Ward

Guardianship is not the same as being adopted. My foster parents were never able to fully adopt me because my birth mother refused to give up her rights. Due to her actions, I was considered to be a ward of the state. When I tell people that I spent 16 years of my life as a ward of the state, they think I have been in prison since I was a little toddler. I cannot even fathom what they could possibly be thinking that a little five year old did to wind up in prison. I can usually tell by their facial expressions, and many times they are not welcoming expressions, that they think I am a convict. It is only after their initial thoughts that I am able to explain to them I am in fact not a criminal and am called a ward of the state because I became the financial responsibility of them. It is only because my birth mother refused to have responsibility over me, but never fully relinquished her rights as my mother, that I was labeled as such. After mentioning what a ward of the state is, I am usually questioned about what it means. Well, it generally means that my foster parents were my guardians, but I could not take their names. A name. Such a silly thing to want, but it was all that I wanted. I wanted to be one of them, not one of my…

which included her other adopted son who was four years older than me. When I would sneak upstairs to see my sister I was chased and beaten then thrown back into the basement. My foster mom would let me come to family events, and other places like church but as soon as we got home I was sent back to the basement without a thing in hand, I have no doubt in my mind that the only reason she did this is so that people would not become suspicious of what was really going on behind closed doors. These…

Call of Duty began its saga with Call of Duty 1. The most famous one is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Call of Duty 4 came out in November of 2007, and it was the most popular Call of Duty that ever existed. The design of this CoD was unbelievably amazing, the company who made it, Infinity ward, got millions, even billions of dollars for it. (www.eurogamer.net, 2014) The best thing people liked about Call of Duty 4 was the multiplayer, which allows you the ability to play online with players…

Modern warfare one is a first person shooter game but it was never called modern warfare. It was called Call of duty four modern warfare. This was the new game series modern warfare and the last call of duty but this call of duty was not based off of world war two. This game was based off the modern world. This was announced on April 12, 2007www.wikia.com 2001. The game was released on November 5, 2007. The call of duty 4 modern warfare game play was published by Activision and developed by…

I noticed that there was a new standard in society to be physically perfect. Woman realized that in order to achieve this perfection, they could take extreme measures such as plastic surgery. If you had small breasts, you weren't considered perfect; therefore women felt the need to get plastic surgery. The American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons in 1983 stated that, “There was good reason to believe that small breasts “are really a disease” since they create “a total lack of…

Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. studied mammalogy, bacteriology, and Pathology. Lyon was born on February 5, 1875 in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. For this time and being he had a fairly small family with only two siblings, Henry S. Lyon and James W. Lyon. His mother , Lydia Anna Lyon, and his father a military man named Captain Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. Because of his father’s military career, Lyon’s family moved across the United States throughout his childhood. When Lyon’s family was stationed at Watertown…

In Leave it to Beaver, Ward Cleaver; the father, is the dominant head of the household and carries multiple patriarchal roles. He is the sole provider for the family, making June his wife, inferior. This connects to Robert Rutherdale’s article on fatherhood and masculinity following the baby boom of the 1940s-1960s. Rutherdale argues that “while most baby boom fathers struggled to get a foothold in the vastly improved economy of the 1950s, their successes as wage earners became a central…

Hello, I am Anaya Linsey. I live in the Ninth Ward which is one of the poorest communities in New Orleans. When I was nine, my mom died and I never accepted it. My dad couldn't accept her death either but she is still with us somehow. My dad has a picture of her on the refrigerator, and he weeps about how he could have saved her, but I don't believe him. My father sat there and watched my mom drown in the White river. No wonder he was the primary suspect when she died. It’s even worse…

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Julia Ward Howe tells an outstanding story about a man by the name of Robert E. Lee who fought in the Civil War. The story is rather short, however it explains the type of man he was perfectly. Julia was alive during the time in which Lee was serving in war. This helped her get a first hand grasp on what his characteristics were like. The poem has an abab cdcd efef rhyme scheme which creates a smooth and pleasing tune while reading the poem. Robert E. Lee had several great qualities and traits,…