Y'all

I believe one of the biggest challenges that I’ll face in college is paying for college. Paying for college is the cloud that’s been hanging above my head ever since my junior year. My family consist of my younger brother and sister--my sister heads off to college in one year, my mother and myself. My family only has one source of income: my mother’s teacher salary. It’s a difficult predicament to work around but we make the most of it. Part of the reason that I push myself so hard in school is…

between a highway and freeway because in California, we mainly have freeways. It took some time getting use to the Texas slang, such as “skeeters,” “howdy,” and “fixin’ to.” The most shocking thing I experienced when I came to Texas was everyone saying “y’all.” In California, I only heard it when people were either trying to be funny or “country.” After a couple years, I do not really hear the distinction anymore, but I have yet to say…

My friends and I had just gotten off our bus to walk home. Our bus stop was in the cul-de-sac at the beginning of the neighborhood and we all lived either right in the middle or in the far back. It was a three-day weekend so we were all trying to figure what to do. Our choices were to either go fishing off the docks in the back of the neighborhood or go swimming from our small bit of sandy, muddy beach that has murky water coming up on it. I lived off the Lake Pontchartrain at the time. My…

While becoming a lazy bum throughout my summer between third and fourth grade of elementary, my parents decided to sign me up for British soccer camp. Growing up as a tomboy, I played most sports before middle school. I was the girl playing with the boys during recess. I started playing soccer at the age of 5. I partook in YMCA soccer anytime that I could. The first day is always the hardest because Tongue River is such a small school and no one loved soccer as much as I did. Being the only…

every darn one of 'em right" (Kadam 1). I used parallel structure to show how basic their life is and to show their routine. In camp Green Lake they keep doing the same thing over and over again. For example In Mr.pendanski's letter it said "y'all should also know that I was madder than a wet hen when I found out that you…

When I was 16 I moved to from California to Texas. During this time, I assume everyone in Texas wears a cowboy hat, boots, talks in a southern accent such as saying y’all and other such stereotypes. I assume the general understanding of Texas from what I was taught as a kid in movies, music, and shows. Once I moved to Texas that that type of thought was used against me, my classmates assume I probably l go to the beach and surf and have met plenty of celebrities when I lived in California. This…

The day of his friend’s funeral he wrote a poem that he said touched everyone who knew and loved his friend as much and more than him. “Talk to God for me, is from my soul and is one of my best poems. It was transparent, I’m the one that y’all come to when y’all need someone to intercede on y’all’s behalf, but my heart is in pieces too.” He looks at this as a time of character building. “This was a reflective moment. It was a vulnerable moment in fact, which to me, is not a bad thing. It…

you end up getting a job and have family support so you can afford anything for your baby. Also, people see that other teen moms are single moms and/or they're bad moms. Even after you tell your baby's father you are pregnant they might stay in y'all life and help. You might not be under a lot of stress, so you love and care for your baby, not neglect him/her. I think the teen mom stereotypes came from everyone seeing all these bad things happening and think every teen mom will go through it…

After reading the whole book it made me sad. Everything that John Grady Cole goes through and that he ends up with nothing. He left home as a young boy but he came home a man. With everything he went through he had no past experiences with being on his own and all the world has to offer. I picked this book because when I got this assignment I researched a few of the books and read the description of them, and All The Pretty Horses stuck out to be the most interesting to me. I think this novel…

“Colored section,” of the bus alongside three other Negros when a white man gets on, looking for an open seat. James looks back and sees that there are no open spaces and directs his gaze toward the Negros in the nearest row to the whites. James: Move y’all, I want those two seats. Three black passengers move to the back; Rosa does not. James: Are you going…