Twelve Days of Christmas

Feeling like an outsider in a place you consider home, is one of the struggles that to this day I still live with. June 8, 1996 was the beginning of the hectic journey of my life, I was only a year and three months when my mother made the decision to pack up and move to the United States, where my father had been living with my two older sibling. A small two bedroom house located in Galveston Texas is what my family would call home for the next couple of years. As the youngest child out of my…

rewards. In one year, the Miss America Organization provides more than forty-five million dollars of scholarship aid to more than twelve thousand women. With the help of this non-profit organization and their financial aid, a large percentage of the pageant participants have their degree or are in the act of earning their undergraduate or graduate degrees. Miss America’s Outstanding Teen can win thirty-thousand dollars in scholarships. In its thirty-five year history, this pageant has awarder…

future. There are four topics or categories that have a meaning in my life. The four topics are family traditions, sports, hobbies, and faith. There are two symbols that represent each category. The symbols for family tradition are New Year’s Eve and Christmas house; for beliefs, there are the church and the holy bible; for sports, it has a basketball and a racket; for hobbies, there is a computer set and a gaming controller. There are four more symbols that show what I want to be and want to do…

She embodies the struggles that all enslaved women have to endure. First, she is forced to maintain her rate of five hundred pounds of cotton every day or be punished while most men are unable to pick a mere three hundred pounds. Second, she is victimized by both her master and mistress. The master assaults her sexually and mercilessly. On the other hand, the mistress, instead of sympathizing with…

They respect and get along with the monks and some are good friends, even eating Christmas dinner with them. However, the fanatical terrorists are not normal Muslims. They are using their religion to fuel their violence. Brother Christian recognizes that this is not strictly a Muslim problem, when he states "men never do evil so completely…

mother, Bruno and his twelve-year-old sister, Gretel, learn that the whole family and their servants will be moving to the country for Bruno’s father’s job, which evidently involves someone named “The Fury”. When Bruno, his family, and the servants arrive at the new house, Bruno notices that the house seems to be lonely, with no other houses by it, and that he will lonely as well, as he cannot see any boys to play with. This gives Bruno a determination for friends. Some days later, while Bruno…

One of the most significant days of my life happened when I was twelve. It was a cold, snowy December day. There was at least three inches of snow covering the ground. My cousin Rachael and Aunt Lavonne were visiting from Alabama for Christmas. Because I have a massive backyard with multiple acres, and there was snow on the ground, we decided to have a snowball fight at my house. Plus, we wanted Rachael to experience her first snowball fight, since they do not typically have enough snow for one…

Turnus Summary: Turnus makes the decision that he wants to fight Aeneas alone against the king and queens wishes who want him to surrender and save his life. Turnus, however is more concerned about saving his honor so they plan the fight for the next day and the armies surround them acting as spectators. Juno is worried about how Turnus is going to do in battle so she enlists the help of Turnus’s sister who comes disguised as an officer and tells the Latins to attack while their enemy is off…

Well the dictionary.com says that poverty is the lack of money to take care of your everyday needs to live. How did poverty start? It was always there, one person having nothing and one person having something. If you look at the movie or book, a Christmas Carol the main character scrooge has so much wealth he does not know what to do with it but his store clerk works for nearly nothing and every penny goes to his family who has nothing. How does a person get into poverty? There is no set way…

award. Three generations later, my parents and I still concoct this soup during the holiday season. Making homemade tortellini soup takes hours of effort and concentration over the course of three days, but it allows my family to spend time together while preparing a dish that we all savor. The first day is spent making both the dough and the filling. In a large frying pan, my…