my mother is the spitting image of my grandmother. I never quite…

tip of South America and is the 8th largest country in the world. Its neighboring countries include; Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia. Its capital, Buenos Aries, translated to “Good Airs” or “Fair Winds”, has a population of just under three million while the total population of the country totals 43,821,877. A majority of Argentines are of European decent, Italians having the largest presences with 37% of the population having Italian descent, but a study done by the University of…

foreshadows events to come. “Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is a dreamer, and resistance to Big Brother begins with a dream” (Moss). Winston has many distinct dreams that reveal a lot of information about himself, Oceania, and the future events. The three major dreams…

simplified the booking process for lodging, excursions, and airfares. Before deciding where our next retreat takes us, my family researches the best hotels, attractions, and ratings of the specific area. By the time I turn seventeen, I will have visited three other countries. This exposure would have been unheard of for the average teenager in the ‘50s and ‘80s. I have a passion for seeing what the world has to offer, and traveling provides people the ability to experience new cultures. The…

Olfaction (smell) and Gustation (taste) work simultaneously with the aid of chemoreceptors, which generate nerve impulses. Chemoreceptors are able to combine the molecules that they recognize with a protein in order to create a channel on the surface of the receptors, which generates impulses. While they are both powerful senses, smell tends to be more responsive. The brain interprets the information given from taste and smell to help humans identify what it is they are eating. Scientists have…

tanks with fish roaming around in them. I talk to the man at the counter and pay for my four night stay here then tip the bellhop $20. I got up to my room and order some lunch from room service which costed me about $27. I went online and purchased my three broadway tickets. I first purchased my Les Misérables ticket for $91.12 which was at the Imperial Theatre. Second I bought my Phantom of the Opera ticket for $39.44 at the Majestic Theatre. And lastly I bought my Hamilton ticket for…

Palumello it’s a warm, happy and peaceful narrative, written by Donna Caruso, which tells the story of Donna Maria and the love she shared with her grandmother. Through Donna Maria’s memories we get to know her childhood as well as the relation between her and her maternal grandmother. The story starts with Donna’s grandmother singing her a lullaby where she tells her that she is her butterfly and eventually she’d be free followed by more memories of Donna Maria of her childhood and the time she…

Venice is one of those places in LA that you want and have to visit -- if you’re not from LA. I’ve already seen it. The canal, the body builders, and the ridiculous tshirts that only someone stoned would buy. But I’m not from Venice. fourteen miles down south of the beach is South Central, my home for the first eighteen years of my life. Now, during holidays and breaks, I live in the middle of northern LA County in a desert called Palmdale. It’s important to note the differences. One that I…

products tend to also discourage smokers. And milk, can be drank warm, cool, with sugar, honey, mixed with chocolate, enough to fill up your tummy for at least an hour, and keep you away from smoking. You can also replace your alcoholic beverages with tea (try to alternate by picking different varieties). And of course water. Water is well-known to help you get rid of toxins; it will help cleanse your metabolism and quench your thirst, better than any other…

Previously, students of all schools had had to study Russian. So, I remember how proud I felt when that opportunity was given to me. Although I struggled with understanding English and learning new vocabulary words for the next three years, all of nowhere, when I started high school, I just began to understand the rules of English and English itself more and more. I wanted to become an English as a Second Language teacher and therefore I decided to study English. During my undergraduate…