Time Is on My Side

places constantly is hard to manage. “It is YOUR fault that we have to move!” yelled my older brother, Franklin, who was 16 years old at the time, as he punched the wall. My father, Benjamin Wang, who was in his early fifties, has a gambling addiction. The gambling addiction started when my mom left to work in Taiwan just so we can pay our bills here in the United States. Unemployed and with no one by his side, my dad is constantly alone at home. And with that, he found an addiction he…

topic because I believe that my goals for the next 5 years are very unique compared to the majority of my classmates. I 'll start by explaining my situation. I was fortunate enough to earn an internship the summer after my freshman year at LSU as a production roustabout for Southwestern Energy1. I received return offers from them the following two summers as a completions and reservoir engineer respectively. I learned a great deal during these internships and it helped my interest in the oil and…

subject from all sides. I never wrote an argumentative essay before this course, so this course taught me what it was how to write one and what exactly I was looking for and what I would be able to improve on. I know there is still room for improvement, but taking this course has already made me a better writer from when I started. Writing argumentative essays would help improve many skills as an individual by learning how to approach important issues without taking a side and learning…

“WAKE UP! trenton IT’S 5:00” dad shouted. Today will be the day that i shoot my first deer. Then my uncle Jamie called my are you ready i am on my way okay. When i looked at the wether it said it was going to snow 100% 2-5 inches of snow. When we walk into the stand at 6:00 we opened the window because when we start the heater the windows fog up. Once we got in the shake and we got everything where we wanted it we we started a bet I becha the first deer I get will be a doe and he said I…

and gone through trends. Although there are many differences among countries at one period of time, you will find that trends seem to make their way around the globe and expand to represent a certain style of that certain period. One example would be art from the modern world, which includes a time frame from 1800 through 1945. Realism was a popular theme and style for many artists in this particular time period. Basically, artists chose to produce pieces which displayed everyday actions instead…

For my project, I chose to answer the question: “Can a balance exist in the separation of church and state?” Each of the drawings I chose to create in order to answer the question are quite similar, but both vary in different ways. The Hillsboro drawing depicts a balance scale with each side of the balance holding a different item. The left side of the balance depicts a nondescript government building, which is seated on a fairly large container that is filled with quotes from the book. These…

in choosing between an acidic environment as opposed to basic environment. To emulate an acidic and basic environment, 0.1M hydrochloric acid and 0.1M sodium hydroxide were used. Two cotton balls saturated with each compound were placed on opposing sides…

 After college, I’ve struggled to find my place in the community, while I’ve worked in different fields that indirectly related to my Psychology degree. However, it was my position as a pre-school teacher that has inspired me to pursue a career in Occupational Therapy  While working as a pre-school teacher, I found myself constantly being challenged; at the same time I was delighted that I was able to unitize my psychology background. I’ve worked with children that were having difficulty…

Segregation has been a concept fed to children without its presence being realized for the longest of time. Growing up; Palo Alto has and still is been divided into two, the Paly side and the Gunn side. Each kid would grow up knowing their educational plan for up until they are eighteen. The children of different sides might have been in the same school as youngins, and they would ask in aspiration for their paths to be intertwined a little longer. As the different schools were said from their…

encompassed my life popped in an instant when I transferred to middle school. For instance, the social expectations and the need to make friends consumed the people that used to be my friends and changed them completely. Several students always believed that self-worth came with the people that surrounded them. Other people that wanted some alone time instantly turned strange in others eyes. The flow of middle school life easily changed any type of person, but I tried to go against it with my…