Mr. Jones English 9 February 2012 The story of Aaron Douglas Aaron Douglas grew up just like any other African American growing up in the 1800’s. His parents had financial problems providing for their fairly larger family. However, his parents wanted him to have a good education. He strived to gain an education and to become an artist. He was able to go to college after much hard work in high school and some jobs to pay for college.
My father is embodiment of the Dike family and worked hard to come to America. My father’s side was always full of hatred and turmoil and it was rough for my father growing up. Despite all that my father was able to bring my mother to America, but the most devastating thing happened. When my mother married my father and by the way she carries the Nwosu name her shoulders as well and another thing both of my parents have in common is that they are both the oldest in their respective families and I commend them for all they have done to unite the two most powerful families to make peace in my village in Nigeria. Like I was saying earlier the most devastating thing to ever happen in my family, is that my parents both went to prison on some drug charges.
Some of these techniques are similes, hyperbole, metaphors and personification. An example of a simile used in this poem is in the 4th stanza, 11th and 12th line, “And smoked like a dozen Puffing Billies”. There is also in the 4th stanza, last three lines a use of metaphor, “Inheritors of a key that’ll open no house when this one is pulled down”. Peter Skryznecki does show a strong sense and feeling of belonging especially in this poem, “10 Mary Street”. He states that he has lived in the same house for nineteen years with his family; they always have a routine of doing things and seem happy and comfortable, which is a feeling of Belonging to a place and his
Sarah Gardner Kathy Halbrooks English 1010 2 April 2012 June Cleaver, Carol Brady, and Me Growing up, I would escape to the worlds of June Cleaver and Carol Brady to fill a void that was instilled in me when my own family began to crack. My dad and mom separated when I was very young and he disappeared and was scarce growing up. I would fantasize about the perfect family and on weeknights, I would watch my dreams on TV. Television shows and films are society’s perfect role models of how they must act as a man and as a woman. The important fact to why the social factor is the most influential is because of the need of every person to be accepted by people around them and the society where he or she lives in, especially children.
Descending from difficult households, both my parents moved from Mexico to the United States in hopes to build better lives for my brother and I. Living alone in a foreign country has never been easy, however. My parents have built our lives from scratch with no outside family support. When I was young, my dad was always switching from menial job to menial job in hopes of find something better. My mom always helped out as best she could, at times selling coke and candy to neighbors, but her primary concern was always taking care of her children.
Delaying this surgery for many years when I was living in Iraq, due to technical and financial problems, has had a very negative impact on my health because the problem in my knee was a reason of severe pain so I lived many years on pain killer medicine. This issue also had extremely reduced my ability of work. After I settled in the U.S, this matter was among my priorities from the very beginning. So when both my wife and I found jobs, we started seriously thinking about the surgery and it took me another four years to arrange my situation to be able to buy an affordable medical insurance through my wife’s job. Hopefully the operation will be completed successfully before the end of this
Sasha Guerra Professor Sperber Hist-136 10/18/2013 Immigration is something that has been going on in America for many years now, but the system has changed over the years. My family migrated from Kingston, Jamaica in 1973. Coming to America, my great-grandmother had high hopes in creating a better life for her and her 3 children, Jason, Carlton, and David. Jamaica’s economy wasn’t so good and she needed to support her family somehow so they received their visas to travel to America, land of opportunities. The Cummings family immediately went to Long Branch, NJ when they entered the United States.
This was a good chance to make a contact with American society. The mother of my host family is names Lorraine, she had two adopted children from Peru, and there are in college too. They have two small dogs and a big one. The big one was almost 14 years old, so they put her down in a morning which is very sad. Not like in Manhattan, I need to drink a cup of water to make sure my mouth not burning anymore every morning, the weather in Philly is wet, mostly like my home city shanghai.
Each time we would think about returning we would figure out another reason not to. We had become the courage we prayed for as children, the story we would tell our unborn baby’s, and the reason every thriving American cringes in the morning. We had learned to survive on our own, or at least we liked to believe we did. Our journey looking for ourselves, and finding a way to better survive, lasted close to 365 days. 365 days, of growing up that should have taken years.
2711, the distance in miles between Horsham, Pennsylvania, the town I was raised in, and Wenatchee, Washington, the town I now call home. From my first breath of Pacific Northwest air until just recently, I felt as if I was on my own personal roller coaster, experiencing the excitement of meeting new people and despair when I missed home. I went through twists and loops as I struggled to open myself up to a whole new way of life. During this time, I clung to Martin Luther King Jr.’s words of wisdom, “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward” (King 1). To make the transition from a big city girl with a small family to a small city girl with a big family I followed King’s advice and always kept moving forward.