Time Is on My Side

Both of my parents are immigrants. My mother, Lorna Julisa Gregorio-Granston, is from Guatemala a small Spanish speaking country in Central America. She moved to this country when she was only seven with one of her many aunts. Through the years I have spoken to my mother about the different struggles she went through moving to a new place. She has said that at first it was hard. When she first started school she spoke very little english but the english that she did speak was heavily shadowed…

undertaken the task of breaking a social norm within the my house. As stated in the book, “Informal norms-unwritten standards of behavior understood by people who share a common identity” (Kendall, 76). I wanted to see my family’s reaction when I styled half of my hair and didn’t do the other side. I received negative sanctions because the reactions of my family reacting to my different hair styles. Normally on a regular day, people either take the time to style their hair or not to style their…

There was a time in my life when I got into a serious conflict with my significant other. That conflict had a big impact on both of our lives and always will. Basically, my relationship was very strong and lengthy which lead me to get really attached. The relationship was fine in the beginning but as time went by, things started to change. My significant other started to get very irritated and seemed as if he did not want to be around anymore. We would fight often and he would give me distance…

reasons I have brought together that make my family unhappy are deaths, divorce, when I brought a puppy home, dad smoking, money, and more. Out of all of these, three really stuck out to me. According to Leo Tolstoy, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Money, Divorce, and Death are the three main reasons the stuck out to me on why my family is unhappy. The first topic that started to make my family unhappy was my mom and dad discussing their money…

psychology and law. Repressed memory is the psychological process or unconsciously keeping something out of awareness for extended periods of time because of the unpleasant emotions associated with it. In other words, keeping a memory hidden for a long time because it is an unpleasant memory. My father has some repressed memories. After my parent's divorce, my dad was dating a younger women. I do not know the details of how they met, but she was a waitress at Chili's. He found out that she had…

The Dark Side You ask me what depression is? I’ll be sure to inform you. I sit all alone from sun up to sundown. Silence. No one comforting me. I have no one. Listen, that’s not all. Don’t ignore me. I know exactly what this is. Understand where I 'm coming from. Feel my exhausted, lost, and failing body. Depression is exhausting. Do you know what exhausted feels like? Try falling into depression. Being tired rises to a whole new level. I sit in bed exhausted as ever. I try to fall asleep, but…

capacity of brutality. There is a good amount of aspects that shows darkness and lightness. These aspects are used many times in the book to show the good and evil side of things. My mask shows the imagery of dark and light. I painted half of the mask with a very dark red. And the other half white. The dark red side represents the dark side (evil) and the white side represents the good side. The mask itself represents Jack’s background and two symbols that mentioned and used in the book. When…

while walking. I guess this is because driving on the right side is provided by a low in the United States. Thus, the deviant behavior that I did is to break the norm of walking the right side. In order to break this norm, I observed my feelings and others’ reactions in two situations of when I and someone pass each other on the stairs ; I walk on the right side, which is normal for people in the United States, and I walk on the left side, which is the behavior that may be able to violate their…

thing going through my mind was, “Is this woman crazy?” At the time, I did not believe I would be able to write a paper with 300 words nevertheless 2000. I had never written a paper before. Even Though I was stressed out 95% of the time, I learned that just as I had strengths in writing, I also had weaknesses. My strengths were knowing my audience, getting my assignments done when needed, and telling both sides of the story while my weaknesses were topic sentences, getting my paper started, and…

never found time to do these beforehand, and my happiness project was intended to give me time. I expected this to bring me happiness because Rubin said that making an activity rare had the same effect as doing it everyday. When you do an activity you enjoy everyday, it brings happiness just as doing it once a week or month. Finally, my fifth resolution was to spend at least an extra hour with friends and family. It’s hard for me to balance school, sports and friends, so creating time where I…